✨Member of the ORG (@OpenRightsGroup) supporter Council.
✨Co-Founder of (@DC44121).
✨Organiser for ORG Birmingham (@OpenRightsBrum).
✨Mentor at (@DojoCyber).
Unlike the UK, democracies around the world are reining in dangerous facial recognition surveillance. Here’s how different countries taken action:
🇪🇺The European Union: Police use of live facial recognition is broadly prohibited in Europe under the new AI Act, which came into force in August this year.
🇳🇿New Zealand: In August this year, New Zealand banned police use of facial recognition on real-time video camera footage.
🇺🇸USA: Several US states have implemented outright bans or placed judicial restrictions around facial recognition use. Cities including San Francisco, Boston, and Portland have banned government use of facial recognition.
🇨🇦Canada: In 2022, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner found police use of facial recognition to be unlawful. Following this, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced that it will only use facial recognition to identify victims of child sexual exploitation.
⚠️Meanwhile, police use of live facial recognition in the UK is ramping up. In Essex, for example, there is a deployment planned every day this week even though there is NO LAW for facial recognition in the UK.
Live facial recognition presents the most dangerous threat to privacy in living memory. The UK must learn from other democracies and put an urgent stop to this Orwellian technology.
We're campaigning to #StopFacialRecognition⤵️
https://t.co/T9W4iD7U7n
🛒Shops across the UK are spying on customers by putting facial recognition cameras on doorways
We've written to major shops incl. @Tesco, @icelandfoods & @JohnLewisRetail urging them to RULE OUT plans to use Orwellian surveillance tech
Take action ⤵️
https://t.co/7WxldldTMC
🎉 We are thrilled to announce the launch of OONI Run v2! 😍 🚀
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This is a major revamp, enabling you to dynamically coordinate censorship testing with OONI Probe users around the world.
Learn more: https://t.co/RfasRsxTrn ✨
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This is the strongest demonstration of the power of phone location data yet. Locate X is a tool used by lots of US agencies (ICE, CBP, etc). Sources got access, filmed themselves using it, leaked us hours of footage. Monitored mosques, synagogues, more https://t.co/r0HBBRn3aL
1/ Meet Yicong Wang (王逸聪), a Chinese OTC trader who has helped Lazarus Group convert tens of millions of stolen crypto to cash from various hacks via bank transfers since 2022.
BREAKING 🚨Ukrainian hackers hacked Dr. WEB, a Russian IT security company
'We hacked the infrastructure of Dr.Web , a company that has long been considered one of the top cybersecurity companies. Ironic? More than that.
We penetrated the local network, having planned everything from the start. After that, systematic work began - step by step we moved deeper, hacking server after server, resource after resource. In just a few days, we penetrated the most protected parts of the infrastructure.
We managed to hack and unload the corporate GitLab server, where internal developments and projects were stored, the corporate mail server, Confluence, Redmine, Jenkins, Mantis, RocketChat — systems where development was carried out and tasks were discussed. All security improvement projects now seem to need protection in themselves. Software management resources were not left without attention either.
Client databases. Yes, we also downloaded the data of users who trusted Dr.Web with their security. The cherry on the cake is the domain controller. Having taken possession of it, all we had to do was fill our storage devices by downloading more and more data.
The total volume of data obtained was about 10 terabytes. However, the most remarkable thing is that we remained unnoticed for a whole month. While the "IS giant" continued to sell its products and talk about the importance of data protection, telling tales about an attempt to harm the infrastructure that was " timely stopped ".
Expect some interesting news. We have a lot of Russian data, we continue to work on larger goals.'
🚨Live facial recognition alert🚨
Today @swpolice are deploying AI-powered live facial recognition in #Bridgend
Neither the public nor parliament has voted for this.
This authoritarian & ineffective tech costs the public purse and our privacy.
➡️https://t.co/MjmGcKmU6D
🚨EDR Telemetry website is live! 🥳
I hope this makes it even easier for folks to compare the telemetry of EDR vendors and visualize their visibility gaps 🙂
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‣ GitHub 🔗https://t.co/NNAI4K539x
**Telemetry results reflect the most recent updates from the EDR Telemetry project.
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💬NEW REPORT: The Citizen Lab takes a deep dive into the network encryption protocol used by #WeChat, an app with over one billion users. The app uses a custom #encryption protocol called “MMTLS” that introduces cryptographic weaknesses. Read the report: https://t.co/9EmcuMXqnC