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Peter Scull

@p_scull

Locational privacy advocate; GIS geek; woodworking hack, spectator, Colgate geography professor

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Joined February 2012
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Facial Recognition—Now for Seals | Hakai Magazine

Facial Recognition—Now for Seals | Hakai Magazine

A neural network, trained using thousands of photos of harbor seals, offers a noninvasive way of telling seals apart.

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Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse. (Published 2022)

Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse. (Published 2022)

In a game called GeoGuessr, competitors try to pinpoint where in the world a Google Street View image has been taken. Some can do it in seconds.

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‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future nytimes.com/2022/06/25/techn…
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China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How. nyti.ms/3yh5IFj via @nytvideo
Four Takeaways From a Times Investigation Into China’s Expanding Surveillance State nytimes.com/2022/06/21/world…
Four Takeaways From a Times Investigation Into China’s Expanding Surveillance State (Published 2022)

Four Takeaways From a Times Investigation Into China’s Expanding Surveillance State (Published 2022)

Times reporters spent over a year combing through government bidding documents that reveal the country’s technological road map to ensure the longevity of its authoritarian rule.

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Senate bill would ban data brokers from selling location and health data | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…

Senate bill would ban data brokers from selling location and health data

Data brokers gather intensely personal data" without consent, bill summary says.

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Tim Hortons coffee app broke law by constantly recording users’ movements

Tim Hortons coffee app broke law by constantly recording users’ movements

Canada says company misled users while collecting "vast amounts of location data."

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You’re Still Being Tracked on the Internet, Just in a Different Way (Published 2022)

You’re Still Being Tracked on the Internet, Just in a Different Way (Published 2022)

Apple and Google are pushing privacy changes, but a shift in digital tracking is giving some platforms a bigger advertising advantage.

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New Apple Update Targets AirTag Tracking Concerns

New Apple Update Targets AirTag Tracking Concerns

Apple acknowledged that its smart little tracking discs are turning up in nefarious situations. Here’s how to look for them, and what to do if you find one.

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Snow Closed the Highways. GPS Mapped a Harrowing Detour in the Sierra Nevada. (Published 2021)

Public safety officials warned that alternate routes offered by apps like Google Maps and Waze don’t always take into account hazards to drivers.

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Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People and Steal Cars? (Published 2021)

Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People and Steal Cars? (Published 2021)

Privacy groups sounded alarms about the coin-sized location-tracking devices when they were introduced. Now people are concerned those fears are being realized.

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A Top 10 List of Useful Geospatial Data Portals | Spatial Reserves spatialreserves.wordpress.co…

A Top 10 List of Useful Geospatial Data Portals

We have been writing this geospatial data column since 2012, when our book The GIS Guide to Public Domain Data, was published.  Over the 5 years that have elapsed, in addition to keeping issues suc…

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Google Tracks You Even If Location History's Off. Here's How to Stop It

Google Tracks You Even If Location History's Off. Here's How to Stop It

A new report shows that Google still tracks your location even if you thought you opted out.

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The U.S. is launching an effort with other countries to limit exports of technologies that authoritarian governments can use to suppress human rights wsj.com/articles/biden-us-ch…
U.S. to Lead Global Effort to Curb Authoritarians’ Access to Surveillance Tools

U.S. to Lead Global Effort to Curb Authoritarians’ Access to Surveillance Tools

The Biden administration said it would launch an initiative with friendly nations to coordinate export policies for technology that can be used to suppress human rights.

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The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance - Schneier on Security schneier.com/blog/archives/2…

The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance - Schneier on Security

It’s not actually banned in the EU yet—the legislative process is much more complicated than that—but it’s a step: a total ban on biometric mass surveillance. To respect “privacy and human dignity,”...

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Venice, Overwhelmed by Tourists, Tries Tracking Them (Published 2021)

Can cellphone data and surveillance cameras help restore the city’s old-world charm, or just destroy what magic remains?

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Perhaps the most shocking thing about the location data broker industry - which harvests your movements from apps on your phone & sells it - is that it is perfectly legal. My newsletter this week: getrevue.co/profile/themarku…
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Science Journals: A New Frontline in the South China Sea Disputes | Asia Maritime Transparency...

Science Journals: A New Frontline in the South China Sea Disputes | Asia Maritime Transparency...

China has not only attempted to change facts on the ground in the South China Sea, but is also seeking to gradually change the world’s mind regarding its claims there. This battle over perceptions...

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How a Newbury Park man helped locate missing hiker in San Gabriels using satellite images

How a Newbury Park man helped locate missing hiker in San Gabriels using satellite images

Local ham radio operator Ben Kuo saw a tweet about a missing hiker and thought he may be able to help. Here's what happened next.

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