With so many people seizing the convenience of using their smartphone cameras to point, shoot and share, embedded GPS location and all, digital camera manufacturers have been offering more “social” options such as built-in Wi-Fi capabilities and camera apps to quickly share photos and videos.
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Intrusive Surveillance Software FinSpy Found In 25 Countries Including America
Firedoglake According to a report by Citizen Lab the intrusive and surveillance software FinSpy sold to governments to spy on their citizens has been found in 25 countries. The investigation was launched based on analysis of a suspicious email that was targeting … |
What can we expect to see in the future of surveillance? Remember the “precogs” in Minority Report capable of seeing the future to stop crimes before they happened? Now imagine that on a global scale, capable of monitoring all people all the time…that will supposedly be our reality in the next 17 years or less.
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Rights Group Reports on Abuses of Surveillance and Censorship Technology
New York Times Last year, Mr. Marquis-Boire used computer servers to identify the use of an intelligence-oriented surveillance software program, called FinSpy, which was being used by Bahrain to track opposition activists. On a hunch last month, the researchers used … |