#Surveillance
Robots #Snitch.
"Serve #Robotics, which delivers food for #UberEats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the #LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant sight in the city, can be used for #surveillance."
"Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show"
https://www.404media.co/serve-food-delivery-robots-are-feeding-camera-footage-to-the-lapd-internal-emails-show/ #DomesticSurveillance #Robots #DomesticSpying
@stevendrowe You already have to pay for the car. And they harvest every single data point they can about their customers with zero oversight, far worse than Facebook. And now you have to pay another recurring cost.
DO NOT BUY AN INTERNET CONNECTED CAR. They are getting away with way too much!
If you want to delete your data so Xitter cannot use it to train AI (starting tomorrow!):
Here is a browser script which deletes tweets (so you don't have to pay for a dubious app)
Scroll down to the June 14 'answer'/code offering from Adam Boyle. Open your "Replies" tab in Chrome, use cmd+alt+j & paste the code into the sidebar. Refresh/reload periodically
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64863099/deleting-tweets-with-js-console/71333246#71333246
#Xitter #Twitter
#AI #Privacy #Surveillance #ElonMusk #Bluesky #MastodonMigration #Academia #Data #Cybersecurity
Food delivery robo-trucks in the USA are being used as surveillance tools by law enforcement.
#Surveillance #DataProtection #Privacy #LawEnforcement
(h/t @jasonkoebler)
Food delivery robo-trucks in the USA are being used as surveillance tools by law enforcement.
The names keep changing to keep you confused, but the largest manufacturer of gunshot detection microphones (TCFKA Shotspotter) just bought the once dominant company in predictive policing (TCFKA Predpol). New multi-faceted #surveillance coming to a police department near you. https://www.wired.com/story/soundthinking-geolitica-acquisition-predictive-policing/
The names keep changing to keep you confused, but the largest manufacturer of gunshot detection microphones (TCFKA Shotspotter) just bought the once dominant company in predictive policing (TCFKA Predpol). New multi-faceted #surveillance coming to a police department near you. https://www.wired.com/story/soundthinking-geolitica-acquisition-predictive-policing/
Just a reminder that there are places on Earth here and now where cyberpunk dystopia is everyday reality, and this is not what you thought about, it is.... tada.. tada.. tada... MOSCOW!
Here are few details what among with mass #surveillance and mass #FaceRecognition on all CCTV in city is happening there.
#Russia, the federal operational headquarters for combating infection reported that as of September 26, the #incidence rate of #SARS_CoV_2 #infection in increased by 22.3% over the past week. About 2.3 thousand people were hospitalized, and over 10 thousand people recovered.
Читайте на WWW.KP.RU: https://www.kp.ru/online/news/5475514/ #news #surveillance #covid19
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russian troops have installed dozens of towers across the occupied city of #Mariupol to surveil #Ukrainian citizens' conversations and track their digital activity, Petro Andryushchenko, an advisor to Mariupol's exiled mayor, said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-mariupol-surveillance-towers-track-ukrainians-2023-9
I just realized I need to figure out how to talk to my kids about #surveillance #censorship and #domesticSpying in the post–9/11 world they've grown up in. I need to somehow convey the rights they *should* expect and demand. The benefits and necessity of actual privacy. The vital role privacy plays in democratic processes and journalism. The right to convene and organize and speak. Whew. All these liberties stunted for their whole lives. 😮💨 #parenting
Anyone have resources? @eff?
Privacy watchdog fractures over 702 opinion
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/28/privacy-civil-liberties-oversight-702-00118562
A much-anticipated oversight report... will urge Congress to impose significant new constraints on a controversial foreign surveillance tool...
Of the board’s 19 recommendations, the most significant — and contentious — is a requirement that all U.S. spies and law enforcement receive approval from the FISC each time they want to query the 702 repository for information on U.S. citizens...
#privacy #spies #FISC #surveillance
More ALPRs are coming to Bay Area, but do they work?
https://www.ktvu.com/news/more-license-plate-readers-are-coming-to-bay-area-but-do-they-work
If you ask Piedmont Police Chief Bowers, the answer is an unequivocal yes...
Hofer, a policy analyst... conducted his own analysis of Piedmont by looking at data before and afterward. His conclusions? Piedmont's successes are not statistically significant. "They're making a negligible difference."... His analysis shows there is no real deterrent effect produced by having the cameras...
New York bans facial recognition in schools; report finds risks outweigh benefits
https://www.syracuse.com/state/2023/09/new-york-bans-facial-recognition-in-schools-report-finds-risks-outweigh-benefits.html
NY State banned the use of FR in schools... following a report that concluded the risks to student privacy and civil rights outweigh potential security benefits. ...
The report... noted “the potentially higher rate of false positives for people of color, non-binary and transgender people, women, the elderly, and children.”
"Police officers are switching off their body-worn cameras when force is used, as well as deleting footage and sharing videos on WhatsApp...
The most serious allegations include:
-Cases in seven forces where officers shared camera footage with colleagues or friends - either in person, via WhatsApp or on social media
-Images of a naked person being shared between officers on email and cameras used to covertly record conversations
-Footage being lost, deleted or not marked as evidence, including video, filmed by Bedfordshire Police, of a vulnerable woman alleging she had been raped by an inspector - the force later blamed an "administrative error"
-Switching off cameras during incidents, for which some officers faced no sanctions - one force said an officer may have been "confused"
Wired: US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases https://www.wired.com/story/shotspotter-doj-letter-epic/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Security/NationalSecurity #Security/SecurityNews #Security/Privacy #surveillance #Security #OnNotice #privacy #Police #Crime #Guns
#EU threatens sales bans to block use of western parts in Russian #drones
#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia
#Ukraine downs 34 of 44 Russian kamikaze #drones overnight Thursday
#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia
This is Russian army. Retreating after defeat, but keeping #women and #children in front of their tanks as human shields.
#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia
Western components found in Russian-operated Iranian strike #drones in #Ukraine
#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia
Launch inventory is specifically held for individual buyers until 2024.Well, sure. Of course it is. Cops are way more interested in targeting individuals than businesses.
#raspberrypi #surveillance #rpi #rpi5 #raspberrypi5 #supplychainsecurity
Five European countries boycott #UEFA football tournament over #Russian participation
#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia
#Meta and #RayBan announced new models of so-called "smart-glasses": https://www.meta.com/us/smart-glasses/
https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses
In Europe, those are illegal to use in almost any situation because of our #privacy respecting laws.
I'd say the slogan #banRayBan will be a thing soon. 😜
Hey look at this
* #FCC to reintroduce rules protecting #NetNeutrality https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/tech/fcc-net-neutrality-internet-providers/index.html (h/t @boingbot)
* Consumer #Surveillance and Financial Fraud https://www.nber.org/papers/w31692 (h/t Naked Capitalism)
* #FTC and 17 states sue #Amazon in long-awaited lawsuit targeting #monopoly power https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/ftc-files-the-big-one-a-lawsuit-alleging-amazon-illegally-maintains-monopoly/
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A Huawei Technologies unit is shipping new Chinese-made chips for surveillance cameras in a fresh sign the Chinese technology giant is finding ways around four years of U.S. export controls. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/09/20/companies/huawei-chinese-made-surveillance-chips-comeback/?utm_content=bufferc4173&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #companies #china #huawei #semiconductors #surveillance
Recent reports portray China as a business environment that's more difficult to navigate, with companies caught between a Beijing outwardly solicitous of investment but heavily focused on security priorities, and with opportunities thwarted by ever more complex regulations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/09/20/companies/firms-portray-china-challenges/?utm_content=buffer170a3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #companies #china #us #surveillance
#PlaneAlert ICAO: #43C2B4 Tail: #ZZ418
Owner: #JointSpecialForcesAviationWing
Aircraft: #B350C Shadow R1
2023/09/28 13:46:32
#B350 #Surveillance #Spyplane #651SquadronRAF https://www.eliteukforces.info/air-support/JSFAW
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=43C2B4&showTrace=2023-09-28&zoom=7&lat=49.823045&lon=7.730886×tamp=1695901592
You still think we own the digital devices we bought? No, we don't. We can't even repair them. Big Tech has way too much power over the connected devices in our households, and hence over our lives.
Here is an interesting story: The Man Amazon Erased
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/man-amazon-erased
#righttorepair #surveillance #bigtech #bigdata
The US #Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board unanimously agreed that Congress should reauthorize Section 702 but with new limits; partisan split on what reforms to recommend. Report also has some newly declassified details about the #surveillance program. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/us/watchdog-surveillance-law-extension.html
Mastodon friends, be sure to remind folks that Xitter’s new privacy policy takes effect *tomorrow*!
If you don’t want the world’s richest man using your data to train AI, it’s time to bail.
Get your Xitter Archive now via settings, use tools to find ppl here or on Bluesky, & be ready to welcome newcomers ✨
Plz share, & pass on any tips you have for migrating/tempting people over!
#Xitter #Twitter #AI #Privacy #Surveillance #ElonMusk #Bluesky #MastodonMigration #Academia #Data #Cybersecurity
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Security researcher warns of chilling effect after feds search phone at airport:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/sam-curry-chilling-effect-phone-search-airport/
The Surveillance of State and Capital and the Collapse of Privacy
An essay on surveillance…
#surveillance #privacy #humanrights #profit #elitepanic
''Relative clinical #severity of #BA286 still needs 2B resolved &, w/diminished global #SARS-CoV-2 #sequencing efforts, it's 2 early 2 forecast whether BA.2.86 or 1 of its descendents are likely 2 outcompete currently circulating lineages. Although occurrence of another #omicron-like emergence event'd caution vs reducing #surveillance capacity, immune #escape of BA286 relative to concurrently circulating variants does'nt appear to be as extensive as when omicron emerged in background of delta''
Raspberry Pi, makers of single-board #computers and tiny cameras, has come under fire for hiring a former police officer who used the products to surveil targets
“How can you so badly misunderstand the market you’re in? Most RPi customers aren’t cops, they’re small time makers and social outsiders that are trying to avoid major manufacturers due to their constant tracking and exploitation of our data, aka PEOPLE WHO HATE SURVEILLANCE.”
If your first thought when you hear that a company that makes computers and writes curricula that trains kids how to use computers proudly hired a spy cop and gave the middle finger to those who raised ethical concerns is to defend the company and the spy cop in question, you should take a moment, stop what you’re doing, and give yourself a firm slap in the face.
It won’t change anything but it’ll make me feel better at least.
#RaspberryPi5 #RaspberryPi #sbc #spyCops #surveillance #capitalism
Oh, and it wasn’t an “oops, we hired a spy cop by mistake, we’re sorry” either. It was a “we hired a spy cop, fuck your feelings.”
Raspberry Pi: spy cops are great, actually!
Folks: Ooh, shiny new Raspberry Pi is out! Shut up and take my money!
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/09/rpi_maker_in_residence_police/
Thermal imaging camera to check the number of vehicle occupants is introduced in France. Ecology and surveillance state go together perfectly ...
via @Niusha #greenwashing #surveillance #climate_change #Strasbourg #France
Lobbygeflecht bei #Chatkontrolle: "Schlimmste Befürchtungen bestätigt" | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Lobbygeflecht-bei-Chatkontrolle-Schlimmste-Befuerchtungen-bestaetigt-9318337.html #ChatControl #Datenschutz #privacy #Überwachung #surveillance #encryption #Verschlüsselung
Cult of the Dead Cow has released #Veilid: A secure peer-to-peer #network for apps that flips off the #surveillance economy
The idea being here that apps – #mobile, #desktop, #web, and headless – can find and talk to each other across the #internet privately and securely without having to go through centralized and often corporate-owned systems. Veilid provides code for app developers to drop into their #software so that their clients can join and communicate in a peer-to-peer #community.
github: gitlab.com/veilid/veilid
docs: veilid.com/docs
#p2p #security #privacy #framework #communication #freedom #opensource #decentralization #hacker
GOOD! A great example of 'just because we can doesn't mean we should.'
"New York bans facial recognition in schools after report finds risks outweigh potential benefits"
"New York state banned the use of facial recognition technology in schools Wednesday, following a report that concluded the risks to student privacy and civil rights outweigh potential security benefits."
#privacy #identity #facialrecognition #inference #tracking #surveillance
What a mess…
“Yes, without a fantastic and energetic campaign from civil society, the European Parliament will be able to both gain plaudits for banning human rights-eroding biometric mass surveillance, and not be held accountable for causing its rollout in the EU and across the globe. "
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-european-parliament-vote-against-biometric-mass-joe-mcnamee/
"This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You in the Dark"
https://www.wired.com/story/new-autonomous-drone-for-cops-can-track-you-in-the-dark/
"Startup Skydio says its powerful new drone for public safety can reduce the need for high-speed chases. Civil liberties groups warn that few rules govern police use of drones."
As at least two #helicopters circles incessantly over North #Minneapolis may i raise my idea for better living through #economics — noise pollution is a #cost imposed on an entire #community and we deserve #compensation for it.
If the #state insists on invasive #surveillance and #intimidation of poor neighborhoods, let it pay out some dollars to us.
‘Secret Ukrainian #Drone’ Destroys Over $7 Million Worth of Russian Equipment Overnight
#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia
Russian Black Sea Fleet commander was killed in #Crimea missile strike, #Ukraine says
#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia
Interessant artikel over hoe de anti-kindermisbruik lobby een vehikel is van softwareverkopers. #chatcontrol is de opmaat naar de #surveillance maatschappij, eerst alleen scannen op kindermisbruik en straks mag het grootbedrijf ons op alle vormen van (vermeende) criminaliteit surveilleren #surveillance
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/wie-heeft-hier-baat-bij-niet-de-kinderen
🚨 Facial recognition in public spaces and at our borders treats us all like suspects.
We deserve to enjoy our rights to assembly, expression, asylum and more without intrusive surveillance.
✊ We’ve joined 180 organisations and experts to say police, state authorities and companies MUST stop using facial recognition tech to surveil us.
This is wild: The #Chatcontrol #CSAM proposal, "the most criticised EU law touching on tech in the last decade, is the product of the #lobby of private corporations and law enforcement."
Commissioner #YlvaJohansson "ignored academia and civil society" while "she shook hands with #BigTech to (...) legalise mass #surveillance and break #encryption," said @edri's @DiegoNaranjo.
Full investigation: https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/
Quote source: https://civicrm.edri.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=434&cid=20951&cs=ab889874b15d5f0d27a23c53f09571a7_1695659129_168
SAVE THE DATE:
Organizing Against Landlord #Tech, a workshop with People Power Media, Kairos Fellowship, & the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project on October 13 @ 10am PT.
Register here: http://bit.ly/organizing-against-landlord-tech
Many amazing people fighting #gentrification, displacement, & state #surveillance in #sfba are holding this workshop. Please share widely 🏘️
As promised, here are the notes we took last week at the event with @JulianPosada @kanarinka : https://medium.com/data-feminism-lab-mit/data-bodies-territories-a-data-feminism-and-tierra-comun-event-cca0cd0a3f23
#FeministSTS #Decolonization #DataScience #surveillance #LatinAmerica
#DEFCON
A must read:
#Veilid: A secure #p2p network for apps that flips off the #surveillance economy
‘It’s like #Tor and #IPFS had sex and produced this thing’
"The system means there's no IP address, no tracking, no data collection..."
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/12/veilid_privacy_data/
#Satellite images of burning Russian Black Sea Fleet #headquarters posted online
#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia
US tech firm has been privately lobbying UK councils and police forces to scale up their surveillance using their AI-powered platform
#UKPol #UKPolitics #Ukpolice #surveillance #facialrecognition #Law
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Google wil niet op vragen van RTL Z op de dagvaarding reageren. Wel stelt het bedrijf in een verklaring op haar site dat ze nooit persoonlijke gegevens verkoopt.
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, hoogleraar ict en recht aan de Radboud Universiteit, begrijpt dat het bedrijf dat zegt. 'Technisch gezien verkopen ze die data ook niet direct. Maar die dataverzameling blijft een privacyprobleem.'
https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/economie/beurs/artikel/5407623/google-rechtszaken-dagvaarding
Google did not respond to the journalist's questions about the subpoena. However, the company says in a statement on its site that it never sells personal data.
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, professor of ict and law at Radboud University, understands the company saying that. 'Technically, they don't sell that data directly. But that data collection remains a privacy issue.'
Original article (Dutch):
https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/economie/beurs/artikel/5407623/google-rechtszaken-dagvaarding
Sep 18 The annual conference will be headlined by history-making British astronaut Tim Peake (Evening Standard) - https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/big-data-london-olympia-when-date-event-speakers-b1107779.html "More than 170 exhibitors and over 400 expert speakers will be in attendance, including representatives from Microsoft, Google, JP Morgan Chase, the Ministry of Defence and the Bank of England." #Surveillance #AGI #AI #COVID #COVID19
Targeted ads based on personal data is something I've wanted to talk about in my COVID misinformation newsletter. Now with big tech companies chasing their dream of an Artificial General Intelligence AGI "Superintelligence", the rationale to postpone privacy laws, to stall crackdowns on data hoarding & gathering, is going to soar. Enjoy your Sunday. #COVID #COVID19 #Privacy #Surveillance #AGI #AI
School Surveillance Tools Are Harming Kids - Because, of course they are. #Surveillance #Education #privacy #schools https://gizmodo.com/school-surveillance-harm-kids-homework-report-1850854919
#Ukraine hits HQ of Russia's symbolic Black Sea navy
#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia
#Surveillance #Privacy #Google #LinkTracking: "We released a new version of Privacy Badger that updates how we fight “link tracking” across a number of Google products. With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from links added after scrolling through Google Search results.
Link tracking is a creepy surveillance tactic that allows a company to follow you whenever you click on a link to leave its website. As we wrote in our original announcement of Google link tracking protection, Google uses different techniques in different browsers. The techniques also vary across Google products. One common link tracking approach surreptitiously redirects the outgoing request through the tracker’s own servers. There is virtually no benefit for you when this happens. The added complexity mostly just helps Google learn more about your browsing."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/new-privacy-badger-prevents-google-mangling-more-your-links-and-invading-your
Just thinking out loud for a moment about surveillance... Maybe this should be a blog post and given much more thought, but let's start the conversation here.
If Chatcontrol 2.0 passes in the EU, which seems increasingly likely, what are we going to do to protect ourselves, friends, and family?
I mean, yes, there will probably always be systems that won't do client-side scanning but things like Signal and XMPP clients like Conversations with OMEMO or new things like Simplex or VeilidChat will probably be forced to withdraw from EU versions of Apple App Store/Google Play.
So, OK, even people with a half-liberated Android phone with F-Droid will probably still be able to install Signal forks like Molly or Conversations from there, but what about my mom our my youngest, who both use a locked down iPhone? What can they use?
What are we going to do? Get everyone an F-Droid-enabled half-liberated Android or a liberated ex-Android phone? Give them a Linux laptop with an XMPP client? Is this really feasable? What other alternatives are there?
Maybe one way forward is to insist on using a web chat to communicate? Yes, sure, the new EU directive might force client-side scanning on the browsers, too, but I think it will, at least at first, be totally focused on commercial message providers and their clients.
#10yrsago Terms and Conditions May Apply: documentary about abusive license terms, #privacy and #surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/19/data-digital-identity-cullen-hoback
#5yrsago Defunct Vancouver tech retailer’s servers sold off, containing credit cards and other customer details https://www.eteknix.com/ncix-database-servers-sold-craigslist-without-wiped/
#5yrsago California farm lobby’s sellout to #JohnDeere will cost its members their #RightToRepair https://www.wired.com/story/john-deere-farmers-right-to-repair/
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1/4 🚨Police & migration authorities are increasingly using AI for harmful & discriminatory #surveillance
@edri and 115 civil society orgs are calling on EU lawmakers to regulate such uses & uphold fundamental rights in the #AIAct💪
Read our statement: https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AI-Act-regulate-police-tech-NGO-statement
Sometimes, you just can't improve on a website's headline...
"Intelligence Community Feels It Might Be Time To Start Stuffing Surveillance Gear Into People’s Pants"
Seriously. And the project is — for reals! — actually called "SMART ePANTS". I can't even.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/18/intelligence-community-feels-it-might-be-time-to-start-stuffing-surveillance-gear-into-peoples-pants/ #surveillance #WTF #WaitWhat
AI Video Analytics: K-12 School and Work Surveillance #AI #education #work #video #surveillance #TikTok https://www.mguhlin.org/2023/09/ai-video-analytics-k-12-school-and-work.html #mgshare
De EU wil 'client-side scanning' verplicht stellen op alle apparaten, ook die van onverdachte burgers. Daarmee wordt het digitale briefgeheim geschonden. #Chatcontrol
Met het "tegengaan van kindermisbruik" als excuus, wil ze massaal aftappen. #surveillance
https://piratenpartij.nl/demonstratie-chatcontrole-kom-zondag-1-oktober-naar-de-dam/
I spent a couple of weeks in #Germany this summer and noticed that most highway drivers consistently maintained speeds pretty close to the posted limit. Then I saw a flash a time or two and realized that speed cameras were everywhere.
I'm unsure how I feel about the trade-off of privacy and security here. While the cameras will work, do we want that kind of persistent monitoring? What do you think?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/us/california-traffic-speed-cameras.html
As usual, Tutemic has an enlighting and surprising take on the Unity game engine controversy - why we must force them to walk this back a 100%, or were all gonna pay dearly in the future.
https://youtu.be/TlCpqLV4W8I?si=oehH_A5CoRITd51e
#Unity #UnityEngine #gaming #tech #future #surveillance #privacy #business #bigTech #protest #Tutemic
Block ads on your networks now.
The system designed to follow us around the net with ads is now a blinking #nationalsecurity & #humanrights threat.
And the incentives are all wrong. From platforms to publishers & ad networks they've spent every effort to make sure those ads get to our devices.
Now, predictably, the tech is going to dictators & being used to hack us.
#cybersecurity #hacking #spyware #malware #surveillance #advertising
Story: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-09-14/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/revealed-israeli-cyber-firms-developed-an-insane-new-spyware-tool-no-defense-exists/0000018a-93cb-de77-a98f-ffdf2fb60000
"As students settle into their K-12 classrooms this fall, they remain the only population in Montana allowed to be under continuous surveillance by facial recognition technology." https://helenair.com/news/state-regional/facial-recognition-tech-technology-remains-school-despite-state-ban-frt/article_81a35a96-5243-11ee-9112-4f306f94289c.html #edtech #surveillance @funnymonkey
Council rejects immediate bid for federal grant to bolster BPD #surveillance center
#Boston #police #CityCouncil https://www.universalhub.com/2023/council-once-again-rejects-federal-grant-bolster
Whao, How attackers hijacked the phone of Meduza co-founder Galina Timchenko, making her the first Russian journalist to be infected with Pegasus spyware
#infosec #surveillance
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/09/13/the-million-dollar-reporter
It might be possible to have live facial recognition on CCTV cameras, but do we want to live in a dystopian surveillance state? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/11/facial-recognition-could-transform-policing-in-way-dna-testing-did-says-met-chief #privacy #humanrights #digitalrights #surveillance
#Google Built a #Surveillance System Into Its #Chrome Browser to “Improve Privacy” - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/google-built-a-surveillance-system-into-chrome/ hmm, maybe not. try contextual ads instead...
Nice case study by Growth.Design showing in an easy to understand way how Meta uses dark patterns to hide their shady data collection:
https://growth.design/case-studies/apple-privacy-policy
#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #apple #privacy #tracking #surveillance #dark #pattern #design #ux #ui
Surveillance Under the #PatriotAct
"Hastily passed 45 days after 9/11 in the name of national security, the Patriot Act was the first of many changes to surveillance laws that made it easier for the government to spy on ordinary Americans by expanding the authority to monitor phone and email communications, collect bank and credit reporting records, and track the activity of innocent Americans on the Internet. While most Americans think it was created to catch terrorists, the Patriot Act actually turns regular citizens into suspects."
[thread] cars, privacy
Cars Are Worst Product Category Ever Reviewed for Privacy
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401563
* all 25 car brands researched
* worst product category ever reviewed
* all collect personal data
* 84% share or sell your data
* 92% give little/no control over personal data
* Tesla only 2nd product ever reviewed to receive all of privacy “dings”
#Mozilla #cars #privacy #security #surveillance #corporations #DefundCorporations #ethics #Tesla
Lithuania’s police ran the compromised, ‘encrypted’ #Anom mobile phone service secretly for the FBI, who couldn’t directly because of the 4th Amendment. Will this data retention and interference with confidentiality of communications reach the CJEU or ECHR to consider its necessity and proportionality? @josephcox reports: https://www.404media.co/revealed-the-country-that-secretly-wiretapped-the-world-for-the-fbi/ #surveillance
#10yrsago Report: Rich Chinese perps hire body-doubles to do their time https://web.archive.org/web/20130910225855/https://www.vocativ.com/09-2013/chinas-prisoners-for-hire-is-that-you-bo-xilai/
#10yrsago UK gov’t wants to ban dirty words in UK domain names; tell them to #£@* off https://web.archive.org/web/20140810230219/http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/nominet-announces-registration-policy-review
#10yrsago WILD: sweet picture book about a feral child who won’t be tamed https://memex.craphound.com/2013/09/10/wild-sweet-picture-book-about-a-feral-child-who-wont-be-tamed-2/
#10yrsago Replica ‘#Enterprise’ bridge used to sell #surveillance to Congress https://slate.com/technology/2013/09/surveilliance-and-spying-does-the-army-have-a-star-trek-lair.html
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"We occasionally end up with products that can be dangerous to you, or to society in general, which we believe to be the case with Amazon-owned Ring and its relationship with law enforcement."
"We would like to remind you that there are many, many alternatives. Ring cameras are cheap and ubiquitous, but contributing to a just society is also a factor in keeping your family safe."
Why Wired doesn't recommend Ring Cameras.