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The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying.

Schneier on Security

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.

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AI and Mass Spying

Schneier on Security

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.

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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Schneier on Security

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. We never lie to our search engines.

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Online Privacy and Overfishing

Schneier on Security

Internet surveillance, and the resultant loss of privacy, is following the same trajectory. The pervasive nature of modern technology makes surveillance easier than ever before, while each successive generation of the public is accustomed to the privacy status quo of their youth.

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Bruce Schneier predicts a future of AI-powered mass spying: Lock and Code S05E03

Malwarebytes

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… If the internet helped create the era of mass surveillance, then artificial intelligence will bring about an era of mass spying. Surveillance-based manipulation is the business model [of the internet] and anything that gives a company an advantage, they’re going to do.”

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AI and the Evolution of Social Media

Schneier on Security

Today, tech’s darling is artificial intelligence. 1: Advertising The role advertising plays in the internet arose more by accident than anything else. When commercialization first came to the internet, there was no easy way for users to make micropayments to do things like viewing a web page.

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Bug Left Some Windows PCs Dangerously Unpatched

Krebs on Security

This flaw lets attackers bypass Microsoft’s “ Mark of the Web ,” a Windows security feature that marks files downloaded from the Internet as potentially unsafe. Because from where I sit, Recall is a feature nobody asked for that turns Windows into a bug (of the surveillance variety).