Page 5 - Surveillance

Sanitation, aerial alerts make drones new soldiers in war against Covid-19

They are being used throughout the country to spray disinfectants, manage crowds, spread awareness through public announcements and for geo-mapping to chalk out containment zones

Taking hard measures while ensuring basic essentials: TN's coronavirus plan

The state is following surveillance, containment, increasing testing facilities, and ensuring essentials at people's doorstep, among other strategies.

Surveillance: How Kerala's immigration hotspot curbed Covid-19 transmission

Through contact tracing, the team was able to track nearly 98% of all primary and secondary contacts, who have been advised home- or hospital-isolation, district collector PB Nooh told IndiaSpend

The pandemic's other dangers

This crisis is not like those before: There is no obvious villain, whether jihadist terrorists or financiers; and few alive have lived through the last pandemic

Coronavirus outbreak brings China's surveillance state out of shadows

Chinese have long been aware that they are tracked by the world's most sophisticated system of electronic surveillance. The coronavirus emergency has brought that technology out of the shadows.

AI more feared than atom bomb now, but technology is for good: Huawei CEO

Speaking during the same session, historian Yuval Noah Harari, however, said the danger is not so obvious in AI as compared to atom bombs and there are benefits for some actors.

Best of BS Opinion: India's banking crisis, mass surveillance, and more

India's banking crisis, household expenditure at the time of natural disasters to mass surveillance are some of the topics our opinion writers tackle

Mass surveillance

Face recognition technology and its use in surveillance by sundry governments is deeply contentious

Beijing reprimands Xiaomi, Tencent over users' privacy infringement

China, which exercises close surveillance of online activity, has recently tightened its scrutiny of companies that gather data from consumers

Prasad pans surveillance reports, says govt will protect right to privacy

Replying to a query on safety of citizen's data during Question Hour, the Electronics and IT minister said the government operates strictly according to provisions of law and laid down protocol

Social media being used to manipulate elections, monitor citizens: Watchdog

Disinformation was the most commonly used tactic to undermine elections, according to the group

Privacy risk: Report says India among 75 nations with AI surveillance tools

Even as right to privacy has been declared a fundamental right, India does not have a personal data protection law yet

Should violations of tax, anti-corruption laws be subject to surveillance?

Interceptions in India today are authorised by eight central enforcement agencies for a spectrum of issues

A paranoid guide to fighting the 'bugging epidemic'

With surveillance gear cheaper and easier to use, security experts say checking your environment for cameras and microphones is not a crazy idea

Centre wants WhatsApp to explain Israeli spyware breach by November 4

It is still not clear which government entity bought the software that has reportedly impacted 1,400 devices globally

Amazon workers in India, Romania could be watching Cloud Cam home footage

Teams working on the Cloud Cam programme have picked up activity homeowners are unlikely to want shared, including rare instances of people having sex.

Emulating China: India seeks to adopt facial recognition system for police

The government says the move is designed to help one of the world's most understaffed police forces, which has one officer for every 724 citizens

Cannot disclose phone tapping permissions: Home Ministry to RTI query

The Home Ministry invoked three exemption clauses from the RTI Act to withhold the information without giving any reasons

From New Delhi to Patna, govt is watching your social media from 61 places

Law enforcement agencies are in the process of installing this 'strategic' tool to monitor social media activities at 59 more locations, shows RTI response

Govt order giving agencies vast snooping powers challenged in Supreme Court

Legal experts have said that the powers given to agencies under Section 69 of the IT Act need to be looked at afresh in view of the top court declaring the Right to Privacy as a fundamental right