AI-Powered Surveillance in Schools

It all sounds pretty dystopian: Inside a white stucco building in Southern California, video cameras compare faces of passersby against a facial recognition database. Behavioral analysis AI reviews the footage for signs of violent behavior. Behind a bathroom door, a smoke detector-shaped device...

Police using drones to read your license plates, warns EFF

Police are using drones as flying automated license plate readers ALPRs, according to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF. And where there is a market, a provider will jump in. Or was it the other way around this time? Flock Safety, for example, recently told a group of potential l...

Hacking Team and Boeing Built Cyber Weaponized Drones to Spy on Targets

The leaked internal emails from the Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team have revealed that the spyware company developed a robotic aircraft designed to attack computers and smartphone devices through Wi-Fi networks. Over a year ago, some security researchers developed a drone calle...