Below are posts associated with the “surveillance” tag.
🔗 linkblog: A Network of Fake Test Answer Sites Is Trying to Incriminate Students – The Markup'
Let me get this straight: Invasive surveillance isn’t enough, now companies are creating opportunities to cheat just so they can ding them and take credit for stopping it?
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Declassified Documents Shows The CIA Is Using A 1981 Executive Order To Engage In Domestic Surveillance | Techdirt'
Surveillance is a bigger problem than we think.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Senator Wyden: EARN IT Will Make Children Less Safe | Techdirt'
Surveillance is not going to help kids.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Lexington KY police test license plate cameras to solve crime | Lexington Herald Leader'
We should all be concerned about this. Describing this as “high tech” in the first line of the story fetishizes surveillance. It’s gross.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'German Police Caught Using COVID-Tracing Data To Search For Crime Witnesses | Techdirt'
Contract tracing is good, but apps for it are scary. Ugh.
🔗 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 '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 '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 '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 '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.