nationalsecurity
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Advocacy Groups Demand Amazon, MGM Cancel Creepy ‘Ring Nation’ Surveillance Reality Show
40 privacy and racial justice groups signed an open letter demanding MGM Studios cancel Ring Nation, a dystopian reality television show based on security footage captured from Ring home cameras. The groups warned airing the show risks “normalizing and promoting Amazon Ring’s dangerous network of surveillance cameras,” and could put vulnerable communities at heightened privacy…
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Surveillance Is Getting Less, Not More, ‘Orwellian’
“If we begin to feel that we’re being surveilled all the time, our behaviour changes. We begin to do less. We begin to think about things less. We begin to modify how we think.” – Tim Cook
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New Pentagon Budget Could Force the Military to Disclose When it Buys Americans’ Location Data
The House of Representatives approved changes to next year’s military budget requiring the Department of Defence to start disclosing any purchases of smartphone or web browsing data for which a warrant would ordinarily be required last month.
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What to Do if a Big Tech Company Steals Your Code
In 2016, cybersecurity pro Patrick Wardle heard a story that deeply disturbed him: cybercriminals were using malware to surreptitiously spy on people through their MacOS webcams and microphones. In one particularly unsettling case, a hacker had used a malware called “Fruitfly” to hijack the webcams of laptops with the goal of spying on children.