Page 5 - Surveillance

Amazon's surveillance can boost output and possibly limit unions: Study

Companies across industries use data on their workforce to boost output

How China is helping Trump blacklisted-AI firm thrive in pandemic era

The Hong Kong-based startup's revenue surged 147% to 5 billion yuan ($720 million) in 2019 and its customer base increased by about 500 to 1,200 clients, according to co-founder Xu Bing

Hyderabad 16th among 20 cities globally in CCTV Surveillance, tops in India

Hyderabad has been ranked 16 th among the "Top 20 Most Surveilled Cities globally" according to a report published by a UK-based firm.According to a tweet by the Director-General of Police of Telangana, M Mahender Reddy, the firm Comparitech conducted a survey of cities, in which Hyderabad with its 3 lakh CCTV cameras being used to keep tab on a city that has a population of a little over 1 crore, figured 16th in the most surveilled cities."UK #Comparitech Rept : #HyderabadCity with 3Lakh surveillance cameras ranked 16 among the Top20 #MostSurveilledCities across the world. (*Usage, No.of cameras & Safety). Congratulations to all the stakeholders firstly #TheCommunities for making the city a safer place to live in," the DGP tweeted.The DGP also attached a snapshot of the survey, in which Taiyuan in China was ranked first with 4,65,255 CCTV camerasAnjani Kumar, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City said that Hyderabad was ranked first in India."It is a very proud moment. ..

Cargo cult democracies

Cargo cults are interesting constructs. During World War II, as the US fought Japan across the Pacific Ocean, both sides built military bases on many islands

Banning TikTok takes a big tool away from Chinese surveillance work: US NSA

'China is going to know everything about you,' says Robert O'Brien on Fox TV show.

Perils of face-recognition

The technology has heightened privacy concerns

IBM exits facial recognition biz as CEO calls out inequity in tech usage

IBM will stop offering facial recognition software and oppose any use of such technology for purposes of mass surveillance and racial profiling, said company's CEO Arvind Krishna

Mumbai ramps up testing to three-fold to 4,000 samples a day

Starts door-to-door screening in Worli and Dharavi; 81% tested in Maharashtra are asymptomatic; BMC awaits rapid antibody test kits; isolation centres, Covid-19 beds being added rapidly

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