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Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement
Amazon's home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around the country to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products and a “portal” that allows police to request footage from these cameras, a secret agreement obtained by Motherboard shows. The agreement also requires police to “keep the terms of this program confidential.”
Dozens of police departments around the country have partnered with Ring, but until now, the exact terms of these partnerships have remained unknown. A signed memorandum of understanding between Ring and the police department of Lakeland, Florida, and emails obtained via a public records request, show that Ring is using local police as a de facto advertising firm. Police are contractually required to "Engage the Lakeland community with outreach efforts on the platform to encourage adoption of the platform/app.”
In order to partner with Ring, police departments must also assign officers to Ring-specific roles that include a press coordinator, a social media manager, and a community relations coordinator.
Ring donated 15 free doorbell surveillance cameras to the Lakeland Police Department, and created a program to encourage people to download its “neighborhood watch” app, Neighbors. For every Lakeland resident that downloads Neighbors as a result of the partnership, the documents show, the Lakeland Police Department gets credit toward more free Ring cameras for residents: “Each qualifying download will count as $10 towards these free Ring cameras.” A Ring doorbell camera currently costs $130 on Amazon.
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Amazon's home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around the country to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products and a “portal” that allows police to request footage from these cameras, a secret agreement obtained by Motherboard shows. The agreement also requires police to “keep the terms of this program confidential.”
Dozens of police departments around the country have partnered with Ring, but until now, the exact terms of these partnerships have remained unknown. A signed memorandum of understanding between Ring and the police department of Lakeland, Florida, and emails obtained via a public records request, show that Ring is using local police as a de facto advertising firm. Police are contractually required to "Engage the Lakeland community with outreach efforts on the platform to encourage adoption of the platform/app.”
In order to partner with Ring, police departments must also assign officers to Ring-specific roles that include a press coordinator, a social media manager, and a community relations coordinator.
Ring donated 15 free doorbell surveillance cameras to the Lakeland Police Department, and created a program to encourage people to download its “neighborhood watch” app, Neighbors. For every Lakeland resident that downloads Neighbors as a result of the partnership, the documents show, the Lakeland Police Department gets credit toward more free Ring cameras for residents: “Each qualifying download will count as $10 towards these free Ring cameras.” A Ring doorbell camera currently costs $130 on Amazon.
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Facebook fought to keep a trove of thousands of explosive internal documents and emails secret. They were just published online in full.
Thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents were published on Wednesday, shedding new light on how the company profited from user data and grappled with rivals.
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Thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents were published on Wednesday, shedding new light on how the company profited from user data and grappled with rivals.
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https://www.businessinsider.nl/facebook-internal-documents-executive-emails-published-six4three-court-leak-2019-11
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Dozens of telegram accounts hacked in Russia
If you log on to #Telegram, you usually get a secret code sent to your mobile phone. Only with this secret code you can access your Telegram #account. According to the #security #researchers of the IB group, however, #hackers managed to gain access to these #secret #codes and successfully retrieve telegram chats from a handful of Russian users.
Dmitry Rodin, runs a successful code school in Russia. In a conversation with #Forbes magazine, he now confirmed the incidents. His Telegram account was also successfully #hacked. He told the media that he had received a telegram warning that someone had tried to access his account. Dmitry Rodin ignored the first notification, but there was another warning. Someone from Samara, Russia, had successfully logged into his account. He immediately ended all active sessions except his own.
#GroupIB and Dmitry Rodin are both pretty sure that no #vulnerability in the Telegram Messenger was #exploited to gain access to the affected Telegram accounts.
"Maybe someone logged into my account by intercepting the SMS. This would indicate that there is a problem on the operator's side. This would mean that other accounts that use SMS as an authentication factor are also threatened." (Dmitry Rodin)
Group-IB has been informed about at least 13 such cases so far. The security researchers of Group-IB assume, however, that it will not stay that way. Moreover, they speak of a completely new type of threat for anyone who uses SMS codes to log in.
"This number is likely to increase, however, as it is a new type of threat that is just beginning to spread" (Group-IB)
Most worryingly, both Group-IB and Dmitry Rodin suspect that passwords (OTP) were compromised at one point. If this hypothesis is true, it is a very large security #threat, as this technology is used in many logins and financial transactions around the world.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/12/mystery-russian-telegram-hacks-intercept-secret-codes-to-spy-on-messages
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https://tarnkappe.info/group-ib-dutzende-telegram-accounts-in-russland-gehackt/
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If you log on to #Telegram, you usually get a secret code sent to your mobile phone. Only with this secret code you can access your Telegram #account. According to the #security #researchers of the IB group, however, #hackers managed to gain access to these #secret #codes and successfully retrieve telegram chats from a handful of Russian users.
Dmitry Rodin, runs a successful code school in Russia. In a conversation with #Forbes magazine, he now confirmed the incidents. His Telegram account was also successfully #hacked. He told the media that he had received a telegram warning that someone had tried to access his account. Dmitry Rodin ignored the first notification, but there was another warning. Someone from Samara, Russia, had successfully logged into his account. He immediately ended all active sessions except his own.
#GroupIB and Dmitry Rodin are both pretty sure that no #vulnerability in the Telegram Messenger was #exploited to gain access to the affected Telegram accounts.
"Maybe someone logged into my account by intercepting the SMS. This would indicate that there is a problem on the operator's side. This would mean that other accounts that use SMS as an authentication factor are also threatened." (Dmitry Rodin)
Group-IB has been informed about at least 13 such cases so far. The security researchers of Group-IB assume, however, that it will not stay that way. Moreover, they speak of a completely new type of threat for anyone who uses SMS codes to log in.
"This number is likely to increase, however, as it is a new type of threat that is just beginning to spread" (Group-IB)
Most worryingly, both Group-IB and Dmitry Rodin suspect that passwords (OTP) were compromised at one point. If this hypothesis is true, it is a very large security #threat, as this technology is used in many logins and financial transactions around the world.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/12/mystery-russian-telegram-hacks-intercept-secret-codes-to-spy-on-messages
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https://tarnkappe.info/group-ib-dutzende-telegram-accounts-in-russland-gehackt/
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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates
To an outsider, the fancy booths at a June health insurance industry gathering in San Diego, Calif., aren't very compelling: a handful of companies pitching "lifestyle" data and salespeople touting jargony phrases like "social determinants of health."
But dig deeper and the implications of what they're selling might give many patients pause: a future in which everything you do — the things you buy, the food you eat, the time you spend watching TV — may help determine how much you pay for health insurance.
🎧 👉🏼 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/17/629441555/health-insurers-are-vacuuming-up-details-about-you-and-it-could-raise-your-rates
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To an outsider, the fancy booths at a June health insurance industry gathering in San Diego, Calif., aren't very compelling: a handful of companies pitching "lifestyle" data and salespeople touting jargony phrases like "social determinants of health."
But dig deeper and the implications of what they're selling might give many patients pause: a future in which everything you do — the things you buy, the food you eat, the time you spend watching TV — may help determine how much you pay for health insurance.
🎧 👉🏼 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/17/629441555/health-insurers-are-vacuuming-up-details-about-you-and-it-could-raise-your-rates
#insurance #companies #secret #health #insurers #bigdata #BigData #surveillance #thinkabout #podcast
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Inside the Military's Secret Undercover Army
Exposing the US government's private 60,000 terrorists secret army.
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1591881
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Exposing the US government's private 60,000 terrorists secret army.
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Exclusive: Inside the Military's Secret Undercover Army
Thousands of soldiers, civilians and contractors operate under false names, on the ground and in cyberspace. A Newsweek investigation of the ever-growing and unregulated world of "signature reduction."