Re: [liberationtech] Mapping out physical surveillance across a city
On 25/06/14 19:03, Blibbet wrote: How would one map an entire city's surveillance anyway? Are the location of police cameras available? And even if they are, how does one map out all the private cameras watching? To the OP, Seattle Privacy http://seattleprivacy.org/ has a map of Seattle.gov's mesh network, at least parts of it. (didn't see this message go through, sending it again, sorry if it did go through the first time!) Hi everyone, There have been a few projects in France on this issue, the most active I know of is www.sous-surveillance.net, which has specific subdomains for each city (and pretty cool stickers): http://paris.sous-surveillance.net http://lyon.sous-surveillance.net etc. People can add cameras and different details : location, type, who operates them, etc. There is also a similar project on OpenStreetMap and quite a few cameras are in the OSM database. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Key:Surveillance http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/surveillance#map I think in time, the plan was to merge the sous-surveillance data with the general OSM one, but I have no idea where that plan currently stands. I also recall seeing a similar project on Berlin a while back, but I can't find it right now. One question, when you say physical surveillance, are you thinking of anything beyond surveillance cameras? Guards? One last thing, you can sometimes find the location of city/state cameras in open data programmes. It's the case for Paris. Cheers axel -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Mapping out physical surveillance across a city
On 24/06/14 20:19, Patrick wrote: How would one map an entire city's surveillance anyway? Are the location of police cameras available? And even if they are, how does one map out all the private cameras watching? Is there some tech that could be used to do that? Government cameras may well be available through freedom of information laws. For example, here is a request that got the locations of cameras in one district of London: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/surveillance_cameras In other places, the government will even pro-actively give out that information. e.g. here's a government-produced spreadsheet location of cameras in Nottingham, UK: http://www.opendatanottingham.org.uk/dataset.aspx?id=39 It might be useful just to collect together these existing resources on a national or global level; I'd be up for helping with something like that. On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Lucas Gonze lucas.go...@gmail.com mailto:lucas.go...@gmail.com wrote: If anybody comes up with a such a map for the bay area, I'd love to see it. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu mailto:compa...@stanford.edu. -- Dan O'Huiginn -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] Fwd: Knight invests $4 Million in next-generation community platform for online news (hopefully more), E-Democracy lessons
Any thoughts on how the wider civic tech/open gov community can contribute to this effort? How might we help ensure the code is widely available? Having viable online communities tied to our local news sites seems crucial to promote local democracy. Steven Clift From: Steven Clift cl...@e-democracy.org Date: Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 9:42 AM Subject: Knight invests $4 Million in next-generation community platform for online news (hopefully more), E-Democracy lessons To: newswire newsw...@groups.dowire.org, Key links, then commentary, then some excerpts ... OpenNews - Building New Communities with the New York Times and the Washington Post: http://bit.ly/sinkercommentstocommunity The Mozilla-New York Times-Washington Post project: Turning comments into community http://bit.ly/knightcommentstocommunity Press release: http://bit.ly/commentstocommunityknightPR Join OpenNew's online group: http://bit.ly/opennewsonlinegroup Clift/E-Democracy Comments: As a non-profit that started with community online twenty years ago, it is AWESOME to see journalism waking up to the potential for real change with online news engagement. Connecting people in groups (be it an neighborhood, an interest, a desire to be mixed up ideologically, or to be connected with like-minds) AND then bringing in news for discussion is far more natural. It is what people did around the community well, the luncheon counter, or on Facebook today which each person essentially the center of their own dynamic group. R.I.P. drive by online news commenting which assumes that each atomized news story works as a center piece for engagement with news and journalism. By putting people in communities or groups online in the center, human nature will be embraced. Current online news commenting - about politics, crime, or practically anything - is an embarrassment to our society and nation ... not just a failure of journalism. I can't imagine how you could better design a better system to foster unaccountable, extreme, vitriol that fundamentally drowns out 95% of voices. So with the current bar so low, let's hope with $4 million investment will help fix this problem with tools that actually work and limited the loudest voices problem. (On the tech side they will probably spend in one month what our scrappy non-profit has been able to invest in the open source GroupServer platform over the nearly 10 years we have used it! Coders note: http://e-democracy.org/groupserver - Let's hope this is new project is fundamentally open source and available for any site wishing to contribute and use it. Perhaps they will add to existing code too and not just re-create the wheel.) I invite you to join me on the OpenNews online group where I plan to share some of our insights from building online civic communities that in some neighborhoods reach everyday people and 30% of households. (I am not a rep. for the project, but hope to get more involved.) Join OpenNew's online group: http://bit.ly/opennewsonlinegroup Key to E-Democracy is that our online groups are democratic by design as public spaces (to the extent possible as a non-profit), embracing real names for power and agenda-setting, and engage journalists, elected officials, civil servants, local businesses and more. The resident-only gated-community models threaten the future of public engagement with local news if they are not meat with similarly pleasing experience for everyday people. (Meaning many people love neighbor connecting online and if we don't offer a civic engagement/community news friendly option the eye balls, local group purchasing, and ad/sponsor dollars will be heading to Silicon Valley.) In Knight's blog post they ask, But what if we could build a commenting system that gives commenters a real sense of ownership? To that I add - What if the online community system could share real ownership (or benefits) with participants as well as community and news organizations contributing measurable efforts and outreach to make the system work in a region? If done right, this could be an awesome community fundraising engine that inspire readers to become participants. I've been talking for awhile about the need for a reverse Associated Press style non-profit or online producers coop that inspires community volunteerism to guide and facilitate online groups in local communities (ones that could be connected more to news sites). Many news rooms say they can't afford more paid facilitation and our nation can't afford trashed engagement on news sites either. So, I have ideas on how to fix this ... and create incentives for shared community-wide engagement that invests back in the local community. OK, below is the official stuff. Cheers, Steven Clift E-Democracy.org - Get similar announcements from: http://dowire.org From OpenNews: http://bit.ly/sinkercommentstocommunity OpenNews - Building New Communities with the New York Times and the Washington Post
[liberationtech] Soghoian's written remarks for the German Parliament Committee of Inquiry
Recommended reading: http://files.cloudprivacy.net/bundestag-testimony-csoghoian-june-26-final.pdf ---rsk -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report on Hacking Team's Government Surveillance Malware
I skimmed this earlier today and plan to read it in depth later: it looks like superb work. The most disturbing thing about it is the realization that this can't possibly be the only such project. Surely there are others. Many others. And since there are others, it's necessary to ask: are any of them better than this one, i.e., more capable, more stealthy, etc.? After all, it would be rather extraordinary if these researchers just happened to come across the best one. (Sort of like walking into the jungle and presuming that the first lion you meet happens to be the fiercest. Possible, yes...but unlikely.) Therefore we must entertain the hypothesis that these capabilities may represent a floor rather than a ceiling. And that, as I said above, is disturbing. ---rsk -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] Tenure track job posting at Citizen Lab / Munk School
Hi LibTech We have just posted a tenure track position at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto for someone in the area of digital media and global affairs, with a special focus on security and cyberspace. The position is open to any discipline, and applications are welcome from those seeking to integrate into the Citizen Lab's research network. https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?job=1401282 Please circulate widely! Cheers Ron Job Description Requisition Title: Assistant Professor - Digital Media and Global Affairs - 1401282 Job Field: Tenure Stream Faculty / Division: Faculty of Arts and Science Department: Munk School of Global Affairs Campus: St. George (downtown Toronto) Job Posting: Jun 26, 2014 Job Closing: Sep 15, 2014 Description: The Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto invites applications for a tenure-stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of Digital Media and Global Affairs. The appointment will begin on July 1, 2015. Applicants must have a Ph.D.by date of appointment or shortly thereafter. Applicants must have innovative research programs and teaching interests in global security, with a particular emphasis on cyber security, and interest or proven ability to work with multi-disciplinary research teams from across engineering and social sciences. Evidence of excellence in teaching and research is required. The School is seeking candidates whose work engages with policy, with a deep understanding of new tools and techniques (such as data mining, analytics and crowd sourcing) and their impact on global security. Applicants must have an excellent theoretical knowledge of the core literature in their disciplines as well as superior research and teaching abilities. The Munk School of Global Affairs is also home to the Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media, global security, and human rights, and we welcome applicants whose research integrates with the Citizen Lab’s resources and global network. The successful candidate will be fully appointed in the professional Master of Global Affairs (MGA) program at the Munk School, and will be expected to contribute to the core teaching needs of the program. The Master of Global Affairs degree at the Munk School is an exciting, new professional graduate degree designed to equip students with knowledge and skills for careers in government and international institutions, the private sector, and NGOs. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching dossier (including a statement of teaching philosophy), a statement outlining current and future research interests, and a writing sample. If you have questions about this position, please contact munkschool.direc...@utoronto.ca . Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. We recommend combining attached documents into one or two files in PDF format. In addition to the online submission, applicants must also arrange for at least three referees to e-mail letters (PDF format, signed, on letterhead) directly to the department via email to the attention of Professor Janice Stein, Director, Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, care of Sarah Namer atmunkschool.direc...@utoronto.ca . Letters must ARRIVE by the closing date, September 15, 2014. At least one of the three letters should comment on the candidate’s teaching. For more information about the Munk School of Global Affairs please visit us at: www.munkschool.utoronto.ca The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. The University of Toronto offers the opportunity to teach, conduct research and live in one of the most diverse cities in the world. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab r.deib...@utoronto.ca -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Knight invests $4 Million in next-generation community platform for online news (hopefully more), E-Democracy lessons
The Mozilla OpenNews team takes working in the open to heart. Like many projects out of the Mozilla Foundation, perhaps the easiest way to get involved and build bridges with this initiative is to join the public community call that happens every other Wednesday: https://wiki.mozilla.org/OpenNews/Calls Joining their mailing list and irc channel are also great ways to connect. https://wiki.mozilla.org/OpenNews While making the code public and widely available is an aim for this project, they'd definitely appreciate more involvement from a wider community. It might make sense to recruit an ambassador of sorts with a strong mental map of the civic tech/open gov space to participate, ask this very question and discover opportunities for collaboration. Cheers! Lyre Calliope http://captaincalliope.net http://twitter.com/captaincalliope On Thursday, June 26, 2014 12:32:41 PM UTC-4, Steven Clift wrote: Any thoughts on how the wider civic tech/open gov community can contribute to this effort? How might we help ensure the code is widely available? Having viable online communities tied to our local news sites seems crucial to promote local democracy. Steven Clift From: Steven Clift cl...@e-democracy.org javascript: Date: Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 9:42 AM Subject: Knight invests $4 Million in next-generation community platform for online news (hopefully more), E-Democracy lessons To: newswire news...@groups.dowire.org javascript:, Key links, then commentary, then some excerpts ... OpenNews - Building New Communities with the New York Times and the Washington Post: http://bit.ly/sinkercommentstocommunity The Mozilla-New York Times-Washington Post project: Turning comments into community http://bit.ly/knightcommentstocommunity Press release: http://bit.ly/commentstocommunityknightPR Join OpenNew's online group: http://bit.ly/opennewsonlinegroup Clift/E-Democracy Comments: As a non-profit that started with community online twenty years ago, it is AWESOME to see journalism waking up to the potential for real change with online news engagement. Connecting people in groups (be it an neighborhood, an interest, a desire to be mixed up ideologically, or to be connected with like-minds) AND then bringing in news for discussion is far more natural. It is what people did around the community well, the luncheon counter, or on Facebook today which each person essentially the center of their own dynamic group. R.I.P. drive by online news commenting which assumes that each atomized news story works as a center piece for engagement with news and journalism. By putting people in communities or groups online in the center, human nature will be embraced. Current online news commenting - about politics, crime, or practically anything - is an embarrassment to our society and nation ... not just a failure of journalism. I can't imagine how you could better design a better system to foster unaccountable, extreme, vitriol that fundamentally drowns out 95% of voices. So with the current bar so low, let's hope with $4 million investment will help fix this problem with tools that actually work and limited the loudest voices problem. (On the tech side they will probably spend in one month what our scrappy non-profit has been able to invest in the open source GroupServer platform over the nearly 10 years we have used it! Coders note: http://e-democracy.org/groupserver - Let's hope this is new project is fundamentally open source and available for any site wishing to contribute and use it. Perhaps they will add to existing code too and not just re-create the wheel.) I invite you to join me on the OpenNews online group where I plan to share some of our insights from building online civic communities that in some neighborhoods reach everyday people and 30% of households. (I am not a rep. for the project, but hope to get more involved.) Join OpenNew's online group: http://bit.ly/opennewsonlinegroup Key to E-Democracy is that our online groups are democratic by design as public spaces (to the extent possible as a non-profit), embracing real names for power and agenda-setting, and engage journalists, elected officials, civil servants, local businesses and more. The resident-only gated-community models threaten the future of public engagement with local news if they are not meat with similarly pleasing experience for everyday people. (Meaning many people love neighbor connecting online and if we don't offer a civic engagement/community news friendly option the eye balls, local group purchasing, and ad/sponsor dollars will be heading to Silicon Valley.) In Knight's blog post they ask, But what if we could build a commenting system that gives commenters a real sense of ownership? To that I add - What if the online community system could share real
