How easy is it for someone to find you? There are lots of different ways, of course, but consider this cautionary tale from the United States: Mobile phone companies in America collect precise GPS data on the location of mobile phones. When privacy advocates complained about this type of surveillance, …
Australia’s GCHQ, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) confirmed on 8 February that it is responding to a hacking attack on the Australian parliament. It is too early to judge the extent of the attack or who might be behind it. China has been accused of similar attacks in the past.
On 7 February, Donald Trump nominated Christopher Scolese as the new Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Scolese is currently director of the NASA Goddard Flight Centre, a post he has held since 2012. Before that he worked for NASA in Washington. The NRO is responsible for the United …
On 31 January and 1 February, for sessions of eight hours each day, London’s Metropolitan Police deployed cameras utilising Facial Recognition Technology outside Romford station. The system monitored all passers-by and compared their faces with a watch list of wanted criminals. The experiment wasn’t a great success. It clocked up …
Paul Erikson, 56, ex-boyfriend of the suspected Russian spy Maria Butina, 29, was indicted in South Dakota on federal charges of wire fraud and money laundering on 5 February. He pleaded not guilty to 11 charges and was released under investigation. Butina was charged on 16 July 2018 with being …