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Police and law enforcement agencies, even in small areas with fewer than 100,000 residents, have been using a low-cost phone tracking tool called Fog Reveal, according to AP and the EFF. AP has published a report detailing authorities' use of the tool since at least 2018 for various investigations, including to track murder suspects and potential participants in the January 6th Capitol riot. The tool, sold by Virginia company Fog Data Science LLC, doesn't need a warrant and can be accessed instantly. To get geofence data,…

US law enforcement agencies have reportedly been accessing the location of 250 million smartphones in order to access "hundreds of billions of records", using a tool provided by a private company that purchases information on users collected by data brokers sourced from popular apps. The company's device tracking tool relies on advertising IDs from user's phones that allow officials to trace their movements, without the need for a warrant, over time while focusing and analysing patterns, according to a report.According to…

Findings are from a new global study 'OA in physics: researcher perspectives' commissioned by leading learned society physics publishers. Credit: Institute of Physics Over half (53%) of physical science researchers want to publish open access (OA) but 62% say a lack of monies from funding agencies prevents them from doing so.…

Bentley plans full electrification of its products by 203 Volkswagen’s British luxury car unit Bentley Motors announced plans to change agencies “across the marketing mix” to “help the brand evolve and transform its entire marketing communications strategy as it prepares for full electrification across its product range by 2030 and diversifies its offering to be one of the world’s leading luxury lifestyle…

The US Justice Department and other federal agencies on Thursday called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revoke China Telecom (Americas) Corp's authorisation to provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States.China Telecom is the US subsidiary of a People's Republic of China (PRC) state-owned telecommunications company. Last year, two US senators asked the FCC to review approvals of China Telecom and China Unicom to operate in the United States.The FCC last May voted…

More than 2 years in the making, a massive bill that Congress completed this week aims high: It envisions a 5-year, $280 billion investment to keep the United States ahead of China in a global competition for technological preeminence. The CHIPS and Science Act, passed yesterday by the House of Representatives and on Wednesday by the Senate, will result in some of the biggest changes in U.S. innovation policy in more than a decade. But researchers should not expect a surge of new…

Chandrashekhar said that law enforcement agencies are trying to find the reason behind what happened in Lucknow. He said, “There was a media report that a child has killed his mother based on PUBG that he has been playing. This is a matter of investigation by LEAs (Law Enforcement Agencies) to find the reason. But, the PUBG gaming app was blocked by MeitY in the year 2020 and the PUBG game is not available in India since then.” In a written reply to Rajya Sabha, he also said that there are grievances and reports of banned…

The EU's top court on Tuesday put limits on how European spy and security agencies could harvest troves of personal data, but said this could be done under a serious threat to national security.At the request of the courts in Belgium, Britain, France, and the European Court of Justice confirmed that "EU law precludes national legislation" that requires telcos and tech companies to carry out the "indiscriminate retention" of data, a statement saidHowever, it does allow for exemptions in cases of "serious threat to national…

Capital markets regulator Sebi on Wednesday issued directives for sub-KYC user agencies to provide Aadhaar authentication services to their clients for the purpose of know your customer (KYC).This comes after the government last week notified 155 entities as sub-KUAs (KYC user agencies) to use Aadhaar authentication services of the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India).In a circular, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said that these entities are required to enter into an agreement with a KUA and…

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