Phil Windley

APRIL 12, 2021

A similar, and perhaps just as impactful, discussion is happening now around technologies like artificial intelligence, surveillance, and digital identity. Tags: verifiable+credentials identity covid. I’d like to focus on just one small facet of the digital identity debate: vaccination passports.

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Galido

APRIL 17, 2017

Given the positivity it brings through surveillance, companies are opting for. Texting, business communication and surveillance. If you’re using a monitoring software like xnspy, you can get some add-ons such as geo-tags. Monitoring technology has become an integral part of a business.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

Website Promising 'Discreet' Marital Affairs Gets Hacked - Nextgov.com - Nextgov NextGov (Yesterday) - NextgovWebsite Promising 'Discreet' Marital Affairs Gets Hacked - Nextgov.comNextgovAshley Madison—the dating website whose tag line reads, “Life is short. Have an affair”—finds itself in an awkward position after hackers managed.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 1, 2022

Ad networks and the valuation of platforms based on how well they display ads to their users has led to the wide-spread surveillance of people, usually without them knowing the extent or consequences. Intrusions of territorial privacy can include video surveillance or ID checks. Tags: privacy confidentiality identity.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Traditional data indexing methods often rely on manual tagging or basic keyword searches, which can be time-consuming and prone to errors. Provided by Bloomberg Professional Services, this integrated compliance and surveillance solution simplifies data archiving, collection, and aggregation.

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Phil Windley

MAY 24, 2022

platforms that treat their participants as mere customers (at best) or profit from surveillance capitalism (at worst). Tags: web3 freedom agency ssi. The reason the network is so large is precisely because Helium uses its cryptocurrency to reward participants for the activities that grow the network and keep it functioning.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

No third parties (hosts or platforms) to say what can or can't be posted, censor me, surveil me, or otherwise intermediate me and my post. Tags: web3 ssi identity keri decentralized+identifiers. Rather, as embodied agents, we operationalize our relationships, whether they be long-lived or nascent, by acting for ourselves.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 19, 2019

Sovrin provides a flexible, open, and public metasystem that can easily serve as the foundation for the identity services a system like Libra would need to support financial inclusion without surveillance. Photo Credit: Libra Digital from Public Domain Pictures (CC0) Tags: libra identity cryptocurrency facebook sovrin. Conclusion.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Enhanced User Trust & Reputation: By collecting only essential data, organizations can build trust with users, gaining a competitive edge in a privacy-conscious market that is increasingly growing tired of the abuses of surveillance capitalism. Tags: zero+data identity verifiable+credentials zero+trust

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

Kristine Bell, another worker at BHM1, said she attended a meeting where Amazon managers handed out car tags with anti-union messages like “leave RWDSU in the rear view” and “Vote no.” Voting was supposed to be anonymous — but the constant surveillance made some doubt that was possible. What have you ever done for me?”.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 16, 2009

Surveillance. Not content with ‘head-cams’ strapped to their helmets - and the fact that there are now 680 million CCTV cameras covering every building in the country – the police have now started to use tiny surveillance drones to monitor things from 1,600 feet up in the sky. I said “no”. Timewarps….

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

where people, for very small amounts of money, are apparently willing, from the comfort of their couches, to monitor crime surveillance cameras to look for suspicious activity and report it. Tags: Social media Social trends Technology trends Web 2.0 Which comes back to the increased power we all have, and how we can best use it.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MAY 25, 2015

Seattle Police Demonstrate a UAV aka “drone” For example, Video surveillance cameras are becoming less expensive and more ubiquitous. For example, every load of hazardous material being transported by road, air or rail could be tagged and tracked.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Yet the backlash is strong, with some choosing to pull out of social networks, pushing for greater privacy legislation, and crying out against pervasive government surveillance. Tags: Future of business Future of humanity Global economy Social trends Technology trends 2010 decade future futurist predictions. Youth – Experience.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2020

With a $99-a-year price tag and some pungent opinions about how email should work, Hey is not for all or even most people. It blocks all tracking pixels, disabling read receipts and other surveillance. Most apps think they’re the center of the world.”. Hey has other opinions.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 15, 2010

There are far more rich thoughts in Wright's article, notably about surveillance, terrorism, and the role of America in the world, which I strongly recommend you read for yourself. Tags: Future of humanity Social media globalbrain whattechnologywants.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

APRIL 12, 2010

As if keeping kids under lock and key and helmet and cell phone and nanny and surveillance is the right way to rear kids. Tags: Autism Life learning parenting acceptance awareness leadership. Long story longer, and analyzed, to boot: Half the people I’ve told this episode to now want to turn me in for child abuse.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This has been a boon to surveillance capitalism. Tags: identity ssi tokens surveillance+capitalism relationships. Traditionally, we've done that with accounts and identifying, using authentication factors, who is connecting. Photo Credit: Tickets from Clint Hilbert (Pixabay).

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

Samsung does have another trick up its sleeve to justify that eye-wateringly high price tag (it’s one of the most expensive robot vacuums you can buy). But you can schedule it to patrol on the hour (using the SmartThings app) and look for motion, as well as choose up to five “spots” on the robot’s map to go surveil.

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Surveillance is profitable. Tags: identity ssi relationships pseudonymity. Related: Ephemeral Relationships —Many of the relationships we have online don’t have to be long-lived. Ephemeral relationships, offering virtual anonymity, are technically possible without a loss of functionality or convenience. Why don’t they exist?

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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. Vamosi: There's also Pegasus, a type of surveillance software created by NSO in Israeli security company. And what if that unease was coming from your mobile device.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

Last year, the Department of the Interior grounded all its drones , citing concerns of potential spying by the Chinese government, and the Department of Commerce put DJI on its Entity List after the company allegedly provided the Chinese government with surveillance tech for its Uyghur Muslim detention camps.

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Phil Windley

MAY 25, 2021

Surveillance —Unfortunately, identity systems also provide the means of tracking individuals across transactions for purposes of gathering data about them. So, how did we get surveillance and it's attendant affects on natural anonymity as an unintended, but oft-exploited feature of administrative digital identity systems?

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Phil Windley

JUNE 26, 2019

The bad guys, scammers, and surveillers can use them just as easily as the doctors and hospitals. Tags: identity healthcare sovrin hyperledger. The problem with universal identifiers is twofold: First, they are indiscriminate; they don't care who's using them to correlate information about a person.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 10, 2020

In the opening chapter of her groundbreaking book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism , Shoshana Zuboff asks the question "Can the digital future be our home?" Tags: identity ssi self-sovereign. Not if it's based on administrative identity systems and the anemic, ofttimes dangerous, relationships they create.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Smartphone apps have used facial recognition for years to tag and sort people, and one of the most intuitive AR glasses applications is simply getting reminded of people’s names (as well as other background information like where you met them). It’s also a potential privacy disaster.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Now we're looking at loss prevention in a different way with these RFID tags and readers," Miller said. "So You can just stick one of those RFID tags and if it leaves through this port, which is the only way to get in or out of the place where it is being held, then you're going to know where it is.".

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 12, 2020

A surveillance economy that relies on the weak privacy provisions that administrative systems create to exploit our online behavior as the raw material for products that not only predict, but attempt to manipulate, our future behaviors. Tags: ssi identity relationships administrative+identity sovereign+source.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 27, 2022

The commercial spyware industry is alive and thriving, according to a report released last week by Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). The report specifically details an Italian vendor, RCS Labs, and its "Hermit" surveillance malware (aka spyware) used on mobile phones. For more information, read the report from Google TAG.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2020

The Department of Homeland Security says US authorities have banned drones from flying near federal buildings in Portland because they believe drones are surveilling federal officers at protests there, Reuters reports. A federal surveillance drone circled above Minneapolis protests in May.

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Phil Windley

JULY 16, 2020

Unneeded, long-lived relationships are the foundation of the surveillance economy that has come to define the modern online experience. Tags: sovrin ssi decentralized+identifiers identity relationships. The biggest one is that every Web site, app, or service wants to send you ads, at best, or track you on other sites, at worst.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 20, 2019

Trying to use ever-larger institutions to create trusted online interactions is what has gotten us into the current privacy mess, exemplified by security breaches and surveillance capitalism. The metasystem removes the need for a centralized administrative system that can surveil activity.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2022

Most notably, they could put some absurdly high price tag on this device. But flashy new tech is always accompanied by a very high price tag. Previous Zephyrus G14 models have spent months at the top of our Best Gaming Laptop list, and that’s with a 16:9 aspect ratio and no webcam. Please, Asus and AMD, please do not do me like that.)

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2021

The rise of Clearview AI , a dystopian surveillance company that built facial recognition in part by collecting publicly available photos on Facebook, has made that case in a visceral way this year. But the company already lets me export my friends’ data — when they tag me in comments, send me Facebook messages, and so on.

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Vox

MAY 1, 2023

It’s all come under criticism for evicting indigenous residents, being wasteful to construct, and for containing potentially dystopian elements of a surveillance state built into Neom’s “smart city” infrastructure. Altman publicly resigned from the board, and Ive’s name disappeared from it.

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Phil Windley

MAY 18, 2021

Summary: This post features three fantastic books from three great, but quite different, authors on the subject of Big Tech, surveillance capitalism, and what's to be done about it. I recently read Shoshana Zuboff's book on surveillance capitalism. T]yranny is the obliteration of politics.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MAY 25, 2016

Yet many of us willingly “opt in” to this tracking, using store loyalty cards or tagging the faces of our friends and children on sites such as Facebook and Instagram. Many private buildings and stores also use video surveillance. These private videos were essential to capturing the Boston marathon bomber.

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