Data collection Internet Surveillance 
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Although electronic surveillance programs authorized by EO 12333 generally target foreign intelligence from foreign targets, its permissive targeting standards allow for the substantial collection of Americans’ communications containing little to no foreign intelligence value.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
The reason these threats are so real is that it's not difficult to hide surveillance or control infrastructure in computer components, and if they're not turned on, they're very difficult to find. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance. Our allies do it.
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Schneier on Security
JANUARY 21, 2022
News article : It’s not clear whether the security flaws were intentional or not, but the report speculated that proper encryption might interfere with some of China’s ubiquitous online surveillance tools, especially systems that allow local authorities to snoop on phones using public wireless networks or internet cafes.
SC Magazine
MARCH 10, 2021
A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 14, 2020
Since the internet, especially the "internet of things," is expected to rely heavily on 5G infrastructure, potential Chinese infiltration is a serious national security threat. But keeping untrusted companies like Huawei out of Western infrastructure isn't enough to secure 5G. What's more, U.S.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 10, 2023
And new mechanisms, from ChatGPT plugins to LangChain , will enable composition of AI with thousands of API-based cloud services and open source tools, allowing LLMs to interact with the internet as humans do. Combine the digital dossiers that data brokers have on all of us with LLMs, and you have a tool tailor-made for personalized scams.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 27, 2020
Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has launched a project to catalog all of the AI ethics declarations made by public and commercial organizations. However, as the data collected by Internet of Things systems gets deeper and richer , the algorithms running AI should get smarter and more accurate.
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