Posts tagged surveillance
Police vs. Activists in collection of G20 digital record
Jul 19th
Weeks after Toronto played host to the G20 summit, the protests and intense police presence are still reverberating through social media.
Brian Jackson
Pictures and videos of burning police cruisers and protester pinned to the pavement have spread across Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. in vast multitude. With so much digital record of that disruptive weekend obviously at the public’s fingertips, it was no surprise when Toronto Police realized such evidence might come in useful.
Give Google a break
May 17th
Yesterday’s revelation that Google’s StreetView cars collected more than just anonymized pictures of buildings and cars (and some comical situations) came as a surprise to many, including regulatory bodies in a number of countries that are now considering miscellaneous lawsuits and penalties, according to the BBC.
Claudiu Popa
To wit, the issue was that these ‘photographic cars’ included the ability to sniff wireless data from open networks as they drove around neighbourhoods, so they likely collected the various device and network identifiers along with some snippet of content that happened to be transferred at that particular moment.
People feel violated. Privacy advocates smell blood and lawyers are rubbing their hands in anticipation. Read the rest of this entry »
