We're trying to get 1 million EU citizens to sign our European Citizen's Initative to tell the European Commission to ban biometric mass surveillance.
Unfortunately if you're not an EU citizen you can't sign this petition BUT you should still be worried about facial recognition - and - if you're in the US - you can sign this peition aimed at banning facial recognition federally being run by a coalition of organisations including Fight for the Future and Colour of Change.
Facial recognition, and other forms of biometric mass surveillance, stand against our fundamental rights and values, but government and companies are still buying, installing, and using it despite repeated studies suggesting it's racist and doesn't always work very well with terrible consequences. Even if the technology wasn't flawed it would still be deeply invasive, with the potential to create a surveillance regime beyond any we've seen before.
We're also working with our partners around the world to challenge facial recognition as it pops up in countries like Uganda and to challenge individual companies who take up facial recognition or who's practices fall short.
We'll be here from 10am BST/ 3am CA PST on the 16th until 4pm BST / 11:00 PST on the 18th!
We are: Edin - Advocacy Director at PI (using /privacyintl) Ioannis - Legal Officer at PI (using /privacyintl) Nuno - Technologist at PI (using /privacyintl) Caitlin - Campaigns Officer at PI (using /privacyintl) Ella - Policy and Campaigns Officer at EDRi (using /Ella_from_EDRi)
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Unlike Google, we also don't track you all over the web with ads, we don't save your searches, we don't save your IP address or user data and we don't create profiles of you. We have a rock solid privacy policy. Check out our privacy features here...
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I hope you will check SearchScene out. We are just out of beta and are trying to ramp up our traffic. We've worked hard to give users a great search experience and we've got great reviews online. We've got browser extensions for most major browsers and apps for iOS and Android.
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Co-founder
https://www.searchscene.com
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 50%. (I'm a bot)
> CIVIL liberties groups called for a total ban on facial recognition cameras today amid fears that the police, the Home Office, and councils are using the intrusive technology without proper oversight.
> A spokesperson for the professional police body told the Morning Star that the allegations are incorrect, saying that the guidance - concerning live facial recognition technology in England and Wales - would only be published after a "Process of liasing with key stakeholders."
> Campaign groups pointed to a Court of Appeal ruling in August 2020 that the use of facial recognition cameras by South Wales Police in a pilot scheme ahead of a nationwide rollout breached privacy rights and equalities law.
> "The groups called on MPs to ban the use of the technology by law enforcement agencies and private companies entirely, as it poses"significant and unmitigable risks to our society" and "represents a huge shift in the relationship between the individual and the state.
> "Further, deployments of this surveillance technology could mirror and exacerbate existing disproportionate policing practices towards minority communities," the letter pointed out.
> "A Home Office spokesperson said:"This government is delivering on a manifesto commitment to empower the police to use new technologies, like facial recognition to help identify and find suspects, to protect the public.
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First: I have no affiliation with privacy.com. I'm just a regular dude who has used it and thinks it's a valuable free service that people on here can really benefit from.
Discussion of fraud comes up enough on this site that I thought it is worth a dedicated post. Potential fraud (ie stolen credit card number) can be avoided easily.
Stop putting your credit card on the line in a sketchy internet transaction with a foreign merchant on the other side of the planet.
Do it enough and sooner or later you're going to notice weird transactions coming up on your card, or if you're lucky, a fraud alert from your credit card company that they're declining a suspicious charge.
Fraud issues have been reported on here frequently, even with commonly used (reputable) vendors. It's not necessarily intentional. When you make a transaction, your sensitive data goes gets sent across the internet and all it takes is one small unintentional security vulnerability and suddenly your credit card info is in someone else's hands who has bad intentions.
There's an easy solution which I personally use: privacy.com. It's completely free and allows you to create virtual credit cards that you can use online to avoid giving out your real credit card number. You can choose to have the credit card close itself after a single transaction, after a set spend limit, or manually lock and unlock it.
The safest thing to do is make a single use card that closes automatically after a single transaction. When you're ready to make a purchase, generate a new card with a spend limit just above what your expected purchase price is ($5 or so to account for currency conversion). Then use that card to make your purchase. After the purchase gets completed, the card shuts down and is no longer valid. Done. If someone steals the number during the transaction, who cares, because the card is dead by the time they try to use it.
It's 100% free for normal uses. It literally took me less than 5 minutes to set up an account. You can generate like 10 or so cards a month for free. They also don't charge any foreign transaction fees or currency conversion fees. Even if I wasn't worried about fraud I would still use it for this fact alone since my card tacks on fees for both.
Stop putting your credit card (or god forbid your debit card) on the line in what is undeniably a sketchy transaction ordering grey market cigars that are illegal for you you purchase and import in the first place, from a foreign co
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Just thought you may be interested to know we (Privacy International) have migrated from our v2 onion to a v3 onion
https://privacyintyqcroe.onion is now https://privacy2ws3ora5p4qpzptqr32qm54gf5ifyzvo5bhl7bb254c6nbiyd.onion
If anyone has bookmarks to our content, they may wish to update them. We will keep running our v2 address until our certificate expires.
On a vaguely interestingly technical point we appear to be the first .onion on DigiCerts new Intermediate Certificate Authority
We wrote a blog a while back on why we decided to run hidden service in the first place which you may find interesting
For anyone running v2 onions, the deprecation date is July 15th 2021, with the release of Tor 0.4.6.x
How do you approach the wording of the International Transfers section in a Privacy notice in the scenario where an entity currently transfers personal data outside the EEA but it hasn't yet finalised the SCCs with the third parties to which it transfers the data.
One doesn't want to lie in the Privacy Notice and say that the entity has already entered into SCCs with all third parties as that isn't the case here. Some are outstanding. An idea is to cite in the Privacy Notice that these transfers are happening and that the public is welcome to contract the DPO on email if they want more details on how the data is being secured.
any other bright ideas?
We're working with a coalition of organisations to get One million European citizens to sign our European Citizen's Initative to tell the European Commission to ban biometric mass surveillance. Join us to find out everything you need to know about facial recognition (and other campaigns you can sign up to if you're not an EU citizen!)
We're doing an IAMA on r/privacy from 16th April 10am BST / 2am PDT - 18th 6pm BST / 10am PDT - come find out everything you might need to know about facial recognition!
We're working with a coalition of organisations to get One million European citizens to sign our European Citizen's Initative to tell the European Commission to ban biometric mass surveillance. Join us to find out everything you need to know about facial recognition.
We're doing an IAMA on r/privacy from 16th April 11am CEST - 18th 7pm CEST - come find out everything you might need to know about facial recognition!
We're working with a coalition of organisations to get One million European citizens to sign our European Citizen's Initative to tell the European Commission to ban biometric mass surveillance. Join us to find out everything you need to know about facial recognition (and other campaigns you can sign up to if you're not an EU citizen!)
Proof: https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1383001195166437377?s=20
We're doing an IAMA on r/privacy from 16th April 10am BST / 2am PDT - 18th 6pm BST / 10am PDT - come find out everything you might need to know about facial recognition!
