This week we held an online briefing about our report, 'Prevent and the Pre-Crime State: How unaccountable data sharing is harming a generation.'
Hear more about the UK Prevent programme and its dangers from Sara Chitseko (ORG), Dr Layla Aitlhadj (PreventWatch), Ilyas Nagdee (Amnesty International UK and Professor Charlotte Heath-Kelly (The University of Warwick).
Un décret vient de modifier les dispositions réglementaires relatives au fichier automatisé des empreintes digitales (FAED) afin de permettre des interconnexions avec huit autres fichiers français et européens. Il porte également à 40 ans la durée maximale de conservation des données, pour tenir compte de la prescription de 20 ans.
The FCC announces it has fined wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information without consent and failing to protect that information against unauthorized disclosure. Sprint and T-Mobile – which have merged since the investigation began – face fines of $12+ million and $91 million, respectively. AT&T being fined $57+ million and Verizon told to pay nearly $47 million.
#CyberSecurity#Surveillance#Encryption#Messaging: "The current crop of suggestions seem to concede that governments shouldn’t have direct access. Instead, they want services to backdoor themselves and act as gatekeepers to law enforcement. That’s not an improvement; it’s still centralized, and it makes these companies responsible for any misuse of the data that they have access to, requiring everyone on the planet to trust a few big tech companies with our private and most intimate conversations – hardly a direction that society wants to go in in 2024. ‘Trust me, I’m in charge’ is a poor model of governance or security.
These ‘solutions’ also ignore the reality that the ‘bad guys’ will just use other tools to communicate; information is information. That will leave law abiding people giving up their privacy and security for little societal gain." https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/29/power
8/ What do you think about this proposed exemption for EU ministers? Should there be a different standard of privacy for citizens and officials? Join the conversation below. 🗣️👇
#EU#Poland#Cybersecurity#PoliceState#Surveillance#Pegasus#NSO: "Poland's prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people during the former government in Poland, among them elected officials.
Adam Bodnar told lawmakers that he found the scale of the surveillance “shocking and depressing.”
“It is sad for me that even in this room I am speaking to people who were victims of this system,” Bodnar told the Sejm, the lower house of parliament.
Bodnar, who is also the justice minister, didn't specify who exactly was subject to surveillance by the spyware. His office said the information was confidential.
Bodnar was presenting information that the prosecutor general's office sent last week to the Sejm and Senate. The data showed that Pegasus was used in the cases of 578 people from 2017 to 2022, and that it was used by three separate government agencies: the Central Anticorruption Bureau, the Military Counterintelligence Service and the Internal Security Agency.
The data show that it was used against six people in 2017; 100 in 2018; 140 in 2019; 161 in 2020; 162 in 2021; and then nine in 2022, when it stopped."
Under the pretense of safeguarding, the programme harvests and retains people's data, mostly children, even when no action is taken.
We need to stop Prevent before it becomes a global problem.
Read this new report by Rights and Security International: "The UK is helping Indonesia violate freedom of religion, risks complicity in torture and disappearances." ⬇️
"Ce qui est fascinant c’est à quel point ces outils permettent de diluer la responsabilité. Les militaires obéissent aux ordres, les commanditaires disent se fier aux algorithmes, les programmeurs que la responsabilité incombe aux collecteurs de données et ces derniers prétendent ne faire que collecter des données, ne rien en inférer ni décider...."