The right thing to do if a company is involved in criminal activities is to investigate and put a stop to them, rather than spying on journalists and activists trying to expose those crimes, because executives see their companies as worth fighting for and protecting. However, research organizations like North Life Lock and Citizen Lab have limited capabilities in investigating corporations.
Google's employees have not expressed concerns about the company's involvement in replacing cities and handling so much private data. Moreover, a former algorithms engineer has become an activist raising concerns about the company's nefarious actions.
Former NSA hackers developed reliable and easy-to-use tools for agencies, which they further enhanced using their fuzz farms and skills, to create seamless, click-and-shoot operations. These tools are maintained in a catalog that can be checked when the hackers want to access a certain system.
Encryption provides a way to fight back against government surveillance by allowing citizens to feed fake data and confuse the government's centralized collection methods.
Protests are taking place in the US, UK, and Australia against the use of AI analysis in CCTV cameras, the implementation of social credit scores, and digital health systems that invade privacy.
This episode discusses the importance of open science in research, emphasizing the need for transparency in data, plans and peer reviews. Open access ensures that scientific literature is accessible to everyone.