Below are posts associated with the “surveillance” tag.

🔗 linkblog: just finished 'In 2021, the Police Took a Page Out of the NSA’s Playbook: 2021 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation'


Time to write some representatives. This is terrifying stuff.

🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Students Are Learning To Resist Surveillance: Year in Review 2021 | Electronic Frontier Foundation'


Such an important read.

🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Boston Police Bought Spy Tech With a Pot of Money Hidden From the Public — ProPublica'


Stingrays are bad news, and so is the ability to buy them without public scrutiny.

🔗 linkblog: just finished 'French regulator tells Clearview AI to delete its facial recognition data - The Verge'


Vive la France ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Report - Legal Loopholes and Data for Dollars: How Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies Are Buying Your Data from Brokers - Center for Democracy and Technology'


This report sounds terrifying. Even the Capitol rioters deserve some freedom from this kind of surveillance.

🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass - The New York Times'


Nope nope nope.

🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Police Aerial Surveillance Endangers Our Ability to Protest | Electronic Frontier Foundation'


Surveillance remains scary.

🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Stop Warrantless Car Spying by Police'


Something else to write representatives about.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'In Moscow’s Technological Advances, a ‘Double-Edged Sword’ - The New York Times'


Facial recognition is worrying.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'EFF to Supreme Court: Warrantless 24-Hour Video Surveillance Outside Homes Violates Fourth Amendment | Electronic Frontier Foundation'


Surveillance is scary.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Apple Has Listened And Will Retract Some Harmful Phone-Scanning'


Good progress but need more.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Data Broker Veraset Gave Bulk Device-Level GPS Data to DC Government | Electronic Frontier Foundation'


Location data harvesting is scary stuff.

🔗 linkblog: just read '7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent | ZDNet'


We ought to be talking more about biometric data.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy | Ars Technica'


On the internet, more and more people can learn you’re a dog.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'My Neighbor’s Door Camera Faces My Apartment. Is That Legal? - The New York Times'


A great example of Ring cameras being gross.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Surveillance Startup Brings Police Tech to Neighborhoods - Bloomberg'


Nope nope nope nope. If plate readers are going to become more common, I’ve got to start biking more places. Not that that will protect against Ring. 🤮🤮🤮

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Opinion | The Illusion of Privacy Is Getting Harder to Sell - The New York Times'


This blurb stood out to me: “Apple says, relentlessly, that privacy is the central feature of its iPhones. But as the photo scanning demonstrates, that’s true only until Apple changes its mind about its policies.” Seems to me we shouldn’t be dependent on tech companies’ decisions to ensure privacy.


Please also give me the confidence of an Apple exec explaining how scanning all your photos is “an advancement of the state of the art in privacy.”


It really bothers me when browsers hide anything after the domain name in a URL. Sure, it’s cleaner, but there’s so much important information (and low-key surveillance) embedded in a URL, and I want to know about all of it.


Does anyone know of research on social media surveillance by school districts? Some local news stories have me thinking of a potential future project…