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The UK’s Privatised Migration Surveillance Regime: A Rough Guide for Civil Society

Privacy International has released a guide to how UK authorities track and monitor immigrants and the companies which profit.

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Connected Cars: What Happens To Our Data On Rental Cars?

When you rent a car at the airport, use a car-share for a family day trip, one of the first things you are likely to do before setting off on your journey, is to connect your phone to the car. You switch on the Bluetooth and see a list of other people’s phones that were previously connected - Mike’s

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Case Study: Connected Cars and the Future of Car Travel in the Digital Age

As society heads toward an ever more connected world, the ability for individuals to protect and manage the invisible data that companies and third parties hold about them, becomes increasingly difficult. This is further complicated by events like data breaches, hacks, and covert information

Examples of Abuse

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MIT shows how wifi can be used to accurately track people and objects

At the 2016 Usenix conference, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) presented a system called Chronos that could use wifi signals to detect the position of a person or object inside a room to within tens of centimetres. MIT claimed Chronos was 20 times more accurate

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