Articles Tagged with ''surveillance''

The family of a 6-year-old boy stabbed to death in a Brooklyn elevator plans a $281 million lawsuit against NYCHA, blaming his murder on its shoddy security.

 

The New York Police Department has disbanded a special unit that tried to detect terror threats in Muslim communities through secret surveillance.

Federal officials filed a lawsuit alleging that Sprint Communications Inc. overbilled government agencies $21 million for wiretap service.

Two surveillance blimps with monitoring capabilities that extend from Raleigh, N.C. to the shores of Lake Erie will go airborne in October.

A Pew Research poll says that most of the American public is tuning out the policy debate over government surveillance.

Barack Obama announced he would end the National Security Agency’s ability to store phone data collected from millions of Americans.

Over the last several months, police in Pasadena, Calif., have been negotiating with local businesses to gain the use of their private surveillance cameras to monitor the Rose Parade route. 

Security experts at Unisys Corporation predict that the coming year will usher in broad-based adoption of encryption as enterprises respond to recent disclosures that unencrypted data traffic inside enterprises is vulnerable to detection from outsiders.

Penn State University is in the process of installing more than 600 security cameras in dormitories and common areas of its main campus.

Public disclosures about U.S. government surveillance threaten the ability of police to use powerful new technologies such as drones and mobile license plate readers.