{"id":37537,"date":"2018-09-09T10:36:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37537"},"modified":"2018-09-09T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:55:37","slug":"are-new-yorks-free-linknyc-kiosks-tracking-your-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37537","title":{"rendered":"Are New York’s Free LINKNYC Kiosks Tracking Your Movements?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo illustration: Soohee Cho\/The Intercept, Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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ARE NEW YORK\u2019S FREE LINKNYC INTERNET KIOSKS TRACKING YOUR MOVEMENTS?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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LINKNYC KIOSKS HAVE<\/u> become a familiar eyesore to New Yorkers. Over 1,600<\/a> of these towering, nine-and-a-half-foot monoliths \u2014 their double-sided screens\u00a0festooned with ads and fun facts \u2014 have been installed across the city since early 2016. Mayor Bill de Blasio has celebrated<\/a> their ability to provide \u201cthe fastest and largest municipal Wi-Fi network in the world\u201d as \u201ca critical step toward a more equal, open, and connected city for every New Yorker, in every borough.\u201d Anyone can use the kiosks\u2019 Android tablets to search for directions and services; they are also equipped with charging stations, 911 buttons, and phones for free domestic calls.<\/p>\n

But even as the kiosks have provided important services to connect New Yorkers, they\u00a0may\u00a0also\u00a0represent\u00a0a troubling expansion of the city\u2019s surveillance network,\u00a0potentially connecting every borough to a new level of invasive monitoring. Each kiosk has three cameras,\u00a030 sensors, and heightened sight lines for viewing above crowds.<\/p>\n

Since plans for LinkNYC were first unveiled, journalists, residents, and civil liberties experts have raised concerns that\u00a0the internet kiosks might be storing sensitive data about its users and possibly tracking their movements. For the last two years, the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a small but vocal group of activists \u2014 including ReThink LinkNYC<\/a>, a grassroots anti-surveillance group, and the anonymous Stop LinkNYC coalition \u2014 have highlighted the kiosk\u2019s potential to track locations, collect personal information, and fuel mass surveillance.<\/p>\n

Now an undergraduate researcher has discovered indications in LinkNYC code\u00a0\u2014 accidentally made public on the internet\u00a0\u2014\u00a0that LinkNYC may be actively planning to track users\u2019 locations.<\/p>\n

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Photo illustration: Soohee Cho\/The Intercept, Getty Images ARE NEW YORK\u2019S FREE LINKNYC INTERNET KIOSKS TRACKING YOUR MOVEMENTS? LINKNYC KIOSKS HAVE become a familiar eyesore to New Yorkers. Over 1,600 of these towering, nine-and-a-half-foot monoliths \u2014 their double-sided screens\u00a0festooned with ads and fun facts \u2014 have been installed across the city since early 2016. Mayor Bill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19180,21577,13078,567,765,5567],"class_list":["post-37537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ava-kofman","tag-free-internet","tag-linknyc","tag-new-york","tag-surveillance","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37538,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37537\/revisions\/37538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}