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FBI director confirms purchases of Americans' location data
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FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that the agency buys commercially available data, including location information that can track Americans. The admission came in response to questions from Sen. Ron Wyden, who criticized it as an end-run around the Fourth Amendment. Sen. Tom Cotton defended the practice, likening it to searching public trash.
Ruotsin poliisi on pidentänyt aiempaa päätöstään Sävjan, Uppsalan, kameravalvonnasta. Uusi päätös astuu voimaan 1. huhtikuuta 2026 ja on voimassa 1. huhtikuuta 2028 asti. Valvonnan tavoitteena on tukea rikosten ehkäisyä ja parantaa turvallisuutta.
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Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff has indicated in internal emails that the company's Search Party feature, initially for locating lost dogs, could evolve into a tool to reduce neighborhood crime. The emails, obtained by 404 Media, envision a future where the technology helps 'zero out crime in neighborhoods.' Ring has denied plans for mass surveillance, emphasizing that the feature focuses on dog tracking.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins cautioned that blockchain technology could enable excessive government surveillance of financial activities. Speaking at a roundtable on privacy and surveillance, he urged policies to protect investor privacy while ensuring illicit finance protections. Atkins emphasized balancing innovation with civil liberties in the crypto sector.
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Egypt’s Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar met with a delegation from Clinilab, the authorised commercial partner of Germany’s QIAGEN in Egypt, to discuss bolstering public-health diagnostic and surveillance capacities. The talks focused on expanding the national tuberculosis (TB) testing and monitoring programme, alongside water network surveillance. Discussions also covered scaling up rapid tests for respiratory, gastrointestinal diseases, and meningitis.
SVT:n ja kansainvälisten medioiden tutkimus paljastaa, että Saabin alusvennerobotit on käytetty Venäjän salaisessa Harmoni-valvontajärjestelmässä Arktisella alueella. Robotit toimitettiin venäläisille asiakkaille vuoteen 2018 asti abidien mukaisesti, mutta ne päätyivät venäläisille sotavoimille. Venäjä on myös tuottanut kopioita teknologiasta.
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Proton has publicly slammed an amendment to Switzerland's surveillance law during a United Nations Forum. The company warns that the changes could compel VPNs and messaging apps to identify and retain user data. This marks a potential first step toward broader European surveillance measures.
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