The Internet’s Magna Carta Moment: Bitcoin & The Value of Strong Assurances
"A profound implication of some highly decentralized networks is the opportunity, at scale, to deliver stronger assurances than even the largest nation-states today."
Customs Can Search Your Phone Illegally, Then Kick You Out of the USA
"They didn’t find a crime, but they did find a picture of Charles with marijuana from over a year prior. Based on that picture, his visa was revoked."
Amazon urged not to sell facial recognition tool to police
"Last fall Amazon added capabilities that allow it to identify people in videos and follow their movements almost instantly."
Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
"A private conversation was recorded by Amazon's Alexa -- the voice-controlled smart speaker -- and the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list."
UK Police’s Facial Recognition Systems Are Wrong Up To 98% Of The Time
"A staggering 95% of the facial recognition system’s 'matches' were actually wrongly identifying innocent people."
TeenSafe phone monitoring app leaks teens’ iCloud logins in plaintext
"Data from more than 10,000 accounts were exposed. The unprotected servers were letting anybody see Apple user IDs, parents’ email addresses, unique phone IDs, users’ attempts to 'find my iPhone' and passwords stored in plaintext."
Amazon is selling police departments a real-time facial recognition system
"Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure."
E-Driver’s Licenses Enable Round-the-Clock Surveillance
"This fully electronic license, which is encoded into smartphones, will grant police officers the power to monitor citizens without even having to conduct routine traffic stops."
Palantir, LAPD Use Predictive Policing to Monitor Specific People
"Both Operation LASER and PredPol are sponsored by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance’s SMART Policing Initiative, which aims to use 'evidence-based, data-driven' policing strategies to try and pre-empt and prevent crime."
Website leaked real-time location of most US cell phones to almost anyone
"A little-known service has been leaking the real-time locations of US cell phone users to anyone who takes the time to exploit an easily spotted bug in a free trial feature."
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