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Late last month, China began flooding American websites with a barrage of Internet traffic in an apparent effort to take out services that allow China’s Internet users to view websites otherwise blocked in the country.

#surveillance #censorship #china

Edward Snowden’s June 2013 leak has shone unprecedented light on the dark underside of Internet connectivity. So far, however, Canada has remained a victim largely hidden in the shadows.

#canada #surveillance #privacy #policy

The message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1 pm. Bring a book and wait for ES to find you.”

#surveillance #privacy

What are the issues that Canadian healthcare organizations need to consider with regard to American cloud services?

#privacy #health #canada #cloud

Starting July 24th, Verizon Wireless will begin offering a customer loyalty program called Smart Rewards. Hidden in the fine print, though, is a requirement to enroll in a separate program called Verizon Selects.

#surveillance #verizon #privacy #business model

In its resolution 68/167, the General Assembly requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a report on the protection and promotion of the right to privacy in the context of domestic and extraterritorial surveillance and/or the interception of digital communications and the collection of personal data, including on a mass scale, to the Human Rights Council

#privacy #surveillance #policy

"The right to privacy in the digital age" report puts beyond doubt that the very existence of mass surveillance programmes - which the report notes are becoming a "dangerous habit" - interfere with human rights.

#privacy #surveillance #policy

All of us engaged in research over networks must commit to finding a way to modernize the process of informed consent. Instead of lowering our standards to the level of unread click-through agreements, let’s raise the standards for everyone.

#informed choice #consent #transparency

Privacy policies are too complicated. We've simplified them.

#privacy #transparency

The Amazon Fire Phone is a fascinating machine for connecting you with stuff to buy. It's probably also the biggest single invasion of your privacy for commercial purposes ever. (UPDATED)

#privacy #social media #big data

The purpose of this report is to allow users to make informed decisions about the companies with whom they do business. It is also designed to incentivize companies to adopt best practices, be transparent about how data flows to the government, and to take a stand for their users’ privacy in Congress and in the courts whenever it is possible to do so.

#privacy #transparency #monitoring

Even if your picture isn't on the Internet, computerized facial recognition makes it virtually impossible to keep your "faceprint" private

#facial recognition #privacy #Social media #surveillance

InformaCam uses the built in sensors in modern smartphones as well wi-fi, bluetooth, and cell tower information to create a snapshot of the environment in which an image or video was captured. This validates the date, time and location of capture. Digital signatures and encryption ensure that your media hasn't been tampered with and can only be opened by the intended recipient.

#facial recognition #geolocation #privacy #advocacy

Take a picture or load a photo or video from the Gallery, and ObscuraCam will automatically detect faces that you can pixelate, redact (blackout) or protect with funny nose and glasses. You can also invert pixelate, so that only the person you select is visible, and no one in the background can be recognized.

#facial recognition #privacy

By harnessing the vast wealth of publicly available cloud-based data, researchers are taking facial recognition technology to unprecedented levels

#facial recognition #surveillance #privacy

No more wasted nights barhopping. SceneTap is your #1 guide to a successful night out. View age, gender ratio & crowd-density of bars in REAL-TIME. (iPhone & Android)

#facial recognition #social media

So why is FRT so ubiquitous when it performs so poorly? The reason is that FRT doesn’t have to be perfect to be useful. For many purposes, having a computer that can guess a person’s gender or age by looking at their face is good enough. This means advertising hoardings that change their ads depending on who – a teenage girl or a middle-aged man – stands in front of them; vending machines that tell you what fizzy drink to buy based on what people who look like you are buying; web services that match the faces of abandoned dogs to those of humans looking for canine companions; car prototypes that fasten your seatbelt and start beeping at you when they suspect you might be drunk or are about to doze off.

#facial recognition #privacy #surveillance

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