Daily Archives: June 15, 2018

US Government’s biometric database worries privacy advocates

It is something few Americans will have likely heard of, but the US Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) is catching the eye of privacy advocates – and not in a good way. Announced in 2017, on the face of it HART is just a bigger and better version of the DHS’s…

Apple is making it harder for police to collect evidence from iPhones of suspected criminals

Apple announced Wednesday that it would block access to a port that law enforcement uses to break into iPhones during criminal investigations, a move that could reignite debate over whether tech companies are doing enough to help authorities probing serious crimes. Apple said the change, which would disable the Lightning port on the bottom of…