Den kinesiska regimen kritiserar Apple

av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 10, 2019 | Övervakning

De kinesiska myndigheterna kritiserar Apple för beslutet att godkänna en app som bland annat används av demonstranterna i Hing Kong under protesterna.

Kritiken kommer inte direkt från myndigiterna utan via kinesiska statskontrollerade medier. Apple kritiseras för att skydda kriminella och kriminella aktiviteter.

Stoppas

We created the  App Store  to be a safe and trusted place to discover apps. We have learned that an app, HKmap.live, has been used in ways that endanger law enforcement and residents in Hong Kong. Many concerned customers in Hong Kong have contacted us about this app and we immediately began investigating it. The app displays police locations and we have verified with the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau that the app has been used to target and ambush police, threaten public safety, and criminals have used it to victimize residents in areas where they know there is no law enforcement. This app violates our guidelines and local laws, and we have removed it from the  App Store .

Enter att ha utrett appen ett varv till så Apple nu beslutat att stoppa den.

Amazon lämnar ut information från privatpersoners kameraförsedda ringklockor till polisen

av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 9, 2019 | Övervakning

Företaget Ring tillverkar en ringklocka med en inbyggd kamera som kan användas för att se vem det är som ringer på dörren. Washington Post avslöjade tidigare att information från ringklockan delas med över 400 polismyndigheter i USA och nu protesterar över 30 rättighetsgrupper i ett öppet brev.

Företaget Ring ägs av Amazon och produkterna säljs via Amazons stora handelsplats.

The doorbell-camera company Ring has forged video-sharing partnerships with more than 400 police forces across the United States, granting them potential access to homeowners’ camera footage and a powerful role in what the company calls the nation’s “new neighborhood watch.”

The partnerships let police request the video recorded by homeowners’ cameras within a specific time and area, helping officers see footage from the company’s millions of Internet-connected cameras installed nationwide, the company said. Officers don’t receive ongoing or live-video access, and homeowners can decline the requests, whoch Ring sends via email thanking them for “making your neighborhood a safer place.”

Washington Post

I det öppna brevet skriver grupperna bland annat att det juridiska läget är ytterst oklart och att poliser och polismyndigheter agerar som marknadsförare för Rings propdukter.

A key component of the partnership turns police departments into marketing agencies and police officers into salespeople for Amazon. Amazon provides officers with talking points to promote their technology and products to residents, and requests departments market the products at city events. While Amazon gives participating departments free products for promotion, the majority of the products are privately purchased from Amazon. In some municipalities taxpayermoney has been used to subsidize Amazon surveillance products for residents’ use. On the back end, Amazon carefully scripts everything that authorities say about the program, and coaches police on the best talking points to get customers to hand over their footage.

Fight for the Future

Google anklagas för att samla in personlig information i hemlighet

av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 5, 2019 | Övervakning

När webbläsaren Brave gjorde en del tester och experiment med att se hur data lagras och hur information samlas in upptäcktes att sökjätten Google samlar in personlig information, gör den tillgänglig för annonsörer i hemlighet – i strid med sina egna regler och i strid med EU:s regler.

Etnicitet, hälsa, politiska åsikter och geografisk position tillhandahålls av Google via hemliga webbsidor och informationen används för att matcha annonser med enskilda individer.

“Google’s “DoubleClick/Authorized Buyers” ad system is active on 8.4+ million websites. It broadcasts personal data about visitors to these sites to 2,000+ companies, hundreds of billions of times a day”, said Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave.

“The evidence we have submitted to the Irish Data Protection Commission proves that Google leaked my protected data to an unknown number of companies. One cannot know what these companies then did with it, because Google loses control over my data once it was sent. Its policies are no protection.”

Brave

GDPR

Googles sätt att samla in data och inte informera användarna står i direkt strid med de GDPR-regler som gäller inom hela EU-området.

• Google DoubleClick/Authorized Buyers is installed on 8.4+ million websites.[12]
• It broadcasts personal data about visitors to these sites to 2,000+ companies, hundreds of billions of times a day.[13]
• The data can include people’s locations, inferred religious, sexual, political characteristics, and what they are reading, watching, and listening to online.[14]
• There is no control over what happens to the data once broadcast.[15]
• This appears to be by far the largest leakage of personal data ever recorded.
• Google’s sole means of protecting RTB data once broadcast is a weak policy that asks the thousands of companies it shares data with to self-regulate.[16]

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