Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
The New Totalitarianism
February 17th, 2019Via: Richard Dolan:
China Tracking Physical Locations of 2.5 Million People in Western Region of Country
February 17th, 2019Via: South China Morning Post: A Chinese surveillance firm is tracking the movements of more than 2.5 million people in the far-western Xinjiang region, according to a data leak flagged by a Dutch internet expert. An online database containing names, ID card numbers, birth dates and location data was left unprotected for months by Shenzhen-based […]
Most Americans Don’t Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data
February 16th, 2019Via: The Conversation: For example, data about a mobile phone’s past location and movement patterns can be used to predict where a person lives, who their employer is, where they attend religious services and the age range of their children based on where they drop them off for school. These predictions label who you are […]
Meet the Amateur Astronomers Hunting for Spy Satellites
February 14th, 2019Via: Supercluster: For most people, the ability to see a spy instrument from thousands of miles away but never know its purpose would be maddening. Yet for Molczan, the mystery is part of the thrill.
Why Can’t a Bot Tick the “I’m Not a Robot” Box?
February 13th, 2019I figured that the widget was linked to Google’s dossiers on all of us, but I had no idea about the rest of it. And researchers still don’t know everything Google is doing here. Via: Quora: How complicated can one little checkbox be? … Sweet dreams, human.
Cities Cannot Stop 5G Implementation [???]
February 13th, 2019Maybe they need to talk to the people in Marin County to see how it’s done: California: Three City Councils in Marin County Vote to Stop Installing Harmful 5G Towers Via: Richard Dolan:
Smartphones Will Monitor How Workers Walk, Type And “Spend Their Free Time”
February 12th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: Forget Face ID: a collaboration between the Defense Department and a NY-based company called TWOSENSE.AI, has birthed an artificial intelligence algorithm that could be embedded in smartphones and will be able to identify the device owner by the way they talk, type, walk and even by how “they spend their free time”. TWOSENSE.AI […]
Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else
February 12th, 2019Via: The Intercept: If Bezos were the political victim of surveillance state abuses, it would be scandalous and dangerous. It would also be deeply ironic. That’s because Amazon, the company that has made Bezos the planet’s richest human being, is a critical partner for the U.S. Government in building an ever-more invasive, militarized and sprawling […]
Russia to Disconnect from Internet to Test Cyber Defenses
February 11th, 2019Via: BBC: Russia is considering whether to disconnect from the global internet briefly, as part of a test of its cyber-defences. The test will mean data passing between Russian citizens and organisations stays inside the nation rather than being routed internationally. A draft law mandating technical changes needed to operate independently was introduced to its […]
Big Telecom Sold Highly Sensitive Customer GPS Data Typically Used for 911 Calls
February 7th, 2019Via: Vice: Around 250 bounty hunters and related businesses had access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint customer location data, according to documents obtained by Motherboard. The documents also show that telecom companies sold data intended to be used by 911 operators and first responders to data aggregators, who sold it to bounty hunters. The data […]
