Tag: surveillance

• Hong Kong police use national security law to block protest-related website

  January 12, 2021

  Sources said the force had started asking internet service providers (ISPs) to halt access to the HKChronicles website citing Article 43 of the law and its implementation rules. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3117072/hong-kong-police-use-national-security-law-block more ›

• As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too

  December 20, 2020

  The website for the tech titan’s cloud business described facial recognition software that could detect members of a minority group whose persecution has drawn international condemnation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/alibaba-china-facial-recognition-uighurs.html more ›

• Sci-fi surveillance: Europe’s secretive push into biometric technology

  December 10, 2020

  EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. €1.7bn from the programme over the past seven years backed the development of security products for… more ›

• State of Surveillance

  November 11, 2020

  In 2015, a national policy document issued by nine different Party and government bureaucracies called for “public safety video-surveillance construction, networking, and applications” across China. The policy described such surveillance systems as… more ›

• EU companies selling surveillance tools to China’s human rights abusers

  September 29, 2020

  European tech companies risk fuelling widespread human rights abuses by selling digital surveillance technology to China’s public security agencies, a new Amnesty International investigation reveals. Amnesty International found that three… more ›

• Of course I want an Amazon drone flying inside my house. Don’t you?

  September 26, 2020

  “Next-level of what? Insanity?,” I hear you moan, on seeing the new, wondrous Ring Always Home Cam. Also: When is Prime Day 2020? Everything we know so far https://www.zdnet.com/article/of-course-i-want-an-amazon-drone-flying-inside-my-house-dont-you/ more ›

• China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims

  September 1, 2020

  China has secretly built scores of massive new prison and internment camps in the past three years, dramatically escalating its campaign against Muslim minorities even as it publicly claimed the detainees had… more ›

• How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ – Cory Doctorow

  August 31, 2020

  Editor’s Note: Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended. This… more ›

• Research Reveals Inherent AI Gender Bias

  August 16, 2020

  Unless you’ve been living under a rock—an impossibly cozy, privileged, particle-filtering rock—2020 has probably opened your eyes to how far we still have to go to achieve a truly fair… more ›

• The original Big Tech is working closer than ever with governments to combat coronavirus – with no scrutiny

  August 9, 2020

  The texts can arrive at any time. Recipients are told they’ve been exposed to the coronavirus and must immediately begin a two-week period of isolation. https://thecorrespondent.com/621/the-original-big-tech-is-working-closer-than-ever-with-governments-to-combat-coronavirus-with-no-scrutiny/81373317498-76dea099 more ›