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https://www.zdnet.com/article/software-update-crashes-police-ankle-monitors-in-the-netherlands/
the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security had to step in and preemptively arrest and jail some of its most high-risk suspects.
used to train the company’s facial recognition system, and that Ever then offers to sell that technology to private companies, law enforcement and the military.
https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2019/05/02/china-how-mass-surveillance-works-xinjiang
Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling and Monitoring Strategies
It is the first known example of a government intentionally using artificial intelligence for racial profiling, experts said.
potentially ushering in a new era of automated racism.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.
The results of the study are consistent with our Facebook study: People don’t want surveillance advertising.
The specification lets users log into online accounts using biometrics, mobile devices, and/or FIDO security keys.
how former U.S. government hackers have employed state-of-the-art cyber-espionage tools on behalf of a foreign intelligence service that spies on human rights activists, journalists and political rivals.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo app that Apple banned in June
https://www.lawfareblog.com/evaluating-gchq-exceptional-access-proposal
On the other side of this debate is pretty much all technologists working in computer security and cryptography, who argue that adding eavesdropping features fundamentally makes those systems less secure.
Huawei’s very structure, with its close ties to the Chinese government […] makes the company a potential tool for espionage and thus a security threat
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/10/18177305/ring-employees-unencrypted-customer-video-amazon
Smart doorbell company Ring allowed employees to share unencrypted customer videos with each other
An intelligence official said that subcontractors across the entire military were lagging behind in cybersecurity and frequently suffered breaches that affected other branches.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/05/threat-journalists-highest-level-10-years-report
hostility towards the media is becoming normalised around the world, amid a proliferation of “strongman” populist leaders who have echoed the language of the US president and vilified journalists for simply doing their jobs.
Cities across China have debuted crime-fighting facial recognition technology to much fanfare over the past year. But some of these jaywalker-busting devices aren’t as impressive as they seem.
use algorithms based on tagging, hashtags and face recognition technology to determine who lives in the same household
https://www.nrk.no/norge/vil-la-e-tjenesten-lagre-nordmenns-nett-trafikk-1.14291174
Mulighetene for masseovervåking av den norske nettrafikken nærmer seg dermed det Snowden-saken avslørte at amerikanske etterretningstjenester gjør i USA, sier fagdirektør Torgeir Waterhouse i […] IKT Norge.