Black man wrongfully jailed for a week after face recognition error, report says
Lawyer says #police didn't check man's height, weight—or the mole on his face.
#privacy #surveillance #acab #FTP #AI
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight—or the mole on his face.Ars Technica
Oh. my. god.
Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.
This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.
#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.
nbcnewyork.com/news/msgs-facia…
An attorney whose firm is in litigation with MSG Entertainment was barred from attending a Radio City Rockettes’ show with her daughter and other Girl…NBC New York
Raspberry Pi is really proud of hiring "a policeman & it's going really great" who "was a surveillance officer for 15 years" and built covert surveillance equipment. RPi dismisses the very thing they're so proud of as "he built lightsabers [as toys]. Chill."). Dear reader, it must be remarked that the concern is not his rad lightsaber toys (which, to be clear, are rad). The concern is that he's got experience in surveillance equipment, and the company is proud to have hired him for it, and proudly blocking everyone who expresses the slightest concern about it instead of being even remotely willing to listen and understand why people are skeeved out, even people who aren't on the ACAB train and are gently voicing concerns with a surveillance cop potentially having the keys to their hardware/software.
This is not the behavior of a company that's concerned about privacy, security, trust, or autonomy, and I don't think this company can or should be trusted to remain federated with instances that want to be welcoming to marginalized people or anti-authoritarians.
Really hate to say it, because I've used and loved RPis for several years now, but if nothing else, please use a different SBC from now on. There are many options out there that aren't so eager to insult you for having concerns about security.
raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_…
archive in case they delete
archive.ph/8YQqH
#raspberrypi #rpi #surveillance #infosec #sysadmin #fediblock #acab #devops #police #sbc #singleboardcomputer
New Australian surveillance bill enables police to hack your device, collect or delete your data, and take over your social media accounts.Tutanota
Sometimes the internet is really funny - or scary.
The Chrome browser is one example.
While you believe you are browsing the web, Google is browsing you instead.
Check out Leah Elliott's comic on how Google's tracking works: contrachrome.com/comic/page01/
#google #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #Fight4Privacy #tutanota
You’ve got nothing to hide so you’ve got nothing to fear, right?
“A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.”
(Remember Apple was/is(?) going to implement this sort of scanning by default on all your devices.)
#BigTech #privacy #surveillance
Mark noticed something amiss with his toddler. His son’s penis looked swollen and was hurting him.inkl
“A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several depositors told Reuters.”
reuters.com/world/china/china-…
Isn’t “smart tech” just wonderful? :)
Via @didek
Know that there are politicians in the West who drool at the thought of being able to do to you what China does to its citizens.
#surveillance #control #democracy #freedom
Beijing (AFP) - A hacker claiming to have stolen personal data from hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens is now…inkl
Wow, Microsoft is apparently harvesting links in Outlook emails and indexing them on Bing.
scribe.rip/@ryanbadger/magic-l…
#surveillance #capitalism #microsoft #privacy #gdpr #email #bing
💡 It leaves out the important reminder that many of the #digitalPublicGoods used to create this so-called "public #infrastructure" have their roots in #FreeSoftware, which allows citizens to control of their own "digital lives" without government or quasi-government corporate #surveillance as intermediary.
e.g., I may have a Chinese-made phone sold with Google's #Android spyware, but because it's #OpenSource I am free to install a privacy-protecting OS instead.
3/4
jacobin.com/2022/06/us-tech-co…
The United States claims it benevolently promotes democracy over authoritarianism through its international technology policies. In reality, America forces poor countries to let US-based Big Tech companies steal their data.jacobin.com
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NEW: #Facebook is collecting ultrasensitive personal #data about #abortion seekers and enabling anti-abortion organizations to use that data as a tool to target and influence people online, in violation of its own policies and promises.
#privacy #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteFacebook
themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/…
The social media giant gathers data from crisis pregnancy centers through a tracking tool that works whether or not a person is logged in to their Facebook accountthemarkup.org
Related:
Normalize using end-to-end #encrypted (and ideally, ephemeral) communications.
Normalize not telling #Google everything you think, do, and say.
Do it now.
#privacy #security #surveillance
nbcnews.com/tech/security/abor…
Abortion clinics and providers are rushing to strengthen their digital privacy and protect the data of their patients due to the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade.Kevin Collier (NBC News)
"Frantic individual efforts to swat away digital intrusions will do too little. What’s needed, for all Americans, is a full legal and political reckoning with the reckless manner in which digital technology has been allowed to invade our lives. The collection, use and manipulation of electronic #data must finally be regulated and severely limited. Only then can we comfortably enjoy all the good that can come from these technologies."
nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion…
In a post-Roe America, women will bear the costs of letting data collection undermine our liberty.Zeynep Tufekci (The New York Times)
We have NO IDEA what type of ppl w/be in power (or incorp this) in the future.
Too many ppl reflect only on today.
Gifting MASSIVE total control tech, over all humans, using combined #AI + #Biometrics + Mass #Surveillance + fusion centers.
Corporate interests. Discreet power struggles.
Anything short of a full ban today is (at best) a hope future leaders will care more about your children's freedom than they do donor profits & digital dictatorship dreams.
Handing control of our biometric identities to a handful of trillion-dollar American gatekeeper corporations isn’t the good news you might think it is.
(Don’t forget, the W3C is the standards body of surveillance capitalism.)
In a non-corporate world, your “password” could be so much more… It could be, for example, a mnemonic for the key to a facet of your self that you (and you alone) own and control.
#w3c #fido #passwords #identity #access #surveillance #capitalism
Good news for the people still using "Password123!"inkl
