The House on Wednesday voted to extend a high-profile warrantless surveillance law for three years, but the fate of the measure was uncertain as the Senate vowed to make changes that could delay final passage past the program’s midnight expiration on Thursday. Bipartisan approval of the bill capped a chaotic struggle in the House, where…
Last year, WhatsApp and Apple notified several people in Italy, including journalists and activists, that they had been targeted with government spyware. In particular, WhatsApp pointed the finger at the Israeli American surveillance tech maker Paragon Solutions as the company that provided the technology for a hacking campaign that targeted around 90 people around the…
Shorouk Express Iran decided to ban the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency from its nuclear facilities and to remove surveillance cameras from them, claiming it discovered Israel’s government obtained “sensitive facility data,” according to media reports Saturday. The vice speaker of the Iranian parliament, Hamid Reza Haji Babaei, announced the decision to bar…
OpenAI has banned the accounts of a group of Chinese users who had attempted to use ChatGPT to debug and edit code for an AI social media surveillance tool, the company said Friday. The campaign, which OpenAI calls Peer Review, saw the group prompt ChatGPT to generate sales pitches for a program those documents suggest…
Shorouk Express ASTANA, Kazakhstan, February 7. JSC “Passenger Transportation” (a subsidiary of Kazakhstan Railways) is upgrading its security system by installing 1,350 cameras in 24 Talgo-branded trains, Trend reports via Kazakhstan Railways. According to Kazakhstan Railways, a total of 1,350 cameras have been installed to provide 24/7 monitoring inside the trains. “The video surveillance system…
