Some Companies Are Turning To Tracking Technologies To Ensure Safe Reopening

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Is workplace surveillance going too far? These former Woolworths and Services Australia workers speak out

ABC

Ray Dalli says his job became unbearable when the federal government agency in charge of social services like Centrelink, Medicare and child support introduced new software that would track and measure every minute of his shifts. The former Services Australia employee even considered documenting the details of his toilet visits to avoid being accused of stealing time from the agency, …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘Workplace dystopia’: Employee monitoring software tracks 30-second breaks, sends red flag to manager

Hindustan Times

While installing employee monitoring software in staff devices has become standard practice across several industries, the advent of AI could push surveillance to unprecedented levels. Concerns about the use of AI in tracking employee activity were highlighted in a viral Reddit post, where one person claimed that a “pretty big” productivity monitoring software suite is capable of not only tracking …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Women are arming themselves with technology to protect against violence. Is it working?

CNN

CNN — The man accused of killing 22-year-old college student Laken Riley in February while she was jogging on the University of Georgia campus was convicted of murder this week and sentenced to life in prison. “I cannot walk around my own college campus because I am terrified of people like Jose Ibarra,” she said tearfully in court this week, …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

With a 'CCTV camera in every laptop' as workplace surveillance extends to the home, governments are trying to determine a limit

ABC

Workplace surveillance is widespread and largely unregulated. Big challenge The NSW report said that while surveillance of workers was not new, advancements in technology mean the pace of change and the complex challenge that poses "cannot be understated". "We're all on the clock here, but we need to make sure that we get the balance right between what's good for …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Find my iPhone: Why tracking your partner’s mobile is a slippery slope

The Independent

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

CrowdStrike boss apologises over global IT outage

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has again apologised for the global IT outage sparked by …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Expanded Police Surveillance Will Get Us “Broken Windows” on Steroids

Slate

Across the United States, cities are spending a larger share of the money at their disposal buying and deploying surveillance technology. One could point to cities across the world with lower violent crime rates than the United States, like London, where CCTV camera surveillance is ubiquitous. For one thing, it’s pretty hard to buy a gun in the U.K. For …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

RBI’s Rao flags outsourcing, cybersecurity risks days after Microsoft outage

Live Mint

Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India deputy governor M. Rajeshwar Rao on Monday flagged the risks around cybersecurity and growing dependency of financial services companies on outsourcing arrangements, days after a global Microsoft Windows outage disrupted the operations of industries worldwide, including airlines, banks, and hospitals. “The first issue I would like to discuss is the issue of third-party dependence and …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Tech disruptions sparked by software update highlight the fragility of globally connected technology

New Indian Express

Airlines, banks, hospitals and other risk-averse organizations around the world chose cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to protect their computer systems from hackers and data breaches. But all it took was one faulty CrowdStrike software update to cause global disruptions Friday that grounded flights, knocked banks and media outlets offline, and disrupted hospitals, retailers and other services. “This is a function of …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Paired tracking devices keep domestic violence survivors safe. Why aren't they readily available?

ABC

A paired tracking device is keeping domestic violence survivor Isla safe, and she wants others to know about it. Family and domestic violence support services: If you need help immediately call emergency services on triple-0 1800 Respect National Helpline: 1800 737 732 Women's Crisis Line: 1800 811 811 Men's Referral Service: 1300 766 491 Lifeline: 131 114 "Every time that …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Employee claims company wants to track their personal phone, Redditors have a lot to say

Hindustan Times

An employee took to Reddit to share about their company's baffling work policy that has sparked chatter on the social media platform. The employee claimed that the company demanded their employees to download an app which would monitor their personal phone activities. The Redditor, who goes by the name "BlueSeaChief", wrote, "My employer recently changed to wanting to use a …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Google and Apple join hands to help users know if they are being tracked by someone

India Today

Google and Apple, the two tech giants often seen as competitors, have joined forces to address a common concern: unwanted location tracking. The companies have collaborated to develop an industry specification called "Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers" for Bluetooth tracking devices. So, to address this, Google and Apple have collaborated to create a standardised method for detecting and alerting users about …

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8 months ago

Dell's extreme steps to push for work from office: VPN tracking, layoff scare as company forcing employees to stop WFH

Hindustan Times

Dell is reportedly cracking down on employees who are working from home and forcing them to come to office. Dell will track VPN connections to check whether employees are working from office or not. Extreme steps that Dell is taking to ensure work from office As per the rating a blue flag will mean an employee is consistently coming to …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Stalked with an AirTag? A class-action lawsuit against Apple in California will move forward

LA Times

A class-action lawsuit accuses Apple of taking inadequate steps to prevent stalkers from using its AirTag tracking devices, which the company once called “stalker-proof.” Victims of stalkers who used Apple AirTags to track their whereabouts will be able to move forward with their lawsuit against the tech giant, a federal judge has ruled. Friday’s decision by U.S. District Judge Vince …

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10 months ago

Book Review: ‘Means of Control’ charts the disturbing rise of a secretive US surveillance regime

Associated Press

In the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, former national security advisor John Poindexter launched Total Information Awareness, intent on preventing future assaults on the homeland by amassing extensive databases on people and their movements. How private Beltway contractors grew what has become a secretive surveillance regime is exposed in disturbing detail by journalist Byron Tau in his first book, …

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10 months ago

Book Review: 'Means of Control' charts the disturbing rise of a secretive US surveillance regime

The Independent

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1 year, 1 month ago

It’s you again: Art and tech projects are staring back at surveillance

Hindustan Times

We’re all stars of screen today. Since last year, Thejesh has also been holding “mapping parties”, inviting people to gather in a specific part of the city and spend the day adding more points to the map. “IFF want to raise public awareness and create transparency around FRT projects,” says Jain. “I try to ‘see’ landscapes of surveillance in different …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Workplace surveillance like mouse tracking is common, but it raises ethical and legal questions

ABC

Monitoring by her employer allegedly led to Suzie Cheikho being fired from her job of 18 years. He says it's "quite commonplace today" for workplaces to use methods of surveillance like recording and analysing employees' instant messages and emails, as well as their telephone calls and social media use. "Other common monitoring practices are recording what's on the screens, taking …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Activists slam India’s first ever GPS tracker for Kashmiri suspect

Al Jazeera

Since he got bail more than a week ago, Ghulam Muhammad Bhat, 65, has had the electronic device placed around his ankle. Indian activists have slammed the authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir for putting a Global Positioning System tracker on the body of a man facing “terrorism” charges – the first such use of electronic monitoring reported in the South Asian …

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1 year, 2 months ago

How encrypted messaging apps became the lynchpin of a regulatory probe into Wall Street firms | Explained

The Hindu

Story so far: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Wall Street investment company employees’ chat messages to confirm how widely they used personal messaging apps such as Meta’s WhatsApp, privacy-focused Signal, or Apple’s iMessage to discuss business. While this may seem innocuous, employees in large investment companies - such as Wall Street firms - could end up losing …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Coles high-tech security measure could lead to 'distrust'

Daily Mail

Australia's two biggest supermarkets are going to increasingly drastic lengths to fight back against stealing and violent behaviour in their stores - but experts are saying it could lead to a sense of 'distrust' and 'trauma' in customers. Coles announced this week that it would introduce a range of hi-tech security measures in stores across the nation, including overhead cameras …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Companies using software to track remote workers, many fired when not seen working near computer

India Today

Remote working is becoming a preferred way of working for many job professionals around the globe. A recent report by Business Insider revealed that many companies across the globe are now using software to surveil their employees and keep track of their work during office hours. "We help companies get peace of mind with productivity analytics,"said Carlo Borja, Time Doctor's …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Why violent extremists get security clearances — but people of color must sometimes wait and wait

Raw Story

At the dawn of former President Donald Trump’s administration, government employees and contractors in need of security clearances could wait years for approval. “The problem is when you come in as a person with ties to a foreign jurisdiction, even though it says you can be a dual citizen, you really can't,” said Dan Meyer, partner at law firm Tully …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Demand for security, fire safety to rise: experts

The Hindu

The commercial security market in India which has been growing steadily over the past few years, driven by increasing awareness about the need for security among businesses and the government, is expected to get a leg up from various smart cities that are in the making. The market includes a range of security products and services, such as access control …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Govt to roll out lost mobile blocking, tracking system pan-India

India TV News

People will be able to block and track their lost or stolen mobile phones across India with the rollout of a tracking system by the government this week, a senior government official said. The CEIR will be able to block any cloned mobile phones on the network with the help of various databases," Upadhyay said. Recently, Karnataka Police recovered and …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Apple and Google launches an initiative to restrict unwanted tracking

India TV News

Apple and Google said that they have jointly submitted an industry specification to help combat the misuse of Bluetooth location-tracking devices for unwanted tracking. He further added, "This new industry specification builds upon the AirTag protections, and through collaboration with Google results in a critical step forward to help combat unwanted tracking across iOS and Android." The specification has been …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Employers stepping up efforts to spy on workers, says labor union

NL Times

Employers are increasingly spying on their workers, trade union CNV said after surveying 2,600 of its members. Almost a quarter said that the monitoring of their activities has increased in recent years, and 40 percent said their employers know more about them through digital means than five years ago. “The employers' drive to control is increasing rapidly,” CNV chairman Piet …

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2 years ago

Police seize on COVID-19 tech to expand global surveillance

The Independent

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2 years, 1 month ago

Wall Street spends $1.8 bn to spy on traders and bankers after record fines

Live Mint

Wall Street is spending more than ever on technology designed to keep an eye on traders after regulators extracted record fines from many of the world’s biggest banks for lapses in monitoring communications. The increased spending comes after US regulators reached settlements with a dozen banks in a sprawling probe into how global financial firms failed to monitor employees’ communications …

2 years, 3 months ago

Senators push to reform police’s cellphone tracking tools

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people’s whereabouts, including back years in time, and sometimes without a search warrant. Concerns about police use of the tool known as “Fog Reveal” raised in an investigation by The Associated Press …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Federal Trade Commission is looking into consumer surveillance and the involvement of Big Tech companies

The Hindu

Whether it's the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies. The Federal Trade Commission announced the initiative Thursday, seeking public comment on the effects of companies’ data collection and the potential benefit of …

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2 years, 4 months ago

FTC looking at rules to corral tech firms’ data collection

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Whether it’s the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies. The Federal Trade Commission announced the initiative Thursday, seeking public comment on the effects of companies’ data collection and the potential …

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2 years, 4 months ago

FTC looking at rules to corral tech firms’ data collection

LA Times

Federal regulators are looking at drafting rules to crack down on what they call harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security. The Federal Trade Commission announced the initiative Thursday, seeking public comment on the effects of companies’ data collection and the potential benefit of new rules to protect consumers’ privacy. The FTC defines commercial surveillance as “the business of collecting, …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Are companies lagging when it comes to online security?

Live Mint

One of the most significant shifts the pandemic brought to the corporate world was the rise of the work-from-home or the hybrid working model. The fifth annual Mobile Security Index by Verizon Business, released earlier this week, explains how. The Mobile Security Index provides unique insights into the current mobile threat landscape and what organizations are, or in many cases …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Popular period-tracking apps are sharing sensitive personal data with advertisers, study finds

Daily Mail

Four out of five of the UK's most popular period tracking apps share personal data with third parties, a report published today reveals. Study found 21 out of the 25 apps analysed - 84 per cent - shared at least some data with external third parties How US women can protect their privacy in the wake of Roe v Wade …

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2 years, 5 months ago

In Pegasus battle, the fight for surveillance reform

The Hindu

A year has passed since the disclosures about the Pegasus Project revealed the threat to India’s democracy. But on July 19, 2021, the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, referring to “press reports of 18th July 2021”, refused to directly address the claims made by the Pegasus Project; he stated that the existing legal framework prevents unauthorised surveillance. …

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2 years, 5 months ago

The Most Popular Period-Tracking Apps, Ranked by Data Privacy

Wired

This not only shifts the burden of risk assessment to individual users, but also makes evaluating the privacy and security of apps difficult to begin with. While Stardust expresses a commitment to limiting the information they share with third parties, their policy states it could share information in order to “comply with or respond to law enforcement,” or to protect …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Researchers: Chinese-made GPS tracker highly vulnerable

Associated Press

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2 years, 6 months ago

Period-tracking apps are trying to make women feel safer about their data after the end of Roe v. Wade

CNN

New York CNN Business — In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, women living in states that criminalize abortion are grappling with the possibility that their phones could now hold incriminating information about their travel, search history and menstrual cycles. “Flo will never share or sell user data, and only collects data when we …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Cheap, easy-to-install GPS trackers sold online are a menace

The Hindu

A simple search on e-commerce sites like Amazon and Flipkart returns an array of results for GPS trackers. On the other hand, the very principle on which these simple GPS trackers work can be a big threat to the security and privacy of unsuspecting people. Instances of misuse GPS trackers have been around for some time, and even before the …

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2 years, 6 months ago

After Roe, Dems seek probe of tech’s use of personal data

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — With the Supreme Court ending the constitutional protections for abortion, four Democratic lawmakers are asking federal regulators to investigate Apple and Google for allegedly deceiving millions of mobile phone users by enabling the collection and sale of their personal data to third parties. “Individuals seeking abortions and other reproductive healthcare will become particularly vulnerable to privacy harms, including …

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2 years, 6 months ago

The employee surveillance that fuels worker distrust

BBC

The employee surveillance that fuels worker distrust Getty Images Workforce monitoring continues to increase amid remote work, with no signs of slowing. “It’s fine until the day you get caught off-guard and faced with the sack for saying something that’s deemed inappropriate.” Employee monitoring has existed for a while in various guises, from timekeeping on factory floors to the collection …

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2 years, 7 months ago

With Roe in doubt, some fear tech surveillance of pregnancy

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — When Chandler Jones realized she was pregnant during her junior year of college, she turned to a trusted source for information and advice. Researching birth control online, updating a period-tracking app or bringing a phone to the doctor’s office could be used to track and prosecute women across the U.S.,” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said last week. “When …

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2 years, 7 months ago

With Roe in doubt, some fear tech surveillance of pregnancy

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — When Chandler Jones realized she was pregnant during her junior year of college, she turned to a trusted source for information and advice. “I couldn’t imagine before the Internet, trying to navigate this,” said Jones, 26, who graduates Tuesday from the University of Baltimore School of Law. It’s all possible because HIPAA, the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and …

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2 years, 11 months ago

New technology pinpoints prison cells where mobile phones are used for drug dealing and violence

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Prisoners using illegal mobile phones are being detected in their own …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Israel halts controversial tech to track omicron variant

India Today

Israel said Thursday it was halting the use of a controversial phone tracking technology to trace possible cases of the new coronavirus variant. Earlier this week, the government approved travel restrictions and authorised the country's internal security agency to use the phone monitoring technology for contact tracing people infected by the omicron variant in Israel. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Is your company secretly monitoring your work at home? Since COVID, the practice has surged

LA Times

Gartner, a technology research and consulting firm, estimates that 60% of large corporations now employ monitoring software, double the share of early last year. But Brian Kropp, Gartner’s chief of human resource research who has been surveying companies, said that “most employers have not told their employees they’re doing this, which actually creates a real problem.” ExpressVPN, in a recent …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Tech workers are no longer afraid to go public. Here’s how they found their voices

LA Times

Silicon Valley has a powerful new adversary: its own workforce. Those norms might have held when the companies employed a few thousand workers, said Adam Fisher, author of “Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley.” “But now that these are some of the biggest companies that have ever existed on the planet — at least by value, and …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Smartphones are surveillance tools and Bollywood is now discovering it | OPINION

India Today

In the days following his flight to Hong Kong, when NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden met lawyers, the first thing that he asked them to do was to switch off their phones and put them inside the refrigerator in his hotel room. What we are discovering in Mumbai, where chats and personal details of some Bollywood stars are leaking left, right …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Chicago police superintendent says department is ready for the most critical weekend of the year

CNN

CNN — As Chicago leaders work to address violence across the city, police said Saturday that at least 16 people have been shot – including six fatally – across the city since Friday. The news comes a day after local leaders met in a nearly six-hour long city council special meeting, ahead of the holiday weekend that Chicago Police Superintendent …

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Some Companies Are Turning To Tracking Technologies To Ensure Safe Reopening

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