Tag: SURVEILLANCE

Edward Snowden Explains Why the CIA Just Made an Instagram

“They get Twitter accounts. Instagram accounts (with) puppies and everything like that, because they want to be friendly. They want to be on your side.”Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnznk/edward-snowden-explains-why-the-cia-just-made-an-instagram…

Canada Civil Liberties Group Argues Toronto Shouldn’t Be ‘Google’s Lab Rat’

“A civil liberties group in Canada is suing three tiers of government over potential privacy issues posed by Sidewalk Labs’s plan to develop a 12-acre smart city in Toronto, which will be approved or denied later this summer,” reports Fast Company. The fight centers around a taxpayer-funded organization jointly created by the federal, provincial, and municipal governments:
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association…

Corporate Surveillance: When Employers Collect Data on Their Workers

An anonymous reader quotes CNBC:
The emergence of sensor and other technologies that let businesses track, listen to and even watch employees while on company time is raising concern about corporate levels of surveillance… Earlier this year, Amazon received a patent for an ultrasonic bracelet that can detect a warehouse worker’s location and monitor their interaction with inventory bins by using ultrasonic…

Some AI just shouldn’t exist

Source: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/19/18412674/ai-bias-facial-recognition-black-gay-transgender…

From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State

John W. Whitehead – That list of so-called “enemies of the state” is growing. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/18/from-jesus-christ-to-julian-assange-when-dissidents-become-enemies-of-the-state/…