The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Tech advances are accelerating the use of facial recognition as a reliable and ubiquitous mass surveillance tool, privacy advocates warn. Assuming privacy concerns get addressed, much wider consumer uses are envisioned in areas such as marketing, retailing and health services. Related: Drivers behind facial recognition boom.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

One is the issue of insecure data privacy, which can occur due to improper data scrubbing, data storage, and data sharing on the internet, which can expose individuals to malicious misuse of their personal data. Amazon Rekognition software detects, analyzes, and identifies people in images and videos.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, banned an app called SpyPhone, and its CEO Scott Zuckerman, from operating in the surveillance industry. Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2019

It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. In either case, the video was only stored for a few days because storage was expensive. Identification technologies make it easier to automatically figure out who is in the videos.

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