@neurovagrant Perhaps someone will market a #RFID cell phone sleeve similar to the ones that cover one's credit card to prevent RFID scanning... #surveillance#privacy
1/🧵#EU: Criteria for assessing when someone is labelled a "potential terrorist or violent extremist threat" has been finalised by member states–which may facilitate the monitoring, #surveillance and restriction of political activities and #activists.
They say the goal of the new criteria “is to promote entering such individuals into the European databases and information systems"
Slack has always had a horrific privacy policy and default settings that enable workplace surveillance, so it's a good time as ever to share this campaign by @fight - supported by dozens of civil society organizations globally:
"Safety should be an inherent feature of the tech we use in our daily lives and our workplaces. Sign the letter to demand Slack put user privacy and security first."
A USG cybersecurity official has broken ranks from his agency & publicly revealed that attackers have repeatedly tracked the physical location of ppl inside the US using vulnerabilities in the backbone of the world’s telecommunications cellular INFRA in recent years.
The comments from the CISA official are highly unusual in that they provide an unvarnished assessment of the threat posed by such attacks on telecom NWKs-. #Cybersecurity
La #France a fait parti des pays les plus restrictifs des #libertés_individuelles pendant le #covid, allant jusqu'à interdire l'accès aux plages et aux forêts, et demander une auto-declaration écrite pour sortir.
Selon le ministère de l'intérieur, 21 millions de contrôles ont été faits en 🇫🇷 pendant les 2 mois de #confinement 2020. Une enquête du @cnrs sur 16 000 personnes estime que 28% des gens y ont été contrôlé par les forces de l'ordre au moins 1 fois
"Dans des départements comme la #Sarthe ou le #Lot, #police et gendarmerie ont réalisé autant de contrôles qu’il y avait d’habitants adultes"
AAA was who I just went through a 2 month wrassle trying to get my used van insured. They dismissed me out of hand, with the people making the decision never letting me know who they were although they got access to LOTS of data about me. No accountability.
Remember you can fight things & if we don't fight things, they tend to get worse. Remember you can not just complain to AAA, but if you're in CA you can complain to the Insurance Commissioner
Est-ce que ça craint que je répertories les cameras de surveillance de ma ville sur #openstreetmap? Il y en a énormément, je sais que la flamme olympique passe ces prochains mois mais là c’est OVERKILL #surveillance#OSM
Today ORG joined Big Brother Watch, 38degrees, Organise and other groups to deliver a 270,000+ strong petition to 10 Downing Street.
We say NO to powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill that’ll let the UK government spy on the bank accounts of ANY benefit claimant.
New from me: Menstruation-tracking apps leak users' #data to advertisers & law enforcement, especially post-Roe v. Wade in the US. To address these apps, I recommend data decommodification, which requires data be collected only to provide the service (ie., period tracking) but not be repurposed toward other activities (like advertising). #surveillance
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal must ensure the Police Service of Northern Ireland and other police forces are held to account for surveilling journalists. A free press is essential for an open and functioning democracy.
ORG joined with Committee to Protect Journalists, Amnesty International UK, Index on Censorship and Reporters Without Borders UK to support Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey in their case.
Did someone say #encryption? Encryption helps protect the privacy of people you communicate with, and makes life difficult for bulk #surveillance systems. Learn more with our Email Self Defense guide: https://u.fsf.org/1df
#AI#GenerativeAI#Police#Surveillance: "Moreover, if the AI-generated report is incorrect, can we trust police will contradict that version of events if it's in their interest to maintain inaccuracies? On the flip side, might AI report writing go the way of AI-enhanced body cameras? In other words, if the report consistently produces a narrative from audio that police do not like, will they edit it, scrap it, or discontinue using the software altogether?
And what of external reviewers’ ability to access these reports? Given police departments’ overly intense secrecy, combined with a frequent failure to comply with public records laws, how can the public, or any external agency, be able to independently verify or audit these AI-assisted reports? And how will external reviewers know which portions of the report are generated by AI vs. a human?
Police reports, skewed and biased as they often are, codify the police department’s memory. They reveal not necessarily what happened during a specific incident, but what police imagined to have happened, in good faith or not. Policing, with its legal power to kill, detain, or ultimately deny people’s freedom, is too powerful an institution to outsource its memory-making to technologies in a way that makes officers immune to critique, transparency, or accountability." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/what-can-go-wrong-when-police-use-ai-write-reports
Was discussing the neighbor's insistence that the gardeners kill everything yesterday ("they nuked the yard with Roundup" I said) and now my son is getting Roundup ads on Facebook. Yesterday, I mentioned one of my kids' names (which is very close to a brand) and that brand is being advertised to him, too. (I deleted Facebook long ago and will never load it or any of its software, because of that creepy snooping). I guess his generation just assumes they are being listened to all the time... #advertising#surveillance
Crazy documentary. It looks like a dystopian SF movie. I have no idea why people still watch movies when reality is many times more than any movie. More scary, funny, complex, interesting, mindblowing.
China is perhaps how the future will look like for people on this planet. Total control.
IT DOESN’T TAKE much to be accused of supporting terrorism these days. Lawmakers & public officials have, w/o evidence, insinuated that US news outlets provide material support for Hamas. Their letters were pol stunts. Next time might be diff., esp. if nonprofit news outlets, offend the govt. Bill: passed the HSE & bill in the Sen -would empower: TSY Sec to revoke the nonprofit status of any org. deemed “terrorist supporting.” https://theintercept.com/2024/05/10/terrorism-bill-nonprofit-journalists-israel-hamas/
If you want to understand how startups and venture capital work, go to 26:24 on the recording of my talk “Excuse Me, Your Unicorn Keeps Shitting In My Back Yard, Can He Please Not?” from 2016:
#SocialMedia#TikTok#China#ContentModeration#Censorship#Surveillance: "What rarely gets mentioned in these discussions, however, is the fact that the Chinese government has built the most comprehensive digital surveillance system in the world, which it primarily uses not to protect children, but to squash any form of dissent that may threaten the power of the Chinese Communist Party. “Everybody exists in a censored environment, and so what gets censored for kids is just one step on top of what gets censored for adults,” Jeremy Daum, a senior research scholar at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and the founder of the site China Law Translate, told me.
It should set off warning bells for Americans that many states have explored legislation limiting internet access for minors in ways that mirror what China has done."
Congratulations to Harvard University History of Science doctoral candidate Aaron Gluck-Thaler on the 2024-25 CBI Tomash Fellowship. We are thrilled to have Aaron as a fellow in the upcoming academic year! #ai#artificialintelligence#surveillance#science#tech#history