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India is planning to set up world’s largest facial recognition system for policing similar to what is deployed in China. The Indian government has extended the date to invite bids for companies which will help in creating a central repository of surveillance data. The bids will open next month and the selected company will be […]
Short Bytes: The FBI is expecting a new change in the law that would grant it powers to get a complete picture of a person’s online life. The new change will allow the FBI to access a person’s browsing history and other “electronic communications” data without a warrant in any spy cases or terrorism. The FBI […]
Short Bytes: Do you have a feeling that NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ spied on you? Well, how to confirm this? Using a new tool released by the Privacy International, a British civil liberties group, you can find out. Earlier this year, Privacy International won a legal battle. Now, if a person requests the UK […]
If you were busy celebrating the fact that the Patriot Act will bring an end to NSA’s mass surveillance, you should take a minute and wait for another 180 days. The National Security Agency yesterday reported that the federal court has granted it the permission to restart the bulk collection of Americans’ phone call records. […]