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The use of Automated Facial Recognition (abbreviated to AFR) Technology has become a public issue here, sometimes with references to China's use and the implications for liberty, human rights etc. By...

A 'long read' article, the full title of which is: 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism. The book's title is: The Age of Surveillance Capital.

The article...

A typical long article from 'The Economist' on policing with the joys of more data and surveillance. It cites many different systems, nearly always with an American context and ends calling for a...

A good article on the problems with this new technology, although I recall several reports of deployment over ten years ago. Perhaps it is only now being released to "ordinary" police work? A 90%...

This IT company Palantir arouses controversy and this latest article is no exception. I did not realize that commercially it is less than successful....

I missed this BBC Arabic Service report (55 mins podcast), in July 2017, and it fits here well. Their summary:Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-middle-east-40531967/weapons-of-mass-surveillance

A BBC World Service report from Guiyang, a Chinese city in the south-west, with a population of over 4m and noted for its investment in big data and computing. Background and...

A puzzling academic article 'DNA techniques could transform facial recognition technology', added here as it opens with some facts and the states there is an answer - genomics.

It opens...

Maybe there has been polling on these issues before, but I don't recall such a comprehensive report in the UK following a YouGov poll.

A couple of...

The UK's Surveillance Camera Commissioner, an ex-CT detective, has a new report out and is concerned how society is...

That is my title after this rather startling Lawfare article, which cites Attorney-General Holder:Link:https://www.lawfareblog.com/three-years-later-how-snowden-helped-us-intelligence-community

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A short commentary by a good journalist, Paul Lashmar and subtitled:Link:https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/paul-lashmar/undigested-snowden?

From a newly found CT blog an article that sets out to:
Link:https://counterterrorismmatters.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/big-data-in-ct-investigatory-powers-bill-submission/

First up a NYT article 'New Technologies Give Government Ample Means to Track Suspects, Study Finds', which refer to a Harvard report due out today and is sharp retort to officialdom's frequent...

Where does one start? "Big Sister" the Home Secretary will not explain why:Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35300671

An Australian SME responds on whether 'big data'...

In the UK licence plate readers (LPR in the USA) are known as Automatic Number Plate Readers (ANPR) and as the title implies we have a lot of them:...

The debate in the UK over privacy and security has restarted as the Conservative government proposes a new law on extending surveillance and adding safeguards.

Today I found a number of good...

Actually the article's full title is 'NSA and GCHQ: the flawed psychology of government mass surveillance' and yes it is in The Guardian. The sub-title is probably more telling:
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I know many Americans have a strange regard, if not dislike for their postal service and it's inefficiencies - so they may think this odd:
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An example of vulnerability and in Syria, so no surprises that many sources have disappeared into the regime's care:http://www.cjr.org/feature/the_spy_who_came_in_from_the_c.php?page=all

As the UK chattering politicians post-Woolwich push for the "snooper's charter" bill to be reintroduced Denmark reports data collection is not that useful:
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Currently the UK government has proposed a bill to extensively update the law on law enforcement and security agencies access to communications data. This is a controversial piece of legislation,...