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I won’t bother running through the possible misuses, bias data models (see here if you don’t believe that technology can’t contain biases), or the cost. ‘The police are making up the rules as they go along,’ she says. ![]() Silkie Carlo from Big Brother Watch (who are running a campaign to stop this) reckons it’s a ‘free for all’ taking place in a legal vacuum. I’ve no idea what the legal basis is for any of this – but if covering your face is deemed suspicious, we’re heading somewhere where, for once, the word ‘Orwellian’ isn’t an exaggeration. The man got angry – understandably, I’d have done the same – which landed him a £90 fine for disorderly behaviour. ‘This gives us grounds to stop and verify him,’ one officer said. The police stopped him, forced him to uncover and then took a photograph of him anyway. In one chilling moment, a man walked past the facial recognition cameras and covered his face. (The Metropolitan Police are running a number of pilots). In a recent episode of BBC Click, journalist Geoff White followed the police’s pilot of live facial recognition technology. The Met Police’s sinister facial recognition trial should worry us all “That’s where I see the most potential harm occurring. “My primary concern is when the state abuses its power, and because of the age we live in, it’s probably going to occur through technology and data mining,” Mr. And he is establishing a nonprofit, Secure Justice, that will grapple with technology issues. He has two additional privacy proposals winding their way through the state’s legislative process, focused on reining in surveillance technology. Hofer is pushing for more facial recognition bans. In Santa Clara County, in Oakland and elsewhere, he has secured transparency laws around surveillance technology. He successfully pressed the Northern California cities of Richmond and Berkeley, which have sanctuary policies, to end their contracts with tech companies like Amazon and Vigilant Solutions that do business with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Hofer is little known outside California, but his anti-surveillance measures have been making waves in the state. The man behind San Francisco’s facial recognition ban is working on more. Unless it’s being DDOSd (which seems unlikely). I’d link to the report, but the Henry Jackson Society has the slowest website in the world. “Therefore, we must conclude the engagement of Huawei presents a potential security risk to the UK.” “No part of the Communist Chinese state is ultimately able to operate free of the control exercised by its Communist party leadership,” Dearlove added. Using blunter language than the report’s authors, he wrote: “I very much hope there is time for the UK government … to reconsider the Huawei decision. The HJS report has a foreword by Sir Richard Dearlove, who led MI6 between 19. ![]() A leaked account of the meeting said five cabinet ministers raised concerns about the company. Last month May provisionally approved the use of Huawei technology for parts of the UK’s future 5G telecoms networks after a meeting of the NSC. It adds to pressure heaped on the British government to reconsider letting Huawei participate in the UK’s 5G network from the US and Australia, whose intelligence agencies share information with the UK. The document is co-authored by the Tory MP Bob Seely, who has already raised concerns about Huawei, and the expert academics Peter Varnish and John Hemmings. In a report from the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), the authors claimed Huawei “has long been accused of espionage” – a claim denied repeatedly by the firm – and notes that “while there are no definitely proven cases”, a precautionary principle should be adopted. ![]() Huawei poses security threat to UK, says former MI6 chief You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam.Ī selection of 10 links for you. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. CC-licensed photo by Sheila Scarborough on Flickr. Facial recognition systems are spreading in the US and UK – but there’s pushback. Perfect for game night and a fun gift for any card game lover 7 years or older. Try out the 'Timer Mode' which makes the game move even faster! Please remember what was said about what is and isnt allowed in chat, that bullying or threats wont be tolerated, throughout any of the available chatrooms. 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I love how easy it is to process my incoming emails, voicemails, and the occasional fax into my calendar and task tracking system (drag and drop). The second you upload a file to the cloud, you invite other risks, but depending on how you manage, you might actually be lowering your overall risk profile (the service may be more secure than your PC and home network, it may provide redundant access and backups, etc.).All of my actionable stuff lives on a Hosted Microsoft Exchange account. The second you connect a computer to the Internet, you open the door to innumerable more risks (viruses, trojans, worms, phishing, social engineering attacks, etc.). The second your files are stored on a computer, they are at risk (hard drive can crash, someone can steal the computer, etc.). The tradeoff is that these encrypted files are less accessible to me because I have to decrypt them. This represents dozens of files and a few megabytes of storage. 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There are a BUNCH of these services out there right now. so, it can be slower for very large files with minor incremental changes. and, as it has been pointed out, once you encrypt on your computer (as opposed to the server), the entire container has to be uploaded when updated, not just the small piece of the file that you changed. ![]() ![]() these are the types of concerns that come up when you let someone else house your files on their computers.Īs it has been pointed out, you can always manually encrypt the files on your computer before uploading to dropbox or similar, but it is a nice feature to have it built-in. the password field didn't need to match the account (or any account for that matter) for the site to let you log into the account. there was a period (a few hours I think) of time where you could login to ANY dropbox account using a valid account name and any random password. Someone asked why the security concern with dropbox? dropbox recently updated some software and subsequent to the update they left the front door wide open. to most people this isn't an issue, to some it is. with sugarsync and dropbox, THEY are the ones holding the keys, not you. if someone hacked into wuala, or if a rogue employee decided to browse your files, or if someone sharing space on their computer decided to take a look, they wouldn't be able to. What wuala does is automatically let YOU encrypt the files prior to upload so that THEY don't have the keys to decrypt them. So, they are the ones holding the keys, not you. Most of these cloud storage/sync services offer encryption (particularly for their paid versions), the difference is that THEY are the one encrypting/decrypting your files. |
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