Below are posts associated with the “security” tag.
🔗 linkblog: New Facial-Recognition Tech Could Let You Keep Your Passport in Your Pocket at the Airport
That this article talks up (and uncritically repeats) purported advantages of surveillance and only briefly acknowledges privacy concerns is a real failure. Reporting needs to do better so that we can walk back surveillance instead of sleepwalk into more of it. Gift link
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: Battery rationality (06 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
Some interesting reflections (and reasons to up one’s baseline existential terror) in here.
🔗 linkblog: Apple’s Nonsensical Attack On Beeper For Making Apple’s Own Users Safer | Techdirt'
Good observations by Masnick here.