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“The technology can be used for crowd analytics, augmenting smart spaces, and possibly even as a cyber attack vector.”
“The US government has invested $22 million in a project called SMART ePants, with the goal of developing various clothing items such as shirts, trousers, or undergarments for surveillance purposes. These garments would be equipped with audio, video, and geolocation recording devices. They are designed to possess qualities like stretchability, flexibility, washability, and overall comfort, ensuring practicality and ease of use.”
“Civil rights groups say efforts to get US intelligence agencies to adopt privacy reforms have largely failed. Without those changes, renewal of a post-9/11 surveillance policy may be doomed.”
“Sources in Congress with knowledge of ongoing negotiations over the program say Biden administration officials have privately encouraged lawmakers to pass a ‘clean bill’ this winter, airing fears that any potential lapse in surveillance would pose a national security threat.”
“Liberty Safe customers will be able to fill out a form to have records of their safe access codes deleted, meaning they can ‘take control of how their information is stored and protected’ the manufacturer said in a statement on Wednesday evening.”
“The kind of information collected varies from personal information like medical data to how drivers are using the vehicle itself — such as how fast they drive, where they drive, and even the music they listen to….”
“Eighty-four percent of the (25) reviewed car brands share personal user data with service providers, data brokers, and potentially sketchy businesses, according to the report, with 76 percent claiming the right to sell that personal data. Fifty-six percent are willing to share user information with the government and / or law enforcement if requested.”
“One of the biggest concerns with the rush to roll out new forms of aerial surveillance is how few protections we have against seeing these cameras aimed at our backyards or even our bedrooms. Clearly, flying a drone over a backyard barbecue is a step too far for many New Yorkers.”
“The Taliban said it has installed around 62,000 security cameras in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a city of some 5 million people. The Taliban’s Interior Ministry said on August 30 that it planned to expand the surveillance network to the rest of the country in the next four years.”
the company “may collect and use your personal information (such as your employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement, and so on) to recommend potential jobs for you, to share with potential employers when you apply for a job, to enable employers to find potential candidates, and to show you more relevant advertising.”
“Once you sign up for the free service, Google will monitor the internet for mentions of your name, address, email and phone number. It will alert you when a new page pops up with your information.
Keep in mind, while Google can remove the link from its search results, it ‘can’t take it off the Internet entirely’.”
“Research by Trinity College in 2021 found that Android smartphones sent 20 times as much data to Google as Apple smartphones, although Google has disputed the methodology of the research.”
“When Zoom was used for training the sound classification algorithm, the prediction accuracy dropped to 93%, which is still dangerously high, and a record for that medium.”
“The federal court tasked with overseeing the corrupt intelligence community’s use of its spy powers released an opinion today that found that the FBI illegally spied on a U.S. senator, a state senator, and a state judge.”
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“Was there a warrant involved?”
“Again, my understanding is that the institution in question (Bank of America) shared information with us, as happens all the time”
“Their report said highly personal and financial information about sources of taxpayers’ income, tax deductions and exemptions was made accessible to Meta as taxpayers used the tax software to prepare their taxes.”
“Threads does allow you to ‘deactivate’ your account. This takes your Threads profile offline… but the data still exists on Meta’s servers, and it still remains tied to your IG at all times to help Meta build that dataset on you.”
“The bill allows the geolocation of crime suspects, covering other devices like laptops, cars and connected devices, just as it could be remotely activated to record sound and images of people suspected of terror offences, as well as delinquency and organised crime.”
“The same year Project Veritas recorded another union leader saying, ‘I’m here to defend even the worst people.’“
“Today, in a way that far fewer Americans seem to understand, and even fewer of them can avoid,” the report cautions, “CAI (commercially available information ) includes information on nearly everyone that is of a type and level of sensitivity that historically could have been obtained, if at all, only through targeted (and predicated) collection.“
“Not so long ago, Microsoft Edge ended up in hot waters after users discovered a bug leaking your browser history to Bing. Now you may want to toggle off another feature to ensure Edge is not sending every picture you view online to Microsoft.”
“Roughly three in 10 Americans under 30 favor ‘the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity,’ according to the results of a new Cato Institute survey.”
“Amazon’s history of misleading parents, keeping children’s recordings indefinitely, and flouting parent’s deletion requests violated the child privacy law and “sacrificed privacy for profits”
“MRC Free Speech America Vice President called Amazon ‘evil’ but warned that the ‘meaningless’ fines are the equivalent of just ‘.0000198 of Amazon’s $1.26 trillion market cap.'”
“He stated that the parents of the students had been informed beforehand about the drug tests, which were conducted to prevent drug use and maintain a ‘white school’ status according to the government’s policy. No amphetamine use was detected among the tested students, Sanook reported.”
“In the days after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, Bank of America went through its own customers’ financial and transaction records. These were the private records of Americans who had committed no crime; people who, as far as we know, had absolutely nothing to do with what happened at the Capitol. But at the request of federal investigators, Bank of America searched its databases looking for people who fit a specific profile”
“That ‘profile’ Carlson explained, was ‘remarkably broad.'”
“The great majority of EU countries support the proposal of scanning encrypted messages, a leaked document has revealed…”
“As cryptography experts we have to explain this again and again: If the EU undermines encryption to prosecute criminals, it will destroy security online for all 450 million EU citizens.”
“The EDPB found that Meta IE’s infringement is very serious since it concerns transfers that are systematic, repetitive and continuous. Facebook has millions of users in Europe, so the volume of personal data transferred is massive. The unprecedented fine is a strong signal to organizations that serious infringements have far-reaching consequences.”
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly used its warrantless search powers hundreds of thousands of times in 2021, according to an unsealed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) filing.”
“What the ‘threat’ from Catholics is supposed to be isn’t clear. I haven’t heard of any systemic terrorist threat based upon Catholicism, much less ‘mainline Catholics’.”
“The most intrusive form of employee monitoring is via an always-on, live video feed. More than one-in-three employers (37%) said they require employees to appear on a live video feed when they are not in the office, according to the survey from ResumeBuilder.com.”
“That’s almost half the U.S. coming to TikTok to connect, to create, to share, to learn, or just to have some fun. This includes 5 million businesses that use TikTok to reach their customers. And the majority of these are small and medium businesses.”
“A review of the websites of more than 3,500 companies, organizations and government entities by the Toronto-based company Feroot Security found that so-called tracking pixels from the TikTok parent company were present in 30 U.S. state-government websites across 27 states, including some where the app has been banned from state networks and devices.”
“We have strongly condemned the actions of the individuals found to have been involved, and they are no longer employed at ByteDance. Our internal investigation is still ongoing, and we will cooperate with any official investigations when brought to us.”
“During the stop, the lawsuit stated that Castillo showed Osby’s driver’s license to the livestream viewers and revealed identifying information such as Osby’s address and license number.”
“In the latest salvo in the battle over the Chinese-owned video sharing app, Beijing says a ban on the use of TikTok by official European Union institutions will harm business confidence in Europe.”
“Fortier said that while the government must take action against TikTok, the broader Canadian public can choose whether or not to expose themselves to the risks.”
“The measure aims to protect the Commission against cybersecurity threats and actions which may be exploited for cyberattacks against the corporate environment of the commission,”
“Know this, in just a matter of months, we’re finally going to have those digital wallets, where you can get your driver’s license on a digital wallet. And we’re going to do it like no other state has done it…”
“Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi introduced additional hijab and chastity restrictions in August. Women deemed violators of the law can lose access to banks, public transportation, and other essential government services. Repeat offenders can spend years in jail or in forced morality schooling”
“The resulting behemoth, still being built today, is a public-private consortium made up of U.S. intelligence agencies, Big Tech companies, civil society institutions, and major media organizations that has become the world’s most powerful spy service—one that was powerful enough to disappear the former president of the United States from public life, and that is now powerful enough to do the same or worse to anyone else it chooses.”
“Like dozens of other mail carriers, the postal worker robbed on Friday was targeted for her “arrow key,” a US Postal Service universal master key that opens collection boxes, parcel lockers, mailbox panels, and apartment building mailroom boxes.”
“SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook’s corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016.”
“The blueprint was published by the Better Identity Coalition, a group of 27 US companies, including Mastercard, Equifax, AT&T, and more. The group either wants to stop the worry about ID fraud or to profit from preventing ID fraud by pushing to normalize digital IDs.”
“In June 2016, Haier made headlines when it purchased GE Appliances, an American home appliance manufacturer based in Louisville, Kentucky, for $5.4 billion. That was the point when Haier went from being a Chinese company operating in the U.S. to a dangerous Chinese company operating in the U.S.”
“House Democrats on Tuesday rejected a Republican request for information about the U.S. Postal Service’s surveillance program that the GOP says has reportedly been used to spy on conservatives.”
“The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a subpoena probing Twitter for information on Tara Reade’s accounts in 2020 months after she issued allegations about being sexually assaulted by President Joe Biden in 1993, documents obtained by the Daily Caller show.”
“San Salvador (AFP) – Salvadoran digital newspaper El Faro’s employees filed a lawsuit in a US federal court on Wednesday against NSO Group, alleging the Israeli firm’s controversial Pegasus software was used to spy on them.”
“Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen claims shipping companies UPS and FedEx are helping the Biden administration skirt laws that prohibit the federal government from creating a national gun owner registry, according to a letter sent to the companies Tuesday.”
“Major tax filing services such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer have been quietly transmitting sensitive financial information to Facebook when Americans file their taxes online, The Markup has learned.”
“In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonpartisan civil rights firm, accused the Bay State’s health department of ‘brazen disregard for civil liberties’ by installing ‘spyware that deliberately tracks and records movement and personal contacts onto over a million mobile devices without their owners’ permission and awareness.’ The class-action suit claims DPH is in violation of both the Massachusetts and U.S. Constitutions.”
“FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday he can’t “be sure” whether Facebook is sending the bureau user information without official requests — after a recent report alleged the social media giant is flagging up information with a “partisan” slant.”
“TikTok also knows your approximate location and identifiers of your mobile device, like its IP address. All this is on top of personal data, biometric info and your keystrokes”
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