Recording conversations is legal. If in Italy a great controversy arose from environmental recordings made by a call girl during her encounters with the Prime Minister, which Berlusconi’s press firepower immediately deemed as illegal, in the US, and more specifically in New York State, a Court of Appeal has just
Category: Surveillance
Surveillance is the systematic collection, storage, analysis and interpretation of data, followed by a dissemination of information to all persons who have provided it and to those who must decide to take any action.
Global Observer, one more step towards the skies
A few days ago, Global Observer, an UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) manufactured by AeroVironment in cooperation with NASA, as just taken a vital step forward during its development phase. In fact, the drone has just completed a series of wing load tests, at NASA’s research center in Dryden, which have
Listening devices are safe, for now
Listening Devices? Those who have followed political life in Italy lately will certainly have noticed how the headlines are no longer arguing about the proposed bill, better known as “gag bill,” which was supposed to impose limitations on advan-gard telephone wiretapping devices, while at the same time it was raising
Google is purchasing a drone. What do they have in mind?
According to some German newspapers, Google recently went shopping in Germany, and Google purchasing drones to be more precise in the small town of Buchen, siege of Microdrones GmbH, a factory which, as the name may suggest, produces drones, or more specifically, miniature quadricopters. Microdrones’ quadricopters are devices which, in
A necklace or a hidden video camera?
As men, we know how our women love to be always well dressed and accurate up to the smallest detail of their style, and how everything must be in harmony, from shoes to hairstyle, from shirt to necklace. What we might not know, instead, is that what apparently looks like
Hidden miniature video cameras
Hidden miniature cameras? Spy movies, for example those inspired by Ian Fleming’s novels featuring James Bond as main character, have brought on the big screen so many strange devices, sometimes so ingenious that they looked impossible, such as video or photo cameras hidden, just to name one, inside a pen
Mobile phone eavesdropping costs only 1500 dollars
Mobile phone spying? In order to be able to intercept mobile phone calls around you, either encrypted or not, all you need is 1500 dollars to invest. At least, this is according to a demonstration showcased by a researcher during the yearly conference of hackers, called DefCon 2010, which recently
Spy phones, the alternative to bugs
Spy phones? Aside from the latest political developments in Italy, according to which the Government seems to be busy fighting telephone wiretapping, by complicating the regulations that rule the usage of listening bugs, using hidden microphones is in any case not always easy for the police, and they must always
Listening device, what are they for?
Listening Devices? In the last few months, everyone in Italy is talking about telephone wiretapping, listening devices and, most of all, about the limitations of their use for investigative purposes, limitations that the government is trying to pass with a bill that has created controversy. It looks like, in their
A video camera is hidden in the ear
Hidden Spying Video Camera? Taking hidden video footage at any level, from a candid camera TV show up to high-profile police operations to gather evidence against criminals, always require maximum discretion to achieve the best result, be it a good laugh or vital intelligence to fight organized crime. Therefore, to