Apparently there is a market for surveillance. Why stop at targeted individuals? Target populations.
Texas to Adopt “Tangles” – a Warrantless Profiling and Geofencing Tool
The Texas Observer reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for the Tangles surveillance tool, originally designed by former Israeli military officers to catch terrorists in the Middle East.
… Unclear is how DPS will proceed now that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Jamarr Smith ruled that geofence warrants cannot be reconciled with the Fourth Amendment. If DPS does move forward, there will be nothing to keep the state’s warrantless access to personal data from migrating from searches for terrorists and mass shooters, to providing backdoor evidence in ordinary criminal cases, to buttressing cases with political, religious, and speech implications.
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The Civil Rights Implications of the Federal Use of Facial Recognition Technology
A report by the U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS, September 2024
Access the 194-page report at https://www.usccr.gov/files/2024-09/civil-rights-implications-of-frt_0.pdf
Perspective. Not all attacks will be explosive…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/israels-pager-attacks.html
Israel’s Pager Attacks and Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Israel’s brazen attacks on Hezbollah last week, in which hundreds of pagers and two-way radios exploded and killed at least 37 people, graphically illustrated a threat that cybersecurity experts have been warning about for years: Our international supply chains for computerized equipment leave us vulnerable. And we have no good means to defend ourselves.
Though the deadly operations were stunning, none of the elements used to carry them out were particularly new.
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