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For years, Mehmet Tohti has been receiving threatening phone calls from China – the most disturbing of which alleged his mother and various other family members were dead. As a Uyghur activist in Ottawa, he had come to expect intimidation and harassment attempts from his former homeland. But only recently …
Read More »U.S. military recovers key sensors from downed Chinese surveillance balloon – National
The U.S. military said on Monday it had recovered critical electronics from the suspected Chinese spy balloon downed by a U.S. fighter jet off South Carolina’s coast on Feb. 4, including key sensors presumably used for intelligence gathering. “Crews have been able to recover significant debris from the site, including …
Read More »Iran spying: Canadian firm’s axed 2019 deal raises questions about working with regime – National
A small Canadian telecom service firm is taking issue with a tech watchdog’s report that it discussed working with an alleged front company to help Iranian officials spy on civilians. Citizen Lab, the Toronto-based digital and human rights organization, alleged in a Monday report that Port Coquitlam, B.C.-based PortaOne was …
Read More »Iran removing 27 surveillance cameras from nuclear sites, UN watchdog says
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday that Iran is removing 27 surveillance cameras from nuclear sites in the country, raising the risk of its inspectors being unable to track Tehran’s advances as it enriches closer than ever to weapons-grade levels. Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general …
Read More »Bezos' biggest legacy could be "Bezosism", using surveillance, algorithms, and data to supercharge old management systems and squeeze performance out of workers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Bezos’ biggest legacy could be “Bezosism”, using surveillance, algorithms, and data to supercharge old management systems and squeeze performance out of workers — The e-commerce giant has supercharged systems of management invented a century ago with surveillance, algorithms and data, leading to a new …
Read More »48 civil rights and advocacy groups join in asking the FTC to ban corporate facial surveillance technology, continuous corporate surveillance of public space (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: 48 civil rights and advocacy groups join in asking the FTC to ban corporate facial surveillance technology, continuous corporate surveillance of public space — The open letter uses Amazon as a case study to argue that corporate surveillance technologies cause immense harm and fall under …
Read More »States gear up to tackle Covid-19 in villages with online consultations, surveillance committees, Health News, ET HealthWorld
As the Covid wave gradually shifts to rural areas, several states are gearing up to check its spread through self-proclaimed lockdowns by Panchayati Raj institutions, creating a database of migrants and providing free online medical consultation to the sick. The initiatives have been taken by states in consultation with the …
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