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surveillance

Sammlung von 14 Beiträgen

by Andreas Wiebe >

Biometric surveillance

The vision of total surveillance in public space is taking shape with the rapid development of biometric systems. Horror scenarios would be conceivable in which cameras are linked together in public spaces and track a person fully automatically [...]
Date: 19 Apr 2023 Tags: Biometric surveillance, Facial recognition, biometric, surveillance, BKA, 1984
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

Eufy cameras under criticism

Surveillance cameras are used in public spaces, in many companies, but also in private households. Those who purchase this type of technology primarily expect greater security. Hardly anyone would think that the surveillance cameras themselves could be a security risk. [...]
Date: 28 Feb 2023 Tags: cameras, Eufy Camera, surveillance, Cloud, Live stream
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

Monitoring with Clearview

Clearview facial recognition is able to identify people very accurately. However, all prevailing rules and laws should always be observed. Otherwise, people’s privacy can quickly be restricted, which should be considered urgently [...]
Date: 09 Jan 2023 Tags: Clearview, Software, identify, monitor, people, surveillance
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

What is the social credit system?

This applies, for example, to political attitudes or socially acceptable behavior. Thus, the social credit system has a kind of educational function. [...]
Date: 21 Dec 2022 Tags: social-credit-system, transparent, China, databases, surveillance, Facial recognition
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

Total surveillance in the car

Different systems are combined, such as speed limiters, cruise control and traffic sign recognition. This is intended to provide support for the driver. The permitted speed is immediately detected and checked. [...]
Date: 11 Jul 2022 Tags: car, surveillance, cockpit, data protection, data traffic
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

American phone monitoring company demonstrates surveillance powers

Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button. [...]
Date: 03 Jun 2022 Tags: monitoring, surveillance, Anomaly Six, spying, Phone-tracking, Anomaly 6
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

Mass surveillance is the wrong way

In the draft law on combating child sexual abuse, the EU Commission describes one of the most sophisticated mass surveillance apparatuses ever deployed outside China. [...]
Date: 25 May 2022 Tags: EU-Commission, Screening, CSAM, surveillance, private messages, protection
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

Microchip - RFID chip under the skin - curse or blessing

An RFID chip also has disadvantages, because these implants can also be used for espionage. [...]
Date: 12 May 2022 Tags: Microchip, RFID, chip, unter the skin, barcode, surveillance
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

Privacy Shield 2.0 - Small first steps of the EU and USA

Finally, there is news regarding the successor for the agreement - meaning the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. This should regulate and ensure a secure exchange of data. Of course, there are also reactions and criticism to this. [...]
Date: 20 Apr 2022 Tags: Privacy Shield, data exchange, agreement, Safe Harbor, TADPF, surveillance
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

CIA runs its own mass surveillance program

The 1981 presidential decree is the basis for the CIA so that masses of data on U.S. citizens and foreigners are collected. However, there is no parliamentary control of this. This happens beyond the elementary democratic oversight. [...]
Date: 14 Mar 2022 Tags: surveillance, CIA, program, financial data, blackened areas, spies
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

Surveillance via facial recognition - the end of privacy?

An enormously large facial database has been developed in America, and the numerous images come mainly from social networks. This database is already being used by U.S. authorities. However, facial recognition is [...]
Date: 08 Nov 2021 Tags: Facial recognition, research, facilitate, advertisers, RECOGNITION, surveillance
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

What is Google's Idle Detection?

With Google Chrome 94 there have been a lot of new things again. Incidentally, this also includes the API called Idle Detection. However, Mozilla and Apple developers are more than critical of this [...]
Date: 04 Nov 2021 Tags: Google, Chrome94, Idle Detection, API, surveillance, userdata
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

Data protection officers warn! Surveillance on a large scale! ‌

In various European and international countries, the state now accesses the previously and continuously collected data from the movement analysis of users. [...]
Date: 31 Mar 2020 Tags: GDPR, surveillance, Corona virus, data collection, data protection
 
by Andreas Wiebe >

Beware! Corona virus - License for mass surveillance?!

In Austria, Italy and Germany, people are monitored by respective telecommunications providers, this is now being discussed in Switzerland. Is cell phone tracking a sensible solution to contain the corona virus, or will the state have a powerful mass surveillance tool at its feet? [...]
Date: 26 Mar 2020 Tags: Corona virus, surveillance, telecommunications, cell phone tracking, privacy
 
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