“A new device, developed for the Pentagon after US Special Forces requested it, can identify people without seeing their face: instead it detects their unique cardiac signature with an infrared laser. While it works at 200 meters (219 yards), longer distances could be possible with a better laser. “I don’t want to say you could do it from space,” says Steward Remaly, of the Pentagon’s Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office, “but longer ranges should be possible.””
“Using a Shazam-like technology, the app would record audio to identify soccer games, and use the geolocation of the phone to locate which bars were streaming without licenses. El Diario reports that fans have downloaded that app more than 10 million times, essentially turning them into undercover narcs.”
Source : LaLiga’s app listened in on fans to catch bars illegally streaming soccer – The Verge
“In order to ensure the government is added to the conversation in secret, GCHQ’s proposal would require messaging apps, service providers, and operating systems to change their software so that it would 1) change the encryption schemes used, and/or 2) mislead users by suppressing the notifications that routinely appear when a new communicant joins a chat.”
Source : Apple and WhatsApp condemn GCHQ plans to eavesdrop on encrypted chats | UK news | The Guardian
“Ce sera une première en France. Lundi 18 février, le maire Les Républicains (LR) de Nice, Christian Estrosi, a annoncé lors d’une conférence de presse que sa municipalité allait tester un système de reconnaissance faciale sur la voie publique via ses caméras de vidéosurveillance. Le test va durer deux jours dans une partie de l’enceinte du carnaval de Nice, dont la 135e édition a commencé samedi. Il concerne exclusivement des personnes volontaires.L’expérimentation permettra de tester différents scénarios, comme celui d’un enfant perdu dans la foule, d’une personne âgée vulnérable elle aussi égarée ou encore d’une personne dite « d’intérêt », c’est-à-dire recherchée, en utilisant six caméras de vidéosurveillance positionnées sur le périmètre de test.”
Source : Nice va tester la reconnaissance faciale sur la voie publique
“Le système d’alarme de la firme, destiné au grand public, se compose de capteurs de mouvements, d’un clavier et d’une enceinte liés à une application. Mais la société californienne a également révélé la présence d’un microphone, activé récemment pour transformer l’appareil en enceinte connectée. Alors que le produit est disponible à la vente depuis novembre 2017, la société n’en avait jamais parlé.”
“Le groupe vient de signer, discrètement, un accord avec Huawei qui s’occupera désormais du cloud des clients français de l’opérateur. Les services secrets, qui notaient la proximité entre la firme et Pékin, s’étranglent : les données des clients iront directement sur les serveurs chinois. L’opérateur nuance : cela ne concerne pas les entreprises, et, toujours selon le Canard, c’est à cause de Free, « si on veut rester compétitifs sans licencier, il faut bien qu’on noue des alliances avec les acteurs les moins chers du marché » se plaignait un cadre de l’opérateur.”
Source : Orange et Huawei : une amitié à géographie variable – Cyberguerre
“Chinese hackers are breaching Navy contractors to steal everything from ship-maintenance data to missile plans, officials and experts said, triggering a top-to-bottom review of cyber vulnerabilities. A series of incidents in the past 18 months has pointed out the service’s weaknesses, highlighting what some officials have described as some of the most debilitating cyber campaigns linked to Beijing. Cyberattacks affect all branches of the armed forces but contractors for the Navy and the Air Force are viewed as choice targets for hackers seeking advanced military technology, officials said.”
“Recently, a patent application from Amazon became public that would pair face surveillance — like Rekognition, the product that the company is aggressively marketing to police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — with Ring, a doorbell camera company that Amazon bought earlier this year.”
“This isn’t a kind of fluffy charity providing free services. It’s is a very hard-headed international business and these big tech companies are essentially the world’s biggest global advertisers, that’s where they make their billions. […] these big companies, particularly where there are monopolies, can’t frankly reform themselves. It will have to come from outside.”
Source : Facebook could threaten democracy, says former GCHQ boss – BBC News
“More than 200 manufacturers, including Tesla, Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Nissan, Mitsubishi and U.S.-listed electric vehicle start-up NIO, transmit position information and dozens of other data points to government-backed monitoring centers, The Associated Press has found. Generally, it happens without car owners’ knowledge.”
Source : In China, Your Car Could Be Talking to the Government – The New York Times
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