The Argentine government has used drones to catch out wealthy tax evaders who had not declared mansions and swimming pools. Unmanned aircraft were dispatched over an upper class area of Buenos Aires and discovered 200 homes and 100 pools that had not been detailed on returns.
Tax officials said the drones took pictures of luxury houses standing on lots registered as empty. Use of drones has been expanding in Argentina and the rest of South America with the unmanned vehicles being deployed for purposes as diverse as locating drug smuggling routes, monitoring farm crops, and looking for archaeological sites.
Read moreThe search engine that protects your privacy by not tracking your searches has been blocked in China. DuckDuckGo has garnered kudos among privacy advocates because it allows you to search for items on the Web anonymously.
Unlike Google and other search engines, the site doesn't collect personal information, so it cannot share any data about you with law enforcement or other authorities. In addition to its core website, the company also offers mobile apps for iOS and Android users. Search engines face unique challenges in trying to carve out business in China where the government demands that certain information be blocked from its citizens.
Read moreJulian Assange has transcended the confinement of his Ecuadorian embassy asylum to attend the 2014 Nantucket Project – as a hologram. In his ghostly entirety Assange was speaking about censorship, control and manipulation of history.
Speaking with filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, Assange closed the 2014 event, sharing his thoughts on importance of research and free access to information, and risks of censorship. “As a researcher, I'm all too well aware of what people are now calling Google blindness, that the information you can’t find on the Internet doesn’t exist,” Assange said, not missing a chance to take on the corporation and call it a “revolving door” of NSA and close partner of the US Government.
Read moreA lot of people can be surprised that Steve Jobs forbid his kids from using new devices, including those that he created. During the interview Steve said: "My children haven't used it. We limit how much technology our kids use at home." It is strange to hear from the person who made devices that dictate fashion and identify trends.
It turns out that many other leaders of technology firms strictly limit the amount of time their children can spend in front of a screen. Many people didn’t know what to say about Jobs‘ answer. They somehow thought that his house is full of touch screens, but iPads and iPhones are given to guests instead of candies. But it was not so. At all.
Read moreAll of us have to think that we should appreciate our private life and the protection of personal information. Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Dropbox, Evernote, iCloud, Gmail ... they want to know everything about us and even more.
You can learn a lot about how to become responsible for your virtual world, simply start doing something. It's very simple. The main thing is your desire. Instead of being angry or upset you just need to regain control of your data and get away from the clouds. It's your data, and only you can stop them giving away.
Read moreThe creation of Next Generation Identification system took a lot of years and money, but now it can change the old automated fingerprint identification, which was used by FBI. At the beginning the identification system was designed as multifactorial, because the data will be collected from different biometric indicators, and its functionality will be extended in future.
The NGI system will have more data, than any systems have had before. In addition to fingerprints, tattoos and scars photos, images of the iris, the identification system will contain the pictures of people, namely the person identification as a form of available information source on biometric identification.
Read moreThe word “wearable” was once merely an adjective describing an article of clothing that was easy to wear. Now “wearable” refers to a mobile device that users wear on their body, and this latter wearable was a major topic of discussion last week.
The reason for this topicality is, like last September and the September before that and so on and so forth since the dawn of iPhone, Apple held one of its special look-at-all-of-our-new-things event. This year, the centerpiece of that event was perhaps the most eagerly anticipated wearable since Google Glass: the Apple Watch. Summing up the types of people that anticipate these devices can be classified into these four groups.
Read moreApple said that it is making it impossible for the company to turn over data from most iPhones or iPads to police — even when they have a search warrant — taking a hard new line as tech companies attempt to blunt allegations that they have too readily participated in government efforts to collect user information.
The move, announced with the publication of a new privacy policy tied to the release of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 8, amounts to an engineering solution to a legal quandary. Apple has reworked its latest encryption in a way that prevents the company — or anyone but the device’s owner — from gaining access to the vast troves of user data typically stored on smartphones or tablet computers.
Read moreThe attorney general of the U.S. state of Connecticut is concerned about the privacy implications of Apple Watch’s handling of consumers’ health information. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, George Jepsen has asked for a meeting with company representatives to discuss his concerns about how personal consumer information collected through the Apple Watch will be stored.
Apple unveiled earlier this month a digital watch that will double as a fitness tracker and run a variety of apps. The company said the watches will be available next year. Jepsen wants to know whether personal and health information will be stored on the Apple Watch itself and/or on its servers.
Read moreThe corporation must disclose information about the search process in connection with a leading position on the market. The German leadership requires Google to provide data on the search algorithm.
Heiko Maas, a German justice minister said that Google should provide more transparent information about the search process and its implementation due to the prevailing market position. The Minister also reported that nowadays each company is going to use Google to promote their goods. The corporation, in turn, can use it in order to create online market without competitiveness in Europe.
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