Tag: surveillance

• Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Discrimination for LGBTQIA+ Community Worldwide

  July 16, 2020

  Recorded Future investigated data security risks associated with multiple social and dating apps that are popular with the LGBTQIA+ community, and how those apps were being discussed on dark web… more ›

• Why China Cracked Down on the Social-Media Giant Bytedance

  July 15, 2020

  Last week, just as Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Facebook, was emerging largely unscathed from two days of congressional testimony about how his company works, the Chinese C.E.O. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-china-cracked-down-on-the-social-media-giant-bytedance more ›

• Manchurian

  July 15, 2020

  The point, though, is not just censorship, but its inverse: propaganda. TikTok’s algorithm, unmoored from the constraints of your social network or professional content creators, is free to promote whatever… more ›

• The Global Implications of “Re-education” Technologies in Northwest China 

  June 16, 2020

  Since May 2014, when Chinese Communist Party Secretary Zhang Chunxian announced the People’s War on Terror in the Uighur region, Chinese technology firms have received billions of dollars in Chinese state capital to build… more ›

• City Brain

  May 31, 2020

  Get up to $785 in coupons plus amazing spring deals. Get a head start on your career in the cloud. $0.99 cloud server and free training course for eligible students… more ›

• Nvidia launches Clara Guardian to power smart hospitals with surveillance, sensors, and edge AI

  May 15, 2020

  Nvidia today announced the launch of Clara Guardian, a smart hospital edge AI system that uses sensors like cameras to limit the spread of infectious disease and do things like… more ›

• We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World

  April 12, 2020

  an attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 25 governments around the world have instituted temporary or indefinite efforts to single out infected individuals or maintain… more ›

• Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too

  March 3, 2020

  After a recent, extensive, and rather withering bout of bad press, the facial recognition company Clearview AI has changed its homepage, which now touts all the things it says its… more ›

• How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

  December 25, 2019

  In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is… more ›

• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

  December 22, 2019

  Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile… more ›