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- JFK Displays Actual Wait Times Using Beacons That Monitor Mobile Phones http://www.blipsystems.com/jfk-displays-actual-wait-times-using-beacons-that-monitor-mobile-phones/ 98 comments
- Traffic destined for some of Europe's biggest mobile providers was misdirected in a roundabout path through the Chinese-government-controlled China Telecom on Thursday, in some cases for more than two hours, an Internet-monitoring service reported. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/bgp-mishap-sends-european-mobile-traffic-through-china-telecom-for-2-hours/ 173 comments worldnews
- “Cyber attacks” would stop very quickly if the FTC actually held companies accountable. When T-Mobile and Experian leaked 15 million customer records to identity thieves, what was their solution? Two years of (Experian) credit monitoring for customers, and millions of dollars spent lobbying for CISA https://www.youbetrayedus.org/ftc/ 15 comments technology
- “Cyber attacks” would stop very quickly if the FTC actually held companies accountable. When T-Mobile and Experian leaked 15 million customer records to identity thieves, what was their solution? Two years of (Experian) credit monitoring for customers and millions of dollars spent lobbying for CISA https://www.youbetrayedus.org/ftc/ 6 comments technology
- New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced New Zealand giving police and SIS the power to monitor all aspects of someone's online life. Now all mobile calls, texts, email, internet surfing, online shopping, chatting and social networking can be monitored anywhere in New Zealand. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3203448/nzs-cyber-spies-win-new-powers 4 comments worldnews
- Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 20 times higher than previously estimated https://www.wfmj.com/story/50890054/researchers-find-higher-levels-of-dangerous-chemical-than-expected-in-southeast-louisiana 33 comments science
- A mobile phone app which records a user’s heartbeat could pave the way for doctors to monitor cardiac patients remotely: researchers analysed more than 5,000 heart sound recordings captured on the ‘Echoes’ app and ruled the quality was good enough it could be used by the general population https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/smartphones-as-electronic-stethoscopes-for-heart-monitoring 4 comments science
- Blood Pressure E-Tattoo Promises Continuous, Mobile Monitoring https://news.utexas.edu/2022/06/20/blood-pressure-e-tattoo-promises-continuous-mobile-monitoring/ 5 comments technews
- Blood Pressure E-Tattoo Promises Continuous, Mobile Monitoring https://news.utexas.edu/2022/06/20/blood-pressure-e-tattoo-promises-continuous-mobile-monitoring/ 12 comments science
- The Fossil Fuel Industry Marketed Natural Gas as a Cleaner Alternative. But They Weren’t Monitoring for Methane Leaks, Former Exxon Mobil Engineer Says. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/video-natural-gas-methane-leaks-exxon-mobil-engineer-power-of-big-oil/ 8 comments energy
- Amazon adding AI-equipped cameras to delivery vans to monitor safety, effectively turning their massive delivery fleet into an army of mobile Ring surveillance cameras https://www.geekwire.com/2021/amazon-adding-ai-equipped-cameras-delivery-vans-monitor-safety-sparking-privacy-concerns/ 11 comments technology
- People in China are now required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services, as the authorities seek to verify the identities of China's hundreds of millions of internet users. "People are being more and more strictly monitored. What are they [the government] afraid of?" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50587098 936 comments worldnews
- La Liga fined after mobile app found to be hacking people’s smartphone microphones and monitor location https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/la-liga-fine-mobile-app-hacking-microphones-illegal-streams-piracy-a8954876.html 3 comments soccer
- Nvidia CES Announcement Megathread | RTX 2060 $359 | RTX Mobile 2080, 2070, 2060 | 40 Laptops, 17 Max-Q January 29th | Nvidia Supports Adaptive Sync Support on Som Monitors | BF5 DLSS | RTX RED 8K, OBS, Autodesk, 3Ds Max, Maya Support https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/adelou/nvidia_ces_announcement_megathread_rtx_2060_359/ 438 comments hardware
- Chinese schools have begun enforcing "smart uniforms" embedded with computer chips to monitor student movements and prevent them from skipping classes. As students enter the school, the time and date is recorded along with a short video that parents can access via a mobile app. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-28/microchipped-school-uniforms-monitor-students-in-china/10671604 3 comments nottheonion
- Chinese schools have begun enforcing "smart uniforms" embedded with computer chips to monitor student movements and prevent them from skipping classes. As students enter the school, the time and date is recorded along with a short video that parents can access via a mobile app. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-28/microchipped-school-uniforms-monitor-students-in-china/10671604 3054 comments worldnews
- One of the biggest modern parenting challenges is monitoring a child’s online activity, but a new study has found that parents actually spend more time talking with their kids about the mechanics of using their mobile devices than about what their kids watch and download on those devices. https://news.umich.edu/parents-kids-spend-more-time-discussing-how-to-use-mobile-technology-than-talking-about-content/ 7 comments science
- IBM is launching a flying 'robotic brain' into space that will work with and monitor astronauts - the robot, called the Crew Interactive Mobile Companion (CIMON), will have an animated face, talk, and fly around. http://uk.businessinsider.com/cimon-ibm-watson-artificial-intelligence-iss-2018-2 53 comments worldnews
- Google is secretly recording you through your mobile, monitoring millions of conversations every day and storing the creepy audio files https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4295350/did-you-know-google-has-been-secretly-recording-you-heres-how-to-find-the-creepy-audio-files-that-are-monitoring-your-conversations-every-day/ 10 comments technology
- How Google is secretly recording YOU through your mobile, monitoring millions of conversations every day and storing the creepy audio files https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4295350/did-you-know-google-has-been-secretly-recording-you-heres-how-to-find-the-creepy-audio-files-that-are-monitoring-your-conversations-every-day/ 15 comments privacy
- How Google is secretly recording you through your mobile, monitoring millions of conversations every day and storing the creepy audio files https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4295350/did-you-know-google-has-been-secretly-recording-you-heres-how-to-find-the-creepy-audio-files-that-are-monitoring-your-conversations-every-day/ 48 comments technology
- Is there a simple way to monitor close to real time mobile data usage on iPhones? https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4y0iay/is_there_a_simple_way_to_monitor_close_to_real/ 4 comments sysadmin
- Russian company helps the boss monitor your mobile phone calls: "A Moscow security firm has developed technology that lets companies eavesdrop on mobile calls made on their premises" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-21/this-russian-company-will-help-the-boss-monitor-your-mobile 5 comments technology
- Standalone laptop shell for mobile devices (monitor, keyboard) from NextDock http://nexdock.com/ 20 comments windowsphone
- Using Apple HealthKit to care for patients with Type 1 diabetes: Patients wear a glucose monitor that sends 288 blood-sugar readings a day to an Apple mobile device. Data is securely transmitted into patient's electronic medical record at Stanford Children's Health through MyChart app. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-apple-healthkit-patients-diabetes.html 74 comments apple
- Verizon is giving a new mission to its controversial hidden identifier that tracks users of mobile devices. Verizon said in a little-noticed announcement that it will soon begin sharing the profiles with AOL's ad network, which in turn monitors users across a large swath of the Internet. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/verizons-zombie-cookie-gets-new-life/ 10 comments technology
- Switzerland plans to revise their data retention law BÜPF so that all communication data can be stored for 12 months. The opponents of this law even say that it would allow the monitoring of mobile phones and the installation of trojans on computers, tablets and mobile phones https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/switzerland-stop-buepf 3 comments europe
- HTML5 Navigation Timing - Monitoring Mobile Site Performance http://engineering.tripadvisor.com/html5-navigation-timing/ 8 comments webdev
- Texas Governor calls for the State Guard to mobilize and then monitor the US Military http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/paranoia-catches-abbott-attention-gov-orders-texas-guard-to-monitor-military-exercises-over-fears-of-federal-takeover.html/ 24 comments worldnews
- T-Mobile quietly hardens part of its U.S. cellular network against snooping "Wireless carrier T-Mobile US has been quietly upgrading its network in a way that makes it harder for surveillance equipment to eavesdrop on calls and monitor texts, even on the company’s legacy system." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/22/t-mobile-quietly-hardens-part-of-its-u-s-cellular-network-against-snooping/?tid=rssfeed 701 comments technology
- Cybersecurity researchers have developed a new security system that continuously monitors how a user taps and swipes a mobile device. If the movements don’t match the owner’s tendencies, the system recognizes the differences and can be programmed to lock the device. http://www.news.gatech.edu/2014/04/07/personal-touch-signature-makes-mobile-devices-more-secure 35 comments technology
- Did the US tap Angela Merkel's phone? The US denies reports the National Security Agency monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone. But even if the suspicion proves false, she now seems likely to take the issue more seriously than before. http://dw.de/p/1a5hj 9 comments worldevents
- Senator Franken Wants Us to Know When Our Apps Are Tracking Us - The proposed legislation will require companies that develop and sell mobile apps get our consent before such programs are installed on our mobile devices. The bill would prohibit the covert monitoring of a person’s location, as well. http://verdict.justia.com/2012/12/18/senator-franken-wants-us-to-know-when-our-apps-are-tracking-us 167 comments politics
- Rep. Ed Markey introduces mobile privacy bill, states that companies must get consent from consumers before the monitoring software starts collecting information and transmitting it to third parties. http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/249055-markey-introduces-mobile-privacy-bill 18 comments technology
- Spyware developed by a UK group can take control of a number of mobile devices, including iPhones and BlackBerrys and computers, turning on microphones and cameras, tracking locations and monitoring emails, text messages and voice calls. Gamma International specializes in governmental IT intrusion. http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/british_malware_can_take_over_iphones_20120901/ 9 comments technology
- In response to the controversy over Carrier IQ, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) released a discussion draft that would require companies to disclose when they’ve installed monitoring software on a mobile phone, what that software collects and who can read that data. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/carrier-iq-concerns-prompt-disclosure-bill-from-markey/2012/01/30/giqaeh3xcq_blog.html?wpisrc=al_tech 4 comments technology
- London's Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones: ... covering an area of 10 sq km, the system forces hundreds of mobile phones per minute to release their unique IMSI and IMEI identity codes, which can be used to track a person's movements in real time.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/metropolitan-police-mobile-phone-surveillance 2 comments technology
- Taser’s new weapon: mobile phone monitoring http://rawstory.com/2010/01/tasers-weapon-mobile-phone-monitoring/ 13 comments technology
- New Zealand Police just allowed Police to monitor all internet communications and mobile phones with a simple warrant. Check it out - in my opinion this is the beginning of some scary shit. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3203448/nzs-cyber-spies-win-new-powers 21 comments reddit.com
- Reddit, please send help, (UK) politicians insane. Apparently not monitoring mobile and web records would be "giving a licence to terrorists to kill people" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7674775.stm 6 comments worldnews