上空から警察のヘリコプターで撮影されたとみられる大量の監視映像が米国で流出し、波紋を呼んでいる。1.8テラバイト分のデータにはクルマや住宅の庭、街路に立つ人々まで、地上のあらゆるものが高精細な映像で残されており、機密性の高い映像を収集・保存するリスクを改めて浮き彫りにしている。
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顔認識技術の使用を中止するという、Facebookの決断の意味
写真や動画に写っている人物を自動的に特定する顔認識技術について、Facebookが使用を中止すると発表した。プライヴァシーと人権上の懸念があるとして米国では使用中止を求める声が高まってきたが、Facebookの決定はこうした動きが加速するターニングポイントになる可能性もある。
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Spot AI emerges from stealth with $22M for a platform to draw out more intelligence from organizations’ basic security videos
Security cameras, for better or for worse, are part and parcel of how many businesses monitor spaces in the workplace for security or operational reasons. Now, a startup is coming out of stealth with funding for tech designed to make the video produced by those cameras more useful. Spot AI has built a software platform […]
NSO Pegasus spyware can no longer target UK phone numbers
Israeli maker of surveillance software blocked +44 code after detecting hack against Princess Haya, source saysThe powerful spyware used to hack into mobile phones belonging to Princess Haya and her divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton is no longer effectiv…
Manager of fund that owns Israeli spyware firm not yet given access to sensitive info
US-based Berkeley Research Group, which took on oversight of fund that has majority stake in NSO, has not had clearance from IsraelThe US consulting firm that now manages the fund that owns a majority stake in NSO Group, the Israeli spyware maker, has …
RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani
Research concludes it ‘was probable’ that Menwith Hill was used to assist in the controversial assassinationCampaigners have called on ministers to explain whether the secretive Menwith Hill intelligence base in Yorkshire is involved in recent drone st…
‘There’s cameras everywhere’: testimonies detail far-reaching surveillance of Uyghurs in China
China’s surveillance machine has grown with the aid of Chinese and international technology companies. But few have faced repercussionsAbdusalam Muhammad recalls local police interrogating him and his family in their home of Yakan in China’s Xinjiang U…
ロシア政府による力ずくの“脅し”の中身と、圧力に屈したアップルとグーグルが本来なすべきだったこと
アップルとグーグルがロシアの総選挙を前に反体制派による投票支援アプリを削除した問題の背景には、実はロシア政府による“腕力”による脅しへの方針転換が大きく影響していた。法改正によって現地オフィスの設置を義務づけた上でその従業員を“人質”にとって脅す手法に屈したテック企業たちには、もっと別の対応ができたのではないか。
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Experts say China’s low-level cyberwar is becoming severe threat
Activity more overt and reckless despite US, British and other political efforts to bring it to a haltChinese state-sponsored hacking is at record levels, western experts say, accusing Beijing of engaging in a form of low-level warfare that is escalati…
EU commissioner calls for urgent action against Pegasus spyware
Didier Reynders condemns hacking of political opponents and journalists and says bloc closely watching Hungary investigationThe EU must swiftly legislate to further protect the rights of activists, journalists and politicians following the Pegasus spyw…