Thank you to everyone who has been making submissions to Surveillance Watch, it has been updated with additional companies, sources and investors:
Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
 #Spyware #Surveillance #Privacy
"The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to collect and analyze photos of the faces of migrant children at the border in a bid to improve facial recognition technology, MIT Technology Review can reveal. This includes children down to the infant"
MIT Technology Review
The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age
A previously unreported project is intended to improve how facial recognition algorithms track children over time.
 #Surveillance #Privacy
Pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map and resource that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry:
Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
 By mapping out the intricate web of surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, we hope to expose the enablers fueling this industry's extensive rights violations, ensuring they cannot evade accountability for being complicit in this abuse. #Privacy #Surveillance #InfoSec image
"Between October 7 and November 14, a total of 9,500 takedown requests were sent from the Israeli authorities to social media platforms, of which 60 percent went to Meta with a reported 94% compliance rate." "Alongside government takedown requests, free expression in Gaza has been further restricted by platforms unjustly removing pro-Palestinian content and accounts—interfering with the dissemination of news and silencing voices expressing concern for Palestinians."
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel’s Cyber Unit
This is part one of an ongoing series. Part two on the role of big tech in human rights abuses is here.Government involvement in content moderation...
"The group believes in white ethnostates and encourages terrorism and violent measures to achieve its aims."
Protos
Neo-Nazi solicits crypto donations to build US-based team for ‘civil war’
Rinaldo Nazzaro, who previously worked for the Pentagon, is looking for a stateside leader for his paramilitary group, The Base.
 #Crypto
"Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) is taking Elon Musk's X to court. According to Irish broadcaster RTE, the commission has launched High Court proceedings against Twitter International over concerns on how Europeans' public posts on X are being used to train the company's artificial intelligence tools."
Engadget
X accused of using EU user data to train Grok without consent
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) is taking Elon Musk's X to court.
 #AI #Privacy
What tech-enhanced genocide looks like: "The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service to store surveillance information on Gaza’s population, while procuring further AI tools from Google and Microsoft for military purposes, an investigation reveals." https://www.972mag.com/cloud-israeli-army-gaza-amazon-google-microsoft/ #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #AI #BigTech #Surveillance #Amazon #Google #Microsoft