#surveillance
Mass surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies is “corrosive of online privacy” and threatens to undermine international law, according to a report to the United Nations general assembly. The critical study by Ben Emmerson QC, the UN’s special rapporteur on counter-terrorism, released on Wednesday is a response to revelations by the whistleblower Edward Snowden about the extent of monitoring carried out by GCHQ in the UK and the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US. Emmerson’s study poses a direct challenge to the claims of both governments that their bulk surveillance programs, which the barrister finds endanger the privacy of “literally every internet user,” are proportionate to the terrorist threat and robustly constrained by law. To combat the danger, Emmerson endorses the ability of Internet users to mount legal challenges to bulk surveillance. http://goo.gl/usDwXV
Always watching. This hooded crow had a nest in a nearby tree.
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Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin - Spirit is a Bone
2015, MACK, first edition (signed). Book came wrapped in tissue paper.
The portraits in this book were produced using advanced facial recognition technology that’s being used in most cities around the world, developed by engineers in Moscow from existing systems built to recognize car plates. These so called ‘non-collaborative portraits’ are more three dimensional data maps than photographs, where no human contact is registered: there’s a total negation of humanity, they’re essentially some sort of digital death masks. Broomberg & Chanarin have constructed their own taxonomy of portraits in contemporary Russia, including Pussy Riot members and other Moscow citizens.
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The uk government now are allowed to spy on anyone they want, whenever they want. This is the most invasive surveillance law in any modern nation. #BigBrotherIsWatchingUs
Reflecting the growing concern about the intersections of state surveillance, systemic racism, and predictive machine learning technology, we bring you the Algorithms of Late-Capitalism Issue 3: Minorities Report zine:
Digital Edition
Self-printing Edition
Epub Edition
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This zine was produced as part of an online zine co-creation workshop by internet teapot presented to the Design Justice students at the Humboldt University of Berlin. We would like to thank all the contributors for joining the workshop, making it a unique experience, and adding their insightful and idiosyncratic creations to this co-created zine.
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“It’s so boring watching something that never changes.”
@deathnotetober Day 27: Surveillance
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