#AI: New #GPS #system for #microorganisms could revolutionise police work

Source: lunduniversity.lu.se/article/n…

This means you can use #bacteria to determine whether someone has just been to the beach, got off the train in the city centre or taken a walk in the woods. This opens up new possibilities within #medicine, #epidemiology and #forensics.

#police #surveillance #location #technology #privacy #news #future

New GPS system for microorganisms could revolutionise police work

Lund University. Microorganisms are organisms, such as bacteria, that are invisible to the naked eye. The word microbiome is used to describe all the microorganisms in a particular environment.

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Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.

vimeo.com/96727211

#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #capitalism #surveillance #BigWeb #web #SmallTech #ethicalTech #privacy #humanRights mstdn.ca/@teledyn/113489107039…

Aral Balkan - Free is a Lie - Thinking Digital 2014

At Thinking Digital 2013, Aral Balkan delivered the most watched and favourited Thinking Digital talk of all time. In 2014, Aral returned to Thinking Digital…

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It is called Active Listening, and Alexa has a patent on it.

buttondown.com/creativegood/ar…

Surveillance never sits still

To mark the seventh anniversary of my WFMU show Techtonic, I built this week’s episode around a simple reminder: Even more devices are spying on you. I say...

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#Mauritius election 2024: Amid #wiretapping #scandal, what’s at stake?

Source: aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/10/…

Tensions have further escalated after authorities last week imposed a social #media ban until November 11, a day after the #elections. The unprecedented move provoked outrage from #opposition groups and citizens, prompting the #government to overturn it a day later.

#politics #Africa #election #censorship #internet #freedom #Democracy #surveillance #Problem #news

Mauritius election 2024: Amid wiretapping scandal, what’s at stake?

The election is being held amid explosive allegations of wiretapping operations by government operatives.

^{Shola Lawal (Al Jazeera)}

Encryption backdoors must never be allowed. To prove that Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar are free from any backdoor, the entire client code is published as open source. Let's fight against mass surveillance! ✊

tuta.com/blog/why-a-backdoor-i…

#privacy #encryption #surveillance #backdoors

Never ending story about the #security of fitness app...

Source: thehindu.com/sci-tech/technolo…

#news #stava #cybersecurity #sports #Problem #Software #privacy #politics #fail #online #cloude #surveillance #bigdata #economy

Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says

Le Monde reported that movements of some of the world’s most powerful leaders could be tracked online through a fitness app used by their bodyguards.

^{The Hindu}

Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r…

#BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI

The phrase "only sold to law enforcement", when used to describe a piece of technology, directly translates as:

- no transparency
- minimal accountability
- users are not answerable to citizen oversight
- government oversight will dictate which use is permissible and which isn't
- remember Pegasus?

This is how we should read the Location X story,
- here: arstechnica.com/information-te…
- and here: 404media.co/inside-the-u-s-gov…
- and here: notus.org/technology/cell-phon…

#surveillance #advertisingid

It’s Possible to Track Someone’s Personal Phone to an Abortion Clinic. And It’s Legal Too.

A company got access to a mobile phone-tracking tool used by law enforcement and U.S. government agencies across the country. They found significant privacy vulnerabilities.

^{Byron Tau (NOTUS)}

📷 #Germany has unleashed self-learning¹ AI camera systems on it's citizens.

AI + Mass Surveillance = Human Rights violations Made in Germany:
🇬🇧 madeindex.org/blog/ai-mass-sur…
🇩🇪 madeindex.org/de/ki-massenuebe…

Sources:
¹youtube.com/watch?v=IXQ_E6AZTX…

#Tech #Privacy #Government #Artificialintelligence #Software #IT #News #Mannheim #Deutschland #KI #MadeinGermany #HumanRights #Surveillance #kunstlicheintelligenz #uberwachung #AI #camera #regierung #nachrichten #georgeorwell #german #deutsch #BadenWurttemberg #parody