overvaking

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.