Notices tagged with surveillance

Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r6k4

#BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI

The Palestine Laboratory
How Israel Exports The #Technology Of #Occupation Around The World

For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an “enemy” population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control.
(...)
This book shows in-depth, for the first time, how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration and brutality to the hi-tech tools that drive the ‘Start-up Nation’. From the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos’ and Jamal Khashoggi’s phones, the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas and drones used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown.
Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware that fuels the globe’s most brutal conflicts.
As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model....

https://antonyloewenstein.com/books/the-palestine-laboratory-how-israel-exports-the-technology-of-occupation-around-the-world/ via @baum
@palestine @israel @surveillance

#Palestine #Westbank #Spyware #Surveillance #Antireport

Frontex, which can arguably be described as an agency set up by the EU specifically to mercilessly fight people in need, continues to expand surveillance.
With sums of millions, new surveillance and control techniques are tested and refined on the weakest and most defenseless.
We should not allow more and more visible and invisible borders to be drawn around us, making us all prisoners!
Tear down walls! Sink Frontex!

Frontex installs cameras in the stratosphere
https://www.golem.de/news/grenzueberwachung-frontex-installiert-kameras-in-der-stratosphaere-2209-168566.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitterfeed&utm_source=twitter.com&s=35

EU recommendation to Greece : Frontex drone allowed to fly in civilian airspace for the first time
https://netzpolitik.org/2022/eu-empfehlung-an-griechenland-frontex-drohne-darf-erstmals-im-zivilen-luftraum-fliegen/

New EU CONTROL SYSTEM
At the end of May 2023, the European Union will launch a new biometric database.
https://netzpolitik.org/2022/neues-eu-kontrollsystem-wartezeiten-an-deutschen-grenzen-koennten-sich-verdreifachen/

Frontex surveillance aircraft in operation:
https://frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/frontex-surveillance-aircraft-deployed-in-jo-opal-coast-Jewsvl

Systems for "initial registration" of refugees.
Example Austria: report by
https://www.fr.de/politik/kein-ort-an-dem-menschen-traeumen-91965040.html

#Frontex #AbolishFrontex #FortressEurope #noborders #FightTheFortress #NoOneIsIllegal #Surveillance #drones

“Businesses often monetize through data collection, leading to privacy compromises. However, it’s possible to build AI systems that prioritize user privacy, but these would likely require different business models—perhaps focusing on subscription fees or donations rather than data exploitation.

So, the privacy trade-off is more about choices in the current economic landscape than a fundamental requirement.”

– Microsoft Copilot

#AI #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #microsoft #copilot

TIL that on newer Samsung phones, you can't use the camera *at all* unless you give the app permission to scan your environment for other devices. There is no way to opt out of this. Little by little, inch by inch, the surveillance infrastructure that surrounds us is becoming total/complete/absolute. If you were trying to assemble a fascist dystopia, this is exactly the kind of equipment you'd make everyone carry around all the time.

I was one of the last hold-outs to finally give up my old-timey flip phone and hop on the smartphone bandwagon, and tbh I'm seriously considering going back.

#Privacy #Surveillance #Samsung #Tech

Always remember: any piece of info a corporation has about you can potentially be seized by the government and used against you. Neither companies nor governments are set up to care what's true, right, or fair. If they can harm you, they will.

"Popular car brands are collecting and sharing driver data from braking patterns and odometer readings to vehicle location and voice recognition information...

As car makers add microphones, sensors and other internet-connected features, cars are fast becoming all-seeing data-harvesting machines dubbed "smartphones on wheels".

Kia and Hyundai, which have the same parent company, collect voice recognition data from inside their cars and sell this to the artificial intelligence (AI) software training company Credence.

Tesla workers have been caught sharing among themselves highly invasive camera recordings of Tesla customers in the nude, as well as images of crashes and road-rage incidents."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-10-09/car-brands-are-tracking-and-sharing-your-data-with-third-parties/104440742

#Privacy #Surveillance #Data #Tech #AI #CivilRights

When I was a sociology teacher, the question that always got posed around tech issues was whether technologies can ever be inherently bad. It's the wrong question. The real question is how the unequal distributions of power in each society where the tech might be used can be made worse by the intro of the tech.

"Efforts to protect neurological data have proliferated in recent years, as electronic devices available directly to consumers become capable of capturing medical-grade brain data similar to what neurologists would use to diagnose patients.

Experts at the Neurorights Foundation and other groups say sensitive data could be used to decode users' mental states without their permission.

Earlier in the year, the Neurorights Foundation released a report analyzing the privacy policies of 30 consumer neurotech devices and found major privacy gaps. Half allowed companies to broadly share a user's brain data with third parties."

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/11/world/data-privacy-brain/

#Privacy #Surveillance #Tech #Data #Meta #Science

Seven weeks ago in #Germany, a Muslim killed three people with a knife. That was the perfect justification for the #surveillance fanatics who were already at it building a totalitarian police state.

Germany‘s governing parties now agreed on dystopian ubiquitous bulk face recognition and mass deportation to ”safe“ countries such as Afghanistan/Syria. Next week they decide in parliament to not allow for time for protests.

Brought to you by the people pushing #ChatControl.
https://eupolicy.social/@pneutig/113293674096319660

Today we celebrate German Unity Day!
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/germany-unity-day

On October 3rd in 1990, Germany became one, and became a truly democratic country. 🗳️

We are reminded that we can't take the freedoms we currently enjoy for granted, including privacy & the freedom of speech.

#germany #freedom #privacy #surveillance

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

We've signed a joint letter to oppose the resurrection of welfare surveillance powers in the UK.

Using welfare fraud as a wedge issue to spy on all benefit claimants is a huge blow for privacy and has the makings of a Horizon-style scandal.

Suspicionless algorithmic surveillance will impact pensioners, disabled people and carers. They will bear the brunt when these systems go wrong.

Read more ⬇️

#ukpolitics #surveillance #digitalrights #privacy #welfare

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/monitoring-uk-bank-accounts-for-benefits-would-be-huge-blow-to-privacy

Whether it's CBDCs Harris seems to favor, or stable coins Trump seems to favor, the footsteps of tyranny, surveillance and control are getting louder and closer.

#CBDC #stablecoins #money #finance #tyranny #theft #surveillance #control

“Your smart TV knows what you’re watching,” write Mohamed Al Elew and Gabriel Hongsdusit for @themarkup. They’ve put together a guide to turning off that ability on three different platforms.

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching

#Surveillance #Tech #Technology #SmartTVs #Gadgets #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Tor and Tails Merge to Fight Global Surveillance and Censorship.

https://linuxiac.com/tor-and-tails-join-forces/

#privacy #Tor #Tails #censorship #surveillance #cybersecurity #web #Internet

✔ @torproject & @tails are going to strengthen their collaboration by merging¹! 👍

✔ #Tor has also released a new alpha

✔ It seems this #update does not address any of the potential #security issues, recently suspected after #German #lawenforcement claims to have used #timinganalysis to unmask Tor users.

✔ Potential solutions: timing delays, cover traffic...

¹https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces/
²https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/

#Torproject #Tails #Privacy #Surveillance #Freedom #Germany #Tech #Internet #Gov #IT

Le préfet de police de Paris se dit « favorable » à une prolongation du recours à la vidéosurveillance algorithmique expérimentée pendant les JO. Compte tenu d’un « bilan » qu’il a qualifié de « positif », le préfet de police de Paris, Laurent Nuñez considère qu’il y a lieu de « proroger » cette utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle pour analyser les image. Qui aurait pu prédire? (Cc @LaQuadrature)

#Politique #IA #JO #Police #Gouvernement #Surveillance #Paris

Meta and friends – like Mastodon and Vivaldi – form Social Web Foundation.

May I be the first to say:

Fuck the Social Web Foundation.

https://socialwebfoundation.org

I am so fucking sick of this bullshit happening over and over again. I’d say they’re useful idiots but, let’s face it, Mastodon aren’t idiots. Vivaldi aren’t idiots. They’re smart folks. They know full well what Meta is. They clearly just don’t give a shit.

#SocialWebFoundation #Meta #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming

It appears the previous Government's plans to snoop on our bank accounts are back under Starmer's Labour in the Fraud, Error and Debt Bill. - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-laws-to-be-introduced-to-crack-down-on-fraud #surveillance #DWP #Benefits

@FRA @EUCouncil @EUCommission

#Legal #Surveillance #GDPDR #China #TikTok
(2/2)
...concerns to #Shein’s + #Temu’s, the company essentially has labeled itself among a number of #Chinese companies considered security risks."

“[#TikTok] made the best argument they could. Just the argument went very poorly for them,” Rozenshtein* says. “👉I don’t think it’s conceivable that TikTok will win, at least on this level.”👈

*
*"...an associate professor of law at the University of #Minnesota Law School."

@FRA @EUCouncil
@EUCommission

#Legal #Surveillance #GDPDR #China #TikTok
(1/n)

#Europe needs to protect its citizens from foreign interference, not only from #Chinese platforms like #TikTok, #Temu, and #Shein, but also from the likes of #Meta and #X. #GDPDR needs an upgrade:

Via #ZeyiYang from #Wired

"Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (#PAFACA),...

👉By comparing #TikTok’s data security ...

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-defense-china-ban/

@ruialves

(11/n)

...#RacialProfiling 3.0 for the #LAPD:

"The #ManhattanInstitute (#MI) created the #racist policy “Broken Windows” in the 1990s which was popularized by racist Mayor #RudyGiuliani. It involved “preemptive policing.”

At MI, #PeterThiel took this idea, worked with the #NYPD, and translated it into #Palantir, one of the 👉most dangerous #surveillance and #psyops companies in the world...👈"

https://toad.social/@jimstewartson/109468729121412114