Get Ready for Generative AI’s Next Assault On Your #Privacy - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/get-ready-for-generative-ais-next-assault-on-your-privacy/ it's going to get worse... #GenAI

"Las compañías de seguros gastan miles de dólares en la compra de datos de su automóvil para tener en cuenta estos 'conocimientos selectos' sobre su comportamiento de conducción. Luego, esos conocimientos se tienen en cuenta en su 'puntuación de riesgo', lo que potencialmente puede aumentar sus primas de seguro". https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/car-makers-shouldnt-be-selling-our-driving-history-data-brokers-and-insurance #privacy #privacidad #motor #consumo #seguros

How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (Updated 2024) https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2024/05/04/how-do-i-prepare-my-phone-for-a-protest-updated-2024 #Gaza #privacy #privacidad #activism #activismo

🥳 After five years of dreaming, listening, writing, editing, and hustling, our book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA is finally available to the public!!!

Happy launch day to my dear friend and coauthor @jesse and thanks to the @themitpress team for all the support.

Buy it here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/the-secret-life-of-data/

#newbook #books #bookstodon #data #surveillance #privacy #commodon

Changes in the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will exacerbate the existing power imbalances that migrants, refugees and asylum seekers have over their data.

This will lead to significant harms and an expansion of the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.

Read our briefing for more ⬇️

#dataprotection #DPDIBill #privacy #migrants #GDPR #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-how-the-dpdi-bill-harms-migrants-data-rights/

"Jennifer Pinsof, staff attorney at Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the technology has been used in too many nefarious circumstances to be trusted... There are several local and state-level regulations in place... to mitigate inappropriate data sharing. Police departments, for instance, are not supposed to share the license plate data with other states, nor with federal law enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That, however, hasn’t stopped at least 73 departments throughout California from violating those rules...

"We found that many California law enforcement agencies share this data not just out of state but specifically with agencies in states that ban abortions, and those law enforcement agencies who now have access to this highly sensitive location data can use it to prosecute things that are crimes within their state but not within the state of California,” she said."

https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/license-plate-readers-to-increase-throughout-county/article_3af96c58-f0da-11ee-91f1-8b4e10075b4d.html

#Privacy #Surveillance #CivilRights #Abortion #PublicPolicy #Police

New research finds prepayment cards provided to UK asylum seekers are having highly detrimental impacts on their wellbeing
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/oxford-study-prepayment-technology-provided-by-the-home-office-is-socially-and-financially-isolating-uk-asylum-seekers/ #migration #discrimination #privacy

European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening #Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/european-court-human-rights-confirms-undermining-encryption-violates-fundamental #privacidad #privacy

"For years, the antivirus software company harvested information from users’ web browsers without their consent." #infosec #privacy

Its clients have included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, and McKinsey.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting

Legal campaigners challenge UK.gov decision to redact #NHS-#Palantir contract - https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/20/legal_campaigners_challenge_government_decision/ "the Palantir contract drew criticism owing to sections relating to data privacy being heavily censored." IOW, we won't have data #privacy...

Federal Trade Commission Warns Data Brokers about the Uncontrolled Sale of Raw Location Data - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/federal-trade-commission-warns-data-brokers-about-the-uncontrolled-sale-of-raw-location-data/ interesting and important move by #FTC on #privacy here

‘The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) is imposing a fine of €10 million on Uber. The fine is in response to the company's failure to disclose the full details of its retention periods for data concerning European drivers, or to name the non-European countries in which it shares this data. The DPA also found that Uber had obstructed its drivers’ efforts to exercise their right to privacy.’ https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/uber-fined-eu10-million-for-infringement-of-privacy-regulations #uber #law #tech #gdpr #privacy #surveillance #dataprotection

#NHS England published heavily redacted #Palantir contract as festivities began - https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/nhs_england_published_heavily_redacted/ "most of the section describing "protection of personal data," blacked out, which confirms plenty of evil stuff to hid there. this must be stopped... #privacy

OpenStreetMap supports mapping surveillance cameras.

Cameras can be identified by location and type.

The area being observed can be disclosed.

Surveillance under Surveillance/https://sunders.uber.space is an OpenStreetMap instance focused on surveillance cameras, the data used is not visualized on the OpenStreetMap.org instance.

Website: https://www.openstreetmap.org
Mastodon: @openstreetmap

#OpenStreetMap #Surveillance #CCTV #Privacy #FacialRecognition #Tracking #BiometricData #VoicePrint #Gait