Anti-Piracy Groups Mull “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Tackle Pirate Sites
Anti-piracy groups and rightsholders in Europe are reportedly interested in a so-called "Know Your Customer" proposal to tackle pirate sites. In the finance world, companies are required to know exactly who their clients are to prevent money laundering but what if this stretched to domain, hosting and cloud storage companies too?
Shadow ManMost adults seeking to do any kind of business with banks, financial entities or even gambling companies will have experienced efforts to positively identify who they are.
So-called ‘Know Your Customer’ regulations require that companies, mostly in the financial sector, carry out checks to determine that the individuals they are dealing with are actually who they say they. Such verification is usually carried out when an account is opened but can be revisited thereafter, with the provision of ID cards, passports, driving licenses, and even face verification becoming a condition for business.
https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-groups-mull-know-your-customer-proposal-to-tackle-pirate-sites-200719/
#europe #piracy
Anti-piracy groups and rightsholders in Europe are reportedly interested in a so-called "Know Your Customer" proposal to tackle pirate sites. In the finance world, companies are required to know exactly who their clients are to prevent money laundering but what if this stretched to domain, hosting and cloud storage companies too?
Shadow ManMost adults seeking to do any kind of business with banks, financial entities or even gambling companies will have experienced efforts to positively identify who they are.
So-called ‘Know Your Customer’ regulations require that companies, mostly in the financial sector, carry out checks to determine that the individuals they are dealing with are actually who they say they. Such verification is usually carried out when an account is opened but can be revisited thereafter, with the provision of ID cards, passports, driving licenses, and even face verification becoming a condition for business.
https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-groups-mull-know-your-customer-proposal-to-tackle-pirate-sites-200719/
#europe #piracy
Torrentfreak
Anti-Piracy Groups Mull "Know Your Customer" Proposal to Tackle Pirate Sites * TorrentFreak
If domain, hosting and cloud storage customers were required to comply with 'Know Your Customer' regulations, could that hinder pirate sites?
Pakistan warns TikTok video service, blocks Bigo Live app
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has threatened China’s TikTok and blocked the Singapore-based Bigo Live streaming platform, citing what the regulating authority called widespread complaints about “immoral, obscene and vulgar” content on the apps.
The move was promptly decried by Pakistani rights activists who saw it as a potential precursor to an even greater censorship in this conservative Muslim nation.
In a statement, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority said the content on the two platforms could have “extremely negative effects on the society in general and youth in particular,” without elaborating.
https://apnews.com/2da0cf781bd4ecc15ef060f1e91ee5bf
#asia #pakistan #tiktok #bigolive
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has threatened China’s TikTok and blocked the Singapore-based Bigo Live streaming platform, citing what the regulating authority called widespread complaints about “immoral, obscene and vulgar” content on the apps.
The move was promptly decried by Pakistani rights activists who saw it as a potential precursor to an even greater censorship in this conservative Muslim nation.
In a statement, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority said the content on the two platforms could have “extremely negative effects on the society in general and youth in particular,” without elaborating.
https://apnews.com/2da0cf781bd4ecc15ef060f1e91ee5bf
#asia #pakistan #tiktok #bigolive
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Pakistan warns TikTok video service, blocks Bigo Live app
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has threatened China's TikTok and blocked the Singapore-based Bigo Live streaming platform, citing what the regulating authority called widespread complaints about...
Elon Musk Says His Neuralink Chip Will Let You Stream Music [and ads?] To Your Brain
Elon Musk has said his new Neuralink brain chip will allow users to listen to music by sending it directly to their brain.
The SpaceX and Tesla boss has set out on his new venture, which involves a brain-computer interface which will have a number of functions.
Neuralink is his new tech start up, and he's drip-fed us some information on Twitter over recent days.
When replying to computer scientist Austin Howard, Musk confirmed that the technology he is working on will allow people to 'listen to music directly from our [Neuralink brain] chips'.
https://www.ladbible.com/news/technology-elon-musk-says-his-neuralink-chip-lets-you-stream-music-to-your-brain-20200720
Elon Musk has said his new Neuralink brain chip will allow users to listen to music by sending it directly to their brain.
The SpaceX and Tesla boss has set out on his new venture, which involves a brain-computer interface which will have a number of functions.
Neuralink is his new tech start up, and he's drip-fed us some information on Twitter over recent days.
When replying to computer scientist Austin Howard, Musk confirmed that the technology he is working on will allow people to 'listen to music directly from our [Neuralink brain] chips'.
https://www.ladbible.com/news/technology-elon-musk-says-his-neuralink-chip-lets-you-stream-music-to-your-brain-20200720
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Elon Musk Says His Neuralink Chip Will Let You Stream Music To Your Brain
It's his latest tech venture
Malware found in Chinese tax software
Company tries to cover up tracks of GoldenSpy backdoor.
Tax software required to conduct business in China has been installing malware on enterprise systems and trying to evade detection, according to cybersecurity researchers.
The team at Trustwave has been monitoring the malware campaign which they originally found on the systems of one of its clients.
“They informed us that upon opening operations in China, their local Chinese bank required that they install a software package called Intelligent Tax produced by the Golden Tax Department of Aisino Corporation, for paying local taxes,” researcher Brian Hussey said.
“As we continued our investigation into the tax software, we found that it worked as advertised.
“But it also installed a hidden backdoor on the system that enabled a remote adversary to execute Windows commands or to upload and execute any binary.”
https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2020/malware-found-in-chinese-tax-software.html?ref=newsletter
#australia #malware
Company tries to cover up tracks of GoldenSpy backdoor.
Tax software required to conduct business in China has been installing malware on enterprise systems and trying to evade detection, according to cybersecurity researchers.
The team at Trustwave has been monitoring the malware campaign which they originally found on the systems of one of its clients.
“They informed us that upon opening operations in China, their local Chinese bank required that they install a software package called Intelligent Tax produced by the Golden Tax Department of Aisino Corporation, for paying local taxes,” researcher Brian Hussey said.
“As we continued our investigation into the tax software, we found that it worked as advertised.
“But it also installed a hidden backdoor on the system that enabled a remote adversary to execute Windows commands or to upload and execute any binary.”
https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2020/malware-found-in-chinese-tax-software.html?ref=newsletter
#australia #malware
Information Age
Malware found in Chinese tax software
Company tries to cover up tracks of GoldenSpy backdoor.
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Contact Tracing App Privacy: What Data Is SharedBy Europe’s GAEN Contact Tracing Apps
The study "Contact Tracing App Privacy: What Data Is SharedBy Europe's GAEN Contact Tracing Apps" shows every Android user (once again) how openly and extensively Google spies on its users. Current versions of Google Play Services (and probably older ones as well) send the following information to Google every 20 minutes:
* IP address
* IMEI of the device
* Hardware serial number
* SIM card serial number
* Phone number
* e-mail address
* User statistics of Apps
👀 👉🏼 https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/contact_tracing_app_traffic.pdf
#google #DeleteGoogle #privacy #thinkabout #why #pdf
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The study "Contact Tracing App Privacy: What Data Is SharedBy Europe's GAEN Contact Tracing Apps" shows every Android user (once again) how openly and extensively Google spies on its users. Current versions of Google Play Services (and probably older ones as well) send the following information to Google every 20 minutes:
* IP address
* IMEI of the device
* Hardware serial number
* SIM card serial number
* Phone number
* e-mail address
* User statistics of Apps
👀 👉🏼 https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/contact_tracing_app_traffic.pdf
#google #DeleteGoogle #privacy #thinkabout #why #pdf
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Open Letter to the U.S.-based Members of the Facebook Oversight Board
TO: Evelyn Aswad, Jamal Greene, Pamela Karlan, Michael McConnell and John Samples
RE: Urgent content issues undermining our democracy
Distinguished Members of the Facebook Oversight Board,
We are writing to express concern about recent developments that underscore the severity of the threat Facebook poses to democracy and the brazenness of their disempowerment of the Oversight Board as a necessary check. We urge you to either demand the Board be given real authority to act now, or publicly step down.
On July 7, 2020, it was announced that the Oversight Board will not be operational until ‘“late Fall” –– the latest and clearest indication to date that Facebook has intentionally sidelined the Board until after the high-stakes 2020 elections. After repeatedly claiming the Board would be up and running by 2019, Facebook pushed the launch date back to early 2020, then to spring, then to summer, and now to late fall.
This news is especially alarming given the release of Facebook’s internal civil rights audit on July 8, which makes clear that the platform is actively facilitating voter suppression, magnifying rampant election disinformation, and seeding hate. Auditors were left “deeply concerned” and unable to understand “why Facebook has allowed misrepresentations of methods of voting that undermine Facebook’s protection and promotion of this crucial form of free expression.” And those concerns were clearly well-founded, as a July 16 ProPublica report found nearly half of all top-performing Facebook posts mentioning vote-by-mail since April have been false or misleading.
Moreover, the civil rights audit specifically notes that the Oversight Board’s narrowly crafted jurisdiction “makes it impossible” for the Board to meaningfully review election-related content. This deficiency, according to the Auditors, has the potential to “impact the very operation of our democratic process.” In turn, they advocate for far-reaching changes to that policy –– changes that would similarly fall outside of the Board’s purview. The same goes for the recently unearthed climate loophole that Facebook created to enable climate deniers to peddle dangerous lies under the guise of “opinion” and evade fact-checking.
These revelations arose the same week that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg convened with – and roundly dismissed recommendations from – civil rights leaders. Those leaders painted their meeting as a Facebook public relations stunt. Taken together, it’s hard to see all of this as anything more than that.
👀 👉🏼 https://accountabletech.org/media/oversightboardletter/
👀 👉🏼 https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/20/facebook-oversight-board-letter-accountable-tech
#DeleteFacebook
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TO: Evelyn Aswad, Jamal Greene, Pamela Karlan, Michael McConnell and John Samples
RE: Urgent content issues undermining our democracy
Distinguished Members of the Facebook Oversight Board,
We are writing to express concern about recent developments that underscore the severity of the threat Facebook poses to democracy and the brazenness of their disempowerment of the Oversight Board as a necessary check. We urge you to either demand the Board be given real authority to act now, or publicly step down.
On July 7, 2020, it was announced that the Oversight Board will not be operational until ‘“late Fall” –– the latest and clearest indication to date that Facebook has intentionally sidelined the Board until after the high-stakes 2020 elections. After repeatedly claiming the Board would be up and running by 2019, Facebook pushed the launch date back to early 2020, then to spring, then to summer, and now to late fall.
This news is especially alarming given the release of Facebook’s internal civil rights audit on July 8, which makes clear that the platform is actively facilitating voter suppression, magnifying rampant election disinformation, and seeding hate. Auditors were left “deeply concerned” and unable to understand “why Facebook has allowed misrepresentations of methods of voting that undermine Facebook’s protection and promotion of this crucial form of free expression.” And those concerns were clearly well-founded, as a July 16 ProPublica report found nearly half of all top-performing Facebook posts mentioning vote-by-mail since April have been false or misleading.
Moreover, the civil rights audit specifically notes that the Oversight Board’s narrowly crafted jurisdiction “makes it impossible” for the Board to meaningfully review election-related content. This deficiency, according to the Auditors, has the potential to “impact the very operation of our democratic process.” In turn, they advocate for far-reaching changes to that policy –– changes that would similarly fall outside of the Board’s purview. The same goes for the recently unearthed climate loophole that Facebook created to enable climate deniers to peddle dangerous lies under the guise of “opinion” and evade fact-checking.
These revelations arose the same week that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg convened with – and roundly dismissed recommendations from – civil rights leaders. Those leaders painted their meeting as a Facebook public relations stunt. Taken together, it’s hard to see all of this as anything more than that.
👀 👉🏼 https://accountabletech.org/media/oversightboardletter/
👀 👉🏼 https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/20/facebook-oversight-board-letter-accountable-tech
#DeleteFacebook
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Microsoft accused of sharing data of Office 365 business subscribers with Facebook and its app devs
Microsoft is being sued for allegedly sharing its Office 365 customers' business data with Facebook app developers, partners, and subcontractors in violation of its data privacy promises.
The lawsuit was filed in US District Court in San Francisco, on behalf of plaintiffs Frank Russo, Koonan Litigation Consulting, and Sumner Davenport & Associates, all Office 365 customers.
The complaint says that – while Microsoft has repeatedly promised its business customers that it would only use their data to provide purchased services, that it would share their data with subcontractors only on a need-to-know basis, and that it will never share their data with third-parties – those claims are false.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/20/microsoft_office_data_facebook/
#microsoft #facebook #privacy
Microsoft is being sued for allegedly sharing its Office 365 customers' business data with Facebook app developers, partners, and subcontractors in violation of its data privacy promises.
The lawsuit was filed in US District Court in San Francisco, on behalf of plaintiffs Frank Russo, Koonan Litigation Consulting, and Sumner Davenport & Associates, all Office 365 customers.
The complaint says that – while Microsoft has repeatedly promised its business customers that it would only use their data to provide purchased services, that it would share their data with subcontractors only on a need-to-know basis, and that it will never share their data with third-parties – those claims are false.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/20/microsoft_office_data_facebook/
#microsoft #facebook #privacy
The Register
Microsoft accused of sharing data of Office 365 business subscribers with Facebook and its app devs
Because that always ends well
Most Dedicated VPN IP-addresses Are Not Anonymous
Many VPN services advertise themselves as ideal tools to offer security, privacy, and anonymity. To ensure the latter, they often have no-logging policies to prevent individual users from being exposed. However, this is not necessarily true for the small group that use dedicated or static IP-addresses.
Millions of Internet users around the world use a VPN to protect their privacy online.
Another key benefit is that VPNs hide users’ true IP-address, making them more anonymous. This prevents third-party monitoring outfits from unwanted snooping.
Every year we ask VPN providers about their logging policies to confirm that they can’t connect a VPN IP-address to a specific user. In the past, we have seen that this is not always the case.
https://torrentfreak.com/most-dedicated-vpn-ip-addresses-are-not-anonymous-200719/
#vpn #privacy
Many VPN services advertise themselves as ideal tools to offer security, privacy, and anonymity. To ensure the latter, they often have no-logging policies to prevent individual users from being exposed. However, this is not necessarily true for the small group that use dedicated or static IP-addresses.
Millions of Internet users around the world use a VPN to protect their privacy online.
Another key benefit is that VPNs hide users’ true IP-address, making them more anonymous. This prevents third-party monitoring outfits from unwanted snooping.
Every year we ask VPN providers about their logging policies to confirm that they can’t connect a VPN IP-address to a specific user. In the past, we have seen that this is not always the case.
https://torrentfreak.com/most-dedicated-vpn-ip-addresses-are-not-anonymous-200719/
#vpn #privacy
Torrentfreak
Most Dedicated VPN IP-addresses Are Not Anonymous * TorrentFreak
Many VPNs have no-logging policies to prevent users from being exposed. However, this is not necessarily true for dedicated IP-addresses.
Tech Firms Begin to Abandon Hong Kong Over Security Law
China’s sweeping national security law has forced technology firms to reconsider their presence in Hong Kong. The nimblest among them -- the city’s startups -- are already moving data and people out or are devising plans to do so.
Beijing’s polarizing law, which took effect this month, upended Hong Kong’s tech scene just as it seemed on a path to becoming a regional hub. Entrepreneurs now face a wave of concern from overseas clients and suppliers about the implications of running data and internet services under the law’s new regime of vastly expanded online policing powers. Many are making contingency plans and restructuring their operations away from Hong Kong.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-20/tech-firms-begin-to-abandon-hong-kong-because-of-security-law
#asia #hongkong #surveillance
China’s sweeping national security law has forced technology firms to reconsider their presence in Hong Kong. The nimblest among them -- the city’s startups -- are already moving data and people out or are devising plans to do so.
Beijing’s polarizing law, which took effect this month, upended Hong Kong’s tech scene just as it seemed on a path to becoming a regional hub. Entrepreneurs now face a wave of concern from overseas clients and suppliers about the implications of running data and internet services under the law’s new regime of vastly expanded online policing powers. Many are making contingency plans and restructuring their operations away from Hong Kong.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-20/tech-firms-begin-to-abandon-hong-kong-because-of-security-law
#asia #hongkong #surveillance
Send in your ideas. Deadline August 1st 2020 12:00 CET (noon)
Submit your proposal for grant funding of 5,000-50,000€ from NLnet Foundation.
Do you have a valuable idea in the area of networking and internet technology, privacy and trust enhancing technologies or search and discovery? And are you looking for financial means to make your ideas come to life? Or do you have an existing project that requires additional means to enable further development? Then submit your proposal to NLnet foundation before the next following deadline and see if we can help you.
We put any money we can get our hands on where our mouth is: that is to increase the use of open technologies for society. What is important for us is that the technology you develop or help promote is usable for others and has the potential for real impact.
https://nlnet.nl/news/2020/20200601-call.html
current projects
Submit your proposal for grant funding of 5,000-50,000€ from NLnet Foundation.
Do you have a valuable idea in the area of networking and internet technology, privacy and trust enhancing technologies or search and discovery? And are you looking for financial means to make your ideas come to life? Or do you have an existing project that requires additional means to enable further development? Then submit your proposal to NLnet foundation before the next following deadline and see if we can help you.
We put any money we can get our hands on where our mouth is: that is to increase the use of open technologies for society. What is important for us is that the technology you develop or help promote is usable for others and has the potential for real impact.
https://nlnet.nl/news/2020/20200601-call.html
current projects
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The looming disaster of immunity passports and digital identity
A digital ID that proves immunity will raise serious human rights issues. And the failure of the digital ID industry to deal with the issues of exclusion, exploitation and discrimination puts the entire industry under question.
👀 Key findings 👀
👉🏼 'Immunity passports' are a theoretical credential - most likely digital - that someone can prove that they have either had the virus and recovered, or have had a vaccination.
👉🏼 Immunity passports are being hyped as a solution to ending lockdowns around the world by actors including the proponents of digital identity; the digital identity industry; think-tanks; and the travel industry.
👉🏼 Yet there is currently no scientific basis for these measures, as highlighted by the WHO. The nature of what information would be held on an immunity passport is currently unknown.
👉🏼 The social risks of immunity passports are great: it serves as a route to discrimination and exclusion, particularly if the powers to view these passports falls on people's employers, or the police.
👉🏼 The digital identity industry - pushing their own products as immunity passport solutions - is failing to protect against these harms: they are interested in building wider digital identity systems, based on their pre-existing models, rather than developing a genuine solution to the risks of these passports.
Immunity Passports have become a much hyped tool to cope with this pandemic and the economic crisis. Essentially, with immunity passports those who are 'immune' to the virus would have some kind of certified document - whether physical or digital. This 'passport' would give them rights and privileges that other members of the community do not have.
👀 👉🏼 read more:
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4074/looming-disaster-immunity-passports-and-digital-identity
#privacyinternational #immunity #passports #digital #identity #thinkabout #why
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A digital ID that proves immunity will raise serious human rights issues. And the failure of the digital ID industry to deal with the issues of exclusion, exploitation and discrimination puts the entire industry under question.
👀 Key findings 👀
👉🏼 'Immunity passports' are a theoretical credential - most likely digital - that someone can prove that they have either had the virus and recovered, or have had a vaccination.
👉🏼 Immunity passports are being hyped as a solution to ending lockdowns around the world by actors including the proponents of digital identity; the digital identity industry; think-tanks; and the travel industry.
👉🏼 Yet there is currently no scientific basis for these measures, as highlighted by the WHO. The nature of what information would be held on an immunity passport is currently unknown.
👉🏼 The social risks of immunity passports are great: it serves as a route to discrimination and exclusion, particularly if the powers to view these passports falls on people's employers, or the police.
👉🏼 The digital identity industry - pushing their own products as immunity passport solutions - is failing to protect against these harms: they are interested in building wider digital identity systems, based on their pre-existing models, rather than developing a genuine solution to the risks of these passports.
Immunity Passports have become a much hyped tool to cope with this pandemic and the economic crisis. Essentially, with immunity passports those who are 'immune' to the virus would have some kind of certified document - whether physical or digital. This 'passport' would give them rights and privileges that other members of the community do not have.
👀 👉🏼 read more:
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4074/looming-disaster-immunity-passports-and-digital-identity
#privacyinternational #immunity #passports #digital #identity #thinkabout #why
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App Manager v2.5.9
- [Feature] Merged App Info as a single tab in App Details
- [Feature] Added option to reset all app ops
- [Feature] Added option to revoke all dangerous app ops/permissions
- [Feature] Highlight trackers in the component tabs
- [Feature] Added option to save manifest and class dump
- [Feature] Added the ability to grant/revoke development permissions
- [Feature] Added sorting options for components, app ops and uses permissions tabs
- [Feature] Added sort by wifi usage in the App Usage window
- [Feature] Added launch button in the App Info tab
- [Feature] Added never ask option to usage status prompt
- [Feature] Added long click to select apps in the main window
- [Feature] Added changelog within the app
- [Fix] Click to select apps during selection mode
- [Fix] Improved manifest loading for large apps
- [Fix] Get real activity name for activities that use activity-alias
- [Fix] Fixed background colors
- [Fix] Fixed crashing when loading the services tab for non-root users
- [Feature] Merged App Info as a single tab in App Details
- [Feature] Added option to reset all app ops
- [Feature] Added option to revoke all dangerous app ops/permissions
- [Feature] Highlight trackers in the component tabs
- [Feature] Added option to save manifest and class dump
- [Feature] Added the ability to grant/revoke development permissions
- [Feature] Added sorting options for components, app ops and uses permissions tabs
- [Feature] Added sort by wifi usage in the App Usage window
- [Feature] Added launch button in the App Info tab
- [Feature] Added never ask option to usage status prompt
- [Feature] Added long click to select apps in the main window
- [Feature] Added changelog within the app
- [Fix] Click to select apps during selection mode
- [Fix] Improved manifest loading for large apps
- [Fix] Get real activity name for activities that use activity-alias
- [Fix] Fixed background colors
- [Fix] Fixed crashing when loading the services tab for non-root users
This Company is Selling Bizarre and Expensive Spy Equipment to Police
Motherboard obtained a secret catalog of surveillance tools advertising covert recording devices disguised as energy drinks, vapes, t-shirts, and more.
Last month, a small Georgia company that sells equipment to law enforcement sent out a jovial email to its private mailing list, with special summer offers and a copy of its 2020 catalogue of covert surveillance tools.
June had seen what was, by some estimates, the largest protest movement in U.S. history. Tens of millions of people filled streets across the country to protest the police killing of Black Americans, sparking unprecedented momentum for defunding the police and intense scrutiny of police tactics and technology.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkyz47/this-company-is-selling-bizarre-and-expensive-spy-equipment-to-police
#us #surveillance
Motherboard obtained a secret catalog of surveillance tools advertising covert recording devices disguised as energy drinks, vapes, t-shirts, and more.
Last month, a small Georgia company that sells equipment to law enforcement sent out a jovial email to its private mailing list, with special summer offers and a copy of its 2020 catalogue of covert surveillance tools.
June had seen what was, by some estimates, the largest protest movement in U.S. history. Tens of millions of people filled streets across the country to protest the police killing of Black Americans, sparking unprecedented momentum for defunding the police and intense scrutiny of police tactics and technology.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkyz47/this-company-is-selling-bizarre-and-expensive-spy-equipment-to-police
#us #surveillance
Vice
This Company is Selling Bizarre and Expensive Spy Equipment to Police
Motherboard obtained a secret catalog of surveillance tools advertising covert recording devices disguised as energy drinks, vapes, t-shirts, and more.
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Blocking weirdos is not censorship?
We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm. In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called ‘QAnon’ activity across the service.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1285726277719199746
#QAnon #twitter
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We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm. In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called ‘QAnon’ activity across the service.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1285726277719199746
#QAnon #twitter
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Uber offers COVID-19 contact tracing help amid chaotic U.S. response
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has quietly launched a service to give public health officials quick access to data on drivers and riders presumed to have come into contact with someone infected with COVID-19, company officials told Reuters.
The service, offered free of charge, could help burnish the image of the ride-hailing giant, which recently launched a new ad campaign spotlighting its “No Mask, No Ride” policy in the United States.
Now being promoted to government health officials in all the countries where it operates, the service provides health departments with data about who used Uber’s services and when and allows health agencies to urge affected users into quarantine, the company officials said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-uber-focus/uber-offers-covid-19-contact-tracing-help-amid-chaotic-u-s-response-idUSKCN24L17X
#uber #privacy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has quietly launched a service to give public health officials quick access to data on drivers and riders presumed to have come into contact with someone infected with COVID-19, company officials told Reuters.
The service, offered free of charge, could help burnish the image of the ride-hailing giant, which recently launched a new ad campaign spotlighting its “No Mask, No Ride” policy in the United States.
Now being promoted to government health officials in all the countries where it operates, the service provides health departments with data about who used Uber’s services and when and allows health agencies to urge affected users into quarantine, the company officials said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-uber-focus/uber-offers-covid-19-contact-tracing-help-amid-chaotic-u-s-response-idUSKCN24L17X
#uber #privacy
The North Face Led a Campaign Against Facebook — While Handing Over Your Data to Facebook
Advertisers can’t quit Facebook
OnJune 19, with the seemingly bold claim “We’re in,” outdoors brand The North Face lent powerful corporate backing to the Stop Hate for Profit movement.
Except there’s a problem. Instead of “We’re in!,” The North Face’s tweet perhaps should have read, “We’re in! Kinda!”
Stop Hate for Profit calls on advertisers to boycott Facebook, in response to the rampant “hate and misinformation across Facebook’s products, which are supported by paid advertisements.”
Although The North Face and hundreds of other brands are indeed pausing their Facebook advertising campaigns, they’re still handing Facebook millions of data points about their customers every single day.
https://onezero.medium.com/the-north-face-led-a-campaign-against-facebook-while-handing-over-your-data-to-facebook-b8f17540fcfa
#facebook #thenorthface #privacy
Advertisers can’t quit Facebook
OnJune 19, with the seemingly bold claim “We’re in,” outdoors brand The North Face lent powerful corporate backing to the Stop Hate for Profit movement.
Except there’s a problem. Instead of “We’re in!,” The North Face’s tweet perhaps should have read, “We’re in! Kinda!”
Stop Hate for Profit calls on advertisers to boycott Facebook, in response to the rampant “hate and misinformation across Facebook’s products, which are supported by paid advertisements.”
Although The North Face and hundreds of other brands are indeed pausing their Facebook advertising campaigns, they’re still handing Facebook millions of data points about their customers every single day.
https://onezero.medium.com/the-north-face-led-a-campaign-against-facebook-while-handing-over-your-data-to-facebook-b8f17540fcfa
#facebook #thenorthface #privacy
Spanish police will use facial recognition in shows to detect people with pending cases
La policía española usará el reconocimiento facial en espectáculos para detectar personas con causas pendientes
https://www.vozpopuli.com/economia-y-finanzas/reconocimiento-facial-causas-pendientes_0_1375363234.html
deepl translation:
The Guardia Civil launches a contract for the development of a technological system with which to also control the illegal dumping of waste
The Ministry of the Interior wants a solution based on facial recognition to be installed in large sports or cultural events - football matches, concerts... - that will allow to detect people with pending cases with the Justice.
This is reflected in the agreement signed between the portfolio directed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska and the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology, E.P.E., regarding the pre-commercial contracting of R&D services in the field of rural security. The objective is "to provide the Guardia Civil with innovative solutions that respond to specific technological challenges, allowing them to increase protection and security in the rural environment. This is because, in the rural environment, due to its extension and, in some cases, isolation, it is not possible to deploy a sufficient number of agents under certain exceptional situations".
Although the document refers to the rural environment, the Convention also reflects the interest in protection in "mass events". In fact, the text hypothetically exemplifies the use of these systems at the Viñarock music festival held annually in Albacete.
This type of system consists of cameras connected to the Internet which in turn are linked to the databases of the state security forces with which they compare the images captured
"It is envisaged that the innovative solution can be based, in a general way, on an innovative and intelligent technological system consisting of the following components: License plate recognition system (...), mobile phone detection system, (...) and a people recognition system (e.g. facial recognition system), to be installed at the access control point itself at the entrance to the event. Its purpose is to provide the agents who control access to the event with alerts to stop people with pending issues with the justice system," the agreement details.
This type of system is composed of cameras connected to the Internet which in turn are linked to the databases of the State Security Forces and Corps. In a matter of seconds, they are able to analyze the faces of those attending an event and compare their facial features with the images in the database of those with pending cases with the justice system. It is a system that has already been used in several countries, such as China or the United Kingdom.
The system proposed by Interior also provides for the location of valuable objects (mobile phones, wallets, etc.) stolen from those attending the event. "It is envisaged that the innovative solution can be based, in a general way, on a technological system formed by low-cost ("decoy") and, if possible, reusable marking elements installed on the valuables susceptible to theft (mobile phones, wallets, etc.), as well as a system for detecting the marking elements to be installed at the exit points of the event. Its purpose is to provide agents controlling the event's exit points with alerts to stop people carrying such decoys whose theft has been reported during the event".
The document also explains that the solutions proposed must comply with the General Data Protection Regulations (RGPD), the Directive that ensures the proper treatment of data of all Europeans - it is a rule of compulsory transposition to the Spanish legal framework.
Drones against poaching and fire
This agreement has not been the only one published these days to modernize the systems of citizen protection. The Guardia Civil also wants to make a technological turnaround to its platforms to combat poaching, fires and illegal dumping of waste into river areas.
La policía española usará el reconocimiento facial en espectáculos para detectar personas con causas pendientes
https://www.vozpopuli.com/economia-y-finanzas/reconocimiento-facial-causas-pendientes_0_1375363234.html
deepl translation:
The Guardia Civil launches a contract for the development of a technological system with which to also control the illegal dumping of waste
The Ministry of the Interior wants a solution based on facial recognition to be installed in large sports or cultural events - football matches, concerts... - that will allow to detect people with pending cases with the Justice.
This is reflected in the agreement signed between the portfolio directed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska and the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology, E.P.E., regarding the pre-commercial contracting of R&D services in the field of rural security. The objective is "to provide the Guardia Civil with innovative solutions that respond to specific technological challenges, allowing them to increase protection and security in the rural environment. This is because, in the rural environment, due to its extension and, in some cases, isolation, it is not possible to deploy a sufficient number of agents under certain exceptional situations".
Although the document refers to the rural environment, the Convention also reflects the interest in protection in "mass events". In fact, the text hypothetically exemplifies the use of these systems at the Viñarock music festival held annually in Albacete.
This type of system consists of cameras connected to the Internet which in turn are linked to the databases of the state security forces with which they compare the images captured
"It is envisaged that the innovative solution can be based, in a general way, on an innovative and intelligent technological system consisting of the following components: License plate recognition system (...), mobile phone detection system, (...) and a people recognition system (e.g. facial recognition system), to be installed at the access control point itself at the entrance to the event. Its purpose is to provide the agents who control access to the event with alerts to stop people with pending issues with the justice system," the agreement details.
This type of system is composed of cameras connected to the Internet which in turn are linked to the databases of the State Security Forces and Corps. In a matter of seconds, they are able to analyze the faces of those attending an event and compare their facial features with the images in the database of those with pending cases with the justice system. It is a system that has already been used in several countries, such as China or the United Kingdom.
The system proposed by Interior also provides for the location of valuable objects (mobile phones, wallets, etc.) stolen from those attending the event. "It is envisaged that the innovative solution can be based, in a general way, on a technological system formed by low-cost ("decoy") and, if possible, reusable marking elements installed on the valuables susceptible to theft (mobile phones, wallets, etc.), as well as a system for detecting the marking elements to be installed at the exit points of the event. Its purpose is to provide agents controlling the event's exit points with alerts to stop people carrying such decoys whose theft has been reported during the event".
The document also explains that the solutions proposed must comply with the General Data Protection Regulations (RGPD), the Directive that ensures the proper treatment of data of all Europeans - it is a rule of compulsory transposition to the Spanish legal framework.
Drones against poaching and fire
This agreement has not been the only one published these days to modernize the systems of citizen protection. The Guardia Civil also wants to make a technological turnaround to its platforms to combat poaching, fires and illegal dumping of waste into river areas.
Vozpópuli
Interior usará el reconocimiento facial en espectáculos para detectar personas con causas pendientes
La Guardia Civil lanza un contrato para el desarrollo de un sistema tecnológico con el que controlar también el vertido ilegal de residuos
In this sense, it divides the demands into three areas. The first of these, which has to do with hunting and poaching activities, states that "the innovative solution should be based primarily on the individual or joint use of any of the following technologies: networks of sensors/cameras deployed in land positions in the operating environment; unmanned aerial vehicles with different types of sensors/cameras on board and mobile phone detectors (based on IMSI-catcher) in order to obtain identification information from the mobile phone that passes through the detection point", explains the agreement.
The system, referred to as IMSI-catcher, is defined in Wikipedia as a mobile subscriber international identity receiver, "a telephone listening device used to intercept mobile phone traffic and track the location data of mobile phone users.
#spain #police #gov #why #cam #facial #recognition #shows
The system, referred to as IMSI-catcher, is defined in Wikipedia as a mobile subscriber international identity receiver, "a telephone listening device used to intercept mobile phone traffic and track the location data of mobile phone users.
#spain #police #gov #why #cam #facial #recognition #shows
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BTDig
dhtcrawler is a DHT crawler written in erlang. It can join a DHT network and crawl many P2P torrents. The program save all torrent info into database and provide an http interface to search a torrent by a keyword
Source code: https://github.com/btdig/dhtcrawler2
Tor: btdiggwzoyrwwbiv.onion
Clearnet: https://btdig.com
#p2p #torrent #DHT
dhtcrawler is a DHT crawler written in erlang. It can join a DHT network and crawl many P2P torrents. The program save all torrent info into database and provide an http interface to search a torrent by a keyword
Source code: https://github.com/btdig/dhtcrawler2
Tor: btdiggwzoyrwwbiv.onion
Clearnet: https://btdig.com
#p2p #torrent #DHT
GitHub
GitHub - btdig/dhtcrawler2: dhtcrawler is a DHT crawler written in erlang. It can join a DHT network and crawl many P2P torrents.…
dhtcrawler is a DHT crawler written in erlang. It can join a DHT network and crawl many P2P torrents. The program save all torrent info into database and provide an http interface to search a torre...
Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition
The complaint, filed in Europe, threatens Microsoft’s recent ability to avoid regulatory scrutiny.
Microsoft is undeniably one of the Big Tech elite, given its size, wealth and stock market value. But the software giant has stood apart from Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple in one important respect: Microsoft, once the bully of the tech world, has escaped antitrust scrutiny so far.
Now Slack Technologies, whose popular chat and collaboration software has become embedded in the daily routines of millions of workers at thousands of companies, is hoping to change that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/technology/slack-microsoft-antitrust.html
#europe #microsoft #antitrust
The complaint, filed in Europe, threatens Microsoft’s recent ability to avoid regulatory scrutiny.
Microsoft is undeniably one of the Big Tech elite, given its size, wealth and stock market value. But the software giant has stood apart from Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple in one important respect: Microsoft, once the bully of the tech world, has escaped antitrust scrutiny so far.
Now Slack Technologies, whose popular chat and collaboration software has become embedded in the daily routines of millions of workers at thousands of companies, is hoping to change that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/technology/slack-microsoft-antitrust.html
#europe #microsoft #antitrust
NY Times
Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition
The complaint, filed in Europe, threatens Microsoft’s recent ability to avoid regulatory scrutiny.
Vodacom partners with China's Alipay to create 'super app' in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Vodacom Group (VODJ.J) plans to create a ‘super app’ in partnership with digital payment provider Alipay, part of China’s Alibaba group (BABA.N), to allow consumers in South Africa to shop online, pay bills and send money to family from next year.
The app will also help small to medium enterprises (SME) access financial services such as lending and insurance, the two companies said in a joint statement on Monday.
Vodacom and other mobile operators in South Africa are seeking to expand their mobile payment apps into online market places to leverage their network and customer base.
They are also looking to tap more than 11 million South Africans who do not have bank accounts, to offer lending and other financial services.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vodacom-grp-alipay-safrica/vodacom-partners-with-chinas-alipay-to-create-super-app-in-south-africa-idUSKCN24L1LY
#africa #southafrica #vodafone #alipay
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Vodacom Group (VODJ.J) plans to create a ‘super app’ in partnership with digital payment provider Alipay, part of China’s Alibaba group (BABA.N), to allow consumers in South Africa to shop online, pay bills and send money to family from next year.
The app will also help small to medium enterprises (SME) access financial services such as lending and insurance, the two companies said in a joint statement on Monday.
Vodacom and other mobile operators in South Africa are seeking to expand their mobile payment apps into online market places to leverage their network and customer base.
They are also looking to tap more than 11 million South Africans who do not have bank accounts, to offer lending and other financial services.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vodacom-grp-alipay-safrica/vodacom-partners-with-chinas-alipay-to-create-super-app-in-south-africa-idUSKCN24L1LY
#africa #southafrica #vodafone #alipay