Enlarge / Florida’s handling of the pandemic has been… a mixed bag. This beach was hopping on May 20, around the same time Jones publicly claimed the state fired her for refusing to manipulate Florida’s COVID-19 data. (credit: Mike Ehrmann | Getty Images) Florida police have arrested former state data scientist Rebekah Jones, accusing her […]
Enlarge / Uberwachung, Symbolbild, Datensicherheit, Datenhoheit (credit: Westend61 | Getty Images) Lawmakers and law enforcement agencies around the world, including in the United States, have increasingly called for backdoors in the encryption schemes that protect your data, arguing that national security is at stake. But new research indicates governments already have methods and tools that, […]
Enlarge / The seditionists who broke into the US Capitol on Wednesday were not particularly subtle and did not put any particular effort into avoiding being identified. (credit: Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images) Law enforcement agencies trying to track down insurrectionists who participated in yesterday’s events at the US Capitol have a wide […]
Enlarge / A user in Singaapore holding the TraceTogether device that can be used for COVID-19 contact tracing in lieu of a smartphone app. (credit: Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images) The government of Singapore said this week it has used data gathered for COVID-19 mitigation purposes in criminal investigations, sparking privacy concerns about […]
Expand / Workers eliminating a sign in the drive-through COVID-19 testing website from Orlando, Fla. at October, 2020. (charge: Paul Hennessy Authorities on Monday raided the Florida residence of information scientist Rebekah Jones, who declared in May she had been fired from her job collating COVID-19 information for the nation since she refused to”control” information […]