surveillance
TPG
2023-02
A Screen Walks playlist of recorded live-streamed events touching on surveillance.
Premise is an app that assigns tasks such as taking photos that users can do to earn money. The data is sold to clients that include the US.
Research group Citizen Lab finds WeChat screens overseas users for sensitive content, which it then bars from being received by Chinese accounts; findings are likely to add fuel to concerns in …
TPG
2020-01
Further watching: Watched and Being Watched on Social Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWPOyuoF7oA
Hikvision has marketed an AI camera that automatically identifies Uyghurs, on its China website, only covering it up days ago after IPVM questioned them on it. This AI technology allows the PRC to …
An article from the NYT Privacy Project on the The Racist History of Facial Recognition. Starting with early scientific facial analysis in the 19th century trying to locate through “pictorial …
..In recent years, thanks to inexpensive, lightweight digital cameras that can be fastened to a collar and programmed to take photographs at regular intervals, a number of ‘photographer cats’ have even attained minor-celebrity status. Two of the most famous, Cooper, an American Shorthair living in Seattle, and Nancy Bean, a three-legged puss from …
2017-05
These (in)security cameras are all around us. In our streets, shops, buses, restaurants, homes. []
TPG
2017-03
Backdoored.io is an art piece by Nye Thompson involving the collection and exploration of images found in public search engine results from unsecured surveillance cameras, in an attempt to …
A new technique exploits sensor noise patterns unique to each camera that can help identify criminals via photographs posted online
RANDOM READINGS, through visual telecommunication systems. by Cesar Escudero Andaluz Random Readings is a series of video-images analysed by a computer application. The application works by detecting …
2016-11
“The truth is written all over our faces” was a tagline for Lie to Me, a procedural drama on network television several years ago.
2016-11
A net-based work created entirely by algorithms that have been automatically collecting images of six surveillance cameras placed on the US/Mexico Border from 2011 until 2014.
TPG
2016-10
16 states let the FBI use face recognition technology to compare the faces of suspected criminals to their driver’s license and ID photos, creating a virtual line-up of their state residents. In this …
Invisible is a protection against new forms of biological surveillance. A 2014 project where the bioartist, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, created a kit for our protection against threats to privacy.
CAMERAROLL A five-page digital installation built on the NewHive platform by vyle + Devin Kenny exploring surveillance and privacy
Eye-tracking technology helps us understand how people interact with their environment. This can improve policy and design, but can also be a tool for surveillance and control.