Olga Cronin
@OlgaCronin
Information rights/surveillance and human rights policy officer @INCLOnet and @ICCLtweet
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http://broadsheet.ie 20-01-2011 03:21:27
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1/4 🚨Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024's new #CSAR proposal is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
The new approach suggests a number of harmful & privacy-eroding ‘solutions’. Once again putting people's digital safety at risk.🤐
Read more from Ella Jakubowska & Jesper Lund - NOT HERE ANYMORE: edri.org/our-work/rearr…
🚨Absolutely stunning new investigation by Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם of +972 Magazine. TLDR: In Oct, IDF expanded kill lists from 'top commanders' to 'everyone Hamas'—37k ppl.
Via a slap-up AI bot.
And it increased quota of permitted collateral damage from 'zero' to '20' civilians per target.
Over six months, Rest of World spoke to researchers, activists, and people targeted by facial recognition systems to track how the technology is being used by governments around the world to crack down on protests.
Read our new feature by @darrenloucaides restofworld.org/2024/facial-re…
Met policeman LOVES live facial recognition surveillance, reasoning that the UK is already a surveillance state & your face is more or less a number plate…
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“Game changer” indeed. It’s barcodes for the population.
#StopFacialRecognition
🚨Hard-hitting piece by Abeba Birhane in The Irish Times on:
- dangers of FRT
- bewildering points from An Garda Síochána about planned FRT use
- their citing a certain 'accuracy' figure is irrelevant to envisaged Irish use
- why accuracy debate is distraction from wider human rights issues