When I first started calling Silicon Valley’s business model “people farming” I was told I was being hyperbolic and alarmist.
I don’t get told that much anymore.
#SiliconValley #BigTech #AI #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming
When I first started calling Silicon Valley’s business model “people farming” I was told I was being hyperbolic and alarmist.
I don’t get told that much anymore.
#SiliconValley #BigTech #AI #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming
24/7 GPS monitoring of migrants enabled the UK Home Office to collect vast amounts of personal data, invading people’s privacy and inflicting psychological burdens.
It’s a punitive and offensive measure that has rightly been found unlawful by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
#migrants #ukpolitics #surveillance #privacy #GPS #GDPR
https://www.wired.com/story/gps-ankle-tags-uk-privacy-illegal/
There goes the neighbourhood.
#threads #meta #facebook #fediverse #mastodon #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming
Until abortion access is fully legal, digital surveillance poses a significant threat. We’ve gotten better at answering questions about how to keep each other safe. Here’s what we’ve learned.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/two-years-post-roe-better-understanding-digital-threats #abortion #surveillance
So... the #FBI ran a Truman Show on this 🇨🇳spy for 8 years?
Wild.
#espionage #surveillance #china #spy #investigation #counterintelligence #intelligence #CIA #China
The Philadelphia Inquirer recently investigated how Philadelphia narcotics cops not only allegedly failed to disclose their use of video surveillance in arrest reports or to prosecutors, but also that the video footage at times proved officers were lying when they testified. We talked to the founder of the nonprofit Surveillance Technology Oversight Project about what these new video systems can do and the privacy and other issues they raise.
https://theconversation.com/what-philadelphians-need-to-know-about-the-citys-7-000-camera-surveillance-system-230073
#News #privacy #surveillance
Goodbye #Firefox, hello #LibreWolf – excited to try out this new #FOSS browser.
Firefox 128 sends your private data to advertisers - by default - unless you check off a box in settings. Read more about it here: https://lifehacker.com/tech/why-you-should-disable-firefox-privacy-preserving-ad-measurements
By contrast, LibreWolf is an open-source fork of Firefox – without the telemetry: https://itsfoss.com/librewolf/
My Mac Mini M1 running Sonoma initially refused to install it (unknown developer warning) but I manually enabled it and it's running smoothly
Pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map and resource that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/
By mapping out the intricate web of surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, we hope to expose the enablers fueling this industry's extensive rights violations, ensuring they cannot evade accountability for being complicit in this abuse.
JSR's law of data: if you collect it, they will come.
Investigators will eventually identify any consumer product that persistently records peoples' activities.
One day, they'll show up, requesting access.
If the data is consistently helpful, they'll stop asking & start demanding.
Once this happens enough the company will probably create a law enforcement portal to simplify access & save customers the trouble...
#infosec #police #cybersecurity #privacy #security #crime #surveillance
Teslas are surveillance on wheels. Bay Area police increasingly check to see if there was a Tesla in the vicinity of a crime so they can get access to the footage from its cameras.
If you see a Tesla, it’s probably filming you — and more automakers are doing it too.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/tesla-sentry-mode-police-evidence-19731000.php
'The Dutch Data Protection Authority imposes a fine of 30.5 million euro and orders subject to a penalty for non-compliance up to more than 5 million euro on Clearview AI... Clearview has built an illegal database with billions of photos of faces, including of Dutch people. The Dutch DPA warns that using the services of Clearview is also prohibited.' https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/dutch-dpa-imposes-a-fine-on-clearview-because-of-illegal-data-collection-for-facial-recognition #Netherlands #clearview #law #tech #ai #privacy #dataprotection #surveillance
“Media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners, according to a CMG presentation obtained by 404 Media.”
https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/
#CMG #ActiveListening #surveillance #capitalism #adtech #SiliconValley #PeopleFarming #Facebook #Amazon #Google #Bing
SCOOP from Reporting Fellow Francesca D'Annunzio: Texas Department of Public Safety is committing to a five year, $5.3 million contract for Tangles, an AI #surveillance tool that can track cell phones without a court order. (🧵 1/2) https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/
#Texas #politics #USpol #news #police #tech #privacy #HumanRights #activism #AI
Great interview with @Mer__edith in @WIRED from @agreenberg talking @signalapp, #surveillance, #privacy and #sustainability
"Signal is a nonprofit because a for-profit structure leads to a scenario where one of my board members goes to Davos, talks to some guy, comes back excitedly telling me we need an AI strategy for profit. Or another one of my board members comes in, gets really nervous that our revenue model, whatever it is, isn’t bringing in something that meets our goals and says, “Well, maybe we can start collecting metadata. Maybe we can reduce the focus on privacy, because of course our primary objective function, as a traditional for-profit, is revenue and growth.” And privacy in an economy powered by surveillance will necessarily hamper those."