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wow google wants to get into the clothing business, and presumably track us from our clothes:
https://atap.google.com/jacquard/collaborations/levi-trucker/
#why #thinkabout #jacquard #spying #privacy #deletegoogle #google #atap
https://atap.google.com/jacquard/collaborations/levi-trucker/
#why #thinkabout #jacquard #spying #privacy #deletegoogle #google #atap
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FBI warns about snoopy smart TVs spying on you
An FBI branch office warns smart TV users that they can be gateways for hackers to come into your home. Meanwhile, the smart TV OEMs are already spying on you
A recent #FBI #report warned #smart #TV users that #hackers can also take control of your unsecured TV. "At the low end of the risk spectrum, they can change channels, play with the volume, and show your kids inappropriate videos. In a worst-case scenario, they can turn on your bedroom TV's camera and microphone and silently #cyberstalk you," explained the FBI.
The risk isn't new. A few years ago, smart TVs from #LG, #Samsung, and #Vizio were #spying and #reporting on your viewing habits to their #manufacturers.
Today, the FBI is warning that "TV manufacturers and #app #developers may be listening and watching you." It added, "[A] television can also be a gateway for hackers to come into your home. A bad cyber actor may not be able to access your locked-down computer directly, but it is possible that your unsecured TV can give him or her an easy way in the #backdoor through your #router."
That's true, but while there have been relatively few cases of hackers invading homes via their smart TVs, it's only a matter of time until they're watching and listening to you.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-about-snoopy-smart-tvs-spying-on-you/
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An FBI branch office warns smart TV users that they can be gateways for hackers to come into your home. Meanwhile, the smart TV OEMs are already spying on you
A recent #FBI #report warned #smart #TV users that #hackers can also take control of your unsecured TV. "At the low end of the risk spectrum, they can change channels, play with the volume, and show your kids inappropriate videos. In a worst-case scenario, they can turn on your bedroom TV's camera and microphone and silently #cyberstalk you," explained the FBI.
The risk isn't new. A few years ago, smart TVs from #LG, #Samsung, and #Vizio were #spying and #reporting on your viewing habits to their #manufacturers.
Today, the FBI is warning that "TV manufacturers and #app #developers may be listening and watching you." It added, "[A] television can also be a gateway for hackers to come into your home. A bad cyber actor may not be able to access your locked-down computer directly, but it is possible that your unsecured TV can give him or her an easy way in the #backdoor through your #router."
That's true, but while there have been relatively few cases of hackers invading homes via their smart TVs, it's only a matter of time until they're watching and listening to you.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-about-snoopy-smart-tvs-spying-on-you/
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Spain's Biggest Union Is Suing Amazon for Spying on Striking Workers
The union alleges that Amazon hired the Pinkertons, which subcontracted with a local firm, to surveil workers planning an October strike in Barcelona.
More evidence of Amazon's widespread worker surveillance program and the company's use of the Pinkerton spy agency has emerged in Spain.
El Diario reported on Monday that Amazon spied on workers planning an October 30, 2019 strike at its BCN1 warehouse in Barcelona. To spy on workers, the outlet reported, Amazon called on the Pinkertons, who subcontracted the job in Catalonia to a local firm named Castor & Polux. A retired police officer, Antonio Giménez Raso, was named as a "police liaison" between Castor & Polux and the Catalonia police force, Mossos d'Esquadra.
The Barcelona strike took place days before another strike in Poland that Motherboard reported was infiltrated by Pinkerton operatives working for Amazon.
Castor & Polux’s report on the BCN1 warehouse, obtained by El Diario, is a detailed 51-page document featuring secretly-taken photographs of the strikers and their faces, as well as extensive comments collected from trade unionists, workers, and journalists reporting on the strike. The document also mentions a reporter who interviewed workers, prompting the agents to search for her vehicle, record the license plate and model, and take photographs of it.
Amazon did not immediately respond to Motherboard’s request for comment. A spokesperson told el Diario that Amazon did not direct the Pinkertons or its affiliates to spy on the strike.
👀 👉🏼 https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx8x8z/spains-biggest-union-is-suing-amazon-for-spying-on-striking-workers
👀 👉🏼 https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pinkerton-agency-spies-union-strike-spain-ccoo-legal-action-2020-12
#DeleteAmazon #amazon #spying #strikes #pinkertons #thinkabout
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The union alleges that Amazon hired the Pinkertons, which subcontracted with a local firm, to surveil workers planning an October strike in Barcelona.
More evidence of Amazon's widespread worker surveillance program and the company's use of the Pinkerton spy agency has emerged in Spain.
El Diario reported on Monday that Amazon spied on workers planning an October 30, 2019 strike at its BCN1 warehouse in Barcelona. To spy on workers, the outlet reported, Amazon called on the Pinkertons, who subcontracted the job in Catalonia to a local firm named Castor & Polux. A retired police officer, Antonio Giménez Raso, was named as a "police liaison" between Castor & Polux and the Catalonia police force, Mossos d'Esquadra.
The Barcelona strike took place days before another strike in Poland that Motherboard reported was infiltrated by Pinkerton operatives working for Amazon.
Castor & Polux’s report on the BCN1 warehouse, obtained by El Diario, is a detailed 51-page document featuring secretly-taken photographs of the strikers and their faces, as well as extensive comments collected from trade unionists, workers, and journalists reporting on the strike. The document also mentions a reporter who interviewed workers, prompting the agents to search for her vehicle, record the license plate and model, and take photographs of it.
Amazon did not immediately respond to Motherboard’s request for comment. A spokesperson told el Diario that Amazon did not direct the Pinkertons or its affiliates to spy on the strike.
👀 👉🏼 https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx8x8z/spains-biggest-union-is-suing-amazon-for-spying-on-striking-workers
👀 👉🏼 https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pinkerton-agency-spies-union-strike-spain-ccoo-legal-action-2020-12
#DeleteAmazon #amazon #spying #strikes #pinkertons #thinkabout
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Spain's Biggest Union Is Suing Amazon for Spying on Striking Workers
The union alleges that Amazon hired the Pinkertons, which subcontracted with a local firm, to surveil workers planning an October strike in Barcelona.
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My Phone Was Spying on Me, so I Tracked Down the Surveillants
There are 160 apps on my phone. What they’re actually doing, I don’t know. But I decided to find out.
I have a feeling these apps are spying on me. Well, not listening in, but that they’re keeping track of where I am at all times. That my every move is shared on. When I am shopping for groceries, having a drink, or hanging out with friends.
I know there are those that buy and sell such information. How are they tracking us, and what do they want with our data?
To try to get to the bottom of this, I started an experiment in February. I installed lots of apps on a spare phone. I would then carry that phone everywhere.
Or almost. I left it at home when I took a COVID-19 test in April.
Easy to misuse
There is a good reason for why my feeling of being monitored has increased over the years. This spring, I was part of an NRK team documenting how more than 8,300 mobile phones were being tracked while they were at hospitals or women’s shelters.
For the sum of 35,000 NOK (3,300 EUR / 4,000 USD), we got access to location data showing where tens of thousands of Norwegians had travelled in 2019.
👀 👉🏼https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/
👀 👉🏼 https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/telefonen-spionerte-pa-meg-slik-fant-jeg-overvakerne/
#smartphone #spying #surveillants #surveilling #tracking #thinkabout
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There are 160 apps on my phone. What they’re actually doing, I don’t know. But I decided to find out.
I have a feeling these apps are spying on me. Well, not listening in, but that they’re keeping track of where I am at all times. That my every move is shared on. When I am shopping for groceries, having a drink, or hanging out with friends.
I know there are those that buy and sell such information. How are they tracking us, and what do they want with our data?
To try to get to the bottom of this, I started an experiment in February. I installed lots of apps on a spare phone. I would then carry that phone everywhere.
Or almost. I left it at home when I took a COVID-19 test in April.
Easy to misuse
There is a good reason for why my feeling of being monitored has increased over the years. This spring, I was part of an NRK team documenting how more than 8,300 mobile phones were being tracked while they were at hospitals or women’s shelters.
For the sum of 35,000 NOK (3,300 EUR / 4,000 USD), we got access to location data showing where tens of thousands of Norwegians had travelled in 2019.
👀 👉🏼https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/
👀 👉🏼 https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/telefonen-spionerte-pa-meg-slik-fant-jeg-overvakerne/
#smartphone #spying #surveillants #surveilling #tracking #thinkabout
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My Phone Was Spying on Me, so I Tracked Down the Surveillants
There are 160 apps on my phone. What they're actually doing, I don't know. But I decided to find out.
This is an English translation, read the original here.
I have a feeling these apps are …
This is an English translation, read the original here.
I have a feeling these apps are …
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Tencent has been caught spying on your web browsing history with QQ Messenger
QQ Messenger, a popular Chinese instant messaging app by Tencent, was caught scraping web browser history with their desktop client. The discovery was made by Chinese internet users on the Q and A platforum Zhihu. Here is a Chinese language thread that documents the QQ Messenger web browsing history scraping investigation. Basically, all Chromium based web browsers store your internet history in an sqlite file in local storage. QQ Messenger would seek out this file and scrape the information, comparing it to a list of keywords and then phoning home if any matches were found.
After the spying revelation, Tencent quickly released a new version of QQ Messenger without the web history scraping functionality and claimed that the Chinese company was only previously looking at its millions of users’ web browsing history as a way of ”checking whether malicious programs were using certain websites to access QQ.”
This isn’t the first time Tencent has spied on users for the Chinese government
Since last year, QQ messenger has lost 6% of its active users – possibly because users have already started distrusting QQ and Tencent. Over the years, similar revelations about Tencent’s anti-privacy and weak security practices have come out especially in regards to QQ products. Back in 2016, the University of Toronto’s CitizenLab revealed that Tencent’s QQ Browser regularly sent personal information back to Tencent unencrypted. Furthermore, it became known that this overt lack of encryption was likely explicitly requested by “higher powers.”
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/tencent-has-been-caught-spying-on-your-web-browsing-history-with-qq-messenger/
#tencent #china #spying #browsing #history #qq #messenger #thinkabout #why
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QQ Messenger, a popular Chinese instant messaging app by Tencent, was caught scraping web browser history with their desktop client. The discovery was made by Chinese internet users on the Q and A platforum Zhihu. Here is a Chinese language thread that documents the QQ Messenger web browsing history scraping investigation. Basically, all Chromium based web browsers store your internet history in an sqlite file in local storage. QQ Messenger would seek out this file and scrape the information, comparing it to a list of keywords and then phoning home if any matches were found.
After the spying revelation, Tencent quickly released a new version of QQ Messenger without the web history scraping functionality and claimed that the Chinese company was only previously looking at its millions of users’ web browsing history as a way of ”checking whether malicious programs were using certain websites to access QQ.”
This isn’t the first time Tencent has spied on users for the Chinese government
Since last year, QQ messenger has lost 6% of its active users – possibly because users have already started distrusting QQ and Tencent. Over the years, similar revelations about Tencent’s anti-privacy and weak security practices have come out especially in regards to QQ products. Back in 2016, the University of Toronto’s CitizenLab revealed that Tencent’s QQ Browser regularly sent personal information back to Tencent unencrypted. Furthermore, it became known that this overt lack of encryption was likely explicitly requested by “higher powers.”
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/tencent-has-been-caught-spying-on-your-web-browsing-history-with-qq-messenger/
#tencent #china #spying #browsing #history #qq #messenger #thinkabout #why
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Tencent has been caught spying on your web browsing history with QQ Messenger
QQ Messenger, a popular Chinese instant messaging app by Tencent, was caught scraping web browser history with their desktop client. The discovery was
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Spot the Surveillance - How to Identify Police Surveillance at Protests and Large Gatherings
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Kurt Opsahl will show you how to identify surveillance technologies that law enforcement may use at protests and other public gathering to spying on people exercising their fundamental rights. Learn how to spot the surveillance so you can advocate effectively for the policies necessary to protect your rights and bring transparency to the police surveillance.
https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11406-spot_the_surveillance
⚠️ This Talk was translated into multiple languages (DE / EN). The files available for download contain all languages as separate audio-tracks.
#rc3 #ccc #police #surveillance #spying #protests #demos #video
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Kurt Opsahl will show you how to identify surveillance technologies that law enforcement may use at protests and other public gathering to spying on people exercising their fundamental rights. Learn how to spot the surveillance so you can advocate effectively for the policies necessary to protect your rights and bring transparency to the police surveillance.
https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11406-spot_the_surveillance
⚠️ This Talk was translated into multiple languages (DE / EN). The files available for download contain all languages as separate audio-tracks.
#rc3 #ccc #police #surveillance #spying #protests #demos #video
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The Spanish government mafia now declared that its president Pedro Sánchez and its war minister Margarita Robles had their phones infected with the infamous Pegasus spyware. After they themselves were caught spying on opposition leaders, secessionist politicians and lawyers.
Margarita admitted that they were spying on the secessionists because they deserved it, but now it turns out that someone is spying on her too. Strange, right?
We can only draw three conclusions here:
1. It is a lie and it is an attempt to get out of the outrage.
2. It is true and the CNI (Spanish national intelligence center) spies on the secessionists while there is a 2nd country that spies on the Government of Spain.
3. It is true and the CNI goes on its own way and also spies on the government of Spain, looking more for the interests of the other corrupt big party currently in the opposition...
If it is the 3rd, it would be funny that they have been defending the CNI for the spring scandal to the death while CNI spied on them too.
If it were the 2nd it would almost be worse, it would be quite worrying if a country in the Israel-USA sphere (their allies) were spying on them.
Using Okham's razor it would probably be the 1st.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/2/spain-detects-pegasus-spyware-on-pm-defence-ministers-phones
https://www.eldiario.es/politica/gobierno-revela-telefonos-pedro-sanchez-margarita-robles-han-sido-infectados-pegasus_1_8959353.html
#spain #spying #surveillance #pegasus #nso
Margarita admitted that they were spying on the secessionists because they deserved it, but now it turns out that someone is spying on her too. Strange, right?
We can only draw three conclusions here:
1. It is a lie and it is an attempt to get out of the outrage.
2. It is true and the CNI (Spanish national intelligence center) spies on the secessionists while there is a 2nd country that spies on the Government of Spain.
3. It is true and the CNI goes on its own way and also spies on the government of Spain, looking more for the interests of the other corrupt big party currently in the opposition...
If it is the 3rd, it would be funny that they have been defending the CNI for the spring scandal to the death while CNI spied on them too.
If it were the 2nd it would almost be worse, it would be quite worrying if a country in the Israel-USA sphere (their allies) were spying on them.
Using Okham's razor it would probably be the 1st.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/2/spain-detects-pegasus-spyware-on-pm-defence-ministers-phones
https://www.eldiario.es/politica/gobierno-revela-telefonos-pedro-sanchez-margarita-robles-han-sido-infectados-pegasus_1_8959353.html
#spain #spying #surveillance #pegasus #nso
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Spain detects Pegasus spyware on PM, defence minister’s phones
Authorities say the phones of the two top officials were tapped in an ‘illicit and external intervention’ last year.