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Surveil-links
By Ethan Gregory DodgeTechnology
Surveil-links episodes
- Your Text Messages Are Trivially Intercepted, Motherboard Shows
How a mere $16 highlights the need for more widespread adoption of encrypted messaging.
Read this edition at surveil.link/110
6 min - What countries are surveilling their journalists and with what tools? CPJ has documented the answers.
The Committee to Protect Journalists, published a map yesterday, comprehensively illustrating publicly documented efforts by state actors to surveil journalists, commentators, and in some cases, their family and associates. The map was accompanied by a press release caling on world leaders to "regulate spyware" and "halt surveillance of journalists." The report also documents the surveillance tools known to have been used in these operations and the companies that develop them.
5 min - The Crypto Wars are Ramping Up Again
Senate hearings and a recent indictment show how the FBI and DOJ continue to attack encryption.
You can see the article text and all sources at surveil.link/108
6 min - Surveil-link #107: Facial recognition ban proposed in Nebraska. The police are opposed.Nebraska could be the second state in the U.S. to ban the use of facial recognition by government entities. The police arguments aren't anything we haven't heard before.
Get on the email list at www.surveillance.today4 min - Surveil-link #106: Clubhouse users in Saudi Arabia are being surveiledRecordings of Saudi activist's Clubhouse conversations are being posted to Twitter and tagging participants
Get on the email list at www.surveillance.today6 min - Surveil-link #105: Is your hospital, employer, or even your favorite bar using facial recognition?Verkada's customer list, feature set, and lack of security show how quickly surveillance technology is growing and how far behind the regulations of which are lagging behind.
Get on the email list at www.surveillance.today6 min - Surveil-links March 9, 2021: China Brings Surveillance to the Living Room, Tech Company is Providing Nation-wide License Plate Readers, and moreChina Brings Surveillance to the Living Room, Tech Company is Providing Nation-wide License Plate Readers, Indian also taps its citizens for surveillance help, Tunisian students boycott, Google says they'll stop tracking based on browser history, and more
Get on the email list at www.surveillance.today19 min - Surveil-links March 2, 2021: India Surveils Climate Activists, Amazon and McDonald's Spying on Labor Organizers, and MoreIndian government surveils climate activists, Amazon and McDonald's spying on labor organizers, ICE using utility accounts to track undocumented persons, Facebook may be putting facial recognition tech in smart glasses, the privacy wars continue, and so much more.
Get on the email list at www.surveillance.today18 min - Surveil-links Feb 23, 2021: Oracle is Advertising Surveillance Tech to China, London Using Chinese Surveillance Tech, and MoreDocuments show Oracle is advertising suveillance tech to Chinese law enforcement, London is using the same surveillance tech found in Chinese concentration camps, LAPD requests Ring doorbell footage after Black Lives Matter protests, University of Illinois researchers can track you even in incognito mode, and so much more!
Get on the email list at www.surveillance.today15 min - Surveil-links February 16, 2021: Apparently Warrantless Searches of Devices at Border are Constitutional, Another Location Data Broker Banned, and MoreU.S. Judge rules warrantless searches of electronics are constitutional at the border, Google bans yet another location data broker from the Play Store, inside a central Texas fusion center, all about supercookies, Ancestry rejects law enforcement requests, EU regulator wants to ban targeted advertising, patent application gives peek inside Clearview's thinking, EU reaches a compromise, and don't miss our piece about MLK!
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