Spying and Surveillance
Privacy advocates are responding with alarm to Amazon’s claim this week that the controversial cloud-based facial recognition system the company markets to law enforcement agencies can now detect “fear” in the people it targets. #facialrecognition
It’s clear that the debate on the benefits and threats of facial recognition technology is not going anywhere anytime soon. It’s up to us as individuals to educate ourselves and inform our peers about the threats to privacy and freedom that are becoming increasingly more apparent every day.
Adding more devices to the online universe is destined to create more opportunities for disruption.
In a trio of letters sent Tuesday to executives at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, a coalition of 90 civil and human rights groups called on the companies to refuse to sell facial recognition technology to governments across the globe, cautioning that such systems can endanger people and undermine public trust. #governmentsurveillance
Countries across the globe are following in the footsteps of the Chinese government, adopting authoritarian digital practices that pose serious threats to democracy, according to a new Freedom House report. They found that global digital freedom has continued to decline for the eighth consecutive year.
Walmart has a totally creepy idea to monitor your biometric data, pulse, and location from the sensors on a shopping cart handle, Motherboard reported.
The TSA is using facial recognition technology with a “biometric confirmation” rate of 85% for testing purposes at airports.
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17 years after 9-11 we are so much less free as citizens of this nation. “To re-think 9-11 means that we still have the right to question those who have taken our rights, how they have taken them, and why?” – Ben Swann
It is of the first order of importance to remember this: “the system cannot be fixed by the system.”
Here are 8 things that are undermining your freedom that you need to know about (but probably don’t) by Gary Z McGee (The Mind Unleashed).
Now, DARPA have created yet another technology with an immense potential for abuse: small robots that could be deployed by the government in a time of disaster.
The CEO of a company that makes facial recognition software has publicly stated that his company will not sell to law enforcement or governments.
“The most important surveillance story you will see for years just went online, revealing how AT&T became the internet’s biggest enemy, secretly collaborating against its customers and partners to destroy your privacy,” said Edward Snowden. “Fortress-like” AT&T buildings located in eight major American cities have played a central role in a massive National Security Agency (NSA) spying program “that has for years monitored billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats passing across U.S. territory.”
Police in the US city of Boston unjustly spied on thousands of social media posts and specifically targeted Muslims and African Americans claims the ACLU
The CLOUD Act will also allow the U.S. to enter into agreements that allow the transfer of private data from domestic servers to investigators in other countries on a case-by-case basis, further globalizing the ever-encroaching surveillance state. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has strongly opposed the legislation, listed several consequences of the bill, which it called “far-reaching” and “privacy-upending”:
