Isro is scheduled to launch the EOS-09 (RISAT-1B) satellite on May 18 NEW DELHI: India’s surveillance power from the sky is set to get a big boost as Isro is scheduled to launch the PSLV-C61 mission carrying the EOS-09 (RISAT-1B) radar imaging satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit on May 18. The launch is scheduled at…
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully carried out the maiden flight of its Stratospheric Airship Platform from its trial site in Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. This marks a notable moment in India’s aerial surveillance technology. The platform developed by the Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), based in Agra, carried a payload…
Follow live updates on the Trump administration. After a Honduran immigrant arrived in the United States in 2022, officials ordered him to use a government-issued app as part of an immigration surveillance program. At least once a week, the immigrant, a former police officer in Honduras who was living in Louisiana, would take a selfie…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday said that electronic surveillance systems will be deployed along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan to dismantle the cross-border tunnels and thwart repeated incidents of intrusion in Jammu and Kashmir.While addressing BSF personnel during his visit to border outpost ‘Vinay’ near in Hiranagar sector…
NEW DELHI: An Indian startup’s commercial space surveillance satellite, capable of tracking objects as small as 5cm orbiting the Earth, was commissioned last Saturday as it captured images over South America.“Space just ran out of hiding spots,” Bengaluru start-up Digantara said in a post on X as its satellite SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking)…
SCOT capturing the first image of the city of Buenos Aires in South America glowing against the planet’s curvature. New Delhi: The world’s first commercial space surveillance satellite of an Indian startup, capable of tracking objects as small as 5 cm orbiting the Earth, was commissioned on Saturday as it captured images over South America.“Space…
OpenAI said on Friday that it had uncovered evidence that a Chinese security operation had built an artificial intelligence-powered surveillance tool to gather real-time reports about anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries. The company’s researchers said they had identified this new campaign, which they called Peer Review, because someone working on the…
Apps and ankle monitors that track asylum seekers in real time wherever they go. Databases packed with personal information like fingerprints and faces. Investigative tools that can break into locked phones and search through gigabytes of emails, text messages and other files. These are pieces of a technology arsenal available to President Trump as he…
BENGALURU: Three private companies with their offices in three South Indian states have been shortlisted to collectively produce 31 satellites as part of the space-based surveillance (SBS) programme for India’s strategic needs to be used by national security agencies. This is the first time that private industry will be developing satellites for strategic needs and…
NEW DELHI: Indian consulate officials in Canada have been informed that they were under “audio and video surveillance and that their private communications have also been intercepted,” ministry of external affairs said on Thursday. It added that the Indian government had already lodged a protests with the Justin Trudeau government on November 2 citing “flagrant…