Topic: law enforcement access
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Deleted Doesn't Mean Gone: How Police Recovered Doorbell Footage
Deleted digital data, like cloud-stored video, is not instantly erased but often remains recoverable until overwritten, as demonstrated by law enforcement retrieving deleted doorbell footage in a missing person case. Nest cameras automatically upload short clips to Google's servers by default, ev...
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Ring denies providing ICE with camera access
A campaign urging the destruction of Ring cameras highlights public concern over potential data sharing with agencies like ICE, though Ring denies any partnership or video sharing with ICE. Ring's Community Requests tool allows local police to ask users for footage, raising questions about survei...
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Moxie Marlinspike Aims to Revolutionize AI Like He Did Messaging
Moxie Marlinspike, creator of Signal, is leading a new open-source AI project called Confer, designed to prioritize user privacy in chatbot interactions through a secure, verifiable architecture. Confer uses a trusted execution environment (TEE) and local decryption keys to ensure conversations a...
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Stolen Police Logins Expose Flock Cameras to Hackers
Federal lawmakers are demanding an FTC investigation into Flock Safety's license plate scanning network due to its failure to mandate multi-factor authentication for all law enforcement users, leaving sensitive data vulnerable. Unauthorized access to Flock's system could allow hackers to exploit ...
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Leaked: Which Pixel Phones Are Vulnerable to Cellebrite Hacks
A leak revealed that Google Pixel 6, 7, 8, and 9 series smartphones are vulnerable to data extraction by Cellebrite's forensic tools, while the Pixel 10 series was not mentioned. The vulnerability status was disclosed by an anonymous source who shared details from a private Cellebrite briefing on...
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Ring Cameras Deepen Ties with Law Enforcement
Amazon's Ring is partnering with Flock Safety to allow police departments to request video footage directly through surveillance platforms, enabling officers to post alerts in the Ring Neighbors app for voluntary user submissions with specific incident details. The integration raises significant ...
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Ring Partners with Flock's AI Camera Network Used by Police and ICE
Amazon's Ring and Flock Safety are partnering to enable law enforcement using Flock's license plate recognition cameras to request video evidence from millions of Ring doorbell users, aiming to enhance evidence collection and create an interconnected surveillance network. The collaboration raises...
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