Knocking on a friend's door? Bringing a neighbor a piece of mail? Walking down the street in front of a home with a Google Nest camera? Your facial data might be uploaded to Google Cloud fightforthefuture.org/actions/tell-g…
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Iowa City, IA شامل ہوئے Aralık 2012
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Watch “Watch the Watchers Preview” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/999710812
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There aren't enough public conversations held about our accelerating plunge into a total surveillance society & any effort that can spark those conversations is worth supporting. The fact that this one is youth-led makes it particularly worthy of support: #story" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">seedandspark.com/fund/watch-the…
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The City Council ended up passing the proposed ordinance amendments by a 4-3 vote: dailyiowan.com/2024/08/27/iow…
More on this soon.
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Excellent letter to the editor by Nick Bergus criticizing the Iowa City City Council for weakening our traffic surveillance ordinance: littlevillagemag.com/letter-to-the-…
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The media is beginning to write with noticeably more skepticism about @Apple's plan to transform your iPhone into a spyPhone. Keep pushing! mediaite.com/news/edward-sn…
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Apple put out an FAQ *over the weekend* that basically says "we pinky swear we won't abuse the system and we will refuse demands to compromise the system" so I am sure that's definitely reassuring to people.
apple.com/child-safety/p…
Sarah Jamie Lewis@SarahJamieLewis
...but honesty is the *only* thing you are relying on: In a climate of increasing state authoritarianism, legal attacks on the general right to privacy, cyber attacks, and insider threats you are banking on Apple, or someone who can compel Apple, from never abusing that position.
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“Regulated encryption” is just a euphemism for government backdoors into our communications. politico.eu/article/we-nee…
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Sign onto the About Face commitment to ending government use of face surveillance where you live. aboutfacenow.org
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Opinion: At gunpoint, police handcuffed me after license-plate reader error (by @ZachWNorris)
mercurynews.com/2021/06/23/opi…
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Exclusive: Senators Wyden + Lieu are introducing a bipartisan bill that would be the 1st federal law restricting the use of cell-site simulators, or "stingrays"
When police use these, they can intercept boatloads of data from thousands of devices at once
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Police have numerous ways to get “free” technology—at the cost of public transparency and accountability. Senior Associate @clareangelyn explores in a new blog post: medium.com/center-on-priv…
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.@RepMMM hasn’t signed on to legislation that would ban police from using unjust and unreliable facial recognition technology. Tell them to sponsor the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020: BanFacialRecognition.com banfacialrecognition.com
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.@RepCindyAxne hasn’t signed on to legislation that would ban police from using unjust and unreliable facial recognition technology. Tell them to sponsor the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020: BanFacialRecognition.com banfacialrecognition.com
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This is the best video I’ve seen of the arrest. Based on this footage, Josie is not seen grabbing an officer
Tisia Muzinga@TisiaMuzinga
I just spoke to Ashley Dorelus. She tells me there was an arrest during what was suppose to be a peaceful protest at the Iowa State Capitol this afternoon. She sent me this footage:
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Umm, what about a little pesky fact that automated traffic surveillance is illegal in Iowa City: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
The Daily Iowan@TheDailyIowan
Iowa City leaders are considering using cameras to address traffic violations, limiting the interactions between drivers and police. bit.ly/30Q2d78
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Flock is the Ring doorbell of license plate recognition; we're working on banning this and other types of mass surveillance in Iowa City.
Reach out if you'd like to help!
Motherboard@motherboard
On CYBER we talk about how Flock, an unknown surveillance-camera company, is becoming a major tool of American police. bit.ly/3vgO1C0
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