TED had a talk about license plate readers and databases. http://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_crump_the_small_and_surprisingly_dangerous_detail_the_police_track_about_you
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Government spy agencies will stop at nothing!
This article in The Guardian shows a vast violatiion of our privacy. What worries me is that we may be seeing only the tip of the iceberg of what they are actually collecting, saving, and mining with little or no oversight.
Sim card database hack gave US and UK spies access to billions of cellphones. http://gu.com/p/46xeq
International row likely after revelations of breach that could have given NSA and GCHQ the power to monitor a large portion of world’s cellular communications
Follow contributor Dominic Rushe in New York
Published: 06:28 GMT+07:00 Fri 20 February 2015
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Gemalto, the company targeted by the spy agencies, produces 2bn sim cards per year for clients including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. Photograph: Kimmo Mntyl /Rex Features
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