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SUMMARY:Bad Connection : Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors - publication
DESCRIPTION:The investigation ‘Bad Connection‘ by Citizen Lab uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and\, for the first time\, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. \nThe findings expose how suspected commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) exploit the global telecom interconnect ecosystem\, leverage private operator networks\, and conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years. Israeli telecom infrastructure was used to track citizens in more than ten countries over the past three years\, according to a report published recently by the digital research group Citizen Lab. The findings\, reviewed by Haaretz in recent weeks\, expose how efforts to upgrade phone network infrastructures built in the 1970s for the smartphone era still leave even the most advanced devices exposed to surveillance. The report describes two separate tracking operations\, each likely run by a commercial firm selling surveillance technologies to governments around the world. One was also found to have exploited Israeli geolocation technology to track targets\, using networks belonging to 019Mobile and Partner Communications\, although both Israeli companies denied any involvement. A second\, more sophisticated operation is linked to a Swiss firm at the center of a 2023 Haaretz investigation for supplying Israeli surveillance companies\, including Rayzone\, which develops and sells cyber intelligence technologies to government agencies around the world. \nLinks:\nGhost Operators: How Israeli Telecoms Were Exploited to Track Citizens Worldwide \nGlobal telecom networks ‘hijacked’ by Israeli firms for mass surveillance operation: Report
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/bad-connection-uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors-publication/
CATEGORIES:Maatschappij,Mensenrechten,Privacy
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SUMMARY:Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI - publication
DESCRIPTION:The Dutch city of Amsterdam thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms\, its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair? \n\nThere’s an ongoing debate about whether algorithms can ever be fair when tasked with making decisions that shape people’s lives. Over the past several years of efforts to use artificial intelligence in this way\, examples of collateral damage have mounted: nonwhite job applicants weeded out of job application pools in the US\, families being wrongly flagged for child abuse investigations in Japan\, and low-income residents being denied food subsidies in India. Proponents of these assessment systems argue that they can create more efficient public services by doing more with less and\, in the case of welfare systems specifically\, reclaim money that is allegedly being lost from the public purse. In practice\, many were poorly designed from the start. They sometimes factor in personal characteristics in a way that leads to discrimination\, and sometimes they have been deployed without testing for bias or effectiveness. In general\, they offer few options for people to challenge—or even understand—the automated actions directly affecting how they live. \nWhen Amsterdam set out to create an AI model to detect potential welfare fraud\, officials thought it could break a decade-plus trend of discriminatory algorithms that had harmed people all over the world. City officials in the welfare department believed they could build technology that would prevent fraud while protecting citizens’ rights. They followed these emerging best practices and invested a vast amount of time and money in a project that eventually processed live welfare applications. But in their pilot\, they found that the system they’d developed was still not fair and effective. Why? Lighthouse Reports\, MIT Technology Review\, and the Dutch newspaper Trouw have gained unprecedented access to the system to try to find out. In response to a public records request\, the city disclosed multiple versions of the algorithm and data on how it evaluated real-world welfare applicants\, offering us unique insight into whether\, under the best possible conditions\, algorithmic systems can deliver on their ambitious promises.   \n\nLinks:\nInside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI \nAmsterdam wilde met AI de bijstand eerlijker en efficiënter maken. Het liep anders
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/inside-amsterdams-high-stakes-experiment-to-create-fair-welfare-ai-publication/
CATEGORIES:AI,Amsterdam,IT,Maatschappij,Mensenrechten,Privacy
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SUMMARY:#InternationalWaveAtSurveillanceCamerasDay #ZwaaiNaarEenSurveillanceCamera 2023
DESCRIPTION:On August 16th\, people across the world will be encouraged to kill the global surveillance state with sarcastic kindness\, as part of the fourth annual Wave at the Surveillance Cameras Day. \nThe plan? Simply locate a surveillance camera and wave\, and you will have accomplished your anti-surveillance objective. At one time or another\, many of us have surely walked past a surveillance camera and made some sort of a gesture at it. For my part\, I usually raise high my middle finger as if I will exact some effective vengeance on my Orwellian overlords. Childish\, to be sure\, but necessary. The International Wave at the Surveillance Cameras gives people an official outlet for this tendency.\nApart from some comically lo-fi and surreal videos publicizing event\, not much is known about the original organizers of this event. I got in touch with “Zorbitor\,” who creates videos for Wave at Surveillance Day\, to ask if he/she was also the creator of the international event\, but he was cagey about details. \n“Originally [International Wave at the Surveillance Cameras Day] coincided with the Occupy movement\, that’s about all I know\,” he/she said. “Aside from my previous videos on my channel\, I have nothing to add.” Zorbitor’s Twitter account reads\, “My 2011 International Wave at the Surveillance Cameras Day video was banned in Germany.” Whether that is true or not\, I can’t be sure. Zorbitor’s Twitter account also functions as a news feed on all things surveillance\, so this anonymous persona does seem to be a concerned citizen of the global village. \nBy way of a counterpoint\, back in 2012 cyberpunk legend Bruce Sterling offered up his opinion on the event: “Yeah\, that ought to impress ’em\,” Sterling said via Wired. “Especially when they’re entirely automated and dependent on machine-vision algorithms.” Be that as it may\, on August 16th\, if you happen to come across a surveillance camera\, smile and wave\, because it’s really the act that counts not whether someone on the other end will actually be watching. And why not take a selfie whilst in the act\, just to let Big Brother know that at least some of us are watching the watchmen. \nLinks:\nSurveillance Day\n\nWave at the Surveillance Cameras Day \nInternational Wave at the Surveillance Cameras Day Is the Laziest Protest Ever
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/internationalwaveatsurveillancecamerasday-zwaainaareensurveillancecamera-2023/
CATEGORIES:Privacy
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