Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 5/20/23
Police platform brings surveillance to the suburbs, Second-rate dating sites target lonely people, AI making steganography more secure, Vietnam's troll army, Can TikTok be banned?
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Privacy or safety? U.S. brings 'surveillance city to the suburbs'
Reuters’ Avi Asher-Schapiro digs into Fusus, a police technology platform that merges public and private cameras with predictive policing and other surveillance tools, which in 2022 networked more than 33,000 individual cameras in over 2,400 US locations operated by police departments, school districts, and sheriffs as part of public safety initiatives. Critics say Fusus tramples residents' privacy and…
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