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recent bookmarks from jmThe privacy loophole in your doorbell2023-03-10T10:28:33+00:00
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979
jmamazon police privacy surveillance dystopia us-politicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f88e33e127c0/US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps2021-05-28T15:53:11+00:00
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expose-nuclear-weapons-secrets-via-flashcard-apps/
jmFor US soldiers tasked with the custody of nuclear weapons in Europe, the stakes are high. Security protocols are lengthy, detailed and need to be known by heart. To simplify this process, some service members have been using publicly visible flashcard learning apps — inadvertently revealing a multitude of sensitive security protocols about US nuclear weapons and the bases at which they are stored. [...]
the flashcards studied by soldiers tasked with guarding these devices reveal not just the bases, but even identify the exact shelters with “hot” vaults that likely contain nuclear weapons.
They also detail intricate security details and protocols such as the positions of cameras, the frequency of patrols around the vaults, secret duress words that signal when a guard is being threatened and the unique identifiers that a restricted area badge needs to have.
omgwtf!]]>army dystopia nuclear nukes privacy flashcards apps security weaponshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:49cce505e1ff/China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm - ICIJ2019-11-25T14:07:55+00:00
https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/exposed-chinas-operating-manuals-for-mass-internment-and-arrest-by-algorithm/
jm“The Chinese have bought into a model of policing where they believe that through the collection of large-scale data run through artificial intelligence and machine learning that they can, in fact, predict ahead of time where possible incidents might take place, as well as identify possible populations that have the propensity to engage in anti-state anti-regime action,” said Mulvenon, the SOS International document expert and director of intelligence integration. “And then they are preemptively going after those people using that data.”
Mulvenon said IJOP is more than a “pre-crime” platform, but a “machine-learning, artificial intelligence, command and control” platform that substitutes artificial intelligence for human judgment. He described it as a “cybernetic brain” central to China’s most advanced police and military strategies. Such a system “infantilizes” those tasked with implementing it, said Mulvenon, creating the conditions for policies that could spin out of control with catastrophic results.
The program collects and interprets data without regard to privacy, and flags ordinary people for investigation based on seemingly innocuous criteria, such as daily prayer, travel abroad, or frequently using the back door of their home.
Perhaps even more significant than the actual data collected are the grinding psychological effects of living under such a system. With batteries of facial-recognition cameras on street corners, endless checkpoints and webs of informants, IJOP generates a sense of an omniscient, omnipresent state that can peer into the most intimate aspects of daily life. As neighbors disappear based on the workings of unknown algorithms, Xinjiang lives in a perpetual state of terror.
The seeming randomness of investigations resulting from IJOP isn’t a bug but a feature, said Samantha Hoffman, an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute whose research focuses on China’s use of data collection for social control. “That’s how state terror works,” Hoffman said. “Part of the fear that this instills is that you don’t know when you’re not OK.”
]]>terror dystopia china algorithms ijop future policing grim-meathook-future privacy data-privacy uighurshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:56d5edb57106/The New Wilderness (Idle Words)2019-06-14T11:06:25+00:00
https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm
jmOur discourse around privacy needs to expand to address foundational questions about the role of automation: To what extent is living in a surveillance-saturated world compatible with pluralism and democracy? What are the consequences of raising a generation of children whose every action feeds into a corporate database? What does it mean to be manipulated from an early age by machine learning algorithms that adaptively learn to shape our behavior?
]]>facebook google privacy future dystopia surveillance societyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:67d823f3bfce/In China, Your Credit Score Is Now Affected By Your Political Opinions – And Your Friends’ Political Opinions2015-10-05T10:02:41+00:00
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/10/in-china-your-credit-score-is-now-affected-by-your-political-opinions-and-your-friends-political-opinions/
jmChina just introduced a universal credit score, where everybody is measured as a number between 350 and 950. But this credit score isn’t just affected by how well you manage credit – it also reflects how well your political opinions are in line with Chinese official opinions, and whether your friends’ are, too.
Measuring using online mass surveillance, naturally. This may be the most dystopian thing I've heard in a while....]]>via:raycorrigan dystopia china privacy mass-surveillance politics credit credit-score loans opinionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:736b6ac21879/