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Police will have 'backdoor' access to health records despite opt-out, says MP | Society... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...door-access-nhs-health-records

ITGS police health records surveillance policiesandstandards politics and government healthcare

shared by dr tech on 08 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 08 Feb 14
     
    "David Davis MP, a former shadow home secretary, told the Guardian he has established that police will be able to access the health records of patients when investigating serious crimes even if they had opted out of the new database, which will hold the entire population's medical data in a single repository for the first time from May."
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Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ | World news | The Gua... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...a-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

ITGS surveillance yahoo nsa GCHQ Optic Nerve privacy

shared by dr tech on 28 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Feb 14
     
    "* 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone * Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk * Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy'"
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Capturing images of bystanders by zooming in on pictures of corneas - Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...ring-images-of-bystanders.html

ITGS surveillance security anonymity CCTV

shared by dr tech on 30 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 30 Dec 13
     
    "It's an interesting wrinkle on the problem of information-leakage, and implies that future privacy-filters will have to scrub photos of reflective surfaces (especially eyes) of identifying faces before they're posted. "
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Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data | American Civi... - 0 views

www.aclu.org/ent-could-do-all-location-data

ITGS surveillance data location

shared by dr tech on 12 Dec 13 - Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Dec 13
     
    "Now that we have finalized our systems for the acquisition and processing of Americans' location data (using data from cell phone and license plate readers as well as other sources), I wanted to give you a quick taste of our new system's capabilities in the domestic policing context."
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Driverless cars: we should question and challenge Google, but not as haters | Technolog... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...rless-cars-google-data-privacy

cars google ITGS surveillance privacy ai

shared by dr tech on 14 May 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 May 14
     
    "Understanding how our driving data will be used is important, but we should be scrutinising other companies and products too"
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US "suspected terrorist" database had 1.5M names added to it in past 5 years - Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS surveillance nsa privacy terrorist database reliability anonymity politics and government

shared by dr tech on 20 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Jul 14
     
    "99 percent of the names submitted to the list are accepted; the court called this "wildly loose." The database has grown from 227,932 names in 2009 to its current stratospheric heights. There is no official, public procedure for having your name removed from the list. The US government is seeking to end the trial by invoking state secrecy."
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The 'Fingerprinting' Tracking Tool That's Virtually Impossible to Block - 0 views

mashable.com/...impossible-block-tracking-tool

ITGS surveillance privacy tracking tool impossible block fingerprinting anonymity authenticity

shared by dr tech on 21 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 21 Jul 14
     
    "The type of tracking, called canvas fingerprinting, works by instructing the visitor's web browser to draw a hidden image, and was first documented in a upcoming paper by researchers at Princeton University and KU Leuven University in Belgium. Because each computer draws the image slightly differently, the images can be used to assign each user's device a number that uniquely identifies it."
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The rise of the anti-facial recognition movement - 0 views

kernelmag.dailydot.com/...ti-facial-recognition-movement

ITGS surveillance facial anonymity privacy

shared by dr tech on 04 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 04 Jan 15
     
    "Researchers in China claimed to have developed a kit that can match faces with up to 99.15 percent accuracy"
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Snooper's charter: wider police powers to hack phones and access web history | World ne... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ess-to-phone-and-internet-data

ITGS surveillance charter police powers policiesandstandards politics and government snoopers

shared by dr tech on 02 Mar 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 02 Mar 16
     
    "The bill will now allow police to access all web browsing records in specific crime investigations, beyond the illegal websites and communications services specified in the original draft bill. It will extend the use of state remote computer hacking from the security services to the police in cases involving a "threat to life" or missing persons. This can include cases involving "damage to somebody's mental health", but will be restricted to use by the National Crime Agency and a small number of major police forces."
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Is your smartphone listening to you? - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-35639549

ITGS surveillance police smartphone listening google privacy anonymity

shared by dr tech on 03 Mar 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Mar 16
     
    "Google said it "categorically" does not use what it calls "utterances" - the background sounds before a person says, "OK Google" to activate the voice recognition - for advertising or any other purpose. It also said it does not share audio acquired in that way with third parties."
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Taylor Swift used facial recognition software to detect stalkers at LA concert | Music ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ion-stalkers-rose-bowl-concert

facial recognition surveillance ITGS

shared by dr tech on 14 Dec 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Dec 18
     
    "The use of facial recognition software is rising at public events. Ticketmaster has invested in startup Blink Identity, which aims to move fans through entry points more efficiently and combat touting. Israeli artificial intelligence company AnyVision said it was working with an undisclosed London arena to reduce bottlenecks at turnstiles."
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A 40cm-square patch that renders you invisible to person-detecting AIs / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...tee-of-invisibility.html

ITGS ai surveillance anonymity machine learning

shared by dr tech on 25 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Apr 19
     
    "showing how they can create a 40cm x 40cm "patch" that fools a convoluted neural network classifier that is otherwise a good tool for identifying humans into thinking that a person is not a person -- something that could be used to defeat AI-based security camera systems. They theorize that the could just print the patch on a t-shirt and get the same result."
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China wants to give all of its citizens a score - and their rating could affect every a... - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...score-censorship-a7375221.html

ITGS anonymity policiesandstandards politics and government

shared by dr tech on 28 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Oct 17
     
    "Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you a single score that measures how "trustworthy" you are."
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