When Cars Have Eyes and Ears: Is Your Rental Company Monitoring You?
At least one car rental agency is drawing fire over its latest installation of cameras inside their rental vehicles. Hertz has admitted that it has cameras installed inside of one in eight of its cars in the U.S. More...
ACLU Report: California police spent over $45 million on ‘surveillance’ equipment without oversight
The ACLU is raising new questions as they assert that police departments across California spent more than $45 million on surveillance equipment over the course of a decade with little to no legislative or public More...
MIcrochips for horses, your credit card and Americans, by 2017
Safety, fraud protection, identification and location – the reasons the microchip technology is spreading across the landscape of our society. In fact, a new report by NBC points to 2017 for Americans to receive More...
Facebook tracks all written messages, posted or not, monitors ‘self-censoring’
Facebook records everything users type on the social networking site, including notes they choose to delete instead of posting, according to a new study that tracked the habits of nearly four million people. Adam More...
NSA collecting data from address books and IM accounts worldwide
The National Security Agency is collecting information from email address books and instant messaging accounts around the world, including many belonging to Americans, the Washington Post reports. What is the NSA More...
NSA data center in Utah may be up and running
No expects a ribbon cutting ceremony or a parade across the sand in Utah, but conflicting reports from the NSA have led to a report by the Salt Lake Tribune that the Utah data center may already be up and running. photo More...
NSA monitoring VISA, SWIFT transactions for ‘Follow the money,’ FTM, branch and database ‘Tracfin’
The NSA has been widely monitoring international banking and credit card transactions, a new report says referencing Edward Snowden’s leak. The agency targeted Visa customers and global financial service SWIFT More...
NSA program XKeyscore enables widespread surveillance through everything a user does on the Internet
The National Security Agency is operating a massive database system that allows analysts to comb through individuals’ emails, chats and Internet browsing histories at will, according to a new report from The More...
New Google Maps app for the iPhone, Apple goes back to the drawing board
Google Maps has found its way back to the iPhone. The world’s most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps iPhone app, details the Washington Post. This is a great More...
