Italian mafia fugitive arrested in Spain after being spotted on Google Street View

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lanun
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mafia-gioacchino-gammino-google-spain-b1987609.html

“It’s not as if we spend our days wading through Google Maps to find fugitives."

Indeed they must have access to the unblurred pictures somehow.

andyprough
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>“It’s not as if we spend our days wading through Google Maps to find fugitives."

The police and spy organizations probably don't have to wade through Google's online products to find someone. Google gladly creates backdoors and AI that do it for them.

lanun
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Sure.

The article mentions a scar on the chin, while showing a picture with a blurred face. Journalists seem to have lost any sense of curiosity.

Good thing my associates and I have been wearing these toad masks while making silly gestures to the Street View cars all these years.

lanun
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Wondering whether that huge trove of mundane pictures of public places should be made public domain.

Some places seem to be updated more frequently than others, and the pictures sometimes bear the mark of local governments, most probably providing support of some kind.

SkedarKing
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Corporations and Governments...

They have three things in common:

They both seem to love data collection
They love being able to abuse their power
They love capitalism to an unhealthy level

PS, when I say this, I mean MOST of them...

I hate to say it, but Europe is like an anomally at this point... same with Canada.

If you know of any others or can provide proof this isn't true, feel free to prove me wrong...

I would love to be wrong on this... especially when I see how badly my own country is screwing itself via Captialism.

libredrs

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Check out the Corruption Perceptions Index at Transparency International:
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021

"The CPI generally defines corruption as an 'abuse of entrusted power for private gain.'"

The Wikipedia page has a nice table showing 10 years of the Index:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

'Europe' is better viewed as individual countries, just like 'America.'

This table:
https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/corruption-index

shows this, but doesn't include this year's Index. So, Canada (part of America) is the least while Venezuela (also part of America) is the most corrupt, according to the Index for America. So, Americans are apparently subjected to a wide range of corruption. The same can be observed for other continents, including Europe.

I can't vouch for the usefulness of a single value per country Index, but will assume that generalizations based on continent or large geographic regions aren't useful.

andyprough
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From reading Snowden's works, my understanding is that any member or affiliate member of the 14 Eyes spy-data sharing countries is neck deep in private data gathering. This includes the US and UK, nearly all of Europe and Canada, along with Israel, Japan, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand

If any of those countries have consumer friendly data privacy laws that say they can't spy on their citizens, they just farm the work out to other 14 Eyes partners who spy on their citizens for them.

According to Snowden, the 14 Eyes spies are deeply imbedded in the internet backbone, have built-in backdoors to the email and cloud services providers, and have instant access to all phone conversations and text messages through the mobile phone providers.

The problem with Snowden's data is he has been proven correct at every point. You can't trust any of those governments as far as I can tell. You can only assume they already have all your data and act accordingly - i.e., never put anything in writing or speak about anything on or near a smart phone listening device that you would not want to be known.

SkedarKing
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Yeah, but my point, is that europe has way better data privacy laws, then america...

Canada btw is the origin of OpenBSD, because encryption laws are better there than america also.

My point being, some countries are many times worse with their laws...

Others take a more mild stance on screwing with the laws realizing that the populace will eventually rise up if they do this bs.

Europe is one such example...

Canada? Not as much, but at least there is no encryption restrictions, like america...

And if America is part of the 5 eyes... which it is... along with Russia and China, that should tell you how dangerous the five eyes are!

Yeah... I will take europe's policies on privacy over usa's anyday of the week.

;)

Actually, I just checked, Canada is also 5 eyes...

So yeah, Canada is also an issue... damn...

Oh well...

I am still at least glad they don't restrict encryption algorithms...

That being said, they are probably the least harmful of the five eyes.

Which is, still not good.

-_-

andyprough
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I don't think you read what I wrote: "If any of those countries have consumer friendly data privacy laws that say they can't spy on their citizens, they just farm the work out to other 14 Eyes partners who spy on their citizens for them."

There are no "good privacy laws". Those are just speed bumps for the spy agencies and governments. They all have access to all your online and phone data, and will gladly use it against you - you have to assume that.

andyprough
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Here's some good, quick reading on the topic, from Wikipedia, specific to Canada and Europe:

>"As a result of Snowden's disclosures, the FVEY alliance has become the subject of a growing amount of controversy in parts of the world:
Canada: In late 2013, Canadian federal judge Richard Mosley strongly rebuked the CSIS for outsourcing its surveillance of Canadians to overseas partner agencies. A 51-page court ruling asserts that the CSIS and other Canadian federal agencies have been illegally enlisting FVEY allies in global surveillance dragnets, while keeping domestic federal courts in the dark.[88][89][90]
European Union: In early 2014, the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs released a draft report which confirmed that the intelligence agencies of New Zealand and Canada have cooperated with the NSA under the Five Eyes programme and may have been actively sharing the personal data of EU citizens.[92][93]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#cite_note-88

That entire Wikipedia article on Five Eyes is worth reading - it goes into the 14 Eyes, and gives a lot of references.

libredrs

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Andy,

Can you recommend any of Snowden's writings in particular? Online or in print.

Thanks.

andyprough
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The Guardian news has been the chronicler of Edward Snowden's revelations, and they have an entire archive about all their stories about him and his revelations going all the way back to the beginning, in 2013:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/edward-snowden

If you want to read an overview of all of Snowden's revelations in an afternoon, Wikipedia has done a pretty good job of summarizing the whole story. I don't normally think Wikipedia does good work, but in this instance it's a fairly well written and sourced document: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

Snowden's autobiography, "Permanent Record" (2019), is the official document he wrote to memorialize his work. You should be able to find it through your local library, either paper, digital, or audio version, whichever you prefer.
ISBN 978-1-250-23723-1

The CommonDreams website has archived a number of articles and documents written by Snowden: https://www.commondreams.org/author/edward-snowden?page=0
One of the best reads is Snowden's 2014 testimony to the European Parliament, "What Europe Should Know about US Mass Surveillance" - https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/03/07/what-europe-should-know-about-us-mass-surveillance

libredrs

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That will all keep me busy. Thanks!

lanun
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Aldous Huxley: "Democracy is based on the proposition that power is very dangerous"

Interviewer: "Is freedom necessary?"