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Revealed%3A%20Saudis%20suspected%20of%20phone%20spying%20campaign%20in%20US%20%7C%20Saudi%20Arabia%20%7C%20The%20Guardianwww.theguardian.com
Governments around the world are using high-tech coronavirus surveillance measures to combat the outbreak. But are they worth it?thenextweb.com
[A]ny data collection and digital monitoring of potential carriers of COVID-19 should take into consideration and commit to these principles:Abridged from original, well worth reading in full.
- Privacy intrusions must be necessary and proportionate. A program that collects, en masse, identifiable information about people must be scientifically justified and deemed necessary by public health experts for the purpose of containment. And that data processing must be proportionate to the need. For example, maintenance of 10 years of travel history of all people would not be proportionate to the need to contain a disease like COVID-19, which has a two-week incubation period.
- Data collection based on science, not bias. Given the global scope of communicable diseases, there is historical precedent for improper government containment efforts driven by bias based on nationality, ethnicity, religion, and race -- rather than facts about a particular individual's actual likelihood of contracting the virus...
- Expiration. ... The government and its corporate cooperators must roll back any invasive programs created in the name of public health after crisis has been contained.
- Transparency. Any government use of \"big data\" to track virus spread must be clearly and quickly explained to the public....
- Due Process. If the government seeks to limit a person's rights based on this \"big data\" surveillance ... then the person must have the opportunity to timely and fairly challenge these conclusions and limits.
"I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime," the man said.www.nbcnews.com
Members of Congress are about to introduce a bill that will undermine the law that undergirds free speech on the Internet. If passed, the bill known as the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, will fulfill a long-standing dream of U.S. law enforcement....www.eff.org
Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal are quietly circulating a serious threat to your free speech and security online. Their proposal would give the Attorney General the power to unilaterally write new rules for how online platforms and services must operate in order to rely on Section 230, the most important law protecting free speech online. The AG could use this power to force tech companies to undermine our secure and private communications. We must stop this dangerous proposal before it sees the light of day. Please tell your members of Congress to reject the so-called EARN IT Act.act.eff.org
Rep. Zoe Lofgren says proposed reforms don't go far enough and "we are missing an opportunity."www.politico.com
Private WhatsApp groups visible in Google searches
Your #WhatsApp groups may not be as secure as you think they are
Google is indexing invite links to private WhatsApp group chats. This means with a simple search anyone can discover and join these groups including ones the administrator may want to keep private.
Does #Google care about your privacy and security? No.
Does #Facebook honestly care about your privacy and security? No.
https://www.dw.com/en/private-whatsapp-groups-visible-in-google-searches/a-52468603
#Facebook #chat #apps #privacy #security #surveillance #messaging #im
People who own Ring, Nest and other Web-connected cameras say they've reshaped their daily awareness around what's going on at home. But all that added vigilance has come at a surprising cost.www.washingtonpost.com
Sidestepping the need to obtain a search warrant, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly been accessing phone location data belonging to millions of Americans by buying it straight from private marketing firms. The data is drawn from seemingly ordinary phone apps, including mobile games and weather apps, the Wall Street Journal reports.gizmodo.com
Your Data is Your Business. Tell #Google & #IAB to Mind Theirs
Petition
You go online. An advertisement appears for the exact coffee machine you looked up last week. Is it a trick? Nope.
When you are online, your personal information, like your:... is collected and broadcast to tens of thousands of companies in the online advertising industry.
- Gender
- Age
- Location
- Information derived from your browsing history (yes, the naughty stuff, but also health queries and voting preferences)
Based on your data, companies size you up and decide in milliseconds if you’re a potential customer. If you are, they bid for the right to show you an ad. For coffee machines – or whatever else they believe would interest you.This is not right. It is not legal.
You have the right to feel safe when looking up medical information, choosing a school for your child, or seeking support to come out to your family without this being broadcast to strangers.
Petition:
https://www.liberties.eu/en/campaigns/ad-tech-2-petition--your-data-is-your-business/319
#privacy #surveillance #spying #mobile #phones #cellular #Internet #browsing #advertising #capitalism #CorporateGreed #security #private
Apple and other big tech companies are increasingly going head-to-head with national governments as they attempt to control the internet within their borders.www.fastcompany.com
Saudi Arabia hacked the world’s richest man with tools likely bought off the shelf.www.washingtonpost.com
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had his iPhone hacked for months, enabling hackers to access his private data. Here's how the alleged hacking software works.www.businessinsider.com
Forensic reports allege that the Saudi government carried out a cyberattack against Bezos to extract large amounts of data from his phone, including nude photos sent to his mistress.www.cnbc.com
Here’s another twist in the mystery of just how pictures of Amazon CEO and billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezo’s dick, along with sexts to his then-mistress Lauren Sanchez, ended up in the hands of the National Enquirer last year: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have personally infected his phone with malware in May 2018.gizmodo.com
Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggiwww.theguardian.com
Apple Inc dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devic...www.reuters.com
" Bruce Schneier writes in the New York Times that banning facial recognition (as cities like San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, Brookline and Somerville have done) is not enough: there are plenty of other ways to automatically recognize people (gait detection, high-resolution photos of hands that reveal fingerprints, voiceprints, etc), and these will all be used for the same purpose that makes facial recognition bad for our world: to sort us into different categories and treat us different based on those categories."
"Some of these distinctions are easy to imagine: showing different ads on billboards based on who's looking at them, for example. Others are more sinister: targeting us for police interventions, raising the prices, or denying us entry to a place of business."
"Schneier says that we need to regulate more than facial recognition, we need to regulate recognition itself -- and the data-brokers whose data-sets are used to map recognition data to peoples' identities."
#privacy #facialrecognition #surveillance #discrimination
Ring has responded to the US Senators demanding answers to the security issues it's facing in a letter, which was obtained by Motherboard. In it, the Amazon-owned company has admitted that it had to fire employees for watching customers' videos beyond what they were allowed to. Ring received the four complaints over the course of four years, and it opened an investigation for each one of them. While all the employees involved had the authority to view customer videos, Ring said they accessed or attempted to access data that "exceeded what was necessary for their job functions."#technology #tech #SmartHome #Ring #video #surveillance
Ring fire four employees for watching customer videos they weren't supposed to, the company said in a letter sent to US Senators.www.engadget.com
● NEWS ● #hrw #Dhaka ☞ #Bangladesh : Online #Surveillance , ControlBangladesh: Online Surveillance, Control
(New York) – Bangladesh authorities are blocking access to online news sites in violation of the right to free speech and access to information.www.hrw.org
(New York) – Bangladesh authorities are blocking access to online news sites in violation of the right to free speech and access to information.www.hrw.org
Reports that police use a "Sirius radio" to find someone are usually half right.arstechnica.com
It isn't about the surveillance. It's about seizing control of the truth.mashable.com
Technologists have long speculated on the privacy implications of largely ungoverned, camera-enabled vehicle fleets roaming the roads of America. Now we’ve finally bumped up against the tip of that particularly worrying iceberg.gizmodo.com
In which the FBI lies to Congress and America. Yes, again.
Remember the FBI's promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US citizens? Well, guess what… • The Register
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/08/fbi_spying_abuse/The FBI routinely misused a database, gathered by the NSA with the specific purpose of searching for foreign intelligence threats, by searching it for everything from vetting to spying on relatives.... Really, just read the entire article. The short version is that although this database is theoretically supposed to be used only for foreign intelligence matters, FBI agents were casually using it all the time on as little as personal whim. On one single day in December 2017, FBI agents ran 6,800 searches against the Section 702 database. It appears possible none of them were authorized. And that was just one day.
In doing so, it not only violated the law and the US constitution but knowingly lied to the faces of congressmen who were asking the intelligence services about this exact issue at government hearings, hearings that were intended to find if there needed to be additional safeguards added to the program.
That is the upshot of newly declassified rulings of the secret FISC court that decides issues of spying and surveillance within the United States.
On Tuesday, in a year-old ruling [PDF]that remains heavily redacted, everything that both privacy advocates and a number of congressmen – particularly Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) – feared was true of the program turned out to be so, but worse.
#surveillance #spyingRemember the FBI's promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US peeps? Well, guess what…
Turns out the Feds make the CIA and NSA actually look goodwww.theregister.co.uk
Wanna break free from #Google?
Here are some recommendations:
- 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.
What did I missed? What is you favourite alternative? and why?
#freesoftware #foss #floss #open-source #opensource #linux #gnu-linux #fdroid #technoethical #mobile #software #privacy #surveillance #freedomEmail | Disroot
Disroot is a platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization.disroot.org
ICE emails provide a rare inside look at the agency’s use of Facebook and commercial data brokers to track down an immigrant in California.theintercept.com
"It took minutes to find an apparent Secret Service agent detailed to Trump."www.theverge.com
US government is entitled to all Snowden book proceeds, judge rules
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/us-government-is-entitled-to-all-snowden-book-proceeds-judge-rules/
Well, that pretty much eliminates any guilt about getting this book without buying it.
ebook in the Imperial Library of Trantor (.onion, so you'll need the Tor Browser)
magnet link for regular torrent of ebook
magnet link to paste into I2PSnark for ebook
magnet link to paste into I2PSnark for audio book
https://invidio.us/watch?v=Nd6qN167wKo Terminal F from NRK (Norway, but in English) This is a traditional documentary. 58:09
https://invidio.us/watch?v=8OGmvE9znFY Meeting Snowden - ARTE Documentary. Snowden speaks English. Narrator speaks French, but is subtitled in English. Also features Lawrence Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir, who both speak English. This is mostly a panel discussion. 48:49
Snowden on Daily Show. https://invidio.us/watch?v=PArFP7ZJrtg
My review of Snowden's book. https://diasp.eu/posts/7438a8b0c0610137796e4061862b8e7b
Citizenfour oscar-winning documentary by Laura Poitras. https://cryptome.org/Citizenfour.7z
#snowden #privacy #surveillance #liberty #freedom #permanent-record #book #cia #nsa #rightsUS government is entitled to all Snowden book proceeds, judge rules
Ed Snowden failed to seek pre-publication review as required by NSA contracts.arstechnica.com
.onion, so you'll need the Tor Browser)
Ed Snowden failed to seek pre-publication review as required by NSA contracts.arstechnica.com
A US-based AI institute says that the science behind the technology rests on "shaky foundations".www.bbc.com
The group wants to know how ICE and CBP are using controversial cellphone surveillance.www.washingtonpost.com
