• Jan 17, 2024
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

LAPD Plans to Build a Real-Time Crime Center

We’ve previously warned that the rise of internet-connected doorbell cameras could give local police forces a powerful new surveillance tool. A follow-up article looked at the increasing number of partnerships between US police departments and Amazon’s Ring network. There’s was a 2021 story by the Los Angeles Times that reveals how close the relationship between … Continue reading “LAPD Plans to Build a Real-Time Crime Center”

0

  • Dec 21, 2023
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Studies, Surveillance,

Body Cameras Impact Privacy – And It’s Only Getting Worse

Constant surveillance from CCTV cameras, which often use AI software to identify people, is common across the world. While problematic, mounted cameras are at fixed locations, which you can avoid to a certain extent. A new frontier in privacy harm is being opened up by body-worn cameras, which are far more difficult to dodge. In … Continue reading “Body Cameras Impact Privacy – And It’s Only Getting Worse”

0

  • Oct 3, 2022
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Surveillance,

Burgeoning Mass Surveillance in the US by Police, Immigration, Customs, and Military

A couple of weeks ago, the PIA blog had a long and detailed post about Fog Reveal. Long story short, Fog Reveal provides law enforcement with easy and often warrantless access to the precise geolocation of hundreds of millions of US citizens. Significantly, it is able to do that using standard advertising identifiers employed by … Continue reading “Burgeoning Mass Surveillance in the US by Police, Immigration, Customs, and Military”

0

  • Oct 27, 2021
  • Glyn Moody
  • Censorship, Cybersecurity, Encryption, Governments, Surveillance,

Top Security Experts Warn: Client-side Scanning “Tears at the Heart of Privacy of Individual Citizens”

A couple of months ago, this blog wrote about Apple’s Expanded Protections for Children, which turned out to mean client-side scanning (CSS). That is, code on your smartphone would be constantly scanning images there for illegal material – specifically, for Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). The post pointed out a number of serious flaws in … Continue reading “Top Security Experts Warn: Client-side Scanning “Tears at the Heart of Privacy of Individual Citizens””

0

  • Oct 21, 2021
  • Glyn Moody
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Do We Really Want Amazon’s Internet-Connected Autonomous Surveillance Robots Wandering Around our Homes?

It might seem strange that Amazon has figured so many times on this blog, what with its facial recognition service, eavesdropping Alexa devices, Ring home surveillance, and Halo wearable device. Amazon may have begun as an online bookseller, but its ambitions in the digital space seem limitless. Recently it has announced two new autonomous devices … Continue reading “Do We Really Want Amazon’s Internet-Connected Autonomous Surveillance Robots Wandering Around our Homes?”

0

  • Oct 4, 2021
  • Glyn Moody
  • Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Australian Police Can Now Spy On Citizens, Disrupt Their Computers, Take Over Their Online Accounts, and Change Their Data

Privacy News Online has just written about a troubling proposal by Apple to carry out surveillance directly on iPhones. In Australia, the situation is even worse. There, the government has just rushed through the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020, which gives the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission … Continue reading “Australian Police Can Now Spy On Citizens, Disrupt Their Computers, Take Over Their Online Accounts, and Change Their Data”

0

  • Sep 21, 2021
  • Glyn Moody
  • Cybersecurity, Encryption, Governments, Social Media,

UK Leads the Charge Against End-to-End Encryption, Calls on Tech Companies to “Nerd Harder”

As Privacy News Online has reported, for years governments around the world have kept up a constant assault on end-to-end encryption. One of the leaders of this attempt to demonize a crucially important technology for preserving privacy is the UK. Wired reported back in April that the UK is trying to stop Facebook adding end-to-end … Continue reading “UK Leads the Charge Against End-to-End Encryption, Calls on Tech Companies to “Nerd Harder””

0