This is for that creepy intersection of web tech watching us, AI analyzing us and our phones spying on us. This is what it is like to live under surveillance capitalism.
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As 404 Media reports based on documents leaked to its reporters, the TV and radio news giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims that its so-called "Active Listening" software uses artificial intelligence (AI) to "capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations." – In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention, by Noor Al-Sibai, for The Byte
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org links to this one about the Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework (TADPF):
TADPF was built on sand. On 10.7.2023 the European Commission issued Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1795, formally passing the TADPF. This allowed any EU business to freely transfer data to US providers, despite US surveillance laws. The European Commission relied on (very questionable) executive orders or letters by the US government, including the PCLOB, to find that the US is "essentially equivalent". However, these elements are not reflected in US statutes and codified law, because there was no majority in the US Congress to pass such laws. It was long criticised that the next US president could kill these protections with the strike of a pen. This scenario is now on the horizon. -- US Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal, by noyb
US Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal
Bilder nicht löschen lassen, da Beweise für Straftaten, aber trotzdem Massenüberwachung wegen der Pädokriminalität fordern.
Sicherheitspolitiker:innen nutzen immer wieder sexualisierte Gewalt gegen Kinder als Argument für die Vorratsdatenspeicherung oder Maßnahmen wie die Chatkontrolle. Mit der sogenannten Chatkontrolle sollen angeblich genau solche Inhalte bekämpft werden. In der Debatte um diese wird immer wieder von Befürworter-Seite darauf hingewiesen, dass es bei der Chatkontrolle auch darum gehe, dass solches Material nicht verbreitet würde. … Wie passt das zusammen, dass der Staat die Verbreitung der Bilder auf der einen Seite, wo es sehr einfach ist, nicht stoppt und auf der anderen Seite immer mehr Überwachung fordert? – Geheimer Beschluss: Pädokriminelle Inhalte bleiben trotz Kenntnis der Polizei im Netz, von Markus Reuter, für netzpolitik.org
Geheimer Beschluss: Pädokriminelle Inhalte bleiben trotz Kenntnis der Polizei im Netz
Dahinter steht folgende Recherche von STRG_F und Panorama:
Deutsche Ermittler verzichten weiterhin darauf, Fotos und Videos von Kindesmissbrauch systematisch zu löschen, selbst wenn es technisch möglich wäre. Das belegen nach Panorama-Recherchen aktuelle Daten und ein vertraulicher Bericht der Innenminister. – Kindesmissbrauch im Darknet: Polizei löscht strafbare Bilder nicht, von Robert Bongen, Lisa Hagen, Tobias Hübers und Daniel Moßbrucker, NDR
Kindesmissbrauch im Darknet: Polizei löscht strafbare Bilder nicht
An IMSI-catcher-catcher:
It is developed to run on an Orbic mobile hotspot … which is available for $20 or less at the time of this writing. … Rayhunter works by intercepting, storing, and analyzing the control traffic (but not user traffic, such as web requests) between the mobile hotspot Rayhunter runs on and the cell tower to which it’s connected. Rayhunter analyzes the traffic in real-time and looks for suspicious events, which could include unusual requests like the base station (cell tower) trying to downgrade your connection to 2G which is vulnerable to further attacks, or the base station requesting your IMSI under suspicious circumstances. -- Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Facebook. 🤮 @aral@mastodon.ar.al reviews a book:
But the one thing that recurs over and over again is that the people at Facebook appear worse than even their worst critics (which I count myself among) have been able to imagine from the outside. This isn’t that surprising for me since, over the years, any time anyone on the inside leaked any information to me, it’s always been worse than I’d imagined. — Careless people, by Aral Balkan, reviewing the book by Sarah Wynn-Williams