Privacy, Security, Surveillance

The Global Expansion of AI Surveillance

A growing number of states are deploying advanced AI surveillance tools to monitor, track, and surveil citizens. Carnegie’s new index explores how different countries are going about this.

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2022-01-26 Webinar: Citizen Rights and Remedies Under the Shadow of 5G Surveillance and Behavioral Modification — Broadband International Legal Action Network

This webinar assesses central legal issues and best practices concerning data privacy, surveillance, cyber-insecurity, control and censorship, mis- and disinformation, and the prediction and manipulation of human behavior in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism. The program particularly focuses on the

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Declassified documents reveal CIA has been sweeping up information on Americans

Civil liberties watchdogs condemn agency’s collection of domestic data without congressional or court approval or oversight

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Private dollars are seeding surveillance tech across the US

A number of local police departments are procuring surveillance tech with the help of donations from private sponsors — and from the tech firms themselves.

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The Student Data Privacy Project

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Do you have kids in public school?

Did you know that a federal law called FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) allows you to request data obtained on your kids ?

Historically, that meant name, address, phone number in the school directory. Now it includes all the metadata collected by EdTech vendors delivering curriculum in the classroom (Kami, Prodigy, Zoom, Google, Naviance, Nearpod, Class Dojo, etc.). There are hundreds if not thousands used by your school every day.

A group of four parents (from DC to Seattle), have created the Student Data Privacy Project after we asked our district for the data collected by vendors and were denied.

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Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia

Big tech’s emerging pandemic shock doctrine demands heavy public subsidies for a no-touch, socially distanced coronavirus future.

Naomi Klein May 8, 2020, 12:50 p.m.

theintercept.com

Luxury Surveillance — Real Life

People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others

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US Needs a Data Protection Agency: EPIC

The U.S. urgently needs a Data Protection Agency. Because data can’t protect itself. #privacy #DPAinUS #datacantprotectitself epic.org/dpa

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How to Stop ‘Smart Cities’ From Becoming ‘Surveillance Cities’ : Sunlight Foundation

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…

sunlightfoundation.com

This is how we lost control of our faces

The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy.

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Inside America’s Secretive $2 Billion Research Hub Collecting Fingerprints From Facebook, Hacking Smartwatches And Fighting Covid-19

Mitre Corp runs some of the U.S. government’s most hush-hush science and tech labs. The cloak-and-dagger R&D shop might just be the most important organization you’ve never heard of.

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Welcome to 5G: Privacy and security in a hyperconnected world (or not?)

On top of all the security risks, another huge issue derived from having connected-by-default devices is the issue of not being in control of them. There is the risk that always-connected devices could translate into powerless users, putting us in risk of abuse.

One of the problems has to do with increasing the indiscriminate data collection and transmission that is currently taking place. The ability to have everything directly connected without connection density issues, could lead device manufacturers into negotiating the connectivity of their devices directly with mobile providers, and people would lose even more control over whether their devices are connected and what they can do.

But losing control of devices could also happen in a very literal way: devices will work (or not) outside of the control of a given user. A house appliance we buy using credit instalments, might decide not to work unless we are up to date with its instalments. 5G could be the gateway for new and dystopic future in which the meaning of property has radically changed, leading to an era where we don’t really own our devices, but instead possess a device that works as a service.

5G can also make power abuse even worst, with devices controlled by people outside the household, including gender and domestic violence and users - and victims! - not being allowed to disconnect those devices, or maybe not even aware of their existence, since they could be easily be concealed and remain connected, sending data to somebody else.

privacyinternational.org

The Internet of Things Era: 6 Ways to Stay Safe

The IoT is full of promise, but it also means more cyberthreats, so you need to stay safe.

www.reuters.com

5G Privacy & Security Issues

Cybercrime Becomes a Major Concern With data breaches and identity theft becoming almost daily news, it should be no surprise that many people regard cybercrime as a major threat to their personal …

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