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Vaping Is ‘Everywhere’ in Schools—Sparking a Bathroom Surveillance Boom
Schools in the US are installing vape-detection tech in bathrooms to thwart student nicotine and cannabis use. A new investigation reveals the impact of using spying to solve a problem...
HyMAD: A Hybrid Multi-Activity Detection Approach for Border Surveillance and Monitoring
Seismic sensing has emerged as a promising solution for border surveillance and monitoring; the seismic sensors that are often buried underground are small and cannot be noticed easily, making them difficult for intruders to detect, avoid, or vandalize. This significantly enhances their...
The price of ChatGPT’s erotic chat? $20/month and your identity
To talk dirty to ChatGPT, you may soon have to show it your driver’s license. OpenAI announced last month that ChatGPT will soon offer erotica—but only for verified adults. That sounds like a clever guardrail until you realize what “verified” might mean: uploading government identification to a...
New Data Security Requirements and the Proceduralization of Mass Surveillance Law after the European Data Retention Case
This paper discusses the regulation of mass metadata surveillance in Europe through the lens of the landmark judgment in which the Court of Justice of the European Union struck down the Data Retention Directive. The controversial directive obliged telecom and Internet access providers in Europe t...
PLANEX CS-QP50F-ING2 安全漏洞
The Planex PLANEX CS-QP50F-ING2 is a smart camera from Planex Japan. A security vulnerability exists in the PLANEX CS-QP50F-ING2 that stems from the configuration of a backup interface without authentication, which could lead to the disclosure of sensitive information and compromise the...
Are you paying more than other people? NY cracks down on surveillance pricing
When you search for a product online, you might think you're getting the same price as everyone else. Think again. Your price might be different based on everything from your location to what you've looked at online. Companies often use algorithms to set their prices that rely heavily on customer...
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Mexico City Is the Most Video-Surveilled Metropolis in the Americas
Despite 83,000 public cameras, crime in Mexico City remains high—and widespread surveillance raises myriad ethical issues...
IDIS ICM Viewer 参数注入漏洞
IDIS ICM Viewer is a desktop client software for video surveillance systems from IDIS Corporation. IDIS ICM Viewer suffers from a parameter injection vulnerability that stems from parameter injection and could lead to an attacker executing arbitrary code in the host environment...
Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State
In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations...
Covert Surveillance in Smart Devices: A SCOUR Framework Analysis of Youth Privacy Implications
This paper investigates how smart devices covertly capture private conversations and discusses in more in-depth the implications of this for youth privacy. Using a structured review guided by the PRISMA methodology, the analysis focuses on privacy concerns, data capture methods, data storage and...
First Wap: A Surveillance Computer You’ve Never Heard Of
Mother Jones has a long article on surveillance arms manufacturers, their wares, and how they avoid export control laws: Operating from their base in Jakarta, where permissive export laws have allowed their surveillance business to flourish, First Wap's European founders and executives have quiet...
Evaluation of Vision-LLMs in Surveillance Video
The widespread use of cameras in our society has created an overwhelming amount of video data, far exceeding the capacity for human monitoring. This presents a critical challenge for public safety and security, as the timely detection of anomalous or criminal events is crucial for effective...
DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks
US border patrol is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand...
Active Localization of Close-Range Adversarial Acoustic Sources for Underwater Data Center Surveillance
Underwater data infrastructures offer natural cooling and enhanced physical security compared to terrestrial facilities, but are susceptible to acoustic injection attacks that can disrupt data integrity and availability. This work presents a comprehensive surveillance framework for localizing and...
CloudEdge App 安全漏洞
CloudEdge App is a mobile application designed for surveillance cameras from CloudEdge. A security vulnerability exists in CloudEdge App that stems from an uncleaned MQTT topic input that could lead to an attacker receiving all messages using MQTT wildcards to obtain credentials and key informati...
Censorship Chokepoints: New Battlegrounds for Regional Surveillance, Censorship and Influence on the Internet
Undoubtedly, the Internet has become one of the most important conduits to information for the general public. Nonetheless, Internet access can be and has been limited systematically or blocked completely during political events in numerous countries and regions by various censorship mechanisms...
The Trump Administration’s Increased Use of Social Media Surveillance
This chilling paragraph is in a comprehensive Brookings report about the use of tech to deport people from the US: The administration has also adapted its methods of social media surveillance. Though agencies like the State Department have gathered millions of handles and monitored political...
New Machine Learning Approaches for Intrusion Detection in ADS-B
With the growing reliance on the vulnerable Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast ADS-B protocol in air traffic management ATM, ensuring security is critical. This study investigates emerging machine learning models and training strategies to improve AI-based intrusion detection systems IDS...
