Archives for 8 October 2019

The Rise of Networked Vigilante Surveillance by Elizabeth Joh (Slate Magazine)

These new technologies prey upon familiar fears and hyper-charge them with the power of surveillance.

surveillance as a service with a for-profit motive. Een zorgelijke ontwikkeling. Burgers die via een abonnementsmodel toegang krijgen tot surveillance camera’s en de bijbehorende software om kentekens te registreren. Wat kán er toch mis gaan…

The Privacy Project: Why you shouldn’t believe tech companies (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)

 “technology executives view and market invasive new technology — from smart diapers to facial recognition — “as inevitable evolutions” but in reality, they’re anything but. “Evolution doesn’t have meetings about the market, the environment, the customer base,” she writes. “Evolution doesn’t patent things or do focus groups. Evolution doesn’t spend millions of dollars lobbying Congress to…