Ding-dong, your doorbell is looking a bit creepy. Ring video doorbells, Nest Hello and other connected security cameras are the fastest-growing home improvement gadgets since garage door openers. These cameras, often built into buzzers, alert your phone when someone is at your door and save footage online. Mine has helped me get deliveries and catch […]
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‘Alexa, are you eavesdropping on me?’
I’ve gone all-in on Amazon’s line of Alexa-powered speakers, installing them throughout my home and buying them for family members. We use them to play music and news, tell jokes and get the weather. And I get to talk to a computer like I’m Captain Picard in Star Trek. But stories like one in Gizmodo […]
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FBI had secret warrant to monitor Trump campaign adviser Carter Page
The FBI obtained a secret court order to monitor communications from former Trump adviser Carter Page in summer 2016, according to law enforcement and intelligence officials. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) The FBI obtained a secret court order to monitor communications from former Trump adviser Carter Page in summer 2016, according to law enforcement and intelligence […]
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Video: FBI planes carry out video, cellphone surveillance
WASHINGTON — The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology — all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned. The planes’ surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge’s approval, and […]
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Second knifepoint store robbery in less than 2 weeks in Auburn
AUBURN — Police are searching for a man who robbed an Auburn store Sunday night at knifepoint, the second such robbery in Lewiston-Auburn in less than two weeks. At about 8:40 p.m. Sunday, a man walked into Gowell’s Variety at 121 Hampshire St. in Auburn, waved a knife at the clerk and made off with […]
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Tracked!
For better or worse, we’re tracking others or being tracked ourselves like never before. The technology is awesome. Just ask Jerome Richard, a Mexico man who used free software to achieve the near-impossible – finding his wife’s lost cell phone in Las Vegas, a place not particularly known for its honest and helpful inhabitants. Lose […]
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N.H. attempts to regulate drones and protect privacy
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Two state lawmakers have resurrected an effort to limit the use of drones to protect residents’ privacy, despite the failure of efforts last year. New Hampshire was among 43 states last year to introduce bills and resolutions concerning the unmanned aircraft. But the legislation that would have prohibited drones from snapping […]
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NSA copies data flowing to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from among hundreds of millions […]
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NSA collected thousands of emails not connected to terrorism
WASHINGTON — The nations’ top intelligence official is declassifying three secret U.S. court opinions showing how the National Security Agency scooped up as many as 56,000 emails annually over three years and other communications by Americans with no connection to terrorism, how it revealed the error to the court and changed how it gathered Internet […]
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NYC officials don’t embrace ‘body cameras’ for police
NEW YORK — Police officers around the country have been able to protect themselves against citizen complaints by wearing tiny body cameras, but a federal judge’s plan to force some New York officers to start wearing the devices has angered the city’s mayor and police unions. Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized the cameras unnecessary for the […]