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Is Amazon Watching You? Cloud Cam Footage Reviewed By Humans | Bloomberg

In a promotional video, Amazon.com Inc. says its Cloud Cam home security camera provides “everything you need to monitor your home, day or night.” In fact, the artificially intelligent device requires help from a squad of invisible employees.

Dozens of Amazon workers based in India and Romania review select clips captured by Cloud Cam, according to five people who have worked on the program or have direct knowledge of it. Those video snippets are then used to train the AI algorithms to do a better job distinguishing between a real threat (a home invader) and a false alarm (the cat jumping on the sofa).

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden has appeared in Onionland

Amazon's doorbell camera Ring is working with police – and controlling what they say | The Guardian

Ring, Amazon’s camera-connected smart doorbell company, has cameras watching hundreds of thousands of doorsteps across the US. It’s also keeping an eye on what local police say online.

Records obtained through an information request show how Ring uses corporate partnerships to shape the communications of police departments it collaborates with, directing the departments’ press releases, social media posts and comments on public posts.

Amazon's doorbell camera Ring is working with police – and controlling what they say

Ring shapes communications of police agencies it works with. Critics fear it’s building up a for-profit private surveillance network

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Wanna break free from #Google?

• Instead of #gmail, I use #disroot (disroot.org). with #k9 (k9mail.github.io) and #thunderbird (thunderbird.net) as clients.
• Instead of #google search, I use #searx (Searx instances), #duckduckgo (duckdukgo.com), and #startpage (startpage.com).
  Searx instance FuckOffGoogle.de has the most suggessive name.
  I recommend setting it as a default search engine on publicly used computers (at your school, work place, internet caffees, etc.)
• Instead of #youtube, I use #peertube (joinpeertube.org) and #invidious (Invidious Instances).
  I also use #firefox #addon PeerTubeify to get redirected to peertube if a #video is available from there.
• Instead of #googleplus, I use #diaspora (diasporafoundation.org).
• Instead of #chrome, I use #icecat (Icecat), #firefox (Firefox), and #tor #browser (torproject.org).
• Instead of #chromeos, I use #Parabola #GNU #linux-libre (parabola.nu) and #linuxmint (linuxmint.com).
• Instead of google #calendar, I use #nextcloud / #owncloud calendar (nextcloud.com).
• Instead of #googledrive, I use #nextcloud and #syncthing (syncthing.net)
• Instead of google forms, I use Framaforms.
  It is only available in French, which unfortunately I don't speak, but that does not stop me from regularly using it. B-)
• Instead of doodle, I use Framadate.
• Instead of #android, I use #replicant OS (replicant.us) on a Technoethical S3 phone.
  #FSFE has a good website freeyourandroid.org about liberating your device.
• Instead of #googleplay, I use #F-Droid (f-droid.org).
  If you want to reach all apps from Google Play, I recommend #yalp store (YalpStore), but be warned that most of the apps there are not #free-software.
• Instead of #googlemaps, I use #openstreetmap (openstreetmap.org).
• Instead of google street view, I use #mapillary (mapillary.com).
• For text #chat, I use #xmmp with my #disroot account, with pix-art messanger #fork of #conversations (Conversations) on mobile and gajim on desktop.
• For video chat, I use #jitsi (jitsi.org).
• #Framasoft and #diroot offers plenty of other great services. See https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/list/ and https://disroot.org/en/#_white-bar
• Finally, I recommend you to spread/share your desire, successes and difficulties (both online and offline) of getting free from Google and #GAFAM ( #Google, #Apple, #Facebook, #Amazon, #Microsoft) in general.

Privacy campaigners warn of UK facial recognition 'epidemic' | The Guardian

Privacy campaigners have warned of an “epidemic” of facial recognition use in shopping centres, museums, conference centres and other private spaces around the UK

Privacy campaigners warn of UK facial recognition 'epidemic'

Investigation uncovers widespread use in museums and shopping centres

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#Amazon says #US #government demands for customer #data went up | TechCrunch

UK High Court rejects human rights challenge to bulk snooping powers | TechCrunch

Civil liberties campaign group Liberty has lost its latest challenge to controversial UK surveillance powers that allow state agencies to intercept and retain data in bulk.

The challenge fixed on the presence of so-called ‘bulk’ powers in the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act (IPA): A controversial capability that allows intelligence agencies to legally collect and retain large amounts of data, instead of having to operate via targeted intercepts.

This is how #Google is spying on everything you do

PeerTube: This is how Google is spying on everything you do (Gonzalo)

Hong Kong Protests Show Dangers of a Cashless Society – Reason.com

Allowing cash to die would be a grave mistake. A cashless society is a surveillance society. The recent round of protests in Hong Kong highlights exactly what we have to lose.
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In Hong Kong, most people use a contactless smart card called an "Octopus card" to pay for everything from transit, to parking, and even retail purchases. It's pretty handy: Just wave your tentacular card over the sensor and make your way to the platform.

But no one used their Octopus card to get around Hong Kong during the protests. The risk was that a government could view the central database of Octopus transactions to unmask these democratic ne'er-do-wells. Traveling downtown during the height of the protests? You could get put on a list, even if you just happened to be in the area.

Schools are using unproven surveillance technology to monitor students

The Unproven, Invasive Surveillance Technology Schools Are Using to Monitor Students

In response to mass shootings, some schools and hospitals are installing microphones equipped with algorithms. The devices purport to identify stress and anger before violence erupts. Our testing found them less than reliable.

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Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch