Tagg: overvaking 121

https://teknologiradet.no/publication/kommersiell-sporing-i-offentlig-sektor/

Offentlig sektor deler informasjon om norske innbyggere med kommersielle aktører. Det er et demokratisk problem fordi vi ikke kan velge bort overvåkningen, og et konkurransepolitisk problem fordi det styrker de digitale monopolene.

Med denne rapporten ønsker vi å sette søkelys på hvordan overvåkingsøkonomien og sporing på internett har inntatt offentlig sektor. Gjennom å bruke gratis tilgjengelige verktøy fra de store internettselskapene, inviterer offentlige nettsteder kommersielle aktører inn i de innerste sfærene av våre liv.

Denne utviklingen er problematisk fordi offentlige tjenester kommer tett på oss og våre privatliv, og det ikke finnes noen alternative tjenestetilbydere. Offentlig sektor bør derfor ta et særlig ansvar for å ikke dele data om oss med kommersielle aktører.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams

A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools.

Some of the cameras, including in hospitals, use facial-recognition technology to identify and categorize people captured on the footage. The hackers say they also have access to the full video archive of all Verkada customers.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea

Google can choose to dismantle the old scaffolding for surveillance without replacing it with something new and uniquely harmful.

We emphatically reject the future of FLoC. That is not the world we want, nor the one users deserve. Google needs to learn the correct lessons from the era of third-party tracking and design its browser to work for users, not for advertisers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/08/huawei-tested-ai-software-that-could-recognize-uighur-minorities-alert-police-report-says/

The Chinese tech giant Huawei has tested facial recognition software that could send automated “Uighur alarms” to government authorities when its camera systems identify members of the oppressed minority group, according to an internal document that provides further details about China’s artificial-intelligence surveillance regime.

https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/telefonen-spionerte-pa-meg-slik-fant-jeg-overvakerne/

Det er et vanlig refreng at kommersiell overvåkning ikke er så farlig: «Det brukes jo bare til annonser.» Men det er etter hvert blitt mange som er ute etter sporene som mobilene våre legger igjen.

https://nrkbeta.no/2020/10/13/fant-overvakningsfunksjoner-i-barneklokke-solgt-av-norsk-selskap/

https://www.cyberscoop.com/nagorno-karabakh-azerbaijan-armenia-espionage-talos-hackers/

shows how digital espionage often coincides with bursts of violence in modern war.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-removes-android-app-that-was-used-to-spy-on-belarusian-protesters/

App mimicked a popular anti-government news site and collected location and device owner details.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recognition-arrest.html

In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he did not commit.

https://www.nrk.no/norge/norges-smittestopp-app-blant-de-verste-i-verden-pa-personvern-1.15054311

Amnesty International har gjort en detaljert teknisk analyse av appene som skal spore smitte i en rekke land.

– Bahrain, Kuwait og Norge gjør en grov overkjøring av personvernet, med svært inngripende overvåking som går langt utover det som er forsvarlig i arbeidet med å stoppe koronasmitten.

https://www.nrk.no/norge/trumf-endrer-ikke-bonusprogram_-_-et-sikkerhetshull_-mener-it-ekspert-1.15047444

Rema har endret en kunde-app som kan misbrukes til overvåking, men Trumf beholder en lignende løsning.

Sårbarheten ligger i at en person som ønsker å overvåke en annen kan legge inn den andres kontonummer, og på den måten få informasjon om når, hvor og hva den andre handler.

https://www.nrk.no/norge/rema-app-kan-misbrukes-til-overvaking-1.15041044

Legger du inn en annen persons kontonummer, kan du se når, hvor og hva personen handler. – Rema tar en råsjanse med noen andres risiko, mener IT-konsulent Cecilie Wian.

https://nrkbeta.no/2020/05/19/eksperter-vil-dele-opp-smittestopp/

I et nylig publisert opprop tar over 50 norske eksperter et oppgjør med hvordan norske Smittestopp samler store mengder data om brukerne

I oppropet bes norske myndigheter gå bort fra sin nåværende strategi om å samle store mengder data i en sentralt database, fordi dette kan føre til storstilt overvåkning av samfunnet.

https://www.cyberscoop.com/coronavirus-vaccine-china-hacking-dhs-fbi/

https://www.fastcompany.com/90476690/this-beautiful-library-in-minecraft-lets-people-anywhere-access-the-work-of-censored-journalists

You might not be able to find accurate info in the press in countries with oppressive regimes, but you can at Reporters Without Borders’ Uncensored Library in the game

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51658111

The attack allowed hackers to gain access to its client list but it said its servers had not been breached.

Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have all demanded it stop using photos on their platforms.

But Clearview AI chief executive Hoan Ton-That told the CBS This Morning programme it was his First Amendment right to collect public photos.

https://www.cyberscoop.com/facbook-facial-recognition-lawsuit-illinois/

Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” service

The case accuses Facebook of breaking privacy law in Illinois by mining information about people in the state without their consent, then failing to disclose how long that data would be stored

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/london-to-deploy-live-facial-recognition-to-find-wanted-faces-in-crowd/

Tech from NEC aimed at spotting wanted persons on the streets to alert officers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion/facial-recognition-ban-privacy.html

We need to have a serious conversation about all the technologies of identification, correlation and discrimination, and decide how much we as a society want to be spied on by governments and corporations — and what sorts of influence we want them to have over our lives.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdp95/this-secretive-surveillance-company-is-selling-cops-cameras-hidden-in-gravestones

Special Services Group also offers cameras hidden in child carseats and vacuum cleaners.