#spying
Automakers Are Selling Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
Some drivers of General Motors cars, like these Chevrolet Bolts, may not realize that their driving data is being shared with insurance companies
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html
#privacy #BigData #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #cars #automotive #insurance #spying #driving
Russian agents pose as activists, filmmakers to reportedly spy on domestic civil society organizations
Members of Russia's military intelligence (GRU) created false identities to blend in with domestic civil society networks and conduct espionage on their activities, the independent Russian media outlet The Insider reported
The Insider has published a series of investigations into alleged Russian intelligence agents in Europe in recent weeks, including a Latvian member of the European Parliament and an advisor to a German lawmaker from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
The Insider's Feb. 5 report detailed three alleged Russian agents who instead reportedly focused on domestic spying on civil society organizations perceived as being potential opponents of the regime.
The alleged agents, who The Insider said posed as a human rights activist, a documentary filmmaker, and a journalist, are allegedly associated with the GRU Unit 29155, best known for reportedly being responsible for the 2011 #Novichok poisoning of Russian dissident Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the U.K.
#RussianAggression #spies #spying #GRU #civil #RussiaInvadedUkraine #Imperialism #StandWithUkraine
Here you can search which governments how often requested users' data from facebook:
https://transparency.fb.com/reports/government-data-requests/
For example Belgium requested 2.135 users/accounts and there were 39 emergency disclosure requests. Meta does not always deliver.
It would be interesting to know how it is on major diaspora nodes.
#AI and Mass #Spying
source: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-mass-spying.html
All the #data will be saved. It will all be searchable, and understandable, in bulk. Tell me who has talked about a particular topic in the past month, and how #discussions about that topic have evolved. Person A did something; check if someone told them to do it. Find everyone who is plotting a #crime, or spreading a rumor, or planning to attend a political #protest.
#surveillance #spy #politics #police #cyberwar #NSA #palantir #china #bigbrother #1984 #orwell #danger #warning #news #problem #economy #internet #technology #humanrights #freedom #military #justice
Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people
(Note the article attempts to downplay the claims by the companies involved but it doesn't actually prove that they don't do exactly what they said they were doing.... listening in on the microphone)
Your Smart Phone Is Possibly Spying On You And Recording Your Conversations Near It
#News #Smartphones #Spying #ActiveEavesdropping #CMG #ArsTechnica #CoxMediaGroup #Technology
Iran says they executed an Israeli agent in Baluchistan province.
The news came a day after the deadly attack against the police outpost that killed 11 policemen.
The person who wasn't named, was accused of collecting various information from his sources and sharing them with foreign intelligence services but mainly to Israeli Mousad.
جاسوس موساد اعدام شد
🔹صبح امروز حکم اعدام فردی که به اتهام ارتباط با سرویس‌های بیگانه از جمله موساد در سیستان‌و‌بلوچستان محاکمه و محکوم شده بود، اجرا شد.
🔹این فرد ضمن ارتباط با سرویس‌های بیگانه از جمله موساد به‌صورت آگاهانه اقدام به جمع‌آوری اطلاعات طبقه‌بندی شده کرده و با مشارکت مرتبطین خود، اسناد را در اختیار سرویس‌های بیگانه به‌ویژه موساد قرار می‌داد.
#Iran #DeathPenalty #Politics #Israel #Mousad #Baluchistan #Spying
Petition/Campaign to Stop the Data Grab Bill
The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will gut UK privacy laws, attacking our ability to challenge data abuse and expanding ways in which the Government can snoop on you.
The bill contains powers that would enable them to snoop on the bank accounts and financial assets of anyone who claims ANY benefit. That includes child benefit and the state pension, alongside tax credits and universal credit.
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data
#ToryFascists #fascism #ToryScum #Orwellian #spying #surveillance #UK #BigData #privacy #HumanRights #ToryScum #PoliceState #pensions #digital #DataGrab
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EnnxJM3rxBI0/
DARPA #AI Social #Media #Spying & #Manipulation #Exposed. The #Plan to #Hijack the #Internet - A Disinformat
Stop the Data Grab Bill
The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will gut UK privacy laws, attacking our ability to challenge data abuse.
From workers and children to NHS patients and migrants, GDPR protects us all. It has been used to stop:
- Unfair exam grading algorithms
- Robo-dismissals from employment
- Digital strip searches of sexual abuse victims
These are just a few of the vital protections on the chopping block.
Fight for your rights – tell the government to get their hands off our data!
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data
#GDPR #Fascism #ToryFascism #dictatorship #authoritarian #ToryDictatorship #privacy #data #BigData #spying #ToryFascistDictatorship #ToryScum #security
Mozilla’s first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter
In 2023, the state of our digital privacy is: Creepy
In addition to the Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter score, you can also take a quiz to determine your own privacy footprint.
From the link below, select which popular products you own. We’ll weigh their privacy features and flaws, then show how well or poorly your devices and apps protect your personal information.
#Privacy #creepy #Mozilla #digital #DigitalPrivacy #spyware #malware #CreepOMeter #spying #eavesdropping
Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another
by Cory Doctorow
The American surveillance state is a public-private partnership.
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/16/surveillance-state-big-tech/
The techlash has finally reached the courts. Amazon’s in court. Google’s in court. Apple’s under EU investigation. The French authorities just kicked down Nvidia’s doors and went through their files looking for evidence of crimes against competition. People are pissed at tech: about moderation, about monopolization, about price gouging, about labor abuses, and — everywhere and always — about privacy.
#privacy #surveillance #security #doctorow #cory-doctorow #monopoly #spying #surveillance-capitalism #surveillance-economy #nsa #snowden #prism #amazon #google #facebook #nvidia #apple #spies#big-tech #cops
Belgian #intelligence service scrutinising #Alibaba's presence at #Liege airport
Referring to the company's main European logistics centre at Liege #Airport, the #security service said it was working to "detect and fight against possible #spying and/or interference activities carried out by Chinese entities including Alibaba".
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Car Companies: Stop Your Huge Data Collection Programs
[Petition]
New Mozilla research has revealed that popular global car brands — like Chevrolet, Nissan, Toyota, Kia, Audi, Jeep, Honda, Volkswagen, and more — are collecting your deeply personal data, like your genetic information and sexual activity. This invasive harvesting of information is collected via a web of sensors, microphones, cameras and the phones, apps, and connected services you use in your vehicle.
Car companies are brazenly collecting deeply personal information about people the moment they get into a car, often without explicit consent to do so. And that’s why the Mozilla community is now coming together to force car companies to respect our right to privacy. Add your name to ask car companies to stop collecting, sharing and selling our very personal information.
#Spying #eavesdropping #privacy #petitions #sexual #personal #cars #auto #HumanRights #Corporate #BigData #theft #data #apps
Previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads on Microsoft Windows, Google Android, and Apple iOS devices
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Director of Activism Jason Kelley said Insanet’s use of advertising technology to infect devices and spy on clients’ targets makes it especially worrisome. Dodgy online ads don’t just provide a potential vehicle for delivering malware, such as via carefully crafted images or JavaScript in the ads that exploit vulnerabilities in browsers and OSes, they can be used to go after specific groups of people – such as those who are interested in open-source code, or who frequently travel to Asia – that someone might be interested in snooping on.
“This method of surveillance and targeting uses commercially available data that’s very difficult to erase from the internet,” Kelley told The Register. “Most people have no idea how much of their information has been compiled or shared by data brokers and ad tech companies, and have little ability to erase it.”
It’s an interesting twist. Sherlock seems designed to use legal data collection and digital advertising technologies — beloved by Big Tech and online media — to target people for government-level espionage.
“Since these ads are being served using known advertisement networks, anti-adware technologies such as not loading JavaScript, using ad blockers or privacy-aware browsers, and not clicking on advertisements should act as a guardrail against this attack,” Dani suggested.
I suppose this gives additional impetus for many wanting to block ads… But if this one was previously secret, how many more are there that no-one knows about? Supposedly, the Wester will use this to spy on the East? We actually don’t know what the East already has, because for some unknown reason we are always discovering what the West is up to in regard to alleged spying (even on their own allies). And as we saw this month, data privacy laws mean absolutely nothing to some major Western powers, as they just get a 3rd party country to do the spying on their behalf, and then pass the data back, or they buy the data from Facebook.
More and more, reading all of this, I can see why so many private citizens are insisting on having E2EE without any backdoors. Unfortunately, a citizen can no longer just trust their own government, and it is mostly lip service that is paid to privacy laws. So laws and political assurances mean very little in reality.
See https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/16/insanet_spyware/
#Blog, #Israel, #privacy, #spying, #technology
UK's Sunak voiced 'strong concerns' over alleged China spying to Premier Li
The United Kingdom's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he has spoken with Chinese Premier Li Qiang about alleged spying in the UK on behalf of Beijing.Sunak's ...#Beijing #ChinesePremierLiQiang #LiQiang #Politics #PrimeMinisterRishiSunak #RishiSunak #UKsPrimeMinisterRishiSunak #UnitedKingdomsPrimeMinisterRishiSunak #aljazeera #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeera #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeranews #aljazeeracom #espionageforChina #spying
UK's Sunak voiced 'strong concerns' over alleged China spying to Premier Li
