Surveillance Watch
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 22, 2024
This is a fantastic project mapping the global surveillance industry.
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Facebookâs Extensive Surveillance Network
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network: Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. Here’s the Consumer Reports study.
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The Present and Future of TV Surveillance
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 27, 2024
Ars Technica has a good article on what’s happening in the world of television surveillance. More than even I realized.
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Take a Selfie Using a NY Surveillance Camera
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 23, 2024
This site will let you take a selfie with a New York City traffic surveillance camera.
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Surveillance by the US Postal Service
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 13, 2023
This is not about mass surveillance of mail , this is about sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves : To track down an alleged mail thief, a US postal inspector used license plate reader technology, GPS data collected by a rental car company, and, most damning of all, hid a camera inside one of the (..)
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Secret White House Warrantless Surveillance Program
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
There seems to be no end to warrantless surveillance : According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americansâ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any (..)
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The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 5, 2023
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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Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App
Schneier on Security
APRIL 4, 2024
The ProtonMail people are accusing Microsoft’s new Outlook for Windows app of conducting extensive surveillance on its users.
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Own Your Own Government Surveillance Van
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 31, 2023
A used government surveillance van is for sale in Chicago: So how was this van turned into a mobile spying center? A videoscope and a borescope are very similar as they’re both cameras on the ends of optical fibers, so the same tech you’d use to inspect cylinder walls is also useful for surveillance. Kind of cool, right?
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Surveillance through Push Notifications
Schneier on Security
MARCH 6, 2024
But we all know how the story goes: “This is how any new surveillance method starts out: The government says we’re only going to use this in the most extreme cases, to stop terrorists and child predators, and everyone can get behind that,” said Cooper Quintin, a technologist at the advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Ubiquitous Surveillance by ICE
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).
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ICE Is a Domestic Surveillance Agency
Schneier on Security
MAY 11, 2022
Georgetown has a new report on the highly secretive bulk surveillance activities of ICE in the US: When you think about government surveillance in the United States, you likely think of the National Security Agency or the FBI. You might even think of a powerful police agency, such as the New York Police Department.
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Bulk Surveillance of Money Transfers
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.
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Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels
Schneier on Security
JULY 3, 2023
. “We’ve known for a long time that they are essentially surveillance cameras on wheels,” said Chris Gilliard, a fellow at the Social Science Research Council.
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Iranâs Digital Surveillance Tools Leaked
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
It’s Iran’s turn to have its digital surveillance tools leaked : According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of Iranian cellular networks, providing its operators a broad menu of remote commands to alter, disrupt, and monitor how customers use their phones.
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Surveillance by Driverless Car
Schneier on Security
MAY 12, 2022
San Francisco police are using autonomous vehicles as mobile surveillance cameras. Privacy advocates say the revelation that police are actively using AV footage is cause for alarm. This is very concerning,â Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) senior staff attorney Adam Schwartz told Motherboard.
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Applying AI to License Plate Surveillance
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 22, 2023
Neither is using them for bulk surveillance. Zayas’ lawyer Ben Gold contested the AI-gathered evidence against his client, decrying it as “dragnet surveillance.” License plate scanners aren’t new. ” And he had the data to back it up.
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San Francisco Police Want Real-Time Access to Private Surveillance Cameras
Schneier on Security
JULY 15, 2022
The draft law currently stands as the following, which indicates the cops can broadly ask for and/or get access to live real-time video streams: The proposed Surveillance Technology Policy would authorize the Police Department to use surveillance cameras and surveillance camera networks owned, leased, managed, or operated by non-City entities to: (1) (..)
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Public Surveillance of Bars
Schneier on Security
JULY 2, 2024
This article about an app that lets people remotely view bars to see if they’re crowded or not is filled with commentary—on both sides—about privacy and openness.
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Using Foreign Nationals to Bypass US Surveillance Restrictions
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. When asked about the practice of Australian law enforcement monitoring devices inside the U.S.
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Possible Government Surveillance of the Otter.ai Transcription App
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Customer service or Chinese surveillance? It read: âHey Phelim, to help us improve your Otterâs experience, what was the purpose of this particular recording with titled âMustafa Aksuâ created at â2021-11-08 11:02:41â?â. Turns out it’s hard to tell.
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China Surveillance Company Hacked
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Last week, someone posted something like 570 files, images and chat logs from a Chinese company called I-Soon. I-Soon sells hacking and espionage services to Chinese national and local government. Lots of details in the news articles. These aren’t details about the tools or techniques, more the inner workings of the company.
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Cory Doctorow on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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. He summarized the argument on Twitter. I think it's both.
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The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric 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.
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Apple Censorship and Surveillance in China
Schneier on Security
MAY 19, 2021
Good investigative reporting on how Apple is participating in and assisting with Chinese censorship and surveillance.
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Using Generative AI for Surveillance
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Generative AI is going to be a powerful tool for data analysis and summarization. Here’s an example of it being used for sentiment analysis. My guess is that it isn’t very good yet, but that it will get better.
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Retailers Are Rapidly Scaling Surveillance of Australian Consumers â Why This Is a Red Flag
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Australian retailers are rolling out mass surveillance solutions to combat shoplifting, but a poor regulatory environment could mean high risks associated with data security and privacy.
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Privacy vs. Surveillance in the Age of COVID-19
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.
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Reverse Engineering a Chinese Surveillance App
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. The details are fascinating, and chilling. Boing Boing post.
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Global Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19
Schneier on Security
APRIL 24, 2020
OneZero is tracking thirty countries around the world who are implementing surveillance programs in the wake of COVID-19: The most common form of surveillance implemented to battle the pandemic is the use of smartphone location data, which can track population-level movement down to enforcing individual quarantines.
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New Patent Application for Car-to-Car Surveillance
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 5, 2024
Ford has a new patent application for a system where cars monitor each other’s speeds, and then report then to some central authority. Slashdot thread.
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Surveillance of Your Car
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 2, 2022
TheMarkup has an extensive analysis of connected vehicle data and the companies that are collecting it. The Markup has identified 37 companies that are part of the rapidly growing connected vehicle data industry that seeks to monetize such data in an environment with few regulations governing its sale or use.
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The Surveillance Invasion: IoT and Smart Devices Stealing Corporate Secrets
Security Boulevard
MAY 2, 2024
We have come to [âĤ] The post The Surveillance Invasion: IoT and Smart Devices Stealing Corporate Secrets appeared first on CISO Global. The post The Surveillance Invasion: IoT and Smart Devices Stealing Corporate Secrets appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Synology Surveillance Station Vulnerabilities Expose Systems to Attack â Update Immediately
Penetration Testing
MARCH 28, 2024
Security researchers at Synology have released a critical security advisory detailing multiple vulnerabilities in their Surveillance Station software.
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Hacking School Surveillance Systems
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Lance Vick suggesting that students hack their schools' surveillance systems. This is an ethical minefield that I feel students would be well within their rights to challenge, and if needed, undermine," he said.
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A Backroom Deal Looms Over Section 702 Surveillance Fight
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Top congressional lawmakers are meeting in private to discuss the future of a widely unpopular surveillance program, worrying members devoted to reforming Section 702.
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Video Surveillance by Computer
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.
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NSA Over-surveillance
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Here 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. Given all we learned from Edward Snowden, this feels like a minor coda.
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Packaged zero-day vulnerabilities on Android used for cyber surveillance attacks
Tech Republic Security
MAY 20, 2022
A commercial surveillance company previously exposed for selling a spyware service dubbed "Predator" keeps targeting users and uses 0-day exploits to compromise Android phones. The post Packaged zero-day vulnerabilities on Android used for cyber surveillance attacks appeared first on TechRepublic.
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Surveillance Cameras Disguised as Clothes Hooks
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 14, 2023
This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them.
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Predator Files: A Scathing Indictment of EU Surveillance Regulation
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In a groundbreaking investigative report, the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty International's Security Lab, has exposed the shocking extent of the global surveillance crisis and the glaring inadequacies of EU regulation in curbing it. Chairman, Cedric Leighton Associates, LLC.
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NSA Buying Bulk Surveillance Data on Americans without a Warrant
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 30, 2024
It finally admitted to buying bulk data on Americans from data brokers, in response to a query by Senator Weyden. This is almost certainly illegal, although the NSA maintains that it is legal until it’s told otherwise. Some news articles.
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Modern TVs have “unprecedented capabilities for surveillance and manipulation,” group reveals
Malwarebytes
OCTOBER 11, 2024
In a report titled â How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era ,â the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) spotlighted a massive data-driven surveillance apparatus that ensnares the public through modern television sets. Your television is debuting the latest, most captivating program: You.
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Surveillance of the Internet Backbone
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 25, 2021
Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used for things like tracing VPN activity. At a high level, netflow data creates a picture of traffic flow and volume across a network.
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