Surveillance State, Privacy & Citizenship

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  Wesley Fryer

  

  TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens

  Forbes - Emily Baker-White

  The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent. AChina-based team at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, planned to use the TikTok app to monitor the personal location of some specific American …

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  Wesley Fryer

  

  How Frustration Over TikTok Has Mounted in Washington (Published 2022)

  The New York Times - David McCabe

  National security concerns over the Chinese-owned viral video app remain unresolved. Lawmakers and regulators are increasingly pushing for action. WASHINGTON — Early last year, Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, and Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, met to discuss …

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  Wesley Fryer

  

  Parks Associates: 32% of Smart Tag Owners Report Using the Device to Track Another Person Without Their Knowledge

  prnewswire.com - Parks Associates

  Parks Associates estimates 15.7 million smart tags will be sold in the US in 2022, rising to 94.9 million in 2027 DALLAS, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ …

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  Wesley Fryer

  

  Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

  Associated Press - GARANCE BURKE

  Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails …

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  Wesley Fryer

  

  A million-word novel got censored before it was even shared. Now Chinese users want answers.

  MIT Technology Review - Zeyi Yang

  After a writer was locked out of her novel for including illegal content, Chinese web users are asking questions about just how far the state’s …

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  Wesley Fryer

  

  Surveillance is pervasive: Yes, you are being watched, even if no one is looking for you

  theconversation.com - Peter Krapp

  The U.S. has the largest number of surveillance cameras per person in the world. Cameras are omnipresent on city streets and in hotels, restaurants, …