World’s bravest mom: Two burglars storm Florida home and open fire with Uzis on family watching basketball – only for mother dressed in t-shirt and panties to grab her gun and FIGHT BACK until they flee Two armed men caught on video forcing their way into Hialeah, Florida, home on Saturday and shooting at a … Read more
Could your boss be SPYING on you? Employers fearing a productivity dip as lockdown continues are turning to surveillance to ‘create an office atmosphere’ for home workers Dr Claudia Pagliari says managers have ‘ramped up’ tracking their employees Digital tracking on apps such as Slack and Microsoft Teams logs worker’s time Co-founder of tech startup is turning … Read more
Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the US intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth. In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, the US … Read more
Army surveillance drone used in Afghanistan will fly over the English Channel looking for migrants trying to cross from France More than 5,000 migrants have crossed to the UK in small boats so far in 2020 Army have deployed Watchkeeper drones to tackle dangerous Channel crossing Aircraft was last used to support British forces intelligence … Read more
Noel Clarke and Hollyoaks actress Bronagh Waugh are starring in a gritty new police show, the first ITV drama to begin filming since the coronavirus pandemic. Viewpoint, which is headed up by Fleabag director Harry Bradbeer, follows a tense police surveillance investigation into a close Manchester community. Filming has already started in Manchester and on Wednesday … Read more
Chinese surveillance firm SenseTime ditches its UK plans: Controversial start-up ends talks on expanding into Europe with a British HQ SenseTime, worth nearly £6bn, is the world’s most valuable AI start-up Its technology is used in facial recognition and driverless cars It is accused of enabling the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign of persecution against Uighur … Read more
New York City Council approves a new bill that will require police to disclose every surveillance technology and technique used to monitor civilians Legislators in New York voted 44-6 to regulate police surveillance technology The new bill will require yearly audits of all devices and techniques used An NYPD spokesperson said the department will oppose … Read more
Any sense of joy I had at the prospect of a pint with my friends down the pub a week on Saturday was snuffed out when I read what it will entail. Before we set foot over the threshold we’ll have to register our names and contact details. The pub must keep this information for … Read more
IBM announces it is ending its work on facial recognition technology amid concern over mass surveillance and racial profiling and joins calls for police reform Arvind Krishna, the new CEO of IBM, said the firm will end facial recognition IBM tested its facial recognition software with the New York Police Department Krishna made the announcement … Read more
Dwyane Wade says his family wound up under surveillance amid his talks between his wife Gabrielle Union and NBC after she publicly said she experienced harassment, racism and retribution during her stint on the network’s America’s Got Talent. ‘My house started being watched and my family started being followed,’ the 13-time NBA All-Star said in … Read more