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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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Your location or browsing habits could lead to price increases when buying online

Malwarebytes

The name for this method is surveillance pricing, and the FTC has just released initial findings of a report looking into that practice. In July 2024, the FTC requested information from eight companies offering surveillance pricing products and services that incorporate data about consumers characteristics and behavior.

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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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Canadian Man Arrested in Snowflake Data Extortions

Krebs on Security

After scouring darknet markets for stolen Snowflake account credentials, the hackers began raiding the data storage repositories used by some of the world’s largest corporations. government agencies and first responders. 404Media reported recently that the breach does not appear to impact the main consumer Verizon network.

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Personal AI Assistants and Privacy

Schneier on Security

The market will not provide this on its own. And the incentives of surveillance capitalism are just too much to resist. AI whose biases are understood, and corrected for. AI whose goals are understood. That won’t secretly betray your trust to someone else. Corporations are profit maximizers, at the expense of society.

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DeepSeek: The Silent AI Takeover That Could Cripple Markets and Fuel China’s Cyberwarfare

Security Boulevard

David Jemmett, CEO & Founder of CISO Global Unlike Western AI systems governed by privacy laws and ethical considerations, DeepSeek operates under a regime notorious for state-sponsored hacking, surveillance, and cyber espionage.