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Police Use DNA Phenotyping to Limit Pool of Suspects to 15,000
The Queensland police department said that the DNA sample from the case generated a genealogy tree of “15,000 ‘linked’ individuals” and they have not been able to find a close match yet.
Amazon’s Newest Training Exec Used to Be a Private Prison Manager
Dayna Howard was a manager at one of the United States' largest private prison companies. Now, she runs Amazon's warehouse training program.
No Justice For Hate Crime Victims on London Trains Despite Thousands of Cameras
It’s one of the most surveilled places in one of the most surveilled cities in the world, but just 10 percent of hate crime reports on London transport lead to an arrest or charge, VICE World News can reveal.
Facial Recognition Is Running Amok in China. The People Are Pushing Back.
China’s first lawsuit against facial recognition was a victory for privacy advocates. But there’s a limit to how far they can push against surveillance.
Canadian Universities Are Surveilling Striking Workers with Private Security
Over the past two decades, the use of private security agencies has become a common fixture of academic labour disputes.
United Arab Emirates Says It Doesn't Hack Dissidents or Journalists
But news reports continue to suggest that ex-NSA hackers are helping the country hack and surveil its citizens.
Amazon Is Hiring a News Editor for Its ‘Neighborhood Watch’ App
Neighbors, the ‘neighborhood watch’ app that accompanies Amazon-owned Ring doorbell cameras, is hiring a Managing Editor for news alerts in the app.
Amazon’s Home Security Company Is Turning Everyone Into Cops
Neighbors, a social media crime-reporting app owned by Amazon, creates a digital ecosystem in which you are encouraged to assume the worst about your neighbors—and people of color are once again being harmed.
Predictive Policing Tool’s Website Exposes Login Pages for 17 US Police Departments
Predpol, a tool that police departments use to algorithmically predict crime, quietly created login portals for police departments in at least seventeen US communities.
Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US
A hacker has provided Motherboard with the login details for a company that buys phone location data from major telecom companies and then sells it to law enforcement.
Vigilante Hacks Government-Linked Cyberespionage Group
Earlier this month, Kaspersky published research on the so-called ZooPark group, which ran a hacking campaign towards Android devices across the Middle East. Now, a hacker has allegedly stolen ZooPark's own data and provided it to Motherboard.
Facebook ‘improperly shared’ data of more than 600,000 Canadians with Cambridge Analytica
“We didn’t take a broad enough view of what our responsibility was,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday. "That was a huge mistake."