Newscan: Amazon employees protest sale of facial-recognition technology to law enforcement

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Minneapolis hit with DDoS attack amid social unrest Feds flew an unarmed Predator drone over Minneapolis protests to provide ‘situational awareness’ Virtual 911: The time is now UK airport rolls out drone-threat-management system Hawaii’s Internet relies on increasingly tenuous undersea cables Rep. Khanna: Coronavirus has ‘accelerated’ the need […]

The U.S. government’s battle to keep Chinese companies out of its communications networks rages on. This week, Pacific Networks and its subsidiary ComNet urged the FCC not to shut down their U.S. operations. Separately, lawyers from the FCC laid out their legal argument for banning U.S. telecom companies from using Huawei equipment. And America’s anti-China […]

Many measures implemented initially in reaction to demands associated with the COVID-19 pandemic likely will become long-term components of public-safety communications, particularly in the 911 arena, public-safety representatives said during a recent webinar. Mel Maier, captain of the emergency communications and operations division of the Oakland County (Mich.) Sheriff’s Office, said the COVID-19 situation has […]

  Rave Mobile Safety Todd Miller explains how the new Rave Coronavirus Recovery Solution can help governments and enterprises reopen operations as safely as possible while awaiting development of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines.