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In recent news, the Italian region of South Tyrol (Alto Adige) has initiated a DNA profiling program to identify owners of dogs responsible for leaving excrement or those found as …
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In recent news, the Italian region of South Tyrol (Alto Adige) has initiated a DNA profiling program to identify owners of dogs responsible for leaving excrement or those found as …
Have a look at this Medium blog post by Azadeh Akbari regarding Automated License Plate Recognition systems. The post discusses how these systems have become a commonplace form of …
From a short article by Jan-Jaap Oerlemans on the privacy risks of automated open source intelligence: [T]raditional OSINT has evolved into a professional and intrusive practice. …
Facebook/Meta is shutting down its facial recognition system. They explain their choice in this blog post. But the many specific instances where facial recognition can be helpful …
The Markup has investigated the shadowy industry of collecting and selling location data. The article details some worrisome examples of very invasive practices.
The following article from The Economist China’s aversion to encryption technologies — which would make mass surveillance more difficult — makes the country’s networks vulnerable …
An article from The Economist mentions how drone technology gets transported from the battlefields of Iraq to American cities: The notion of putting cameras on orbiting drones to …
Two recent articles from BBC Future deal with meta-data and possibilities of surveillance in two everyday technologies: This article explains how photographs can have a unique …
Interesting new article from Shoshana Zuboff at The New York Times. She recaps some of her arguments on surveillance capitalism, but also links it with more recent events related …
The Guardian published this great piece of investigative journalism on the funding of research on security technologies through EU-funded research programmes (such as Horizon …