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Talks on better privacy protection between Meta and the Dutch govt have come to nothing, the govt reported to the Parliament. Meta refuses to meet the govt and to amend its data processing practices.
Let’s see whether this leads to the government stopping with Facebook.
Everything you share publicly on the internet is publicly available and will not be forgotten. That includes government agencies, [and] your worst enemies.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but it repeatedly is. The latest source of outcry is #ShadowDragon, which seems to be a simple #OSINT tool that just collects public posts and makes them available to the feds. Some call this mass surveillance.
Ces chiffres sur la #surveillance du quotidien, notamment des #enfants, me tuent : "In a study from 2016, when the Pew Research Center most recently studied this phenomenon, 61 percent of parents admitted to monitoring their kids’ internet activity, and almost half said they looked through their kids’ messages or call logs."
Portmaster from @safing is a great tool not only for #privacy but also for #security. You really get an overview of which apps do which requests. Their so called #spn really stands out from other #vpns. It's very similar to #tor. However, like the #tornetwork, speeds are very slow. Everything from the client to the servers are completely #opensource, which is a big plus. If you can accept slow speeds, the spn is your best choice. #surveillance#privacymatters#foss#freedom#vpn
In her keynote, Petra Molnar speaks about the (digital) #violence on the frontier of the world's #borders, a reality of opaque decision-making and a testing ground for #surveillance technologies at the expense of people's lives.
The decision by the European Parliament to ban AI systems of biometric mass surveillance in public spaces is welcome. It should be reflected in the UK.
We must protect civil liberties from the encroachment of the state that’s leading us down the road of predictive policing.
#EU#Ireland#Surveillance#DataProtection#Privacy: "The identity of every person you phone, text, and/or email, the date and time of when you do so, and the location of where you are when you do so, is now being retained by mobile phone companies for Garda access.
It follows the Department of Justice obtaining a High Court order requiring the companies to do so during a secret court hearing on Monday, June 26, 2023.
This collection and retention of data is a form of mass surveillance which allows for the mapping of the private activities of virtually every person in Ireland. Both the High Court order and the lack of transparency surrounding it are gravely concerning. The order is also likely to be contrary to CJEU case law and, therefore, illegal. This risks evidence in future criminal trials either being challenged and/or such trials collapsing."
10 years ago, Edward Snowden changed the world. The 'Snowden leaks' were a wake-up call: The conspiracy theory that Secret Services were monitoring our private conversations has proven to be true.
Public backlash after this revelation might have bought us years in our fight for privacy. However, today governments around the world are again pushing for more surveillance. This must be stopped! 🔒
While F-Droid appears to be "just" an alternative #OpenSource#AppStore for #Android, it is actually the apex of a lifestyle movement that's choosing to use Android only with #FreeSoftware and without #Google or advertising-related #surveillance. Realising that makes many of its features - and shortcomings - easier to understand. I was the main interviewer in the discussion this week on #FLOSS Weekly with core @fdroidorg developer @eighthave and it was a good show.
#Palantir already sells its #domestic#surveillance services to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, so it should come as no surprise that the company founded by billionaire #Peter#Thiel is working to make inroads into the #Pentagon as well.
On Tuesday, the company released a video demo of its latest offering, the Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). While the system itself is simply designed to integrate large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4 or Google's BERT into privately-operated networks, the very first thing they did was apply it to the modern battlefield.
WhatsApp bleibt trotz Datenschutzbedenken der meistgenutzte Messenger - einige Tricks können die Datensammlung durch Meta/Facebook immerhin reduzieren. 👇
There needs to be more geographical diversity in core digital technologies. There's far too consolidated in the US, which is ripe with surveillance capitalists controlling core operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and other components found in most digital devices. The whole world shouldn't have to be subjected to the surveillance laws of a single country.
The New York Times reports the tech has mistakenly identified people as connected to Hamas. Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks,...
The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat
"The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes.
Everyone’s heart is different. Like the iris or fingerprint, our unique cardiac signature can be used as a way to tell us apart. Crucially, it can be done from a distance."
"The future of proselytizing—and surveillance—has arrived. An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed by some of the biggest names in evangelical circles, is mapping the personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and 'prayerwalking' rituals through their neighborhoods."
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"
Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip (www.theverge.com)
The New York Times reports the tech has mistakenly identified people as connected to Hamas. Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks,...