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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Schneier on Security

JUNE 24, 2021

The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: “ Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising. Banning surveillance-based advertising in general will force structural changes to the advertising industry and alleviate a number of significant harms to consumers and to society at large.

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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,” Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) senior staff attorney Adam Schwartz told Motherboard.

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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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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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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 25, 2021

No one who reads this blog regularly will be surprised : A former employee of prominent home security company ADT has admitted that he hacked into the surveillance feeds of dozens of customer homes, doing so primarily to spy on naked women or to leer at unsuspecting couples while they had sex. […]. ” Slashdot thread.

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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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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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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Customer service or Chinese surveillance? It read: “Hey Phelim, to help us improve your Otter’s experience, what was the purpose of this particular recording with titled ‘Mustafa Aksu’ created at ‘2021-11-08 11:02:41’?”. Turns out it’s hard to tell.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

GhostSec has made the source code for what it calls a powerful surveillance tool openly available in a 26GB file, but FANAP denies its legitimacy.

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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. Ubiquitous mass surveillance is increasingly the norm.

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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.

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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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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. I believe pressure will increase to leverage existing corporate surveillance infrastructure for these purposes in the US and other countries. Expiration. Due Process.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Without those changes, renewal of a post-911 surveillance policy may be doomed. Civil rights groups say efforts to get US intelligence agencies to adopt privacy reforms have largely failed.

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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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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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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2023

“”We’re far away from the totalitarianism of 1984,” George Orwell’s novel about a society under total surveillance, Dupond-Moretti said. The amendment states that any surveillance activity must be approved by a judge and cannot exceed six months. .”” reads the article published by Le Monde.

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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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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. If surveillance nips that process in the bud, change never happens.

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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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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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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. The Israeli Defense Force mounted a botched raid in Gaza. There are photos -- scroll past the video.)

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The post NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal appeared first on Adam Levin. “I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA’s activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them,” said Snowden. . The ruling from the 9th U.S. Bush and Barack Obama. .

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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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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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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2023

The post CCTV Remote Surveillance Guide: Benefits of Remote Monitoring appeared first on Security Boulevard. There are multiple ways that CCTV remote monitoring can benefit construction companies and property owners. Protection Against Crime In many scenarios, visible.

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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. After taking certain factors into account, the Albanese government has now imposed a ban on surveillance devices manufactured by the Xi Jinping led nation.

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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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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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SecureBlitz

AUGUST 9, 2023

Here, I will talk about the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence on surveillance and safety. Those […] The post The Transformative Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Surveillance and Safety appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity. Artificial Intelligence (AI): it's not just a buzzword or the latest fad.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 12, 2023

Surveillance malware targets Libyan government entities, with possible links to a 2019 Egypt attack campaign.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

The Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream is allegedly shutting down its operations after Citizen Lab and Microsoft uncovered their spyware. Last week Citizen Lab researchers reported that at least five civil society members were victims of spyware and exploits developed by the Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream. and 14.4.2,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Google Project Zero researchers reported that a surveillance vendor is using three Samsung phone zero-day exploits. Google Project Zero disclosed three Samsung phone vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-25337, CVE-2021-25369 and CVE-2021-25370, that have been exploited by a surveillance company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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 (..)

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 20, 2019

Excellent op-ed on the growing trend to tie humanitarian aid to surveillance. Despite 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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 22, 2021

Chine Foreign Ministry has issued a public statement condemning the distribution and usage of Pegasus Spyware surveillance software by various countries. Now, to those uninitiated, Israel-based NSO Group developed Pegasus surveillance software that was meant for government organizations to spy on criminal suspects.

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