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Despite the fact that the surveillance powers handed to US law enforcement agencies since the 9/11 attacks are deep, wide and pervasive, the authorities want yet more. Real-time monitoring of Internet- and cloud-based comms is the latest priority, as Martyn Warwick reports. (0)
News added 2 months ago in TelecomTV One by TelecomTV One
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Thanks to the likes of Google, Facebook and other companies of that ilk, their client corporations are now doing anything and everything they can to use data, often provided freely and naively to them by private individuals via social networking sites to capture, "own" and hold people in permanent commercial thrall. What governments will do will be exponentially worse. By Martyn Warwick. (2)
News added 3 months ago in TelecomTV One by TelecomTV One
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Google Glass(es) may not be available to the general population until later this year, but the fight-back against the spy specs has already begun with a self-proclaimed "dive bar" in Seattle in the US getting its retaliation in first and banning the things from the premises. Martyn Warwick reports. (0)
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One of the most outrageous attempts by any company or country anywhere (including North Korea, Iran and Stalinist Russia) to spy on private citizens has been made public in the US after the Patent and Trademark Office published a Verizon patent application that would see motion detectors, infrared cameras, microphones and other detection devices embedded in personal digital video recorders (DVRs) to target advertising at individuals. By Martyn Warwick. (1)
News added 6 months ago in TelecomTV One by TelecomTV One
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Scientists working at Toshiba's Research Centre Laboratory at Cambridge University in the UK have developed a photodetector that identifies and "holds" individual photons as they travel along a fibre optic cable, opening up the possibility of uncrackable codes able to carry the most secret and sensitive data without fear of compromise. Martyn Warwick reports. (0)
News added Over 6 months in TelecomTV One by TelecomTV One
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The Chinese company is using western spokesmen to counter claims made in the recent US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report that it is a "credible security threat to US interests". Martyn Warwick reports. (0)
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Plans by the likes of Huawei and ZTE to make big inroads into western telecoms markets have taken a knock as suspicions grow that all may not as it seems with the equipment they provide. Martyn Warwick reports. (1)
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ZTE is alleged to have shipped telecom and Internet monitoring equipment. By Jim Barthold. (0)
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As was widely predicted would happen, US law enforcement agencies are now routinely demanding that mobile operators provide them with subscriber information including location data and the content of text messages as the powers-that-be drive a coach and horses through standards and legislation designed to help protect the public from intrusive surveillance. Martyn Warwick reports. (0)
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A man coyly un-named in most of the US media but known to TelecomTV as "Investigator Doe", has named the Google worker who, hitherto, has ben referred to by the soubriquet of "Engineer Doe". Martyn Warwick reports. (0)
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Publication of the complete FCC report on the murky goings on at Google when its Streetview cars were secretly collecting private information from unsecured WiFi networks (whilst ostensibly just taking photos) shows that, despite claiming the collection of the data was a "mistake", the Cookie Monster knew all along that it was being stolen. Martyn Warwick reports. (2)
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The Brits love their "elevenses", the institution of the mid-morning cup of tea and a biscuit that keeps the country on an even keel, but they are not so keen on the proliferation of digital cookies that, in much the same way that a dunked digestive soaks-up tea, slurp personal information every time they visit a web site. Martyn Warwick reports. (0)
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A government agency in the United Arab Emirates has co-opted the incumbent operator, Etisalat, to embed UAE identity cards into mobile devices. Now Big Brother will know who you are, where you are, how long you have been there, who you have contacted on your handset and what web sites you have attempted to access. Martyn Warwick reports. (0)
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Carrier IQ, the Silicon valley company at the heart of a storm over whether or not its mobile analytics software that comes pre-loaded by network operators on as many as 140 million cellular handsets, is actually keylogging spyware (a claim the company categorically rejects) is on the back foot again having now been forced to deny that it is being investigated by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Martyn Warwick reports. (0)
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The European Union (EU) is to mount an official investigation into the ramifications and risks associated with "smart surveillance" technologies. The "Sapient" project will provide the foundation to support "fundamental rights, privacy and ethics in surveillance technologies". Martyn Warwick reports. (0)
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