Surveillance of Your Car
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 2, 2022
Uncategorized cars data collection privacy surveillanceTheMarkup has an extensive analysis of connected vehicle data and the companies that are collecting it.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 2, 2022
Uncategorized cars data collection privacy surveillanceTheMarkup has an extensive analysis of connected vehicle data and the companies that are collecting it.
Schneier on Security
JULY 7, 2022
Report by Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology published a comprehensive report on the surprising amount of mass surveillance conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Uncategorized privacy reports surveillance
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Schneier on Security
JANUARY 24, 2023
Just another obscure warrantless surveillance program. US law enforcement can access details of money transfers without a warrant through an obscure surveillance program the Arizona attorney general’s office created in 2014.
Schneier on Security
MAY 12, 2022
San Francisco police are using autonomous vehicles as mobile surveillance cameras. Uncategorized cars police privacy surveillancePrivacy advocates say the revelation that police are actively using AV footage is cause for alarm.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Uncategorized Iran leaks privacy surveillance
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Uncategorized NSA privacy surveillanceHere in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that is, illegal) targeting of Americans.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 24, 2021
The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: “ Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising. A ban on surveillance-based advertising does not mean that one can no longer finance digital content using advertising.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 25, 2021
Uncategorized cybersecurity forensics Internet privacy surveillance tracking traffic analysisVice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data.
Schneier on Security
MAY 19, 2021
Good investigative reporting on how Apple is participating in and assisting with Chinese censorship and surveillance. Uncategorized Apple censorship China privacy surveillance
Schneier on Security
MARCH 20, 2020
Israel is using emergency surveillance powers to track people who may have COVID-19, joining China and Iran in using mass surveillance in this way. china covid19 datacollection eff epidemiology iran israel nationalsecuritypolicy privacy surveillance
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Lance Vick suggesting that students hack their schools' surveillance systems. generations hacking privacy schools surveillanceThis is an ethical minefield that I feel students would be well within their rights to challenge, and if needed, undermine," he said.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 25, 2021
Uncategorized hacking insiders privacy surveillance
Schneier on Security
APRIL 24, 2020
covid19 facerecognition privacy surveillance tracking
Schneier on Security
JULY 15, 2022
Uncategorized cameras police privacy surveillance
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 11, 2021
It’s not actually banned in the EU yet — the legislative process is much more complicated than that — but it’s a step: a total ban on biometric mass surveillance. Uncategorized biometrics EU privacy surveillance
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 13, 2022
on behalf of the FBI, Senator Ron Wyden told Motherboard in a statement “Multiple intelligence community officials have confirmed to me, in writing, that intelligence agencies cannot ask foreign partners to conduct surveillance that the U.S.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 27, 2020
These efforts are well-intentioned, but facial recognition bans are the wrong way to fight against modern surveillance. Focusing on one particular identification method misconstrues the nature of the surveillance society we're in the process of building.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 14, 2019
It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Recent developments in video analytics -- fueled by artificial intelligence techniques like machine learning -- enable computers to watch and understand surveillance videos with human-like discernment. The result is a level of surveillance that was impossible just a few years ago. These automated 'video analytics' technologies threaten to fundamentally change the nature of surveillance.".
Schneier on Security
JUNE 14, 2019
The ACLU's Jay Stanley has just published a fantastic report: " The Dawn of Robot Surveillance " (blog post here ) Basically, it lays out a future of ubiquitous video cameras watched by increasingly sophisticated video analytics software, and discusses the potential harms to society. aclu cameras machinelearning privacy reports surveillance
Schneier on Security
MAY 13, 2019
Human Rights Watch has reverse engineered an app used by the Chinese police to conduct mass surveillance on Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. china privacy reverseengineering surveillanceThe details are fascinating, and chilling. Boing Boing post.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 27, 2020
Cory Doctorow has writtten an extended rebuttal of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. Shorter summary: it's not the surveillance part, it's the fact that these companies are monopolies. Surveillance capitalism has some unique properties that make it particularly unethical and incompatible with a free society, and Zuboff makes them clear in her book. books datacollection nationalsecuritypolicy privacy surveillance
Schneier on Security
MARCH 30, 2020
The trade-offs are changing : As countries around the world race to contain the pandemic, many are deploying digital surveillance tools as a means to exert social control, even turning security agency technologies on their own civilians.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
They were attempting to install surveillance gear, which they ended up leaving behind. Israeli media is claiming that the capture of this gear by Hamas causes major damage to Israeli electronic surveillance capabilities. israel surveillanceThe Israeli Defense Force mounted a botched raid in Gaza. There are photos -- scroll past the video.) The Israelis themselves destroyed the vehicle the commandos used to enter Gaza.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Customer service or Chinese surveillance? A reporter interviews a Uyghur human-rights advocate, and uses the Otter.ai transcription app. The next day, I received an odd note from Otter.ai, the automated transcription app that I had used to record the interview.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 13, 2019
EFF has published a comprehensible and very readable "deep dive" into the technologies of corporate surveillance, both on the Internet and off. businessofsecurity eff privacy surveillance tracking
Security Boulevard
JUNE 24, 2021
The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: “ Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising. From the Introduction: The challenges caused and entrenched by surveillance-based advertising include, but are not limited to: privacy and data protection infringements.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
We know that surveillance has a chilling effect on freedom. People change their behavior when they live their lives under surveillance. This is obviously true for government surveillance, but is true for corporate surveillance as well. You visit the website of an international immigrants' rights group, a fact that is available to the government through mass Internet surveillance. If surveillance nips that process in the bud, change never happens.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 20, 2019
Excellent op-ed on the growing trend to tie humanitarian aid to surveillance. biometrics privacy surveillanceDespite the best intentions, the decision to deploy technology like biometrics is built on a number of unproven assumptions, such as, technology solutions can fix deeply embedded political problems. And that auditing for fraud requires entire populations to be tracked using their personal data.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 12, 2019
Data & Society just published a report entitled " Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance ": This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance technologies: Prediction and flagging tools that aim to predict characteristics or behaviors of employees or that are designed to identify or deter perceived rule-breaking or fraud. biometrics employment privacy surveillance tracking
CyberSecurity Insiders
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Australian Defense Ministry has issued a ban on the use of Chinese surveillance cameras and products inside all government buildings from now on. NOTE- Any device that has a silicon wafer embedded in it can conduct surveillance. News China Australia surveillance
Schneier on Security
JULY 15, 2019
All of this information is aggregated and synthesized in a way that gives law enforcement nearly omniscient knowledge over any suspect they decide to surveil. datacollection foia lawenforcement nsa police privacy surveillance
Schneier on Security
MAY 20, 2022
“ Google Maps Adds Shortcuts through Houses of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now.” ” Excellent satire
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 10, 2020
Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published. cameras eavesdropping foia police privacy surveillance
Adam Levin
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
The post NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal appeared first on Adam Levin. The controversial collection of details on billions of American phone calls by the National Security Agency (NSA) was illegal and possibly unconstitutional, according to a ruling by a federal appeals court.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 2, 2018
Instead, it just gets children used to being under constant surveillance. cameras children privacy surveillanceReka makes a " decorative Santa cam ," meaning that it's not a real camera. Our Santa Cam has a cute Father Christmas and mistletoe design, and a red, flashing LED light which will make the most logical kids suspend their disbelief and start to believe!
Naked Security
AUGUST 17, 2021
Uncategorized CVE-2021-28372 hacking iot video surveillance vulnerability webcamHome automation. Internet of Things. Cloud management. And a security bug that could let other people watch you online.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 28, 2022
Leaked documents show the surveillance firm Intellexa offering exploits for iOS and Android devices for $8 Million. Intellexa is an Israeli surveillance firm founded by Israeli entrepreneur Tal Dilian, it offers surveillance and hacking solution to law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 22, 2019
From DefCon : At the Defcon hacker conference today, security researcher Truman Kain debuted what he calls the Surveillance Detection Scout. cars privacy surveillance tracking
Security Affairs
JANUARY 9, 2022
The US NCSC and the Department of State published joint guidance on defending against attacks using commercial surveillance tools. Surveillance tools can be used to record audio, including phone calls, track the phone’s location, and access and retrieve all content on a phone (i.e.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 11, 2017
medicine phones privacy surveillanceThe FDA has approved a pill with an embedded sensor that can report when it is swallowed. The pill transmits information to a wearable patch, which in turn transmits information to a smartphone.
Security Boulevard
MARCH 14, 2021
reported a breach of customer surveillance data to the U.S. The post Verkada Surveillance Hack, Breach Highlights IoT Risks appeared first on Security Boulevard. Cloud Security Featured IoT & ICS Security News Security Boulevard (Original) Breach IoT Security surveillance Verkada
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Google Project Zero researchers reported that a surveillance vendor is using three Samsung phone zero-day exploits. The researchers pointed out that the surveillance firm included in its spyware the exploits for these three vulnerabilities that were zero-day at the time of their exploitation.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
A review of the FBI’s access to foreign intelligence reveals troubling misuse of powerful surveillance tech. Security Security / National Security Security / Privacy
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