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Emergency Surveillance During COVID-19 Crisis

Schneier on Security

Israel is using emergency surveillance powers to track people who may have COVID-19, joining China and Iran in using mass surveillance in this way. I believe pressure will increase to leverage existing corporate surveillance infrastructure for these purposes in the US and other countries. Transparency. Due Process.

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Interview with the Head of the NSA’s Research Directorate

Schneier on Security

There’s a lot of talk about quantum computing, monitoring 5G networks, and the problems of big data: The math department, often in conjunction with the computer science department, helps tackle one of NSA’s most interesting problems: big data.

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Retailers Are Rapidly Scaling Surveillance of Australian Consumers — Why This Is a Red Flag

Tech Republic Security

Australian retailers are rolling out mass surveillance solutions to combat shoplifting, but a poor regulatory environment could mean high risks associated with data security and privacy.

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AI and Microdirectives

Schneier on Security

China is experimenting with even more powerful forms of automated legal enforcement and targeted surveillance. Made possible by advances in surveillance, communications technologies, and big-data analytics, microdirectives will be a new and predominant form of law shaped largely by machines.

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How Apple Gave Chinese Government Access to iCloud Data and Censored Apps

The Hacker News

In July 2018, when Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD) agreed to a deal with state-owned telco China Telecom to move users' iCloud data belonging to Apple's China-based users to the latter's servers, the shift raised concerns that it could make user data vulnerable to state surveillance.

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Busted for book club? Why cops want to see what you’re reading, with Sarah Lamdan (Lock and Code S05E14)

Malwarebytes

What’s changed, however, is that companies that libraries have relied on for published materials and collections—Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, Lexis Nexis—have reimagined themselves as big data companies. There are many layers to this data web, and libraries are seemingly stuck in the middle.

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Cybersecurity for the Public Interest

Schneier on Security

Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. So does society's underlying security needs. There is a security benefit to giving access to law enforcement, even though it would inevitably and invariably also give that access to others.