The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom network capable of disr...
An OHCHR investigation finds 120K+ people in Myanmar and ~100K people in Cambodia “may be held in situations where they are forced to carry out online scams”
The U.N. human rights office says criminal gangs have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia …
As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work
What do Lyft, Facebook, the International Red Cross, the U.N., the government of Nepal and Pokémon Go have in common? Tweets: @citylab , @johnjcz , @wongmjane , @mslaurabliss , @tmcw , @tmcw , @kmanau...
How White House veterans helped the UAE build a surveillance unit in 9/11's wake that would go on to target activists and journalists as well as terrorists
Reuters : Tweets: @reuters , @kimzetter , @campuscodi , @fpwellman , @attackerman , @sherifmnsour , @bing_chris , @stephennellis , @bing_chris , @dr_ulrichsen , @dnvolz , @reuters , @josephfcox , @ev...
Profile of Denmark's Casper Klynge, the world's first foreign ambassador to the tech industry, as the country grapples with tech giants' power
Adam Satariano / New York Times : Tweets: @ibogost , @orskov , @iradhikagupta , @jeremyakahn , @ukpriyaguha , @prepaid_africa , @ramanewdelhi , @psb_dc , @aelfred_d , @niallotuathail , @deptechambnjw...
U.N. report: Encryption is important to human rights — and backdoors undermine it
This is not what encryption looks like. (REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Files) — A new report from the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights says digital security and privacy …