• Interactive Map: The Top Surveillance Cities Worldwide

  “Since the world’s first CCTV camera was installed in Germany in 1942, the number of surveillance cameras around the world has grown immensely. In fact, it only took us 79 years to go from one camera to nearly one billion of these devices.

  In the above interactive graphic, Surfshark maps out how prevalent CCTV surveillance cameras are in the world’s 130 most populous cities. “

  Tags: ITGS, AI, surveillance, cctv, privacy and anonymity

  • – By dr tech

• Gun Detection AI is Being Trained With Homemade ‘Active Shooter’ Videos

  “The point of creating this vast portfolio of digital gun art is to feed an algorithm made to detect a firearm as soon as a security camera catches it being drawn by synthetically creating tens of thousands of ways each gun may appear. Arcarithm is one of several companies developing automated active shooter detection technology in the hopes of selling it to schools, hotels, entertainment venues and the owners of any location that could be the site of one of America’s 15,000 annual gun murders and 29,000 gun injuries.”

  Tags: ITGS, AI, politics and government, machine learning, data, reliability

  • – By dr tech

• Israel’s Virus Surveillance Tool Tests Its Democratic Norms | Voice of America – English

  “In the early days of the pandemic, a panicked Israel began using a mass surveillance tool on its civilians, tracking people’s cellphones in hopes of stopping the spread of the coronavirus.”

  Tags: ITGS, peopleandmachines, security, surveillance

  • – By yeehaw

• Singapore’s Covid Success Isn’t Easily Replicated – Bloomberg

  Tags: ITGS, surveillance, peopleandmachines

• Singapore Police Force can obtain TraceTogether data for criminal investigations: Desmond Tan – CNA

  “The Singapore Police Force (SPF) can obtain TraceTogether data for criminal investigations”

  Tags: ITGS, surveillance, privacy, security

  • – By yeehaw

• Singapore reveals Covid privacy data available to police – BBC News

  “Officials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used for anything other than the virus tracking.

  But parliament was told on Monday it could also be used “for the purpose of criminal investigation”.”

  Tags: ITGS, surveillance, privacy, security

  • – By yeehaw

• CNA – On using TraceTogether data for criminal investigations: “I had not thought of the CPC (Criminal Procedure Code) when I spoke earlier,” Vivian Balakrishnan says | Facebook

  “Vivian Balakrishnan on why he had earlier said that TraceTogether app data would only be used for COVID-19 contact tracing. The Home Affairs Ministry has since said the data could be used for criminal investigations.”

  Tags: ITGS, surveillance, privacy, security

  • – By yeehaw

• What Does Big Tech Know About You? Basically Everything

  “handy infographic showing the types of data each company admits to collecting”

  Tags: ITGS, privacy, security, anonymity

  • – By yeehaw

• McAfee Finally On The Right Path

  “McAfee became a wholly owned subsidiary of a chip manufacturer. Crazy right? “

  Tags: ITGS, security, policiesandstandards, peopleandmachines

  • – By yeehaw

• Facebook movement data could help find new Covid-19 locations, study finds | World news | The Guardian

  “Anonymised Facebook data on people’s travels could be used to identify the spread of Covid-19 in locations where health officials are not yet aware of it, a new Australian study has found.

  Published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface on Wednesday, University of Melbourne researchers analysed anonymised population mobility data provided by Facebook as part of its Data for Good program to determine whether it could be a useful predictor in determining the spread of Covid outbreaks based on where people were travelling.”

  Tags: ITGS, facebook, covid-19, data, healthcare

  • – By dr tech

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