Power & inequity, privacy, ID, surveillance, biometrics, geolocation, metadata & social graph, civil libs, search & seizure, due process, rule of law, justice.
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The Humiliating History of the TSA
There’s no evidence two decades of pat-downs and shoe removal have made travelers any safer — so why does the theater of airport security persist?
theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa-…
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“History has repeatedly demonstrated that whenever people's personal data is tracked and stored, there's always a risk that it could be misused or abused.”
abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSt…
The Race to Hide Your Voice
Voice recognition—and data collection—have boomed in recent years. Researchers are figuring out how to protect your privacy.
wired.com/story/voice-recogn…
"It emphasizes how much control we’ve lost over our digital selves.... virtually unregulated marketplace where data brokers collect massive amounts of personal info... virtually no restraints on .gov as a consumer in the surveillance economy"
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There ought to be a law.
Companies will abuse your data unless YOU stop it.
vice.com/en/article/g5qaq3/l…
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• Turn OFF Location Services
• If that's not possible, NEVER allow apps to access your Location
• Use the website version instead of native apps, there's less data disclosure in general
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"The golden rule of privacy is, the fewer hands that can access your data, the safer you are"
OPT OUT OF ALL THE THINGS
don't opt in to the other things
minimize all disclosures: leave fields blank whenever its's possible, provide misinfo whenever it's not illegal
"Social scientists have identified at least 3 major forces that collectively bind together successful democracies: social capital, strong institutions, and shared stories.
Social media has weakened all three."
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
Reason #137 why @Facebook does not deserve to exist.
Facebook has identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed up to half of all News Feed views to “integrity risks” since last October, per internal report I obtained. Impacted distribution of misinfo, violence, nudity, and even Russian state media theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004…
Not to mention the fundamental issue of using DNA data for purposes way beyond what it was collected for.
We need a Federal BIPA.
Dragnet DNA is worse than dragnet facial surveillance. It implicates innocents and extended family.
YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOUR DNA IF IT'S COMPROMISED.
Having the public pick and choose cases to fund raises concerns, as does the demographic makeup of the databases, said Natalie Ram, a law professor in Maryland, where a law has been passed to regulate these searches. nytimes.com/2022/03/27/techn…
More than $1.5 billion has been spent to settle claims of
police misconduct involving thousands of officers repeatedly
accused of wrongdoing. Taxpayers are often in the dark.
washingtonpost.com/investiga…
Phone location data is a $12 Billion industry, and there are no laws to protect you.
TURN OFF Location. Or, if you can't keep it off completely, deny access app-by-app and turn Location on only when you absolutely need it.
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"Governments should never use biometric technology to gatekeep public benefits and services"
getrevue.co/profile/themarku…
Sounds pretty much like how I envision Hell.
The FT has reviewed hundreds of patent applications by Facebook, many granted this month, revealing how it plans to make biometric data a big part of the metaverse and "cash in on its virtual world with hyper-targeted advertising and sponsored content" ft.com/content/76d40aac-034e…
