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Bop Spotter is a project by technologist Riley Walz in which he has hidden an Android phone in a box on a pole, rigged it to be solar powered, and has set it to record audio and periodically sends it to Shazam’s API to determine which songs people are playing in public. Walz describes it as ShotSpotter, but for music.

Jason Koebler at 404 Media. Hidden ‘BopSpotter’ Microphone Is Constantly Surveilling San Francisco for Good Music

“This is culture surveillance. No one notices, no one consents. But it's not about catching criminals. It's about catching vibes."

I saw this by way of Slashdot which is a wonderfulWeb institution.

#music #technology #surveillance

Always watching, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) uses Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) cameras throughout the District to surveil our communities around the clock. MPD deploys two and a half times as many cameras in communities of color as they do in whiter neighborhoods. This saturation of cameras increases the possibility of a harmful interaction with police, as has often been the case with Black, Latine, and trans sex workers. And even though the cameras ensure that they are rarely out of sight and remain directly underneath the District’s microscopes of CCTV, sex workers are being assaulted, robbed, and murdered. These workers know the cameras are not there to protect them.

Tamika Spellman and Loreal Hawk at ACLU District of Columbia. What Sex Workers Teach Us About CCTV Cameras And Publick Safety

#government surveillance #surveillance #police #injustice #privacy

Expiration. As in other major emergencies in the past, there is a hazard that the data surveillance infrastructure we build to contain COVID-19 may long outlive the crisis it was intended to address. The government and its corporate cooperators must roll back any invasive programs created in the name of public health after crisis has been contained.

Matthew Guariglia and Adam Scgwartz at Electronic Frontier Foundation. Protecting Civil Liberties During a Public Health Crisis

#surveillance #technology #health #covid19

[W]hat I mean by that is that basically all of the [ways] in which we govern abroad and at home is now funneled through a particular way of thinking about the world. It’s a mentality. It’s a way of thinking about society that triggers particular kinds of strategies and politics that result from that. And the way of thinking about society is this counterinsurgency paradigm of warfare.

Bernard Harcourt in interview with Jeremy Scahill at The Intercept. The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized

The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens

#counterinsurgency #politics #torture #surveillance #targeted killing #narrative #book #war

Our national security depends on the security of our technologies. Demanding that technology companies add backdoors to computers and communications systems puts us all at risk. We need to understand that these systems are too critical to our society and -- now that they can affect the world in a direct physical manner -- affect our lives and property as well.

Bruce Schneier in Schneier on Security. Five-Eyes Intelligence Services Choose Surveillance Over Security

#technology #surveillance #security #Internet #defense

For commercial surveillance to be cost effective, it has to socialize all the risks associated with mass surveillance and privatize all the gains. There’s an old-fashioned word for this: corruption. In corrupt systems, a few bad actors cost everyone else billions in order to bring in millions – the savings a factory can realize from dumping pollution in the water supply are much smaller than the costs we all bear from being poisoned by effluent. But the costs are widely diffused while the gains are tightly concentrated, so the beneficiaries of corruption can always outspend their victims to stay clear. Facebook doesn’t have a mind-control problem, it has a corruption problem.

Cory Doctorow in Locus. Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags

#surveillance capitalism. politics #surveillance #facebook

See the bomb robot is interesting because, until it blew someone up, and the robot itself was seen as a weapon, bomb robots were pretty non-controversial, ya know? Everyone was in agreement that sending a robot in to diffuse a bomb was going to save a human (potentially). It was a no brainer. But now that we realize those bomb robots can detonate bombs themselves and blow people up… that they are literally ROBOTS with BOMBS themselves – that can kill you – that changes things a bit, right? Suddenly it’s like “whoa,” should every Police Department have one of these things, and what kind of safety training is involved? Everything needs to be reconsidered.

Lisa Rein interviewing Tracy Rosenberg at MONDO 2000. How a little “working group” stopped Oakland from becoming a mini-fusion center for the Department of Homeland Security.

How The Occupy Oakland Privacy Working Group became Oakland Privacy

#politics #history #surveillance #paying attention #organizing

#BlackPanther might be the best movie I’ve seen all year but this is second best. pic.twitter.com/QIWZlxvgkS

— Joanna Robinson (@jowrotethis)

February 16, 2018

#viral video #surveillance #dungeon and dragons alignment

So while feeding his explicitly racist base with hateful rhetoric is important, it’s even more important to ensure that the cops remain with him, even as he fosters violence. There is no better way to do that than to convey to police that they can target brown people, that they can ignore all federal checks on their power, with impunity (this is probably one key reason why Trump has given up his efforts to oust Sessions, because on policing they remain in perfect accord). There is no better way to keep the support of cops who support Trump because he encourages their abuses then by pardoning Arpaio for the most spectacular case of such abuses. You’re not the audience for this pardon. The cops are.

Marcy Wheeler at Emptywheel. THE ARPAIO PARDON: YOU’RE NOT THE AUDIENCE

#police #donald trump #facism #racism #terrorism #surveillance

This trick of constantly selling the next version of the ad economy works because new ad formats really do have better engagement. Advertising is like a disease: it takes people time to develop immunity and resistance. Even the first banner ad had a 70% click through rate.

Maciej Cegłowski at Idle Words. Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance

A talk he gave on April 18, 2017, at the Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference in Philadelphia.

#surveillance #politics #ontology #neoliberalism #ai

That’s it. That’s the committee’s whole case for Snowden as big fat liar. I won’t belabor the irony, but let’s note in passing that four of the six claims are egregiously false, and a fifth is hard to credit.

Barton Gellman at The Century Foundation. The House Intelligence Committee’s Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Snowden Report

#house intelligence committees #edward snowden #privacy #surveillance

Thinking about/against surveillance necessarily involves questioning its underlying power relations and moving away from a blind belief in the objectivity of data and algorithms. Collecting and storing data is never a neutral act, and neither are data analysis or predictive modelling. A few years ago Laurie Penny argued* that surveillance and patriarchy function in fairly similar ways, and that therefore the fight for the principles of free speech, the fight against surveillance and the fight for a society where whistleblowers are protected, is a feminist fight.

Nicole Shephard at LSE Engenderings. 5 reasons why surveillance is a feminist issue

#surveillance #feminism #power #algorithms

The British came and split India (and the world) into pieces; we started wars with each other; we began to hate others like and different from us. So, now, how do we heal from that experience? How do we actively begin processes of decolonization? How do we, collectively, move forward? I think it’s by lessening the hate in our hearts. The revolution starts when we begin to engage through empathy. I can’t say this enough: we have to stop policing each other. We have to be conscious of how we reproduce state violence in our own communities. I tweeted this earlier this year, ha!, but I do think kindness is where the real revolution lies.

Fariha Roisin in a roundtable by Muna Mire at The Awl. Foreign Bodies A roundtable on the resurgence of post-9/11 surveillance culture with Alok Vaid-Menon, Fariha Roisin, Amani Bin Shikhan, and Asam Ahmad

#surveillence state #surveillance #decolonisation #rhetoric #kindness

Privacy issues and online harassment are directly linked, and online harassment isn’t going anywhere. My fear is that, in reaction to online harassment, laws will be passed that will break down our civil freedoms and rights online, and that more surveillance will be sold to users under the guise of safety. More surveillance, however, would not have helped me or my mother. A platform that takes harassment and threats seriously instead of treating them like jokes would have.

Caroline Sinders at boingboing. That time the Internet sent a SWAT team to my mom's house When I set out to research the out-of-control harassment problem in gamer culture, I never dreamed my mother would be caught up in the middle of it all.

#internet #user interaction #user interface #harassment #surveillance

The NSA’s ability to piggyback off of private companies’ tracking of their own users is a vital instrument that allows the agency to trace the data it collects to individual users. It makes no difference if visitors switch to public Wi-Fi networks or connect to VPNs to change their IP addresses: the tracking cookie will follow them around as long as they are using the same web browser and fail to clear their cookies.

Morgan Marquis-Boire, Glenn Greenwald, and Micah Lee at The Intercept. XKEYSCORE: NSA’S GOOGLE FOR THE WORLD’S PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS

#snowden #xkeyscore #surveillance #corporations

CV Dazzle is a response. It is a form of expressive interference that combines highly stylized makeup and hair styling with face-detection thwarting designs. CV, or computer vision, Dazzle is an updated version of the original dazzle camouflage from WWI, which was used to protect warships from submarine attacks. Like the original dazzle war paint, CV Dazzle is an unobvious style of camouflage because its eye-catching patterns and colors draw attention instead of hiding from it. As decoration, CV Dazzle can be boldly applied as hair styling or makeup, or together in combination with accessories. As camouflage, this facial markup works to protect against automated face detection and recognition systems by altering the contrast and spatial relationship of key facial features. The variations are limitless.

How to Hide from Machines

Anti-Surveillance and CV Dazzle Concept and Text Adam Harvey Creative Direction DIS Photography Marco Roso and Adam Harvey Web Production Nick Scholl Hair Pia Vivas Makeup Lauren Devine Featuring Maria Verdú Bertomeu, Irina Cocimarov, Jude MC, Michael Vontsolos, and Jen

Special thanks to Obinna Izeogu for introducing us to CV Dazzle and his help in facilitating this collaboration.

Clothing by A.F. Vandevorst, Issey Miyake, Final Home

#photography #facial recognition #surveillance

John was a victim of what I call the “police lineup” — dragnets that allow the police to treat everyone as a suspect. This overturns our traditional view that our legal system treats us as 'innocent until proven guilty.'

Julia Angwin in Backchannel at Medium. Who Is Watching You?

Companies and institutions track us almost indiscriminately. Is this the world we want to live in?

#surveillance #police #corporations #architectures of control

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