Tag Archives: Surveillance

Anti-NSA Blackphone arrived with a Bang and Sold Out

Blackphone is the result of collaboration between Silent Circle, an anti-NSA encryption powerhouse, and Geeksphone a company founded and owned by an ex tech prodigy. The phone is already being shipped around the world and the initial inventory reveals that it is “sold out.” Although security-conscious cell phones have always been in demand but the…Read More…

Pentagon orders 500 high-tech spy glasses with facial-recognition program

The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense is about to get their hands on 500 high-tech spy glasses. Patrick Turner of Defense One reports that with the help of these glasses, security agents will be able to get secret information on ground. These glasses are called ‘’the X6’’, are developed by a…Read More…

Court Allowed NSA To Spy On All But 4 Countries

 A court permitted the National Security Agency to collect information about governments in 193 countries and foreign institutions like the World Bank, according to a secret document the Washington Post published Monday. The certification issued by a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2010 shows the NSA has the authority to “intercept through U.S. companies not…Read More…

NSA harvested data on millions but spied on just 248 Americans

Since Snowden’s leaks regarding NSA’s surveillance act we are quite clear regarding the fact that NSA has been spying over masses. But, a recent transparency report has proved it all wrong. It states: NSA’s reach is too small; it esquires less than 30 percent of total Americans’ call records. Furthermore, NSA’s surveillance act only lasts over a mere…Read More…

LiveLight algorithm lets you skip the boring parts of a video

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed “LiveLight,” a machine learning algorithm that can automatically scan through a video, understand what’s happening and cut out the repetitive and boring parts. And it can do this without human supervision, saving you plenty of uneventful viewing time. This technology could be especially useful for reviewing security camera…Read More…

  • By Dario Borghino
  • June 26, 2014
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Also tagged Artificial Intelligence, Carnegie Mellon, , Dario Borghino, ,

California man spies on cops through surveillance drones

While the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is still awaiting approvals to use its recently acquired pairs of unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor Southern California, a civilian has been using it almost for a month! Daniel Saulmon, a 42-year old resident of Torrance, CA, and quite famous for his unusual passion of photographing police activities,…Read More…

NSA granted extension to collect phone data of U.S. citizens

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been reauthorized to collect the bulk phone records of people in the country for another 90 days, while the lawmakers are still working towards a legislation that would block the agency from doing so in future. “Given that legislation has not yet been enacted, and given the importance…Read More…

“Riot Control” Drone Will Shoot Pepper Spray Bullets At Protesters

We know how drones are used for surveillance, target killings or in some cases to save human lives, but now a South African company known as Desert Wolf told the BBC they have received orders for their riot drone ‘’Shunk’’. The drone fires pepper spray bullets at crowds, that can tackle crowds or protesters “without…Read More…

Snowden receives German Fritz Bauer award for exposing NSA Surveillance

German Humanist Union, an independent civil liberties organization, has awarded Snowden with the Fritz Bauer Prize for exposing NSA’s controversial surveillance practices. The prize named after Fritz Bauer, a German prosecutor and judge who played an important role in Oswiecim trials of former SS officers, was instituted in 1968 and is given to people who…Read More…

FBI and NYPD teams up for new cyber security task force to bust hackers

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with coalition of The New York Police Department (NYPD) is creating an anti-terrorism task force, not to tackle terrorists but to track and take down hackers. In a statement released by the FBI, its agents will be teaming up with Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and NYPD to keep an eye on illegal…Read More…