Encore une fois, l’Europe s’enfonce dans la dérive sécuritaire avec la France en première de cordée. Le silence et la complaisance sont le comburant d’une ère totalitariste en puissance.
Es gibt viele Beispiele die aufzeigen, wie die vielbeschworene Digitalisierung und "Smartifizierung der Welt" vor allem eine Transformation in eine noch autoritärere und repressivere Zukunft bedeuten kann.
Die biometrische Überwachung/Verfolgung von Frauen in Iran und von Kriegsdienstverweigernden in Russland sowie die Zero-Covid-Politik des chinesischen Staates sind offensichtliche Beispiele dafür. Und auch im Überwachungskapitalismus des "demokratischen Westens" werden solche Entwicklungen schon seit einer ganzen Weile auf hohen Ebenen herbeigesehnt, wie z.B. das Dokument "Smart City Charta" von Bundesinstituten und dem Bundesumweltministerium aus dem Jahr 2017 zeigt.
Eine schön deutliche Einordnung dieses Dokuments (im Rahmen einer vergangenen Veranstaltung) findet sich hier:
In an indictment against Defend the Atlanta Forest activists in Georgia, state prosecutors cast suspicion on the defendants’ use of encrypted messengers and #Tor. Use #encryption and showcase that resisting bulk #surveillance is not suspicious but self-defense. Our Email Self-Defense guide can help you to send and receive encrypted emails: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
In an indictment against Defend the Atlanta Forest activists in Georgia, state prosecutors cast suspicion on the defendants’ use of encrypted messengers and #Tor. Use #encryption and showcase that resisting bulk #surveillance is not suspicious but self-defense. Our Email Self-Defense guide can help you to send and receive encrypted emails: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
STUDY: “…individuals should be granted a sui generis legal right not to be subjected to AI profiling based on publicly available data without their explicit informed consent.” - #AI#Surveillance#DataPrivacy#legal#Rights
madison square garden has apparently banned a #music fan from all their venues after he posted video of himself ripping a bong at a #phish show (in las vegas on 4/20, maaan), which they will likely enforce via facial recognition. kinda dumb but still: previously, this was only applied to james dolan's personal vendettas (also evil!) but will now identify/ban specific fans, which feels like crossing a different fucked-up boundary. lot to unpack! https://x.com/PhishatMSG/status/1798656623302553961?t=RHr3ZdBRV5xnLnYzMqYFHA&s=19#nyc#surveillance
#FBI#Surveillance#Privacy#Encryption: "As a privacy and encryption advocate, there were moments in this story that made me a little uncomfortable. There are places where the FBI is chafing at the constitutional limits on its surveillance powers where we can't help but sympathize with these "good guys" going after "bad guys." But this is the FBI, a lawless, unaccountable secret police who routinely bypass those limits by secretly buying data from sleazy data-brokers, or illegally sharing data with the NSA.
The conclusion really hammers home the point that the FBI's problem isn't constitutional niceties. Despite seizing hundreds of tons of illegal drugs and arresting thousands of high-ranking criminal syndicate bosses, Anom made no difference in the drug trade. Prohibition, after all, just makes criminals more wealthy and powerful. The Anom raids were, at worst, the cost of doing business – and at best, they were a global reset that cleared the board of established actors so that other criminals could seize their turf.
But even though Anom didn't triumph over crime, Dark Wire is a triumph. The book's out today, and there will shortly be a Netflix adaptation based on it, directed by Jason Bateman:"
There are three types of articles about #Microsoft Recall:
The "Tech Journalist" view: "GREAT! All my problems with finding that web page I was visiting three weeks ago are solved! No I do not know how to bookmark things in a browser, why do you ask?" followed by "People who worry about security are wrong, this is the best thing since smart lamps connected to the internet!"
The Cyber Security view: "BURN IT WITH FIRE!"
The "DYI guides for Windows" view: "This is how you disable it".
Has Windows 11 just destroyed the brand by stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC? “…they are probably going to set fire to the entire Copilot brand due to how poorly this has been implemented and rolled out. It’s an act of self harm at Microsoft in the name of AI, and by proxy real customer harm.” #Windows#OS#Surveillance
Bart Preneel: “The full Belgian presidency chatcontrol proposal has been leaked…”
> The full Belgian presidency chatcontrol proposal has been leaked by netzpolitik […] This proposal fails to protect children, leads to mass surveillance and presents a large risk of abuse. The criticism in our open letters is unfortunately still valid.
Join the Global Encryption Coalition's Steering Committee in calling on Ministers in the Council of the EU to reject all scanning proposals inconsistent with the principle of end-to-end encryption, including client-side scanning and upload moderation, as it will create serious security and privacy risks with global implications:
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Palestinians are under a mass survillance. When a Palestinian's rating rises above a certain threshold, Israeli intelligence officers add them to the kill list.
And what happens in Palestine doesn’t stay in Palestine.
Israel is exporting its cyber technology to repressive regimes around the world. Israeli-made spyware has been found on the phones of human rights defenders, journalists and politicians in India, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Mexico, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, and many other countries.
But #Lavender and Where’s Daddy? are only two parts of a sprawling network of weaponized #surveillance and repression that dominates Palestinian lives.
They use #spyware to hack into phones, maintain a web of cameras at military checkpoints and in Palestinian residential areas, and collect photos and other biometric data. The information they capture about Palestinians living under apartheid feeds the databases they use to train new genocidal technologies.
"If you use a cloud app, your data is being collected & processed for use in #AI. What happens after that? We don't know, but it'd be crazy to assume you'll not be harmed in some way."
-R McNamee
Yeah MIT Technology Review, I'm sure that's all they "could" be used for and could never be used to kill brown families inthe countrysides of this who live in areas that have always been subjected to violent colonial forces. 🙄
At this point, this type of omission (how this type of tech, specifically, is financially viable to research because if its violent military applications) is an egregious ethical lapse and journalists should be called out for it.
@00Aaron We actually have lived experiences with how #AiDrones weren't used to locate 2 different #MissingPeople, in remote wilderness on South Vancouver Island - 3 years ago. We asked #RCMP to deploy #surveillance drones & they refused to. One of them was found dead, months later.
Prior to that, RCMP used drones, multiple times/daily, to harass us environmental #activists, guarding the blockades at multiple remote logging road resistance camps. #AItech is abused by #colonizer#cops
🇮🇱 Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed | @guardian
"On 16 January 2015, within weeks of Palestine joining, Bensouda opened a preliminary examination into what in the legalese of the court was called “the situation in Palestine”. The following month, two men who had managed to obtain the prosecutor’s private address turned up at her home in The Hague.."