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The Israeli military is increasingly deploying experimental new facial recognition software to monitor Palestinians and “supercharge segregation” in the West Bank, according to a new Amnesty International report released Tuesday. Amnesty found that Israeli authorities are using a little-known advanced surveillance tool called “Red Wolf” to monitor and restrict Palestinian residents’ movements across key checkpoints in the region. Palestinians on the ground described the state’s vast and growing web of facial…

Gilead Sciences logo displayed on a laptop screen and medical pills are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on October 18, 2021. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesGilead Sciences and the U.S. government faced off in court Tuesday in the first day of a trial that will probe allegations that the drugmaker violated patents for a crucial HIV prevention drug regimen.The U.S. is trying to enforce four patents issued to the Centers for Disease Control and…

Is your employer monitoring your mouse clicks, keystrokes, or webcam? What about your location or pace of work? If so, the White House wants to hear from you—from the confines of your digitally enabled professional panopticon.Should Facial Recognition Technology be Banned? | Future TechOn this fine May Day (a.k.a. International Workers’ Day), the Biden Administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a public request for information (RFI) regarding worker surveillance and all the various ways…

After hacking the Minneapolis public school system in March, a ransomware gang proceeded this week to leak students’ personal information to the web. Included in the tranche were the usual deluge of personal data points—including students’ birthdays and social security numbers. But NBC, which reviewed the leaks, now reports that the trove also contained far more sensitive information, including the mental health records of students and even documents detailing allegations of abuse against members of the district’s…

The technology, if widely used in U.S. vehicles, could prevent at least 600,000 crashes annually, government studies show.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday approved a request by U.S. state agencies, some automakers, universities and others to use spectrum to deploy connected vehicle technology to prevent crashes, especially at intersections.The 5.9 GHz spectrum block was reserved in 1999 for automakers to develop technology for vehicles to communicate…

Hikvision, a Chinese surveillance camera company restricted in parts of the US and the UK, knew its tech was used to monitor the country’s Uyghur Muslim minority despite previously denials of exactly that, according to a war crimes investigator hired by Hikvision itself. New leaked recordings give more credibility to allegations lobbed against Hikvision, which could threaten its ability to maintain its leading spot in the global CCTV & video surveillance equipment market.Pentagon Employees Too Horny to Follow…

 Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)Pentagon Employees Too Horny to Follow RulesFTX, the once beloved crypto exchange that went down in a ball of financially malfeasant flames last November, appears to have not given much of a shit about protecting its customers’ digital assets. Indeed, the company’s latest bankruptcy report reveals that, in addition to managing its finances like a cross between a Jim-Beam-swigging monkey and a debauched Roman emperor, the disgraced crypto exchange FTX also apparently had some of the worst…

The last two years have witnessed an unprecedented global expansion of avian influenza. Moving along migratory bird flyways into Europe and the Americas, a new strain of H5N1 influenza has established itself in wild birds and domestic poultry, leading to a record 58.6 million birds culled in the U.S. and new outbreaks across Latin America and the Caribbean. This strain’s spread in birds, along with infections of mammals and sporadic human cases—one fatal—raises pandemic influenza concerns. Last October the virus was…

This week, the FBI and a coalition of European police partners took aim at one of the biggest illicit marketplaces on the dark web: Genesis, known for selling stolen data to the highest bidder, has officially been dismantled. The crackdown is yet another big attempt by the government to disrupt the dark web’s cybercriminal ecosystem, which is known to aid and abet major cyberattacks on U.S. and Western targets. Pentagon Employees Too Horny to Follow RulesIn statements published to their website Wednesday, U.S. Justice…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly used a little-known administrative subpoena more than 100,000 times over six years to request information from schools, abortion clinics, and newspapers, all without first procuring warrants from judges. Pentagon Employees Too Horny to Follow RulesThe massive database of subpoenas, first revealed by Wired, is just the latest example of ICE and other federal agencies finding creative loopholes to sidestep privacysafeguards. Though details of the requests remain obscure,…