#JOParis2024 : G. Darmanin a annoncé qu'il faudra présenter un QR code pour accéder dans un périmètre de sécurité (immense, cf carte). Il ne s'agit pas de filtrer qui a les billets, mais qui passe le "criblage de sécurité" (sic).
This post delves into the impact of #Israeli#surveillance technologies in #Palestine, illustrating how localized instances of its use can have extensive repercussions that pave the way for the widespread acceptance and global adoption of such oppressive practices
This post I co-authored with Falastine Saleh delves into the impact of Israeli surveillance technologies in Palestine and how localized instances of its use contribute to widespread global adoption.
It also highlights how spyware & surveillance companies navigate global scrutiny by rebranding and establishing offices worldwide, all while a network of venture capital firms facilitate their operations & help them avoid much needed accountability:
The colonial biometric legacy at heart of new #EU#asylum system
"On Wednesday (10 April), the EU is set to vote on a new set of asylum and migration reforms. Among the many controversial changes proposed in the new migration pact, one went almost unnoticed — a seemingly innocent reform of the EU's asylum database, #EURODAC.
Although framed as purely technical adjustments, the reality is far more malicious. The changes to EURODAC will massively exacerbate violence against people on the move.
Reform of this 20 year-old database will make it the technological sword of EU's hostile asylum and border policies. It will harness the most nefarious surveillance #technologies that exist to date — namely the capture, processing and analysis of biometric data — and enable EU states to have full control over #migrants' body and movements....."
FTC denies rating board's suggestion for age verification system
The Federal Trade Commission has denied a petition to allow companies to use facial age estimation (FAE) technology to obtain parental consent when collecting data from children under 13, a requirement for the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
🕵️♂️ Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills | @theverge
「 Data brokers appear to be wading into the fight, too. Relx, the United Kingdom-based parent company of data analytics firm LexisNexis, hired the lobbying firm Venable earlier this year as the amendment was being debated in the House, Politico’s Influence newsletter reported 」
'The reform of Australia’s federal Privacy Act 1988 [!] seems to have become a never-ending process of vague uncertain commitments regularly delaying actual legislation. The latest instalment is the new Labor government’s Government response to the Privacy Act Review Report (September 2023). Draft legislation is not expected until some time in 2024.' Graham Greenleaf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4716602#dataprotection#gdpr#privacy#law#surveillance#australia#politics
Rotterdam Symposium on AI-Experiences and Public Safety.
Organised by @marcschuilenburg and his colleagues at Dutch Surveillance Studies
I present a paper 'Automated decision-making and artificial intelligence at European borders and their risks for human rights'. The amazing @yiran_yang is first author. Pascal Beckers, Evelien Brouwer & me are co-authors.
#Surveillance#Biometrics#FacialRecognition#Israel#Palestine#Gaza: "Israel is deploying a mass facial recognition program in Gaza, conducting surveillance of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, according to a new report from The New York Times.
As the publisher reports, speaking to Israeli intelligence officers, military officials, and soldiers, the facial recognition program is run by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)'s military Unit 8200, which is "collecting and cataloging the faces of Palestinians". The program reportedly uses technology from Corsight, an Israel facial recognition company that provides services for government agencies, law enforcement, and corporations, alongside Google Photos.
The Times says this mass surveillance is being rolled out in Israel to identify members of Hamas, following the Oct. 7 attacks. The Israeli military also set up checkpoints — along roads Palestinians are using to flee the war — with facial recognition cameras, and soldiers have used security camera footage, videos uploaded by Hamas on social media, and also asked Palestinian prisoners to identify anyone affiliated with Hamas." https://mashable.com/article/israel-palestine-gaza-facial-recognition-program
"facial recognition is proving a powerful deterrent against public demonstrations. “It stops you from coming to a protest, because you know the police are going to recognize you""
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"while facial recognition technology may have a chilling effect on protest generally, this effect is felt particularly keenly by communities that are already marginalized."
Welfare surveillance powers are being introduced by the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.
The UK government will be able to access the financial data of ANY benefit claimant. This data could be misinterpreted and sanctions imposed incorrectly.
We've signed this joint letter from UK civil society organisations for the removal of these powers from the Bill.
Looks like the spy station installed at the GCSB's Waihopai base here in Aotearoa NZ is/was the NSA-run APPARITION program, used for precision location services during capture-kill operations. Who were the targets? Supposedly whomever FVEY partners deemed to be terrorists.
Continuing the NSA's obsession with ALLCAPS CODENAMES, the station also hosted a system called FALLOWHAUNT, "used for collection (eavesdropping) and processing of VSAT communications"
#surveillance New traffic signs equipped with lasers to scan drivers inside cars to determine if they hold cell phones or are "distracted". #privacy#cyber#tech
"Jennifer Pinsof, staff attorney at Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the technology has been used in too many nefarious circumstances to be trusted... There are several local and state-level regulations in place... to mitigate inappropriate data sharing. Police departments, for instance, are not supposed to share the license plate data with other states, nor with federal law enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That, however, hasn’t stopped at least 73 departments throughout California from violating those rules...
"We found that many California law enforcement agencies share this data not just out of state but specifically with agencies in states that ban abortions, and those law enforcement agencies who now have access to this highly sensitive location data can use it to prosecute things that are crimes within their state but not within the state of California,” she said."
:birdsite: Keep feeding your miseries to the text box.
「 In emails between Dataminr and the US Secret Service it obtained with a Freedom of Information Act request, the story revealed that the surveillance firm pays for special access to a "firehose" of data from Twitter. Sent in July 2023, they also confirm that practice continued under Musk 」
🚫 I'll never understand online advertising tbh, burning money just to make it rain as ashes.
「 Speedtest.net, online medical publisher WebMD, and media outlets Reuters, ESPN, and BuzzFeed all state they can share data with 809 companies. (WIRED, for context, lists 164 partners.) These hundreds of advertising partners include dozens of firms most people have likely never heard of 」