"A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from"
https://www.404media.co/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs
#InternetPrivacy #InternetSecurity #PersonalPrivacy #DataBrokers #AirlineIndustry #CommercialAirlines
#anncavoukian #CanadianCharter #CanadianConstitutionFoundation #canadianlaw #civilliberties #constitutionalrights #digitalsurveillancecanada #distracteddriving #dominicnaimool #dronepolicing #dronesurveillance #joshdehaas #KingstonPolice #lawenforcementtechnology #legalchallenge #personalprivacy #policedrones #policetechnologyethics #privacyrights #publicsafety #Section8 #surveillancecontroversy #trafficenforcement #unreasonablesearchandseizure
Can We Still Recover the Right to Be Left Alone?
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lowry-pressley-right-to-oblivion/
#HackerNews #CanWeStillRecover #theRightToBeLeftAlone #PrivacyRights #DigitalFreedom #PersonalPrivacy #RightToOblivion
Well, it was just a matter of time, I suppose:
#security #personalprivacy
https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/apple-drops-iclouds-advanced-data.html
The South Staffs Water data breach is a wake-up call! 🔓 Learn valuable lessons on how to protect your personal data and essential services from future breaches. Stay safe and secure! #DataSecurity #CyberProtection #PersonalPrivacy #DataBreach #TechTips
https://pupuweb.com/lessons-south-staffs-water-data-breach-protect-personal-essential-services/
Dear third-party vendors,
If your cookies are "legitimate interest" why can I reject/refuse them?
Рекомендований софт для підвищення приватності
https://hackyourmom.com/pryvatnist/rekomendovanyj-soft-dlya-pidvyshhennya-pryvatnosti-2/
It's time that the individual's right to privacy includes the protection of their image. Otherwise corporations using digital technology or AI based applications will destroy people, either inadvertently or willingly. You could wake up tomorrow with your image in a commercial for adult diapers. Without firm legislation protecting your rights you will be faced with substantial legal fees to seek restitution.
2) There should be Federal legislation that protects every individual's likeness from use by any AI application, and any company that wishes to use your image must obtain your approval or face steep fines.
- Issue = Entertainment studios seeking permanent use of an individual's image for films or shows without compensation.
- Issue = people using AI to post inappropriate images, like Trump and Martin Luther King embracing, to promote false messages.
This is my space. Lots of (lucky) humans have benefited from these services but #SiliconValley #BigTech #WallStreet approach to online #MentalHealth Services & Apps have been an ethical con-job and #PersonalPrivacy nightmare.
#Facebook #Meta #Healthcare #Therapy #Privacy #DigitalMentalHealth #MedMastodon #SurveillanceCapitalism #Health #OSI #PTSD #PTSI #Anxiety #Surveillance
Good round up of links here…
https://www.metafilter.com/188197/The-Therapy-Equivalent-of-Uber
#illuminaughtii 📺
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO7-DvkiP7M
I regards to the #NYT article against #Signal and #PersonalPrivacy, by now we should all know and understand on which side the #NewYorkTimes is, and has always been.
I’ve been a big fan of the blue bird, and am looking for my old (and new) nest mates, who are interested in:
#medicine, #science, #covid19, #virology, #immunology, #epidemiology, #CovidIsNotOver, #democracy, #FreeSpeech (with reasonable limits), #FreeThought, #CriticalThinking, #Tolerance, #OpinionsArentFacts, #TruthVsLies, #PersonalPrivacy, #GovernmentTransparency (not secrecy, influence peddling or back room deals), #Justice, #Politics, #News, #Nature
@explorergrace Thanks Grace. I thought I found a place with more medicine and science than here, but it called itself mstdn.social
What is it? (Sorry I realise you guys are up to your a in alligators cause its gotten so busy) But I’m trying to find where there’s a concentration of people in my major fields of interest - #science, #medicine, #covid, #democracy, #personalprivacy, #governmenttransparency, #justice, #freethought, #Research, and fact-based science.
Introduction
These are a few of my favourite things …
#HeWhoLaughsLasts
#Politics (which can be funny but most often isn’t)
#Medicine
#Science
#Research
#Innovation
#AI
#COVID19
#Immunology
#NewZealand
#Canada
#WorldNews
#Orwell
#1984
#Fahrenheit451
#Censorship (very anti-)
#FreeSpeech (with limited limitations)
#FreeThought
#PersonalPrivacy
#GovernmentTransparency
#GovernmentAccountability
#Justice
#Peace
#Globalism (not a fan)
#Neoliberalism (not a fan)
#Writing
#Art
#Astronomy
Facial Recognition for Covid-19 Tracking in Seoul
The city of Bucheon, population 830,000, is a satellite city southwest of Seoul and part of the greater metropolitan area and the site of a pilot program to apply AI facial recognition and tracking technologies to aid Covid-19 epidemiological investigators. South Korea has been generally praised for its rapid response to coronavirus patient tracking since the beginning of the outbreak. People entering public facilities enter their information on a roster or scan a QR code. Epidemiologists tracking outbreaks use a variety of data available to them, including these logs, electronic transaction data, mobile phone location logs, CCTV footage, and interviews. But the workload can be overwhelming, and there are only a fixed number of workers with the required training available, despite efforts to hire more.
As contract tracing has been done to-date, it takes one investigator up to an hour to trace the movements of one patient. When the system goes online in January, it should be able to trace one patient in less than a minute, handling up to ten traces simultaneously. Project officials say there is no plan for this system to expand to the rest of Seoul, nor nationwide. But with the growing virus caseloads and continued difficulties hiring and training investigators, it's not unexpected that officials will be turning to these technologies more and more to keep up with the increasing workload.
Like the controversy surrounding the recent facial recognition project at Incheon International Airport, people are becoming concerned about the privacy implications and the specter of a Big Brother government that tracks each and every move of its citizens -- a valid fear, given the state of technology today. The project planners note that the data is being legally collected and its usage subject to strict rules. Korean privacy law requires consent for the collecting and storage of biometric data. But there are exceptions for situations such as disease control and prevention.
Even if all the privacy concerns are solves, we wonder just how effective these AI systems will be for tracking people wearing masks. This is not an issue unique to South Korea or even Asia. Many countries around the world are turning to such technologies (see this article from the Columbia School of Law) and are having similar struggles striking the balance between privacy and public health requirements.
[Banner image: "facial-recognition-1" by Electronic_Frontier_Foundation. Thanks for all you do!]
#news #covidtracing #facialrecognition #facialtracking #personalprivacy #seoul
why Google responded to some requests, while other companies did not?
“authorities could be empowered to search and arrest suspects without a warrant, if they do not comply with requests. Hong Kong staff of service providers based overseas may also be at risk.”
#userdata #Governement #securitylaw #personalPrivacy #google
: Concerns about the risks that the #InternetofThings has posed on #personalprivacy have been raised for a few years. #Dataprotection legislations, such as #GDPR, advocates "#PrivacybyDesign" and encourages us to re-prioritize #digitalprivacy when deploying technologies and building services. One promise of the #openweb platform is enhanced privacy in comparison to other technology stacks.
