Posts by Jeramie Scott

CBP Compiles Massive Amounts of Travelers’ Data Through Border Seizures

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

Senators Markey & Wyden Call on ICE to End Invasive Surveillance Practices

• Data Protection

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Location Tracking

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

New EPIC Report Highlights DHS’s Extensive Collection and Circulation of Location Data

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

The Rise of Chinese Surveillance Technology in Africa (part 3 of 6)

For China, research & development in surveillance technologies supports the state’s ambitions to be a global leader in tech innovation while also enhancing its capacity for domestic social control. Thus, AI technology and its applications are used as a part of China’s economic competitiveness strategy and data-driven governance plan. The New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan is the chief policy instrument that lays out China’s AI policy goals through 2030. The plan operates in conjunction with a series of interrelated policies, like the 14th Five-Year Plan on National Informatization, Military-Civil Fusion strategy, Made in China 2025, and the Strategic Emerging Industries lists, that explicate Beijing’s aims to leverage AI technology for economic and security purposes.

• International Privacy Laws

• Privacy Laws

• Analysis

EPIC, Coalition Call on Congress to Address Overbroad Authorities in Counter-Drone Bill

• Drones & Aerial Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Analysis: The Rise of Chinese Surveillance Technology in Africa (Part 2 of 6)

• Data Protection

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• International Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Analysis: The Rise of Chinese Surveillance Technology in Africa (Part 1 of 6)

• Data Protection

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• International Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

The Rise of Chinese Surveillance Technology in Africa (part 1 of 6)

Many Chinese tech companies continue to export their facial recognition technologies into Africa markets while supporting domestic surveillance practices that include Uyghur and ethnic minority detection. Facial recognition technology, once framed as a potential ameliorant to social challenges like crime, is now widely criticized for racial bias and the risks the technology poses to privacy and civil liberties. These risks and more are clearly present in China’s current testing and expansion of facial recognition systems in Africa. The technology’s arrival in African countries like Zimbabwe is a mark of China’s growing geopolitical footprint and Chinese corporate expansion.

• Data Protection

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• International Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

• Analysis

Clearview AI Banned From Selling Facial Recognition Database Access to Companies

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Is ICE Using Facial Recognition to Track People Who Allegedly Threaten Their Agents?

Facial recognition is a powerful surveillance technology that can easily be implemented on a mass scale because of the abundance of pictures and videos online and the ubiquitousness of cameras in our society. This ease of implementation is part of the reason facial recognition technology is so dangerous—making misuse an ever-present likelihood.

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Freedom of Information Act

• Open Government

• Privacy Impact Assessments

• Surveillance Oversight

• Analysis