"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
Really?
Ex undercover cop, would disagree!
Video clip taken from Big Brother Watch - 'Confessions of a former undercover cop
' #police#surveillance#privacy
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
I cannot fully capture how creepy it is to walk past a neighbor's driveway to get to the bus stop about 20 ft past it and an externally mounted camera says "Hi. You are being recorded."
Any suggestions for a sign that I turn towards the camera as I go by? I don't want to be as unneighborly as their camera is and I don't know what possible past behavior or circumstances they're responding to but they're creating an atmosphere I don't want.
I'm thinking along the lines of some humorous signs to hold up to my neighbor's surveillance camera that tells me I'm being recorded as I walk past on the sidewalk. Along these lines:
Does my hair look good today?
Don't you love this outfit?
I'll be back later with snacks.
I'm looking forward to the highlight reel.
WA state law doesn't give me the right to an expectation of privacy on a sidewalk but it's still creepy. #surveillance#neighborhood
Fantastic photo from UT Austin. I was not able to find the original photographer to give credit, despite them deserving it.
Pretty crazy time to be on a college campus right now, Umich's "liberation zone" on the diag has grown in size, as has the police presence. The movement will not be stopped.
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
"New Zealand is far, far too small to bring the likes of Netflix, Google and Facebook to heel. California for example, is said to be the fifth largest economy in the world. Yet Meta and Google are threatening to cut off news items (and searches) about California if the state proceeds with... legislation [that] would require the social media giants to pay a “journalism useage fee” for linking to news sites based in California."
"Meta also records that 234 such requests [for personal data] were made to it by the New Zealand government during the same period. That sort of thing explains why the real answer is not a selective ban imposed solely on Tiktok, but a comprehensive law to protect data privacy for all, from all, by all."
Alors que la préfecture de police de Paris teste ce dimanche, pour la première fois, la vidéosurveillance algorithmique lors de la rencontre Paris Saint-Germain - Olympique lyonnais, certains fans de football s’inquiètent de l’impact potentiel de cette technologie sur leurs libertés.
#Surveillance#PoliticalEconomy#AI#SyntheticData: "Surveillance of human subjects is how data-intensive companies obtain much of their data, yet surveillance increasingly meets with social and regulatory resistance. Data-intensive companies are thus seeking other ways to meet their data needs. This article explores one of these: the creation of synthetic data, or data produced artificially as an alternative to real-world data. I show that capital is already heavily invested in synthetic data. I argue that its appeal goes beyond circumventing surveillance to accord with a structural tendency within capitalism toward the autonomization of the circuit of capital. By severing data from human subjectivity, synthetic data contributes to the automation of the production of automation technologies like machine learning. A shift from surveillance to synthesis, I argue, has epistemological, ontological, and political economic consequences for a society increasingly structured around data-intensive capital." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448221099217
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.
The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is only days away from “taking over the internet” with a massive expansion of its surveillance powers, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The FISA 702 bill has been described by critics as a “dramatic and terrifying” expansion of the United States government’s surveillance powers.