Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 6/17/23
Spying on prisoners' heartbeats, Cops abusing anti-porn app, Sending suicide hotline caller's data to Facebook, Shady chips inside the Navy, NASA and NATO, Updating SP 800-171, plus a bonus long read
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This Surveillance System Tracks Inmates Down to Their Heart Rate
Wired’s Matt Burgess reveals that the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office in Atlanta, Georgia is in the process of rolling out a new surveillance system by Georgia-based firm Talitrix, which, to the dismay of privacy advocates, tracks an inmate’s heartbeat, determines their location every 30 seconds, and creates 3D images showing who comes into contact with whom,
Screenshots of a dashboard of Talitrix’s software, which is called Inside the Walls, show correction officers can see how many inmates are within each area of the jail at any time, names of inmates, their j…
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