Bay Area camera company hack reaches schools, gyms, prisons
Drew Harwell, The Washington Post
March 10, 2021
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In one video, a woman in a hospital room watches over someone sleeping in an intensive-care-unit bed. In another, a man and three children celebrate one Sunday afternoon over a completed puzzle in a carpeted playroom.
The private moments would have, in some other time, been constrained to memory. But something else had been watching: an internet-connected camera managed by the San Mateo, Calif.-based security start-up Verkada, which sells cameras and software that customers can use to watch live video from anywhere across the Web.
A breach of the camera start-up Verkada "should be a wake-up call to the dangers of self-surveillance,” one expert said. “Our desire for some fake sense of security is its own security threat.”
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AMONG THE most pernicious aspects of the range of surveillance technologies available to the average police force is how they can render the visible invisible. For instance, you would notice if a police officer walked down your street every day, writing down the licence plates of every car. A police department would have to decide that assigning an officer to that task is worth the time and manpower. But automatic number-plate readers (small, flat cameras attached to the hood or boot of police cars) do the same thing, and unless you know what they look like, you would probably never notice them yet they can compile a granular record of everywhere you drive.
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Don t scrape the faces of our citizens for recognition, Canada tells Clearview AI – delete those images
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Katyanna Quach Mon 8 Feb 2021 // 11:01 UTC Share
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Canada’s privacy watchdog has found Clearview AI in “clear violation” of the country’s privacy laws, and has told the facial-recognition startup to stop scraping images of Canadians and delete all existing photos it has on those citizens.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada launched an official investigation into the upstart’s practices, and as a result Clearview stopped selling its software to Canadian police.