Effective digital rights activism is crucial. We need to examine our relationship with tech.

Many of these issues apply globally and ground-up organizing across borders is necessary for us to be able to match up to the internationally interconnected adversaries we all face.

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Smart Nation 2.0 also platforms Christian far-right groups such as Focus on the Family.

Known Christian far-right individuals such as Carol Loi held government positions with influence over education and digital media policy. Christian far-right threats are globally linked. 12/

AI and facial recognition cameras built by Chinese companies are already being deployed in countries like Serbia for mass surveillance.

Singapore is also using and expanding use of such tech for law enforcement and crowd control purposes. 11/

Not to mention other ways that AI can be weaponized.

The disproportionate impact of AI and facial recognition on marginalized and oppressed demographics such as racial minorities and trans people are well documented.

AI will also grow lawfare and scapegoating to a new level. 10/

In possibly the first known Deepframe, AI generated material has been used as evidence to pin Harvey for a volley of criminal offenses.

The prosecution intends to cite the inevitability of her being subject to more frame-ups to reverse any bail that may be granted. 9/

Attorneys and law researchers have expressed concern about AI already being used in the courtroom, whether for exculpatory (e.g. false alibis to get people out of trouble) or inculpatory purposes (e.g. false incrimination to cause evidence to trace back to an innocent person). 8/

We propose a novel attack using generative AI called "Deepframe": generate deepfake content depicting a target doing something unlawful, compromise their device/network to send said content such that it traces back to the target.

Counterproof is basically impossible. 7/

Nation-states have used LLMs to stage cyberattacks. Chinese universities partner with Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) teams to advance AI/ML in cybersecurity.

The PLA is interested in generative AI for influence ops, information warfare, and deepfakes. Where could this lead? 6/

Chinese AI companies are heading to Singapore as its AI regulations are considered "less stringent", as well as to evade sanctions

Singapore has agreed to "promote common baseline standards to facilitate cross-border flows of commercial data" with China. What does this mean? 5/

The Singapore government is going all-in on AI, even bending education policy in its service. AI poses many risks, such as misidentification, mis/disinformation, impersonation.

Do the government's frameworks address the misuse of AI, especially as nation-states weaponize it? 4/

The Open Digital Platform (ODP) is poised to centralize data, inputs, and controls across physical systems in estates.

What are the safety, security, and privacy implications, especially for the upcoming Punggol Digital District (PDD) where it will be deployed? 3/

National Digital Identity (NDI) has been called the “cornerstone of Singapore’s Smart Nation vision.” Why?

Why is facial recognition being elevated over other means of authentication, when it risks excluding vulnerable demographics e.g. elderly, trans people? 2/

The government decided to stop using NRIC numbers as authenticators. Why only now? Were the public and private sectors consulted?

Harvey's NRIC number was used to criminally impersonate her. Have digital forms been updated in light of this new policy? 1/

At 38C3, BitOwl gave a talk analyzing Singapore's Smart Nation 2.0, titled "Smart Cities - A Digital Utopia or Privacy Dystopia?".

We have released a written version of that talk on our website, at bitowl.online/presentation...

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