The £15,000 wood chipper was among items stolen in a burglary at Poynders End Farm in Hitchwood Lane, near Preston, on the night of Saturday, March 3 – with someone smashing into a lock-up container and stealing chainsaws, leaf blowers and strimmers. The tracking device in the wood chipper meant police were able to locate…
According to a new report from Raleigh, N.C. television affiliate WRAL, Google might have quietly helped local detectives in their pursuit of two gunmen who committed separate crimes roughly one-a-half years apart. How? According to the story, Raleigh police presented the company with warrants not for information about specific suspects but rather data from all the mobile…
Facebook says an overhaul of its privacy tools will make it easier for people to find and edit the personal information the company holds. Details of the changes were announced in a blog. They follow intense criticism of the firm after it emerged that data about 50 million users had been harvested and passed on to…
President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a measure that reauthorizes powerful electronic surveillance tools for another six years. The president announced in a tweet that he signed the bill to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. “This is NOT the same FISA law that was so wrongly abused during the election,” he…
Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t used any apps, and haven’t even inserted a carrier SIM card? Even if you take all of those precautions, phones running Android software gather data about your location and send it back to Google when they’re connected…
Privacy concerns voiced over photo database link to real-time surveillance. Queensland’s privacy commissioner has said any proposal to link a national database of photographs to public surveillance in real time could open the door to “more scary surveillance”. The commissioner, Philip Green, praised the federal Attorney General Department’s handling of moves towards a new national…