Cops Are Running Ring Camera Footage Through Their Own Facial Recognition Software Because Who’s Going To Stop Them Techdirt.

Dec 042019
 

Ring may be holding off on adding facial recognition tech to its already-problematic security cameras, but that’s not stopping any of its not-exactly-end-users from doing it for themselves. Ring is swallowing up the doorbell camera market with aggressive marketing that includes the free use of taxpayer-funded services. It calls over 600 law enforcement agencies “partners.” In exchange for agency autonomy and free cameras, police departments all over the nation are pushing cameras on citizens and…

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McKinsey designed ICE’s gulags, recommending minimal food, medical care and supervision Boing Boing

Dec 042019
 

Obama brought McKinsey and Co, the giant management consulting firm, into ICE to effect an “organizational transformation,” so they were already in place when Trump took office, and as Trump pivoted to concentration camps, McKinsey had some suggestions to save money: cut back on food, medicine and supervision. Propublica sued the US government and obtained 1,500 pages’ worth of McKinsey/ICE memos thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. They document how McKinsey’s sole focus was…

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Trump Administration fast-tracks compulsory border facial recognition scans for all US citizens The Register

Dec 042019
 

Homeland Security also clamping down on H1-B visas The Trump Administration is planning to fast-track a new policy of compulsory facial recognition at the border, and including US citizens and permanent residents in its plans for the first time.…

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EFF Releases Certbot 1.0 to Help More Websites Encrypt Their Traffic Deeplinks

Dec 042019
 

Two Million Users Already Actively Using Certbot to Keep Sites SecureSan Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Certbot 1.0: a free, open source software tool to help websites encrypt their traffic and keep their sites secure. Certbot was first released in 2015, and since then it has helped more than two million website administrators enable HTTPS by automatically deploying Let’s Encrypt certificates. Let’s Encrypt is a free certificate authority that EFF helped…

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The Quest To Save .Org From Being Ruined By Private Equity Motherboard

Dec 042019
 

Experts, consumer groups, registrars and activists are working overtime to prevent the .org domain system—and the internet at large—from being undermined by greed. Last month the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the agency that manages the .org domain, announced it would be selling itself to Ethos Capital, a private equity fund with links to Republican billionaire families like the Perots and Romneys. And last June ICANN—the organization tasked with managing all internet domains—voted to eliminate all…

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The Supreme Court just heard the State of Georgia’s argument for copyrighting the law and charging for access to it Boing Boing

Dec 042019
 

For years, rogue archivist Carl Malamud (previously) has been scanning and posting proprietary elements of the law, such as standard annotations or building and safety codes developed by outside parties and then incorporated into legislation, on the theory that if you are expected to follow the law, you must be able to read, write and share that law. Along the way, Malamud has attracted numerous lawsuits from standards development organizations, publishers, national governments and state…

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