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  • 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”

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  • Nov 17, 2022 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance,

Should We Be Worried About Doorstep Surveillance – How Surveillance Is Changing Us & Society

Surveillance used to be something that spies did to a few high-value targets using absurdly expensive pieces of specialized equipment. The arrival of the Internet as a mass medium changed all that when companies like Google and Facebook adopted advertising as their main business model. In a mistaken belief that highly-targeted advertising is better than … Continue reading “Should We Be Worried About Doorstep Surveillance – How Surveillance Is Changing Us & Society”

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  • Mar 24, 2022 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Surprisingly, the UK Has a Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner: He’s Rather Good

CCTV surveillance has been covered many times on PIA blog. Most of the stories are depressing tales of increased surveillance and loss of privacy. One of the worst offenders in the CCTV camera stakes is the UK. An estimate from 2020 put the number of cameras there at over 5 million, while London enjoyed the … Continue reading “Surprisingly, the UK Has a Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner: He’s Rather Good”

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  • Jan 13, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Not going dark: personal data from the Internet of Things ushers in a golden age for law enforcement

Last week, Privacy News Online wrote about the increasing use of vehicle forensics to solve crimes. These “smartphones on wheels” join a growing list of everyday devices that are becoming “smart” – that is, incorporating powerful computers, often linked to the Internet – and therefore of interest to law enforcement. Recent posts on this blog … Continue reading “Not going dark: personal data from the Internet of Things ushers in a golden age for law enforcement”

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  • Nov 24, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Amazon’s Ring moves even closer to becoming the perfect urban police surveillance system

Back in July last year, this blog wrote about Amazon’s Ring series, whose key product is a small Internet-connected camera built into a doorbell. At that time, it was already clear that the system posed a serious threat to privacy, particularly in the urban context. Since then, there has been a massive rise in the … Continue reading “Amazon’s Ring moves even closer to becoming the perfect urban police surveillance system”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: October 2, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of October 2nd, 2020 Russia wants to outlaw TLS 1.3, ESNI, DNS over HTTPS, and DNS over TLS A newly released draft law by the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media takes aim at popular encryption technologies that keep the internet secure and private. The law … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: October 2, 2020”

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  • Dec 18, 2019 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Smile as you buy your holiday goods in a store – you are probably being watched, tracked and analyzed

Amazon may have started out by selling books, but it is now getting heavily into the surveillance market. There are four main sectors where it is already working on solutions that pose risks to privacy. Three of them have been covered extensively in this blog before. They are: the home, with its Alexa devices; the … Continue reading “Smile as you buy your holiday goods in a store – you are probably being watched, tracked and analyzed”

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  • Jul 20, 2019 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Amazon’s collaborations with local police turn its Ring doorbell cameras into unofficial community surveillance systems

Amazon was founded almost exactly 25 years ago. Initially it sold books, and people saw it as an interesting early example of e-commerce, but probably assumed that it would remain a fairly small player in a relatively unexciting market. Nothing could be further from the truth. Amazon soon started selling goods in other sectors, and … Continue reading “Amazon’s collaborations with local police turn its Ring doorbell cameras into unofficial community surveillance systems”

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