Surveillance
The Real Dangers of Surveillance
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. How citizens and authorities respond to one another during large-scale protests — including how they use technology as a tool in the battle — can say a lot about trust in the…
Read More »The Protests Prove the Need to Regulate Surveillance Tech
Surveillance in the US goes back to the transatlantic slave trade, and its use has entirely targeted or had the worst impact on marginalized and systemically oppressed communities.PHOTOGRAPH: MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS used surveillance technology to monitor participants of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, as it has with…
Read More »The list of “3rd parties” cookies, that receive your data, from 1 website visit. X’it by number of sites visited in 1 day, week, month, year, decade
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Read More »Twitter-Trump Clash Escalates After He Signs Social Media Order
Twitter Inc. flagged one of Donald Trump’s posts for violating its rules against glorifying violence, escalating a clash with the U.S. president after he signed an executive order that seeks to limit liability protections for social-media companies. Early Friday, the social media company obscured the president’s comments about protests in…
Read More »A.C.L.U. Accuses Clearview AI of Privacy ‘Nightmare Scenario’
The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday sued the facial recognition start-up Clearview AI, which claims to have helped hundreds of law enforcement agencies use online photos to solve crimes, accusing the company of “unlawful, privacy-destroying surveillance activities.” In a suit filed in Illinois, the A.C.L.U. said that Clearview violated…
Read More »Your every word and move may be tracked — are you finally scared about workplace surveillance?
About 20 years ago, I published my dissertation research on workplace surveillance. Not surprisingly, I found that people being monitored electronically react very negatively when their privacy at work has been invaded, and respond in very negative ways. But back in 2001, no one could really visualize the kind of…
Read More »FYI: Your browser can pick up ultrasonic signals you can’t hear, and that sounds like a privacy nightmare to some
Technical folks looking to improve web privacy haven’t been able to decide whether sound beyond the range of human hearing poses enough of a privacy risk to merit restriction. People can generally hear audio frequencies ranging from 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz, though individual hearing ranges vary. Audio frequencies below…
Read More »Striking the right balance: Government contact tracing powers and the right to privacy
A first-of-its-kind judicial decision sets out the rules for lawful tracking in an epidemic outbreak situation. The Israeli Supreme Court strikes a balance between COVID-19-related contact tracing technology and the right to privacy in a landmark decision about the government’s limits of power and the rights to privacy and dignity.…
Read More »Breach of Clearview AI Source Code Renews Concerns About Law Enforcement Facial Recognition Programs
Increasingly widespread adoption of facial recognition technology for law enforcement purposes has sparked a heated global debate over the past year or two. Clearview AI has been one of the central points of contention, becoming something of a poster child for potential abuses and lack of transparency in such programs.…
Read More »PhD Candidate Robbert van Eijk measures privacy component in online advertising
You check out Facebook to see if one of your friends or someone in your family has done something interesting. Your attention is drawn to a holiday advert. That’s a coincidence, you think, because just before you went to Facebook you had been searching internet for a holiday destination. But…
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Schrems II Judgment Day
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU“) issued its judgment today in …
