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    Default Orwell, digital prisons and the double-edged sword of surveillance

    Might as well start a thread on this before someone in the west gets the bright idea to add this to their Patriot Act toolkit.

    China is adding facial recognition to its overarching surveillance systems in Xinjiang, a Muslim-dominated region in the country's far west that critics claim is under abusive security controls. The geo-fencing tools alert authorities when targets venture beyond a designated 300-meter safe zone, according to an anonymous source who spoke to Bloomberg.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-use...144700817.html

    Trust me, there'll be more to follow.

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    Default Meanwhile, on the opposite side of the globe

    Appeal court judges have ruled the government’s mass digital surveillance regime unlawful in a case brought by the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson.
    Liberty, the human rights campaign group which represented Watson in the case, said the ruling meant significant parts of theInvestigatory Powers Act 2016 – known as the snooper’s charter – are effectively unlawful and must be urgently changed.
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    See also -

    How do you spot a terrorist in a crowd? A Chinese answer
    http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=21043
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    Default Considering that the Wall is now down for longer than it was up...

    Historical footnote.

    East German Snitching Went Far Beyond the Stasi
    Everyone knows about the Stasi and the extent to which it spied on the East German populace. But that was only a small part of the informing that went on. New research shows that snitching was vastly more common than previously thought.
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/...a-1042883.html
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    Default NOPD Pre-Crime Division

    Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology
    Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don’t know about
    According to Ronal Serpas, the department’s chief at the time, one of the tools used by the New Orleans Police Department to identify members of gangs like 3NG and the 39ers came from the Silicon Valley company Palantir. The company provided software to a secretive NOPD program that traced people’s ties to other gang members, outlined criminal histories, analyzed social media, and predicted the likelihood that individuals would commit violence or become a victim. As part of the discovery process in Lewis’ trial, the government turned over more than 60,000 pages of documents detailing evidence gathered against him from confidential informants, ballistics, and other sources — but they made no mention of the NOPD’s partnership with Palantir, according to a source familiar with the 39ers trial.
    https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/1...w-orleans-nopd



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    Default Moderator's pointers

    There is a parallel thread on Predictive Policing, which IIRC has a USA focus:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=12757

    The Chinese use of combined surveillance and more to enable pre-emption has been covered in recent posts in this thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...p?t=246&page=8
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