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https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/01/asia/internet-freedom-china-censorship-intl/index.html
the internet is an excellent tool for social control, enabling surveillance and guiding of public opinion that would have been impossible in the past.
Apple CEO Tim Cook today called on the US government to pass “a comprehensive federal privacy law,” saying that tech companies that collect wide swaths of user data are engaging in surveillance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/russian-hacking-usa-cyber-command.html
targeting individual Russian operatives […], telling them that American operatives have identified them and are tracking their work
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9npv/bloomberg-china-supermicro-apple-hack
No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek’s bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/russia-hacks-doping-poisoning.html
the British foreign ministry, antidoping agencies in Colorado Springs and Canada, and investigators examining the shooting down of a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014
Today’s revelations highlight the danger that can arise from […] a lack of safeguards, the absence of which has allowed an intelligence agency to extract data about a human rights charity […]
GCHQ’s methods for bulk interception of online communications violated privacy and failed to provide sufficient surveillance safeguards, the European court of human rights has ruled.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/world/middleeast/hacking-united-arab-emirates-nso-group.html
leaked documents and emails that directly challenge the company’s repeated assertions that it is not responsible for any illegal surveillance conducted by the governments that buy its spyware.
trying to enter the U.S. on a fake passport that may have passed at face value with humans
critics worry about the implications for invasions of privacy … and the potential for mistaken matches.
A company that sells surveillance software to parents and employers
hashed passwords and logins, Facebook messages
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611815/who-needs-democracy-when-you-have-data/
Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chinese-police-are-spying-on-uighurson-american-soil
threatening to detain their relatives if they do not provide personal and identifying information to Chinese police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/business/behavioral-biometrics-banks-security.html
The way you press, scroll and type on a phone screen or keyboard can be as unique as your fingerprints or facial features.
https://www.wired.com/story/police-body-camera-vulnerabilities/
the vulnerabilities would allow an attacker to download footage off a camera, edit things out or potentially make more intricate modifications, and then re-upload it, leaving no indication of the change.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevincollier/2016-sweden-ddos-expressen-hack-russia-cables
the attack was part of a Russian campaign to sow disinformation about NATO
the homes and lives of people exercising in secretive locations, military bases, nuclear weapons storage sites
Amazon … has officially entered the surveillance business.
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/22/17380450/amazon-aws-facial-recognition-aclu-technology-police
“helps identify persons of interest against a collection of millions of faces in real-time.”
“… it is like there are a pair of mystery eyes constantly watching me, and I don’t dare let my mind wander.”