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  1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2019 01:27:36 UTC Mike Gerwitz 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.
    about a month ago from web permalink
  2. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2019 15:27:42 UTC Zorak 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
    about 2 months ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  3. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2019 20:22:46 UTC Zorak 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
    about 3 months ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  4. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 11:04:52 UTC Zorak Zorak
    • Tor Project: Anonymity Online
    #Google CAPTCHAs using !Tor can be almost impossible. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19715450 #CAPTCHA #tracking #stalking #surveillance #privacy #anonimity #hn
    about 3 months ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  5. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2019 00:35:40 UTC Zorak 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
    about 3 months ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  6. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Feb-2019 14:40:24 UTC Zorak 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
    about 5 months ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  7. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 17:17:07 UTC Zorak 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
    about 5 months ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  8. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 17:15:58 UTC Zorak 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
    about 5 months ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  9. Christopher Lemmer Webber (cwebber)'s status on Friday, 01-Feb-2019 22:24:20 UTC Christopher Lemmer Webber 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

    about 6 months ago from octodon.social permalink
  10. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2019 19:39:47 UTC Zorak Zorak
    in reply to
    • 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.
    about 6 months ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  11. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 02:59:25 UTC Mike Gerwitz 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
    about 6 months ago from web permalink
  12. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Friday, 11-Jan-2019 04:27:25 UTC Mike Gerwitz 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
    about 6 months ago from web permalink
  13. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 03:59:12 UTC Mike Gerwitz 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
    about 6 months ago from web permalink
  14. jpmens (jpmens)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jan-2019 09:57:47 UTC jpmens jpmens

    An OpenStreetMap of CCTV / public surveillance cameras: http://osmcamera.dihe.de/ (source code https://github.com/khris78/osmcamera) #surveillance

    about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
  15. FSFE (fsfe)'s status on Friday, 28-Dec-2018 12:01:13 UTC FSFE FSFE

    Next in the @fsfe@twitter.com track at 14:00: #HumanRights and #Surveillance by Marco KΓΌhnel in Lecture Room M2
    https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/index.php/Session:Human_Rights_and_Surveillance

    #35C3 #CCC

    about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
  16. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2018 17:37:21 UTC doctorow 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

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/RosemaryFreiTO/status/1074714207357206529

    about 7 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  17. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Dec-2018 16:31:18 UTC doctorow 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

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/OrchidProtocol/status/1069990881208483840

    about 8 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  18. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2018 14:41:13 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @andreasmoellen@twitter.com: "The End of Trust", an investigation of #surveillance and #privacy in the digital age: @mcsweeneys@twitter.com issue in collaboration with @EFF@twitter.com including essays by @BiellaColeman@twitter.com, @doctorow@twitter.com, @rushkoff@twitter.com, @maassive@twitter.com, @schneierblog@twitter.com and others is free online: https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/andreasmoellen/status/1067789147539152896

    about 8 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  19. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2018 17:45:01 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @spellboundblog@twitter.com: The End of Trust (the first all-nonfiction @mcsweeneys@twitter.com issue, created w/@EFF, focuses on tech, #privacy, & #surveillance & features Cindy Cohn, Soraya Okuda, @doctorow@twitter.com, @maassive@twitter.com, @schneierblog@twitter.com, & other digital rights thinkers) is free online: https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/spellboundblog/status/1067473950551261185

    about 8 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  20. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Monday, 19-Nov-2018 16:18:08 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @singularityblog@twitter.com: "Sole and Despotic Dominion": a fictional story by @doctorow@twitter.com that may turn to become reality if we keep doing nothing https://snglrty.co/2Bi04oJ #Privacy #BigData #surveillance #DRM

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/singularityblog/status/1064552651638095873

    about 8 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
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