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Das 40,00€ teurer gewordene Nachfolgeticket zum 9-Euro-Ticket soll Daten melken. Zwar solle das Ticket übergangsweise nicht nur für Smartphones erhältlich sein sondern auch auf Chip-Karten und kurzzeitig auf Papier mit QR-Code, aber wichtig scheint es den Regierenden vor allem anderen, dass mit dem 49€-Ticket Echtzeit-Verkehrsdaten erhoben werden können.
Positiv klingt zunächst: "Es werde nicht gespeichert, wer von A nach B fährt, sondern nur, wie stark die Verkehrsmittel ausgelastet sind. Für die Fahrgäste könnte das ein Nutzen sein, weil die Verkehrsunternehmen so für ausreichend Kapazitäten sorgen könnten."
Allerdings: Das Ticket wird wohl nur als Abo personalisiert erworben werden können, so dass darüber anfallende Personendaten zukünftig schnell integriert werden könnten. Mit Hinblick auf den aktuellen massiven Ausbau des Überwachungsstaats und der Kontrollgesellschaft in Deutschland und der EU (digitale Personenkennziffer/RegMod, Chatkontrolle, Identifizierungspflicht, Biometrie, eIDAS uvm) ist es doch auch gar nicht die Frage ob, sondern nur wann und mit welchem Vorwand (Anschläge, Pandemie, Jugendschutz, Wahlkampf) personalisierte Datenerfassung und Polizeizugriffe kommen werden, sobald die digitale Kontrollinfrastruktur erst einmal errichtet wurde.
"Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC.
Clearview's system allows a law enforcement customer to upload a photo of a face and find matches in a database of billions of images it has collected.
It then provides links to where matching images appear online. It is considered one of the most powerful and accurate facial recognition companies in the world."
Overview of police investigations tied to a combative demo against mega-basins - Zine (EN/FR)
"Two people alleged to have damaged a water reservoir in Charente-Maritime[2] are on trial this Thursday in La Rochelle. Phone bills, tailing and geolocation... To identify them, the investigators have deployed methods that are out of the ordinary.
Suspects geolocated in real time, their tax, social security or health insurance statements dissected, their telephone bills analyzed in minute detail, their social circle identified; a woman followed and photographed by police even though her cell phone did not locate her at the scene of the crime (she will be exonerated)... This array of methods was deployed by the police in order to find the people suspected of having damaged an agricultural basin in November 2021, in Cram-Chaban (Charente-Maritime). Even though this water reservoir, which was supposed to be used for irrigation, could not be used and was ultimately judged to be illegal."
Frontex, dass wohl als eine von der EU eigens zur gnadenlosen Bekämpfung von Menschen in Not eingerichtete Agentur bezeichnet werden kann, baut die Überwachung immer weiter aus.
Mit Millionensummen werden hier neue Überwachungs- und Kontrolltechniken an den Schwächsten und Wehrlosesten erprobt und verfeinert.
Wir sollten nicht zulassen, dass immer mehr sichtbare und unsichtbare Grenzen um uns herum gezogen werden, die uns alle zu Gefangenen machen!
Mauern einreißen! Frontex versenken!
Wir ahnten es und es dauerte leider gar nicht lange... Hier ist es also: Das neueste rechtspopulistische Vorhaben von Vorratsdaten-#Faeser und ihrer Ampel-Regierung aus #SPD, #Grünen und #FDP.
Nun wollen sie also der #Bundespolizei die „präventive“ #Überwachung von Handys und die Ermittlung von Standorten ermöglichen sowie Drohneneinsätze an Bahnhöfen, Grenzen und Flughäfen beschließen. Und natürlich noch mehr #Kameraüberwachung. Wie es sich für jeden ordentlichen Überwachungs- und #Polizeistaat nun mal gehört.
Der GdP geht das ganze – wie immer – nicht weit genug. Die will auch noch Onlinedurchsuchungen und Verschlüsselungsverbote. Vermutlich haben die einfach noch nichts von der EU-Chatkontrolle mitbekommen...
Das ganze erinnert uns an das „Loi sécurité globale“ in Frankreich. Dort gab es allerdings heftige Proteste dagegen. Bei den letzten Polizeibefugniserweiterungen/PAGs in Deutschland rafftem sich hingegen kaum mehr Linke auf und dann staunten alle mit großen Augen über die #Präventivhaft für #Klimaaktivist*innen #defundthepolice
"Polizeibefugnisse werden in Zukunft ausgeweitet. Das Gesetz sieht vor, dass Polizisten in ausgewiesenen Gebieten künftig ohne Verdacht Menschen anhalten und durchsuchen dürfen. So sollen sie gegebenenfalls Gegenstände sicherstellen, die für "protestbezogene" Vergehen genutzt werden können. Protestformen wie Festkleben und Anketten, die von der Regierung als "störende und gefährliche sogenannte Guerilla-Taktiken" kritisiert werden, stehen künftig unter Strafe."
Since some people have asked me, here's a quick thread on initial experience comparison between Bluesky and the fediverse. It's important to note that this comparison is somewhat absurd by default because Bluesky is still tiny & unproven, but there's interest so I'm happy to share what I've observed. Also, I don't get into protocol differences because honestly who cares. So:
「 Later, with the help of a translator, he scrutinized every bit of text on that screen. One set of characters, the translator explained, suggested each visitor was automatically sorted into categories: age, sex, wearing glasses, smiling. When Honovich pointed at the fifth category and asked, “What’s this?” the translator replied, “minority.” 」
— @WIRED
New publication with @fa_burkhardt in SAIS Review of International Affairs in which we analyse how sanctions-induced infrastructural disruptions are reshaping Russia's repressive capacities since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The article is part of the special issue on digital authoritarianism.
In the article, we argue that authoritarian states' dependence on foreign digital technologies and services can shape and constrain their capacity to control, surveil, and repress domestically.
To illustrate our argument, we examine how Russia's war against Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia in response have influenced its domestic repressive capacities.
#Telegram was blocked in my country (#Brazil) yesterday on all ISPs, and soon they will be removed from App Store and Play Store ... that's why decentralized communication apps are so important, apps like #Session and #Matrix are trending here right now.
Today, @eff and #ACLU filed a brief in support of Twitter’s effort to get an appeals court to reconsider its dangerous opinion enforcing a government gag order on Twitter’s 2013 transparency report. #twitter#gagorder#privacy
Pretty good security advice for activists on the latest Renegade Cut video. Some of it may feel “paranoid” to the average person but it does make sense to take these steps as an activist who runs a high risk of clashing with law enforcement.
Some of it isn’t realistically possible in some countries, e.g. you can’t get a SIM card from a store without formal identification. A lot of these precautions are also pretty expensive, although some have DIY alternatives.
I’d add one thing he doesn’t mention: don’t carry your burner phone and your everyday phone together while both are active. It’s easy to correlate the two devices when they share enough of a movement profile. Turn your burner phone off (fully disconnected like described in the video) far enough away from your home and workplace so it’s not correlated to where you live.
Apple Plans AI-Powered Health Coaching Service, Mood Tracker and iPad Health App
"...But in the future, Apple is hoping the iPhone could use algorithms to determine a user’s mood via their speech, what words they’ve typed and other data on their devices."
#Palantir already sells its #domestic#surveillance services to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, so it should come as no surprise that the company founded by billionaire #Peter#Thiel is working to make inroads into the #Pentagon as well.
On Tuesday, the company released a video demo of its latest offering, the Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). While the system itself is simply designed to integrate large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4 or Google's BERT into privately-operated networks, the very first thing they did was apply it to the modern battlefield.
Smartphones using the Snapdragon 630 chip were found to call home to Qualcomm without the consent of the user, bypassing the whole operating system. Data includes unique hardware ID, current IP, country, your ISP, list of installed apps and other data.
🚨 When the UK government attacks ‘activist lawyers’, it’s not just a soundbite. They’re spying on human rights lawyers who are acting on immigration matters and blocking any transparency.
This is a direct attack on our justice system and the rule of law!
"In his excellent book on #surveillance, Bruce Schneier has pointed out we would never agree to carry tracking devices and report all our most intimate conversations if the government made us do it.
But under such a scheme, we would enjoy more legal protections than we have now. By letting ourselves be tracked voluntarily, we forfeit all protection against how that information is used.
Those who control the data gain enormous power over those who don't."
I'm no conspiracy theorist or a Luddite or someone who's afraid of/resistant to change, but I don't like the idea of driverless cars. Just like I'm not into all the AI stuff.
I just see all the autonomy and these camera-covered vehicles leading to driverless drones and vehicles used by governments for martial law-- to keep the population in line. Unfettered, unregulated tech advances-- that's what this kind of stuff always leads to. Fascism, control, surveillance states (I mean, more than the USA already has).
Again, just my personal view, but I just get the feeling that AI, LLM, ChatGPT, all of it is just making the kind of controllable future that the rich and their corporations want that much easier to create.
And you just KNOW that's what this particular driverless car tech is going to be used for. The ability to more and more easily dispatch driverless vehicles, not to mention all the data they are already collecting and will collect -- all this is going to be sold to the highest bidder for surveillance purposes just like it always is (Think Facebook, etc. And I'm sure this is probably already happening).