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Uber Uses Ubiquitous Surveillance to Identify and Block Regulators

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courts, edwardsnowden, nsa, power, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, termsofservice, uber

The New York Times reports that Uber developed apps that identified and blocked government regulators using the app to find evidence of illegal behavior: Yet using its app to identify and sidestep authorities in places where regulators said the company was breaking the law goes further in skirting ethical lines — and potentially legal ones, … Read More “Uber Uses Ubiquitous Surveillance to Identify and Block Regulators” »

New Rules on Data Privacy for Non-US Citizens

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datacollection, dataprotection, nationalsecuritypolicy, privacy, Security technology, surveillance

Last week, President Trump signed an executive order affecting the privacy rights of non-US citizens with respect to data residing in the US. Here’s the relevant text: Privacy Act. Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, ensure that their privacy policies exclude persons who are not United States citizens or lawful permanent residents … Read More “New Rules on Data Privacy for Non-US Citizens” »

Law Enforcement Access to IoT Data

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amazon, internetofthings, lawenforcement, police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance

In the first of what will undoubtedly be a large number of battles between companies that make IoT devices and the police, Amazon is refusing to comply with a warrant demanding data on what its Echo device heard at a crime scene. The particulars of the case are weird. Amazon’s Echo does not constantly record; … Read More “Law Enforcement Access to IoT Data” »

Securing Communications in a Trump Administration

Posted on By infossl
backdoors, computersecurity, encryption, lawenforcement, nationalsecuritypolicy, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, uk

Susan Landau has an excellent essay on why it’s more important than ever to have backdoor-free encryption on our computer and communications systems. Protecting the privacy of speech is crucial for preserving our democracy. We live at a time when tracking an individual — ­a journalist, a member of the political opposition, a citizen engaged … Read More “Securing Communications in a Trump Administration” »

Cybersecurity Issues for the Next Administration

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censorship, cybersecurity, nationalsecuritypolicy, power, privacy, propaganda, Security technology, surveillance

On today’s Internet, too much power is concentrated in too few hands. In the early days of the Internet, individuals were empowered. Now governments and corporations hold the balance of power. If we are to leave a better Internet for the next generations, governments need to rebalance Internet power more towards the individual. This means … Read More “Cybersecurity Issues for the Next Administration” »

Yahoo Scanned Everyone's E-mails for the NSA

Posted on By infossl
datacollection, email, filtering, fisa, nsa, privacy, Security technology, spam, surveillance, yahoo

News here and here. Other companies have been quick to deny that they did the same thing, but I generally don’t believe those carefully worded statements about what they have and haven’t done. We do know that the NSA uses bribery, coercion, threat, legal compulsion, and outright theft to get what they want. We just … Read More “Yahoo Scanned Everyone's E-mails for the NSA” »

Using Neural Networks to Identify Blurred Faces

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academicpapers, biometrics, identification, privacy, Security technology, surveillance

Neural networks are good at identifying faces, even if they’re blurry: In a paper released earlier this month, researchers at UT Austin and Cornell University demonstrate that faces and objects obscured by blurring, pixelation, and a recently-proposed privacy system called P3 can be successfully identified by a neural network trained on image datasets­ — in … Read More “Using Neural Networks to Identify Blurred Faces” »