A Nevada judge rules that “tower dumps”, the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers, is unconstitutional
Cell towers record the location of phones near them about every seven seconds. When police request a tower dump, they ask a telecom for the numbers & personal information of every phone connected dur...
Apple unveils MacBook Pros with 14.2" and 16.2" ProMotion displays with a notch, M1 Pro or Max chips, MagSafe, no Touch Bar, HDMI port, SD card slot, and more
A Boolean value that indicates whether … YouTube : The new MacBook Pro | Supercharged for pros | Apple Sanjiv Sathiah / Notebookcheck.net : Apple's M1 Max GPU is as powerful as an Nvidia RTX 2080 desk...
Documents detail CellHawk, a little-known surveillance tool used widely by law enforcement, which can visualize large amounts of data collected by cell towers
Until now, the Bartonville, Texas, company Hawk Analytics and its product CellHawk have largely escaped public scrutiny. Tweets: @profferguson , @carlark3 , @theintercept , and @theintercept Tweets: A...
DHS' IG says it's probing the department's practice of tracking people without a warrant by buying brokered cellphone data, after Democratic senators' request
a contractor that works with ICE—obtains location data from apps. Names the middlemen companies that feed the data. Unclear if ICE gets all data from this chain, but certainly Venntel gets it https://...