Tag: surveillance
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Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled » Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t… more ›
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How Peter Thiel's Secretive Data Company Pushed Into Policing » <p>When Sergeant Lee DeBrabander marked a case confidential in the Long Beach drug squad’s Palantir data analysis system in November… more ›
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Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life » In terms of devices, smartphones are perhaps the biggest contributors to today’s ubiquitous data collection. The information recorded by mobile phones provides detailed insights… more ›
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American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It » Jennifer Stisa Granick, the Director of Civil Liberties at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet… more ›
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State of Adversarial Stylometry: can you change your prose-style? #5yrsago mostlysignssomeportents: Today at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin (28C3), Sadia Afroz and Michael Brennan presented a talk called “Deceiving… more ›
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The Rio Olympics: Surveillance for the poor, control for the rich » As crowds gather to watch the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, there will be giant eyes-in-the-sky watching them… more ›
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How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text Most people realize that emails and other digital communications they once considered private can now become part of their permanent record.… more ›
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Rush For Police Cameras Leaves Questions On What Public Can See As the Seattle Police Department joined hundreds of the nation’s law enforcement agencies outfitting officers with body-worn cameras late… more ›
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The ‘Loser Edit’ That Awaits Us All If you have ever watched a reality TV show and said, “He’s going home tonight,” you know what the “loser edit” is. I… more ›
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Permanent Recorder It used to be easy to mock reality TV for having nothing to do with actual reality — the scenarios were contrived and pre-mediated, the performances were semi-scripted,… more ›