"Expanded surveillance gives police greater opportunities to abuse their power and exploit people in poor neighborhoods. Under constant surveillance, every tiny infraction or misdemeanor becomes actionable." "Equating surveillance with safety considers only a fraction of what 'safety' for everyone looks like. You cannot protect people from harm if part of what you offer them is a different kind of harm."

Slate Magazine

You Might Think More Police Surveillance Means More Safety. There Are Several Problems With That.

You cannot protect people from harm if part of what you offer them is a different kind of harm.

#Surveillance #Privacy

"These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it." "The villagers have accused Microsoft of illegally encroaching upon Tungakunta Lake and using it as a dump yard"

Rest of World

Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste

“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”

#BigTech

The Cost of Trying to Make Palestinian Lives Matter in the Newsroom - "There is often a high price to be paid when journalists try to tell Palestinian stories." https://www.thenation.com/article/society/palestine-journalists-discrimination/ #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #Media #Journalism

"In highly-censored regimes, circumvention tools like Tor — a browsing system which provides anonymity and unrestricted internet access — are often targeted by censors. In this article, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) introduces Tor bridges and explains how this technology can be used by journalists to access Tor."

RSF Resources for Journalists

“Tor bridges,” a way to keep using Tor in countries that block it | RSF Resources for Journalists

In highly-censored regimes, circumvention tools like Tor — a browsing system which provides anonymity and unrestricted internet access — are of...

#Privacy #Censorship #Anonymity

This is how every cult starts and then we have to sit through a 6-part Netflix docuseries about who got murdered when attempting to escape

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