Privacy experts have wondered what putting such a camera in the home could mean for law enforcement, particularly given last year's episode when Amazon refused to help law enforcement in a murder case in Arkansas. There, investigators attempted to get the company to hand over data collected by a nearby Alexa. If that instance is any indication, Amazon may resist a legal demand to open up an Amazon Key lock.

Beyond concerns about the police, many on Twitter are fundamentally uncomfortable with Amazon Key.

"We have an ongoing dialogue with a lot of tech companies in a variety of different areas," he told Politico Pro. "There's some areas where they are cooperative with us. But on this particular issue of encryption, the tech companies are moving in the opposite direction. They're moving in favor of more and more warrant-proof encryption."

Today we are releasing a new browser extension for Chrome and Firefox named Privacy Pass. Privacy Pass uses privacy-preserving cryptography to allow users to authenticate to services without compromising their anonymity. This is joint work with George Tankersley, Ian Goldberg, Nick Sullivan and Filippo Valsorda.

I have some news: the Internet of Things is a mess. A hacked refrigerator sounds slightly scary, but a vibrator-controlling app that records all your sex sounds and stores them on your phone without your knowledge? That's way worse.

For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed that the electronic systems that had gained favor in the United States after the 2000 presidential election were shoddy, and eminently hackable.

The S8 data line locator is a GSM listening and location device hidden inside the plug of a standard USB data/charging cable. It supports the 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz GSM frequencies.

Its core idea is very similar to the COTTONMOUTH product line by the NSA/CSS [1] in which an RF device is hidden inside a USB plug. Those hidden devices are referred to as implants.

The device itself is marketed as a location tracker usable in cars, where a thief would not be able to identify the USB cable as a location tracking device. Its malicious use-cases can, however, not be denied. Especially since it features no GPS making its location reporting very coarse (1.57 km deviation in my tests). It can, e.g., be called to listen to a live audio feed from a small microphone within the device, as well as programmed to call back if the sound level surpasses a 45 dB threshold.

Gizmodo's Kashmir Hill continues her excellent investigative work on Facebook's mysterious "People You May Know" system, which has caused consternation among users by making seemingly impossible (and often disturbing) connections, such as "A woman whose father left her family when she was six years old—and saw his then-mistress suggested to her as a Facebook friend 40 years later."

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Amazon is going to show the industry how to monitor more moments: by making corporate surveillance as deeply embedded in our physical environment as it is in our virtual one. Silicon Valley already earns vast sums of money from watching what we do online. Soon it’ll earn even more money from watching what we do offline.

Mit der PSD II können Firmen im Internet dann einen Blick auf die Konten ihrer Kunden werfen. Voraussetzung dafür ist aber laut „Bild“, dass der Kunde einwilligt und dem Anbieter von Konteninformationsdiensten eine geheime PIN zur Verfügung stellt. Damit kann dieser dann auf die Kontodaten der vergangenen 90 Tage zugreifen. Firmen könnten so beispielsweise herausfinden, wieviel ihre Kunden verdienen und wofür sie ihr Geld ausgeben.
Gedacht sind die Konteninformationsdienste eigentlich dafür, Kunden eine bessere Übersicht über ihre Konten zu bieten.

Detaillierter als Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Das BKA hat ein genaues Bewegungsprofil eines bei G20 akkreditierten ARD-Korrespondenten aufgezeichnet – und dabei auch noch Fehler gemacht. Arnd Henze berichtet.

Die E-Gates werden aufgrund einer Änderung im Schengen-Abkommen installiert, die vorsieht, dass auch die Daten von EU-Bürgern bei der Einreise in die EU lückenlos mit dem Schengener Informationssystem abgeglichen werden. Durch die E-Gates soll gewährleistet werden, dass dieser zusätzliche Aufwand nicht zu längeren Wartezeiten führt. Herkömmliche Grenzkontrollen bleiben als Alternative aber erhalten.

Concerned that browser cookies fall short when it comes to tracking mobile devices and their owners on the internet, computer-science boffins believe they can recognize phone-toters using only their keystrokes and accelerometer data.

Microphone embedded in RJ45 plug.

People should worry about online data collection by technology companies because it gives them unparalleled insight into users lives, the creator of one of the biggest web browsers, Opera, said on Thursday.

The popular 104-key Mantistek GK2 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard that costs around €49.66 has allegedly been caught silently recording everything you type on your keyboard and sending them to a server maintained by the Alibaba Group.

People known to the South Australian police as being at risk of starting fires will be tracked via number plate recognition technology during the 2017-18 bushfire season.

Face ID is the iPhone X’s new touted security feature which is said to be more secure than fingerprints and harder to fool. In fact Apple made a pretty big deal about it by claiming to have worked with makeup artists, mask makers, and others to ensure that all the ways that one could trick Face ID would be covered.

In Pinneberg wird es für einen Nutzer von Amazons Alexa teuer. Der digitale Assistent drehte nachts so laut Musik auf, dass die Polizei gerufen werden musste.

The Tor Project has issued an emergency security bugfix release of Tor Browser, to prevent user IP address leakage due to a still unpatched Firefox bug.