Notices tagged with surveillance
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Zorak (zorak)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2019 12:46:36 UTC 
Zorak
Mass #surveillance in #China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_China -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2019 17:21:06 UTC
Zorak
#Prepaid #SIM cards in #Romania will only sell based on identity card https://web.archive.org/web/20190908171635/https://www.romania-insider.com/prepaid-sim-cards-id-august-2019 #surveillance #tracking #privacy #anonymity -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2019 14:26:30 UTC
Zorak
How #cash is becoming a thing of the past | #Banking #documentary https://hooktube.com/GbECT1J9bXg #cashless #payments #surveillance #tracking #privacy #anonymity #freedom -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2019 01:27:36 UTC 
Mike Gerwitz
On the topic of #privacy and #surveillance, I often seen arguments that can be phrased as: "if someone you loved were lost, wouldn't you do everything you could to find them?"
Of course I would. I have two young children. They mean more to me than anything, and that includes my principles. I can't imagine the desperation I would feel if they were lost, and I would do almost anything to find them.
And that's part of the problem. We have these pervasive surveillance systems---be it government or civilian (like Ring)---that produce enormous amounts of data. We have mobile devices, cars, ALPRs, and such tracking most every person's moves. We have services analyzing DNA for family history being used for other uses. So on and so fourth.
And it doesn't matter what those data are collected for---maybe it's for certain purposes now, but once enough people become desperate enough, they'll be used for other things too. Even if those people think it's wrong to do so.
We need to avoid putting these systems in place to begin with. That's the only way we can't be tempted by them in difficult times.
And when something does happen, people say, "but if we had X, I wouldn't have lost the person I love". The problem is: it's impossible to satisfy that argument. You can never have enough. And as a consequence, the lives of everyone are affected, not just those who are in that terrible situation.
These aren't easy decisions to make. I say that as both an activist for user privacy, and as a father. -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2019 15:27:42 UTC
Zorak
People are more outraged about the latest episode of Game of Thrones than they will ever be about the current state of #humanity and its impact on #nature, the erosion of #privacy and #freedom, &c. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19928231 #hn #surveillance -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2019 20:22:46 UTC
Zorak
No thanks, #Google. You don't need to know my entire #location history 24/7 to take me to a static address you already have saved. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19808999 #surveillance #tracking #stalking #surveillance #privacy #anonimity #hn -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 11:04:52 UTC
Zorak
#Google CAPTCHAs using !Tor can be almost impossible. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19715450 #CAPTCHA #tracking #stalking #surveillance #privacy #anonimity #hn -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2019 00:35:40 UTC
Zorak
How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18926264
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16381592
#privacy #surveillance -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Feb-2019 14:40:24 UTC
Zorak
This should be the expectation: a note of "microphone (disabled in software)" at minimum.
Also, they're not selling it to you, they're renting it out. Such is the pathology of turning products into services. It's a sick market dynamic.
#google #nest #privacy #surveillance -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 17:17:07 UTC
Zorak
> How to fight the #surveillance economy (medium.com)
Step 0: publish on your own platform without trackers, not on medium.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19115081 #hn -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 17:15:58 UTC
Zorak
> How to fight the #surveillance economy (medium.com)
Step 0: publish on your own platform without trackers, not on medium.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19115081 -
Christopher Lemmer Webber (cwebber)'s status on Friday, 01-Feb-2019 22:24:20 UTC 
Christopher Lemmer Webber
What's more troubling: a website that says "we don't recognize the computer you're using" or a website that usually says that and doesn't this time? #surveillance
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Zorak (zorak)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2019 19:39:47 UTC
Zorak
#Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete #Facebook. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18864220
Demonstrably not true for my S7 portable #surveillance and #tracking device. You can install #LineageOS if your phone supports it. Better yet: S3 with #Replicant. -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 02:59:25 UTC
Mike Gerwitz
Reuters: "Move aside, backseat driver! New tech at CES monitors you inside car"
https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/70686
(Internet Archive link because the article now 404's.)
This type of tracking of a driver and car occupants can indeed provide useful features---both safety and convenience. But I would only be in favor of this sort of thing if it were free software and the car were under complete control of the user, and the system could be wholly disabled with clearly visible and unambiguous hardware switch, which is also visible to passengers.
But proprietary systems doing this will be incentivized to sell data to third parties. The article gives some examples of some terrible uses of this type of tracking.
As we move further and further into the future where these types of things are going to become more commonplace, the goal IMO shouldn't be to resist technological progress---it should be to ensure that it _empowers_ users, rather than making them servants or products.
#privacy #surveillance #ethics -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Friday, 11-Jan-2019 04:27:25 UTC
Mike Gerwitz
The Intercept reports that Amazon Ring gave employees and its Ukrainian-based R&D team access to private cameras:
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-camera/
This practice is wrong, but any system that makes this type of thing possible is broken by design.
You can imagine that I love the fact that one of my neighbors down the street at my child's bus stop has one of these devices.
#privacy #surveillance -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 03:59:12 UTC
Mike Gerwitz
An article detailing some of the ways that cell phone location data (cell tower connections) is made available to third parties:
https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/70592
#privacy #surveillance -
jpmens (jpmens)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jan-2019 09:57:47 UTC 
jpmens
An OpenStreetMap of CCTV / public surveillance cameras: http://osmcamera.dihe.de/ (source code https://github.com/khris78/osmcamera) #surveillance
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FSFE (fsfe)'s status on Friday, 28-Dec-2018 12:01:13 UTC 
FSFE
Next in the @fsfe@twitter.com track at 14:00: #HumanRights and #Surveillance by Marco Kรผhnel in Lecture Room M2
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/index.php/Session:Human_Rights_and_Surveillance -
doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2018 17:37:21 UTC 
doctorow
RT @RosemaryFreiTO@twitter.com
Thanks @doctorow@twitter.com for writing about the latest shenanigans between @sidewalklabs@twitter.com and @WaterfrontTO@twitter.com, including my Rabble article, on @BoingBoing@twitter.com! #surveillance #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli https://boingboing.net/2018/12/17/harbourfront-and-cn-tower.html
๐ฆ๐: https://twitter.com/RosemaryFreiTO/status/1074714207357206529
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doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Dec-2018 16:31:18 UTC
doctorow
RT @OrchidProtocol@twitter.com: The End of Trust (@mcsweeneys@twitter.com) is an interesting collection of essays and interviews about #tech, #privacy, and #surveillance. It features several @EFF@twitter.com authors like Cory Doctorow (@doctorow@twitter.com), and Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog@twitter.com). Download it for FREE! https://bit.ly/2SmWv6u
๐ฆ๐: https://twitter.com/OrchidProtocol/status/1069990881208483840
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