Collaborate Disseminate
Amazon has revealed it supplied Ring doorbell video footage to police more than 10 times this year without a warrant, court order or permission from the device owner. The revelation comes as part of an investigation into Amazon’s privacy practices by U… Continue reading Amazon handed police Ring video without owner’s consent or warrant
This is an excellent essay outlining the post-Roe privacy threat model. (Summary: period tracking apps are largely a red herring.)
Taken together, this means the primary digital threat for people who take abortion pills is the actual evidence of intention stored on your phone, in the form of texts, emails, and search/web history. Cynthia Conti-Cook’s incredible article “Surveilling the Digital Abortion Diary details what we know now about how digital evidence has been used to prosecute women who have been pregnant. That evidence includes search engine history, as in the case of the prosecution of Latice Fisher in Mississippi. As Conti-Cook says, Ms. Fisher “conduct[ed] internet searches, including how to induce a miscarriage, ‘buy abortion pills, mifepristone online, misoprostol online,’ and ‘buy misoprostol abortion pill online,’” and then purchased misoprostol online. Those searches were the evidence that she intentionally induced a miscarriage. Text messages are also often used in prosecutions, as they were in the prosecution of Purvi Patel, also discussed in Conti-Cook’s article…
Can attackers create a face mask that would defeat modern facial recognition (FR) systems? A group of researchers from from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University have proven that it can be done. “We validated our adversarial … Continue reading Researchers defeat facial recognition systems with universal face mask
By Deeba Ahmed
Apple has announced adding a new feature to iOS devices dubbed the Lockdown Mode. This feature aims to…
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Apple Debuts Lockdown Mode to Prevent State-Sponsored Spying
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Report by Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology published a comprehensive report on the surprising amount of mass surveillance conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Our two-year investigation, including hundreds of Freedom of Information Act requests and a comprehensive review of ICE’s contracting and procurement records, reveals that ICE now operates as a domestic surveillance agency. Since its founding in 2003, ICE has not only been building its own capacity to use surveillance to carry out deportations but has also played a key role in the federal government’s larger push to amass as much information as possible about all of our lives. By reaching into the digital records of state and local governments and buying databases with billions of data points from private companies, ICE has created a surveillance infrastructure that enables it to pull detailed dossiers on nearly anyone, seemingly at any time. In its efforts to arrest and deport, ICE has without any judicial, legislative or public oversight reached into datasets containing personal information about the vast majority of people living in the U.S., whose records can end up in the hands of immigration enforcement simply because they apply for driver’s licenses; drive on the roads; or sign up with their local utilities to get access to heat, water and electricity…
By Deeba Ahmed
Israeli Mobile Cybersecurity Startup Cirotta has launched smartphone cases that the company claims to provide complete protection while…
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mobile Cybersecurity Firm Cirotta Lau… Continue reading Mobile Cybersecurity Firm Cirotta Launches Anti-Hacking Phone Cases
The sample files contain a trove of crime reports, including cases of looting, fraud, and “illegal” handjobs. Continue reading A Massive Police Database of Allegedly 1 Billion Chinese Citizens Is Being Sold Online
By Deeba Ahmed
Tech Inquiry’s Jack Paulson has shared startling details about a 3-year contract between the US Department of Homeland…
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Report Claims Coinbase Selling User Geolocation Data t… Continue reading Report Claims Coinbase Selling User Geolocation Data to ICE
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued its third largest ever fine of £7.5m. It was imposed on Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that has already been on the wrong end of similar decisions from regulators i… Continue reading Clearview fine: The unacceptable face of modern surveillance
The Strava fitness-tracking app is being used to spy upon members of the Israeli military, tracking their movements at secret bases across the country and potentially even help observe their activities when they travel overseas.
Read more in my arti… Continue reading Israeli military personnel spied on via Strava fitness-tracking app