Hypocrisy abounds this episode as new methods of tracking citizens by governments have been revealed & the campaign to shut down cop reporting on Waze has gone public.

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France Seeks to Sanction Web Companies for Posts Pushing Terror

President Francois Hollande said Tuesday in Paris the government will present a draft law next month that makes Internet operators “accomplices” of hate-speech offenses if they host extremist messages.

Researchers Tie Regin Malware To NSA, Five Eyes Intel Agencies

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered shared code and functionality between the Regin malware platform and a similar platform described in a newly disclosed set of Edward Snowden documents 10 days ago by Germany’s Der Spiegel. The link, found in a keylogger called QWERTY allegedly used by the so-called Five Eyes, leads them to conclude that the developers of each platform are either the same, or work closely together. “Considering the extreme complexity of the Regin platform and little chance that it can be duplicated by somebody without having access to its source codes, we conclude the QWERTY malware developers and the Regin developers are the same or working together,” wrote Kaspersky Lab researchers Costin Raiu and Igor Soumenkov today in a published report.

Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App

“The Register reports on a request from the US National Sheriffs’ Association, which “wants Google to block its crowd-sourced traffic app Waze from being able to report the position of police officers, saying the information is putting officer’s lives at risk.” From the article: “‘The police community needs to coordinate an effort to have the owner, Google, act like the responsible corporate citizen they have always been and remove this feature from the application even before any litigation or statutory action,’ AP reports Sheriff Mike Brown, the chairman of the NSA’s technology committee, told the association’s winter conference in Washington….Brown called the app a ‘police stalker,’ and said being able to identify where officers were located could put them at personal risk. Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, said his members had concerns as well. ‘I can think of 100 ways that it could present an officer-safety issue,’ Pasco said. ‘There’s no control over who uses it. So, if you’re a criminal and you want to rob a bank, hypothetically, you use your Waze.'”

DEA cameras tracking hundreds of millions of car journeys across the US

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program to keep tabs on cars close to the U.S.-Mexican border has been gradually expanded nationwide and is regularly used by other law enforcement agencies in their hunt for suspects.

The extent of the system, which is said to contain hundreds of millions of records on motorists and their journeys, was disclosed in documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. Much of the information disclosed to the ACLU was undated, making it difficult to understand the growth of the network, which is different from the cameras used to collect traffic tolls on expressways.

Batteries Made With Bulletproof Kevlar Fibers May Never Explode

The researchers at the University of Michigan layered nanofibers extracted from Kevlar on top of each other to create very thin insulating sheets. And it turns out the microscopic pores on this new material are actually far too small to allow the tips of those fern-like dendrite structures to poke through and make contact with other electrodes. Individual lithium-ions can still squeeze through as needed, but nothing else.

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Waze signs a deal to share data with local governments, millions are pirate streaming the World Cup, and we’ve got the details on the company’s whose mission it is to shut them down.

Plus can you hear the difference between hot and cold? We take the test.

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Millions Watch World Cup Through Pirated Live Streams

Millions of people have tuned in to pirated World Cup streams thus far, with some games getting nearly half a million unauthorized viewers. TorrentFreak spoke with the French-Israeli content protection firm Viaccess-Orca, who sent roughly 2,000 takedown notices to content platforms that host or link to illegally streamed World Cup matches.

“The success rate varies per content platform but overall we manage to get 35 percent of the streaming links disabled before the game ends. I think this is a great success rate, especially compared to direct download sites,” Leporini informs us.

There are still hundreds of thousands of people getting through. The company estimates that between 100,000 and 500,000 people tune in to an average game. Up until last week, Belgium versus Russia was the most-watched match with 471,541 unauthorized viewers.

New Zealand ISP allows its customers to subscribe to the U.S. version of Netflix

Slingshot_, a local internet provider in New Zealand, wants to give its subscribers a little extra perk: The ISP just added a new “global mode”_to its internet plans that allows its customers to access video services like Netflix or Hulu without getting in trouble for coming from the wrong country

Slingshot’s global mode is essentially a VPN, meaning that it reroutes any traffic through servers situated in other countries. Slingshot subscribers using global mode may look like they’re located in New York

Anyone using this type of VPN likely violates the terms of of service of a streaming site, which is why Slingshot coyly suggests that the service is just for customers who happen to house international visitors

Why Google’s Waze Is Helping Local Governments Track Users

What may be especially tantalizing for planners is the super-accurate read Waze gets on exactly where drivers are going, by pinging their phones’ GPS once every second. The app can tell how fast a driver is moving and even get a complete record of their driving history, according to Waze spokesperson Julie Mossler.

Yet this passively-tracked data “is not something we share,” she adds. Waze, which Google bought last year for $1.3 billion, can turn the data spigots on and off through its application programing interface (API).

Waze has been sharing user data with Rio since summer 2013 and it just signed up the State of Florida. It says more departments of transport are in the pipeline.

But none of these partnerships are making Waze any money. The app’s currency of choice is data. “It’s a two-way street,” says Mossler. “Literally.”

In return for its user updates, Waze gets real-time information from Rio on highways, from road sensors and even from cameras, while Florida will give the app data on construction projects or city events.

Florida’s department of transport could not be reached for comment, but one of its spokesmen recently told a local news station: “We’re going to share our information, our camera images, all of our information that comes from the sensors on the roadway, and Waze is going to share its data with us.”

“This is a numbers game,” Mossler says. “We still want all the information we can get so that our app is as robust as possible.”

The Rise of Thin, Mini and Insert Skimmers

While most card skimmers are made to sit directly on top of the existing card slot, these newer mini-skimmers fit snugly inside the card reader throat, obscuring most of the device. This card skimmer was made to fit inside certain kinds of cash machines made by NCR.

The miniaturized insert skimmer was used in tandem with a tiny spy camera to record each customer’s PIN.

The United States is the last of the G-20 nations that has yet to transition to chip & PIN, which means most ATM cards issued in Europe have a magnetic stripe on them for backwards compatibility when customers travel to this country. Naturally, ATM hackers in Europe will ship the stolen card data over to thieves here in the U.S., who then can encode the stolen card data onto fresh (chipless) cards and pull cash out of the machines here and in Latin America.

NPR Listeners Show A Keen Ear For Temperature

NPR conducted an online poll asking listeners if they could hear the difference between cold and hot water simply by listening to the sound of the water being poured. Most listeners were spot-on.

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Angela and Chris run down some of their all time favorite mobile apps, for iOS and Android. Dominate your mobile device like a pro, with our picks.

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Traffic – Waze: https://www.waze.com/

Weather – Dark Sky: https://darkskyapp.com/

Homescreen replacement – Nova Launcher: https://novalauncher.com/

Geeky Phone Stats – Systempanel: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel.r1&hl=en

Media Server – Plex: https://www.plexapp.com/

Reddit reader – Reddit is fun: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu.android.reddit

Reddit reader – BaconReader for Reddit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onelouder.baconreader&hl=en

Music finder – Shazam: https://www.shazam.com/

Podcasts – Pocket Casts: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.shiftyjelly.pocketcasts&hl=en

Roku Remote – Roku Wifi Remote: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exavore.rokumote&hl=en

ES File Explorer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop

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We’ve got a Bash script that’ll make your Podcast catching a snap, plus a whole batch of audience favorites.

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