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The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying.

Schneier on Security

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.

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Another California Data Privacy Law

Schneier on Security

While the proposed privacy initiative was initially met with significant opposition, particularly from large technology companies, some of that opposition faded in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Mark Zuckerberg's April 2018 testimony before Congress. And we could have had that ballot initiative.

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AI and Mass Spying

Schneier on Security

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.

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Market for Security Robots Grows, But Data Privacy Concerns Remain

Security Boulevard

Robots have been infiltrating business and industry for decades, so it’s not surprising that AI and connected technologies like streaming video are now being enlisted to perform many of the security tasks currently handled by humans. The global security robots market “was valued at USD 27.32 billion in 2021 and is expected to surpass $116.44

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Australia passes new data privacy bill for criminals

CyberSecurity Insiders

Titled the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identity and Disrupt) bill, it will allow the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission to get data disruption warrants to change, copy, add or delete data related to cyber criminals and suspects.

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Data Privacy threat to Americans from Biden government

CyberSecurity Insiders

As per the report on CNN, this public surveillance program will be carried out by Department of Homeland Security and will be done by collaborating with private companies, mainly those belonging to technology sector. The post Data Privacy threat to Americans from Biden government appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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UK NHS to share data causing data privacy concerns among patients

CyberSecurity Insiders

The objective of information sharing is to allow academics and commercial 3rd party businesses to use that data in the research and planning of new drugs and future innovation of Medicines. . However, unless it is done under strict surveillance, none of the benefits could reach the populace. .