Graham Cluley – @gcluley
2:13 p.m., July 20, 2020
Writing for Forbes, Brewster’s article monitors a $500,000 allocation made through Mitre for the FBI that saw him review and capture biometric data, such as genuine fingerprints, from photographs posted on social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Former FBI chief clinical director Chris Piehota described how the generation of “fingerprints” could well be used to inspect the image of gang members posting online, waving gang symptoms with their hands.
“They also give us access to their fingerprint models,” he adds. “[The FBI] can take the fingerprint characteristics of those photographs and create fingerprint files or fingerprint features for other Americans [for whom] we don’t have biographical information.” This could be favorable for other Americans who violate immigration law when they don’t have their fingerprints registered in some other database, Piehota adds. It can also be used to detect someone in a child exploitation video or, as in an investigation in the Welsh village of Swansea, catch drug dealers using machinery like WhatsApp.
Another task saw Mitre create a device to locate and hack smartwatches, exercise trackers, and IoT devices.
The contract states that the generation could either be used through law enforcement or border agents to support them “to temporarily trip and exploit IoT devices as evidence in a defense or crime scene environment,” or to use in “physical security limits” to hack devices. “When crossing or reaching the border”. Think of other Americans crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and a surveillance tool that analyzes all passing devices, checking which smartwatches or other IoT systems are. When an individual is transported through a suspect, he or she may also temporarily empty his knowledge and evidence in his collected activities, his text messages in his places beyond.
If the government and law enforcement have machinery like this at their disposal, it is desirable that you master this officially, and that there be transparency about how they were deployed, and oversight for civil liberties and privacy do not seem respected. endangering.
For more information, read Forbes’ article here: “In America’s Secret 2 Billion Reseek Hub collecting Fingerprints from Facebook, hacking smartwatches and fighting Covid-19”
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