Archive for the ‘surveillance’ category: Page 25
Jul 14, 2019
Can I Check Web Sites Visited by my Kids/Staff?
Posted by Philip Raymond in categories: computing, internet, policy, privacy, security, software, surveillance
Early this morning, I was asked this question at Quora. It’s a pretty basic request of network administrators, including parents, schools and anyone who administers a public, sensitive or legally exposed WiFi hot spot.
Is there a quick and easy way to view, log, or otherwise monitor the web sites visited by people on your home or office network?
Yes. It’s free and and it is pretty easy to do.
It gets a bit trickier, if the individual on your network is using a VPN service that they have configured on their device.[1] A VPN does not stop you from logging their browsing, but all of their activity will point to the VPN address instead of the site that they are actually visiting. In that case, there is another way to monitor their activity. See note #1, below.
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Jul 5, 2019
China Snares Tourists’ Phones in Surveillance Dragnet
Posted by Steve Nichols in categories: mobile phones, surveillance
BEIJING — China has turned its western region of Xinjiang into a police state with few modern parallels, employing a combination of high-tech surveillance and enormous manpower to monitor and subdue the area’s predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities.
Now, the digital dragnet is expanding beyond Xinjiang’s residents, ensnaring tourists, traders and other visitors — and digging deep into their smartphones.
A team of journalists from The New York Times and other publications examined a policing app used in the region, getting a rare look inside the intrusive technologies that China is deploying in the name of quelling Islamic radicalism and strengthening Communist Party rule in its Far West. The use of the app has not been previously reported.
Jul 3, 2019
Space Fence: Connecting the Surveillance and Transhumanist Agendas
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in categories: biotech/medical, military, mobile phones, robotics/AI, satellites, surveillance, transhumanism
Betty Lim
Is a massive, planetary-wide, space surveillance system currently being constructed that aims to monitor you all the way down to your DNA. Officially, the Space Fence is, according to Wikipedia, a 2nd generation space surveillance system being built (started in 2014) by the US Air Force and Lockheed Martin to track artificial satellites and space debris. Its budget is US$1.594 billion, it’s expected to be operational in 2019 and the Space Fence facility will be located in the Marshall Islands along with an option for another radar site in Western Australia. The Space Fence is a resurrection of a program started by Reagan in the 1980s called SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), commonly known by its nickname “Star Wars.” However, like many exotic weapons of the New World Order, it has a cover purpose and a real purpose. This article exposes the grander implications of the Space Fence – and how it connects to other technology that could be used to enslave you.
What is the Space Fence?
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Jun 30, 2019
When convenience meets surveillance: AI at the corner store
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, surveillance
At some convenience stores, an A.I. system may bar the door if you look like the suspected criminals in its database, or if you’re wearing a mask. That’s part of the growing use of facial recognition and video analytics, a…
Jun 26, 2019
Retailers Are Judging Consumers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, education, government, information science, surveillance
China isn’t the only country with a draconian “social credit score” system — there’s one quite a bit like it operating in the U.S. Except that it’s being run by American businesses, not the government.
There’s plenty of evidence that retailers have been using a technique called “surveillance scoring” for decades in which consumers are given a secret score by an algorithm to give them a different price — but for the same goods and services.
But the practice might be illegal after all: a California nonprofit called Consumer Education Foundation (CEF) filed a petition yesterday asking for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to look into the shady practice.
Jun 26, 2019
International Space Station Will Test 3D-Printed Materials In Orbit
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, satellites, surveillance
New 3D-printed materials are going to space thanks to a recently funded partnership between Israel’s NanoDimension and Florida’s Harris Corp.
The companies plan to create new materials to reduce the manufacturing of small satellites, an exceedingly popular market right now for applications ranging from weather observations to remote surveillance.
They aim to fly their materials on an external platform of the International Space Station for a year. The goal is to better understand how 3D-printed components (such as circuits and materials) withstand the space environment, which includes extreme temperature swings and high radiation. The launch date of the project was not disclosed.
Jun 24, 2019
How the Pentagon’s Skynet Would Automate War
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: cyborgs, drones, military, surveillance
Mass surveillance, drone swarms, cyborg soldiers, telekinesis, synthetic organisms, and laser beams will determine future conflict by 2030.
Jun 21, 2019
Amazon patents ‘surveillance as a service’ tech for its delivery drones
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, habitats, surveillance
Jun 16, 2019
AI-Aided Video Surveillance Will Watch and Silently Judge Us
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, security, surveillance
Gone are the days when a store’s security cameras only mattered to shoplifters.
Now, with the rising prevalence of surveillance systems constantly monitored by artificial intelligence, ubiquitous security systems can watch, learn about, and discriminate against shoppers more than ever before.
That’s the gist of a new ACLU report titled “The Dawn of Robot Surveillance,” about how emerging AI technology enables security companies to constantly monitor and collect data about people — opening new possibilities in which power is abused or underserved communities are overpoliced.