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Taser Will Use Police Body Camera Videos “to Anticipate Criminal Activity”
Taser is collecting an unprecedented video archive of law enforcement encounters — and it wants to use AI and “deep learning” to predict criminal behavior. By Ava Kofman.
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1984 and the Modern State of Surveillance
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234 Android Applications Are Currently Using Ultrasonic Beacons to Track Users
A team of researchers from the Brunswick Technical University in Germany has discovered an alarming number of Android applications that employ ultrasonic tracking beacons to track users and their nearby environment. By Catalin Cimpanu.
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A guide to escaping Facebook’s evil clutches without, erm, actually deleting it
What do you do if you don’t want to be a victim of Facebook’s mind control, but still really want to keep up to date with Sarah from Year Nine’s hen party? By Amelia Tait.
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The FBI Has a New Plan to Spy on High School Students Across the Country
Under new guidelines, Muslim students will be disproportionately targeted – but all young people will be suspect. Under new guidelines, the FBI is instructing high schools across the country to report students who criticize government policies and “western corruption” as potential future terrorists, warning that “anarchist extremists” are in the same category as ISIS and young people who are poor, immigrants or travel to “suspicious” countries are more likely to commit horrific violence. By Sarah Lazare.
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The Secret History of American Surveillance
Few remember that the origins of our modern American surveillance state were forged over 115 years ago, half a world away in the Philippine Islands. By Arian Wu. (Oct. 15, 2015)
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The London Bridge Attack Is Evidence We DON'T Need New Internet Surveillance Laws
"Never let a good crisis go to waste", is an apocryphal quote attributed to Winston Churchill. Real or not, it does neatly describe Theresa May's reaction to the latest London terrorist attack. Yesterday morning, following the tragedy on London Bridge, Theresa May said "enough is enough", and launched into a campaign speech, further advocating for greater regulation and control of the internet.
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Why US surveillance bothers me — and should bother you
If you believe in democracy, the federal government’s out-of-control surveillance should worry you. By Sarah St. Vincent.
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Five Eyes Unlimited
What A Global Anti-Encryption Regime Could Look Like. By Danny O’Brien, EFF.
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Congress Needs to End Warrantless Spying, Not Make It Permanent
First out of the gate is a bill from Sen. Tom Cotton, an ardent defender of government surveillance. His bill would not just reauthorize, but make permanent the expiring measure that the government says justifies the warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans’ online communications—Section 702, as enacted by the FISA Amendments Act. His bill (S. 1297) is supported by several Republicans in the Senate, including Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr and Sens. John Cornyn, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham.
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Eye in the sky
Intelligence agencies spy on us, and Trevor Paglen spies on them. His images, on show at the Photographers’ Gallery, shine a light on the shadow world of government surveillance. By Charlie McCann (May 19, 2016)
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Warrantless US Spying Is Set to Expire Soon. Let It Die
SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES HAVE historically restricted the freedoms of communities of color and immigrants in this country. This history continues today through a resurgent national security apparatus with emboldened nationalist tendencies. Members of Congress have the power to rein these surveillance mechanisms. At this moment, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is pending reauthorization from Congress.
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ICE: We don’t use stingrays to locate undocumented immigrants
Letter adds that, even when you’re targeted via stingray, you can still call 911.
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These 13 House Reps sponsored a bill to legalize mass surveillance on Americans and called it the USA Liberty Act
On October 6th, House Representative Goodlatte and 12 other Representatives proposed the USA Liberty Act (H.R. 3989) – which would renew the currently active NSA’s mass surveillance programs. We’ve known for the better part of a year that the Trump Administration intended to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) which would otherwise expire at the end of this year.
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How bad can the new spying legislation be? Exhibit 1: it's called the USA Liberty Act
Analysis The US Senate Judiciary Committee has unveiled its answer to a controversial spying program run by the NSA and used by the FBI to fish for crime leads. Unsurprisingly, the proposed legislation [PDF] reauthorizes Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) – which allows American snoops to scour communications for information on specific foreign targets. It also addresses the biggest criticisms of the FISA spying: that it was being used to build a vast database on US citizens, despite the law specifically prohibiting it; was being abused to do a mass sweep of communications...
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The Spy Who Overthrew Macedonia’s Government
For long-serving spy Gjorgi Lazarevski, a 2010 raid on one of Macedonia’s few remaining independent TV stations was the last straw. Gjorgi Lazarevski, a former Macedonian intelligence officer who helped expose a massive wiretapping scheme that brought down the government. By Borjan Jovanovski.
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Surveillance “Reform”: The Fourth Amendment’s Long, Slow, Goodbye
Over 16 years after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent repeated passage or renewal of draconian “temporary” but “emergency” domestic surveillance laws in response, it’s fair to ask: Have we officially abandoned the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights? By Patrick Eddington.
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Berlin's new surveillance system has some former East Germans spooked
Germany is testing out facial-recognition technology at a Berlin train station. The goal is to improve security, but for those who remember the Cold War, it has shades of life under East Germany's notorious secret police, known as the Stasi.
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Tracking Spies in the Skies
Jason Hernandez, Sam Richards, Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, DEF CON 25
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Does Facebook Use Your Phone's Microphone To Eavesdrop On Your Conversations?
The evidence for and against a stubborn online conspiracy theory.
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