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If you record someone’s conversation without letting them know, you’re putting them at risk.
https://werd.io/people-are-transcribing-your-conversations-without-asking-that-puts-you-at-risk/
werd.io
Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.
If you record someone’s conversation without letting them know, you’re putting them at risk.
https://werd.io/people-are-transcribing-your-conversations-without-asking-that-puts-you-at-risk/
werd.io
Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.
France, Germany vow to develop Palantir rival – POLITICO
#europe #masssurveillance #surveillance #Palantir #privacy #France #germany
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-germany-want-to-develop-a-palantir-rival/
France, Germany vow to develop Palantir rival – POLITICO
#europe #masssurveillance #surveillance #Palantir #privacy #France #germany
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-germany-want-to-develop-a-palantir-rival/
Victory! #Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices
eff.org
Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of “human distress.”In October 2025, EFF warned the public...
How the #WatchDogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues
eff.org
When Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2 was released in 2016, it was a headtrip for those of us working on digital-rights issues in the Bay Area. The game's missions often felt like they were ripped from the pages of EFF's Deeplinks blog.
Now that the CEO of Flock has called deflock.me a terrorist organization, I'd hate for other people to know about these other flock watchdog groups.
Please don't go on these websites, I beg you.
https://Alpr.wtf - Every U.S. jurisdiction using ALPR, plus how to file info requests.
https://EyesOnFlock.com - Crowdsourced map of Flock cameras and city contracts.
https://Deflock.me - Nationwide ALPR map tracking Flock deployments, removals, and resistance.
https://HaveIBeenFlocked.com — Quick check to see if Flock is watching your neighborhood.
https://DontGetFlocked.com — Plots your route, counts ALPR/Flock cameras, and suggests surveillance-free alternatives.
#flock #surveillance #uspol #police #politics #ai #noai #facialrecognition
dontgetflocked.com
Plan routes that avoid Flock and ALPR cameras. Explore 90,000+ surveillance cameras and build privacy-first routes across the United States.
How Cops Use #Flock to Track People, Not Cars
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/
404media.co
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.
Smart glasses are deeply creepy. Why are celebrities like Kylie Jenner endorsing them? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/17/ai-meta-smart-glasses #Meta #Technology #Privacy #Surveillance #AiArtificialIntelligence #Women
theguardian.com
Meta touts safety features – but for women, the dangers of these recording devices are obvious
Now that the CEO of Flock has called deflock.me a terrorist organization, I'd hate for other people to know about these other flock watchdog groups.
Please don't go on these websites, I beg you.
https://Alpr.wtf - Every U.S. jurisdiction using ALPR, plus how to file info requests.
https://EyesOnFlock.com - Crowdsourced map of Flock cameras and city contracts.
https://Deflock.me - Nationwide ALPR map tracking Flock deployments, removals, and resistance.
https://HaveIBeenFlocked.com — Quick check to see if Flock is watching your neighborhood.
https://DontGetFlocked.com — Plots your route, counts ALPR/Flock cameras, and suggests surveillance-free alternatives.
#flock #surveillance #uspol #police #politics #ai #noai #facialrecognition
dontgetflocked.com
Plan routes that avoid Flock and ALPR cameras. Explore 90,000+ surveillance cameras and build privacy-first routes across the United States.
In the 1960s, if you wanted to surveil one person, you had to hire someone else to bug them or follow them. Today, we surveil everyone by default; you just have to tap into the data collected by the spies in their pockets (smartphones), on their wrists and fingers (smart watches and rings), their work tools (laptops), and in the public sphere (CCTV cameras) – you’ll have more on any person than the Stasi could ever dream of.
https://aeon.co/essays/things-have-jobs-and-digital-devices-are-made-to-track-you
The US House passed the KIDS Act, a bill that would introduce internet age-gating measures aimed at protecting minors online. 🏛️
EFF argues the proposal would expand online surveillance instead of privacy protections, with broader implications for anonymity and the open web. 🔒
🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/dont-let-congress-age-gate-internet-effector-3813
#TechNews #Kids #KIDSAct #Children #Privacy #AgeVerification #Surveillance #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #Cybersecurity #Technology #OpenWeb #Policy #Security #EFF
eff.org
The effort to age gate the internet is back in Washington—and now it has a new name. Recently passed by the House of Representatives, the KIDS Act is a sprawling package of proposals to control what we can see and say online. Supporters claim the KIDS Act is needed to protect minors online. But if...
#LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen
404media.co
The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire over the weekend in part because it was regularly "investigating" and surveilling innocent people.
The EU relaxes its replaceable batttery rules for smart glasses after US pressure.
Smart glasses are in European regulators’ and lawmakers’ crosshairs over privacy and surveillance concerns.
But the bloc’s batteries regulation also held up the EU rollout of Meta’s latest model in recent months because the glasses’ built-in batteries cannot be easily removed and replaced.
#SmartGlasses #Tech #Batteries #Privacy #Surveillance #Meta #RayBan #EU
mediafaro.org
Smart glasses are in European regulators’ and lawmakers’ crosshairs over privacy and surveillance concerns. But the bloc’s batteries regulation also held up the EU rollout of Meta’s latest model in …
#LAPD lets contract with #surveillance giant #Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and #privacy
techcrunch.com
The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
A Leak of #SanFrancisco #Police #Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban #Surveillance
https://www.wired.com/story/sfpd-drone-video-leak-surveillance/
wired.com
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
1/4 🚨 The Digital Omnibus proposals are here - and our rights and protections online are officially under threat 🚨
The proposals published today endanger the very core of EU's digital protections for people - the #GDPR, #ePrivacy and the #AIAct.
Weakening these safeguards would entrench #surveillance, profiling and algorithmic #discrimination in every aspect of society 🙅🏾
Read our press release for more details: https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/
Hands symobolising the European Commission are tearing off a sheet, which represent the EU digital rulebook. People are on the background to reflect our communities impacted by these proposals.
yro.slashdot.org
"Are you armed?!" the police officer screamed. "Get out of the car!" A writer for the car-news site The Drive describes how "a technological chain linking surveillance cameras, AI, and law enforcement... led to me and my wife being surrounded by police, hands on their guns, in a Kohl's parking lot ...
Increased drone #surveillance of illegal July 4th fireworks led to $100K fine
arstechnica.com
More police and firefighters use drones to catch and deter illegal fireworks.
#AI #Surveillance and Social Progress
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-surveillance-and-social-progress.html
schneier.com
In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it—the system will notice, retain it, tie it to your official government record, communicate that fact to you, and provide real-time alerts to any relevant authorities… and maybe also to the general public. Think of these systems as automated speed cameras, but on steroids. Only they’ll enforce not just speed limits, but any other rule you can imagine. And you won’t receive a ticket weeks later by mail; you’ll be informed about and fined for your violation immediately...
"We Want Texans to Know Their Rights": Q&A with #MaydayHealth on the Impact of #Surveillance on #Abortion Care
eff.org
Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. ALPRs are promoted as tools for keeping communities safe by finding missing persons and locating...
"Starting on July 20, all courts in the New York state will officially ban smart glasses within their premises.
The ban prohibits all types of eyewear and headwear equipped with cameras and microphones inside all Unified Court System facilities. Even smart glasses with prescription lenses are included"
#surveillance #NewYork #USA #tech https://www.engadget.com/2211151/new-york-first-us-state-ban-smart-glasses-all-courthouses/
engadget.com
New York has banned smart glasses in all 1,240 state, county, city, town and village courts.
@evacide
There's an Android app everybody should have: It alerts you when someone with this kind of #surveillance tech is in vicinity. Useful in public spaces. I recommend stopping these people and have the police take their name and address, so you can sue them.
https://darmstadt.social/@Datterich/116848549924252450
(in German, but all you need is to click on the link)
EDIT: typo corrected
#nearbyglasses #smartglasses #ai #ki #privacy #freedomrights
darmstadt.social
Für alle, die die Verletzung ihrer Privatsphäre und den Eingriff in ihre Freiheitsrechte durch 'Smart Glasses' nicht tolerieren und der unentdeckten Überwachung in der Öffentlichkeit etwas entgegensetzen möchten: Es gibt eine App für Euch: https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses Ist ein Nutzer in der Öffentlichkeit "erwischt", könntet Ihr z.B. seine Personalien feststellen lassen, um später gegen ihn vorzugehen und ihn _beispielsweise_ darauf verklagen, Eure personenbezogenen Daten löschen zu lassen.
#KaiserPermanente nurses say technology is making their jobs — and patient care — worse
themarkup.org
Call center nurses at Kaiser Permanente said workplace surveillance tools and AI prioritize speed and cost savings over quality and safety.
To understand the extent to which #Microsoft #Windows’ unique identifier (GDID) can be used for #tracking, the US Department of Justice document states 👇
› https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/media/1450651/dl
#GDID #Security #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming
25. According to Microsoft records, the ngrok account was set up through Global Device Identifier g:6755467234350028 (“the GDID”). According to a Microsoft representative, a Global Device Identifier in the Windows ecosystem 1s a persistent, device-level identifier designed to uniquely identify an installation of a Windows operating system on a device, either a physical device (e.g., a mobile phone or laptop) or virtual machine, across certain Microsoft services and scenarios. A GDID is a globally unique identifier tied to the installation of Windows on a device. A GDID remains consistent across Windows operating system updates on a device, but a reinstall of Windows, either on the same device or on a different device, will be tied to a new unique GDID.
To understand the extent to which #Microsoft #Windows’ unique identifier (GDID) can be used for #tracking, the US Department of Justice document states 👇
› https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/media/1450651/dl
#GDID #Security #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming
25. According to Microsoft records, the ngrok account was set up through Global Device Identifier g:6755467234350028 (“the GDID”). According to a Microsoft representative, a Global Device Identifier in the Windows ecosystem 1s a persistent, device-level identifier designed to uniquely identify an installation of a Windows operating system on a device, either a physical device (e.g., a mobile phone or laptop) or virtual machine, across certain Microsoft services and scenarios. A GDID is a globally unique identifier tied to the installation of Windows on a device. A GDID remains consistent across Windows operating system updates on a device, but a reinstall of Windows, either on the same device or on a different device, will be tied to a new unique GDID.
Insurance companies have hired investigators to conduct physical surveillance on disability claimants, filming them in public spaces to challenge claims.
Cops Say #Waymo Snitched on Teens for Allegedly Drinking and Shooting a Toy Gun
https://www.404media.co/waymo-called-police-on-teens-san-mateo/
404media.co
The San Mateo Police Department posted on Facebook: “Parents do you know where your teens are? Waymo does!"
Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists, and a #ransomware gang last year
#Canada #privacy #surveillance #cybersecurity #intelligence #crime #CSE
techcrunch.com
The hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies.
#ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics
https://www.wired.com/story/ices-internal-watchdog-is-now-investigating-online-critics/
wired.com
The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.
US #AirForce Engineer Charged With Sawing Down #Flock #Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country
https://futurism.com/future-society/air-force-engineer-flock-surveillance-support-legal-gofundme
futurism.com
Anti-flock activist Jeffrey Sovern has nearly doubled his legal defense goal, raising over $15,000 from 400 supporters across the country.
The arrest of a teenage hacker has revealed that #Microsoft can track a Windows PC and its online activity through a “Global Device ID" that seems to have no easy opt-out, sparking fears about potential #surveillance.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-hackers-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device
#privacy #digitalsovereignty #infosec #gdid
#EU Presidency to revive expired and dismissed #ChatControl 1.0 as early as next week, final CC2.0 trilogue done
discuss.privacyguides.net
Not an expert on the matter, but I’ll leave the English post by Dr. Patrick Breyer (former MEP, Pirates) here. Apparently, it is tried to urgently process this as well as an adoption as early as next week (when some MEPs are already on vacation, I read). Here is another article from Politico: What you can do: Contact your MEPs to oppose this and not falter to illegitimate vote repetition, warning them about the implications of the system, and telling them about better means. You could e...
#Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates
schneier.com
This is from a 2024 company presentation: Officers can also tap into data showing a car’s decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks—along with temporary and unique state tags. Flock calls it a “Vehicle Fingerprint” and it’s touted as a way for law enforcement officials to get more information “even when you don’t have full plate information,” the company’s presentation shows. The company gives police officers the ability to search that data as well, to “build stronger cases with less information upfront.” That includes being able to locate multiple vehicles law enforcement officials believe are moving together and what Flock calls a “multi geo search.”...
#PapaJohns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty
https://www.adexchanger.com/tv/papa-johns-can-predict-when-your-fridge-is-empty/
adexchanger.com
Papa Johns tapped NBCUniversal, Instacart and the dentsu-owned media agency Carat for help reaching consumers when they’re low on groceries.
The Realities of #AI Video #Surveillance
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/the-realities-of-ai-video-surveillance.html
schneier.com
The Financial Times has a good article on how AI is changing the capabilities of video surveillance, with information from both Israel/Iran and Russia. I wrote about this sort of thing a few years ago, how AI enables mass spying in the way that computers and networks enabled mass surveillance. The interesting development in the article is that AI allows people to ask natural language questions about video footage to AIs—and AIs can answer them. In contrast with older tools restricted to a few dozen preset searches, these new tools allow an almost unlimited range of enquiries by enabling language-based searches on video...
Google is apparently testing a new reCAPTCHA method that prompts you to turn on your device's camera to prove you are human by scanning your hands.
I assume this will eventually be mandatory, just like the current reCAPTCHA.
https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-new-recaptcha-wants-your-camera-access-and-21-points-of-your-hand
Part of the lock-in happens with the harness.
Ex: Claude Code is a harness to use the Claude model. Use open source harnesses. Create your own harness if you can.
Part of it is giving a SaaS access to your data.
Do you have AI slack bot that is reading everyone's messages. What about your files & e-mail
#AI #AIAgent #AICoding #AICodingTools #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #Spying #Surveillance #VendorLockIn
mastodon.social
Content warning: ai coding tools
RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/115746605658316310
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I think people should try to find open source (OS) and open weight (OW) models as alternatives to these SaaS AI coding tools.
Start by using them together (with the SaaS).
Set thins up so you aren't locked into these SaaS.
Have, in a practical sense, the ability to completely switch over if need be.
#AI #AIAgent #AICoding #AICodingTools #ArtificialIntelligence #Claude #GLM #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #Spying #Surveillance
mastodon.social
1/ Even if you hate LLMs, you should pay attention to and maybe even get involved with LLMs — to try to mitigate and maybe even prevent some of the ways which they could be used in a harmful way. ... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy
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If you are someone who uses AI coding tools for your work —
I have been hearing people claim that the GLM-5.2 open source, open weight model is very good are common programming tasks.
https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.2
https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-5
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.2
You have options.
They'll be more in the future, too.
#AI #AIAgent #AICoding #AICodingTools #ArtificialIntelligence #Claude #GLM #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #Spying #Surveillance
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Even if you hate LLMs, you should pay attention to and maybe even get involved with LLMs — to try to mitigate and maybe even prevent some of the ways which they could be used in a harmful way.
...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy
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I think people should try to find open source (OS) and open weight (OW) models as alternatives to these SaaS AI coding tools.
Start by using them together (with the SaaS).
Set thins up so you aren't locked into these SaaS.
Have, in a practical sense, the ability to completely switch over if need be.
#AI #AIAgent #AICoding #AICodingTools #ArtificialIntelligence #Claude #GLM #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #Spying #Surveillance
mastodon.social
1/ Even if you hate LLMs, you should pay attention to and maybe even get involved with LLMs — to try to mitigate and maybe even prevent some of the ways which they could be used in a harmful way. ... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy
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Even if you hate LLMs, you should pay attention to and maybe even get involved with LLMs — to try to mitigate and maybe even prevent some of the ways which they could be used in a harmful way.
...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy
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Long term, I think it will end up being bad if people get locked in to these SaaS AI coding tools.
Part of it is about privacy versus spying and surveillance.
But, it is also about preventing someone else from having that kind of control over you, your source of income, your business, etc.
So...
#AI #AIAgent #AICoding #AICodingTools #ArtificialIntelligence #Claude #GLM #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #Spying #Surveillance
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For better or worse, many people are using AI coding tools to help them write software.
(And, I don't mean "vibe coding". How I have seen software engineers use AI coding tools and non-technical people use them tends to be different.)
Long term...
#AI #AIAgent #AICoding #AICodingTools #ArtificialIntelligence #Claude #GLM #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #Spying #Surveillance
mastodon.social
4/ So, how can you mitigate some of the harmful ways that LLMs could be used, as it relates to PRIVACY — I don't think it is reasonable to expect people to stop using LLMs. I think a key part of a way that this can be addressed is — LLM should to be run LOCALLY. People after better off running LLMs LOCALLY on their own computers — to remove some of the vectors by which they could be spied on. In addition to that — ... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy
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So, how can you mitigate some of the harmful ways that LLMs could be used, as it relates to PRIVACY —
I don't think it is reasonable to expect people to stop using LLMs.
I think a key part of a way that this can be addressed is — LLM should to be run LOCALLY.
People after better off running LLMs LOCALLY on their own computers — to remove some of the vectors by which they could be spied on.
In addition to that —
...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy
Your voice is a unique identifier that can be faked.
Have you ever talked into a phone? Spoken while on a video call? Spoken in public while there were unknown (to you) listening devices? Spoken at home near a "smart" TV? Etc?
You can be tracked by your voice.
You can be identified by your voice.
This same voice recognition technique also makes it so your voice can be synthesized — making you say anything with a "deepfake".
#Privacy #Speech #SpeakerRecognition #Spying #Surveillance #Voice
Woman Surprised When #Flock #Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning
https://futurism.com/future-society/woman-virginia-flock-surveillance-tower-yard
futurism.com
A homeowner in Virginia was alarmed to discover her city erected a Flock audio surveillance device in her yard without warning.
Google is apparently testing a new reCAPTCHA method that prompts you to turn on your device's camera to prove you are human by scanning your hands.
I assume this will eventually be mandatory, just like the current reCAPTCHA.
https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-new-recaptcha-wants-your-camera-access-and-21-points-of-your-hand
#ATF cancels phone tracking contract after lawmakers raise concerns
https://apnews.com/article/atf-surveillance-wyden-cloud-566f702fe6082310d6b7c64e5b2de009
apnews.com
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has canceled its contract for a surveillance tool that allows warrantless tracking of mobile devices.
#Framingham #police will not renew #Flock Safety contract after months of resident opposition
boston.com
The decision follows weeks of advocacy from residents who raised concerns about privacy, surveillance, and data sharing.
Once more, for the people who missed my previous rants on the topic: It's okay to adopt the stance that age verification is a bad idea.
You don't need to weaken your position by saying it might be okay if they eventually used Zero-Knowledge Proofs or pseudonymous systems.
First, such schemes aren't suitable for this domain even at a theoretical level. If you think they might then you don't understand the problem.
Second, even if ZKP was an applicable solution, it would still prevent undocumented people from accessing the internet like those that various governments choose to recognize as human.
Third, one goal of a functioning society ought to be producing responsible adults, and treating them as complete children until they suddenly turn 18 is not a reasonable way to accomplish that.
Government-mandated age verification for the internet is bad public policy, and it's 100% okay to say as much.
#Xprize founder says ‘humans behave better when they’re being watched’
techcrunch.com
Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.
Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed #Police Drones
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/lawmakers-must-act-now-prevent-armed-police-drones
eff.org
This is not science fiction. It’s not premature. If towns, cities, states, or the federal government want to act to reign in the emergence of armed police drones and robots, we have precious little time. In the absence of substantial regulation around when and how domestic law enforcement in the...
We Can Still Stop #California’s #3DPrinter #Surveillance Scheme
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme
eff.org
Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, legislators amended the bill to make it even more confusing, while failing to address the risks to privacy, speech, and consumer rights. We must renew our call on legislators to drop this bill as it heads to the state senate, and protect the tools of creators in the state.
eff.org
Seeking transparency and accountability in Paraguay’s use of facial recognition, EFF, the Association of Technology, Education, Development, Research, Communication (TEDIC), and the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights...
President vs Parliament: #Metsola overrides MEPs in bid to force through child abuse law
politico.eu
The European Parliament president’s power play is “without precedent,” diplomats wrote in a note seen by POLITICO.
Are Your Local #Police Using #Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/are-your-local-police-using-flock-safety-alprs-scan-immigrants
eff.org
When a car passes an automated license plate reader (ALPR), its plate is captured and instantly compared against a list of vehicles that police are actively looking for or that police have identified for real-time surveillance. These are called “hotlists,” and EFF has learned that one used by...
wired.com
As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
#WhiteHouse app auto-downloads to government phones, can’t be uninstalled
wired.com
“It’s shooting pure unadulterated propaganda into our veins,” says one worker.
How Hackers Broke into Madison Square Garden
https://www.404media.co/how-hackers-broke-into-madison-square-garden/
#MSG #privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach #Knicks #sports #surveillance #FRT #FacialRecognition
404media.co
Hackers stole more than 45GB of data from Madison Square Garden, including data related to “talent” and the Knicks. Clues in the data point to how the hackers got in.
Regardless of governance, seemingly every nation on the planet demands zero privacy for its citizens.
How the hell did we get here so quickly?
A city’s push for #FacialRecognition on public buses ignites debate over security and #privacy
apnews.com
Kansas City, Missouri, plans to boost security by installing facial recognition cameras on buses. However, the rollout has been delayed by technical and financial issues.
#Canada Is Forging Ahead with Its Dangerous #Surveillance Bill
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/canada-forging-ahead-its-dangerous-surveillance-bill
eff.org
With no serious debate, including on proposed amendments, Canada is blazing full speed ahead with Bill C-22, which would threaten encryption and increase surveillance. Also known as the Lawful Access Bill, Bill C-22 is currently moving forward quickly to a vote despite the many, many criticisms civil liberty groups and the tech industry have hurled at it.
Field Notes from a Year of #OPSEC Training
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/field-notes-year-opsec-training
eff.org
OPSEC trainings have become a critical aspect of our work over the years, keeping us grounded and in touch with the realities of tech-enabled violence as well as evolving resistance strategies used by movement workers. Hoping other security trainers and organizers copy our homework, here’s a more thorough breakdown.
How to Watch the #KnicksParade on #NYC Traffic #Surveillance Cameras
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-watch-the-knicks-parade-on-nyc-traffic-surveillance-cameras/
wired.com
Artist Morry Kolman will be livestreaming feeds of the NBA champions’ ticker-tape parade from NYC’s traffic cameras—and this time, the city’s Department of Transportation isn’t demanding he stop.
#ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ #Tax Identifiers from a #DataBroker
https://www.404media.co/ice-appears-to-be-buying-immigrants-tax-identifiers-from-a-data-broker/
404media.co
A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court order to fuel his mass-deportation campaign,” Senator Ron Wyden said.
World Food Programme expand #Palantir partnership
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5789/world-food-programme-expand-palantir-partnership
privacyinternational.org
Palantir provides data management, operational planning, and optimization for the UN World Food Programme (WFP). It is reportedly “the cornerstone of the WFP data ecosystem”. Vast amount of data are being collected - the WFP operates in 120 countries.
Who would have thought that #surveillance cameras in public spaces would be abused by men, eh sorry I meant creeps.
In other news, Belgian #police has since recently gained warrantless real-time access to 21,000 surveillance cameras in trains, subways, trams, busses, and stations. What could possibly go wrong. 😓
theguardian.com
Drivers suspended as prosecutors investigate claims they exchanged vulgar WhatApps on images hacked from IT system
It's super bizarre, but I don't think it's random.
It is well-known how much the Commission President *loves* the idea of everybody being ID-verified online, so promoting a platform that champions such #surveillance infrastructure seems logical. And with #W she can package her Orwellian dream into a #DigitalSovereignty cloak :)
“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”
– Yours truly, in @_elena’s excellent exposé on W Social.
Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs).
#WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse
blog.elenarossini.com
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.
“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”
– Yours truly, in @_elena’s excellent exposé on W Social.
Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs).
#WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse
blog.elenarossini.com
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.
#Meta Tapped a #Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-rank-one-computing-face-recognition-smart-glasses/
#FRT #FacialRecognition #SmartGlasses #RayBan #Oakley #privacy #surveillance
wired.com
Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.
RE: https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/116732194100466437
Goodness, I wish someone had warned us about this shit, oh I don’t know, maybe over a decade ago?
vimeo.com
At Thinking Digital 2013, Aral Balkan delivered the most watched and favourited Thinking Digital talk of all time. In 2014, Aral returned to Thinking Digital to deliver a blistering talk about the state of the Internet today. He argues that "free is a lie" and that we (via our personal data) are all being quietly farmed for profit by the superpowers of the Web.
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Victory! 702 has Expired!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/victory-702-has-expired
eff.org
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act lets US intelligence agencies collect communications from foreigners abroad without a warrant, and routinely sweeps in Americans’ emails, messages, and calls in the process.The authority for this program is set to expire Friday, June 12th,...
Controversial #FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue.
arstechnica.com
Section 702 of FISA to expire tonight, but certification lasts until March 2027.
The law that lets the US government spy without warrants is about to expire. Here’s what comes next
https://proton.me/blog/fisa-702-expiring-surveillance-reform
proton.me
Congress has all but assured the warrantless surveillance law will lapse. The fight for surveillance reform now has real leverage.
Yes to #California's Bill to Ban #SurveillancePricing
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/californias-bill-ban-surveillance-pricing
eff.org
Corporations harvest and monetize ever-growing amounts of our personal data, such as our browsing history and physical location. One bitter fruit of this poisonous tree is known as “surveillance pricing”: corporations offer the same product to two different people at two different prices, based on...
#Trump Risks Key #Surveillance Authority Over ‘Unqualified’ Spy-Chief Pick
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-risks-key-surveillance-authority-over-unqualified-spy-chief-pick/
wired.com
US lawmakers are alarmed that Bill Pulte, a housing official with no intelligence experience, is poised to take charge of one of the government's most powerful surveillance tools.
The 702 Ultimatum: Warrant Requirement or Bust
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/702-ultimatum-warrant-requirement-or-bust
eff.org
For months now, Congress has been kicking the ball down the road—temporarily postponing the expiration of the mass surveillance authority Section 702 of FISA in hopes that some consensus could be reached. Now, with the deadline looming, the stakes have never been higher. Nearly every time the...
Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them.
Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.
Preview of online dashboard displaying a variety of stats.
Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest #Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
wired.com
The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID.
“Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Surveillance”: Your Questions Answered
Excellent column from the nonprofit Bolts Magazine
https://boltsmag.org/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-surveillance-your-questions-answered/
boltsmag.org
A legal expert on digital surveillance answers questions from Bolts readers about how police track your personal data, and what public officials could be doing to restrict it.
Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using #Flock to Stalk People
https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/
404media.co
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
#Soccer Fans, You’re Being Watched
https://www.wired.com/story/us-world-cup-2026-alpr-camera-stadiums/
wired.com
Most US World Cup stadiums are surrounded by surveillance cameras. Want to know if you’re being watched on your way to a match? These maps will help you.
Mapping Every #Flock License Plate Reader Near US #WorldCup Stadiums
https://www.wired.com/story/us-world-cup-2026-alpr-camera-stadiums/
wired.com
Most US World Cup stadiums are surrounded by surveillance cameras. Want to know if you’re being watched on your way to a match? These maps will help you.
#AmnestyInternational Warns That #WorldCup Fans Face Potential Human Rights Violations
https://www.wired.com/story/amnesty-international-world-cup-human-rights/
#football #soccer #sports #privacy #surveillance #protest #censorship #activism #FreeSpeech #politics
wired.com
The organization claims that the FIFA tournament could have impacts on the rights of local people and visiting soccer fans in all three host countries.
An open-source project mapping license plate readers. These systems continuously record your movements without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion.
deflock.org
Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.
"I ranked EVERY #MessagingApp for #PRIVACY! These are the results..." by #TheHatedONe #Privacy #Security #Surveillance #MassSurveillance
youtube.com
Most private messenger is that beats my privacy scoring table. Many have tried, only few have succeed. Support my work: https://www.patreon.com/thehatedone I...
Age verification ...
#privacy #privacymatters #ageverification #socialmedia #surveillance #dataskydd #dataprotection #gdpr #deepstate
A meme related to age verification on the Internet
‘BusPatrol’ Put #AI #Cameras in Tens of Thousands of #School #Buses. Now They Want to Give #Cops #Access
source: 404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-c…
without paywall: archive.is/20260526155324/404m…
#BusPatrol is aware of the #controversy around #ALPR cameras, and particularly of the concern that #ICE may gain access to the data, according to the BusPatrol documents ...
The danger here, aside from the misuse of data, is above all that children grow up with this and come to see it as normal to be constantly monitored by cameras. A society under constant surveillance develops differently. It is more conformist, less critical, and very keen on blending into the crowd unnoticed and not standing out. This is exactly what the ruling elite wants: a society that silently endures everything because it fears #repression through the cameras.
#news #technology #children #security #cctv #surveillance #privacy #education #camera #society #future #politics #police #control #bigdata #bigtech #bigbrother #orwell #fear #kids #system #matrix #politics #economy #monitoring #tracking #abuse #video
‘BusPatrol’ Put #AI #Cameras in Tens of Thousands of #School #Buses. Now They Want to Give #Cops #Access
source: 404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-c…
without paywall: archive.is/20260526155324/404m…
#BusPatrol is aware of the #controversy around #ALPR cameras, and particularly of the concern that #ICE may gain access to the data, according to the BusPatrol documents ...
The danger here, aside from the misuse of data, is above all that children grow up with this and come to see it as normal to be constantly monitored by cameras. A society under constant surveillance develops differently. It is more conformist, less critical, and very keen on blending into the crowd unnoticed and not standing out. This is exactly what the ruling elite wants: a society that silently endures everything because it fears #repression through the cameras.
#news #technology #children #security #cctv #surveillance #privacy #education #camera #society #future #politics #police #control #bigdata #bigtech #bigbrother #orwell #fear #kids #system #matrix #politics #economy #monitoring #tracking #abuse #video
This Company Will Add Phone, #AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
404media.co
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.
timesofsandiego.com
A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit, after San Diego Police misinterpreted a hit from a license plate reader.
arstechnica.com
How accurate does an AI system need to be?
#ICE’s Plan to Let #Cops Around the Country Scan Faces to Verify #Immigration Status
#police #politics #privacy #FRT #FacialRecognition #biometrics #surveillance
404media.co
ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand agencies access to a facial recognition app that verifies a person's immigration status.
#Pulte Appointment Underscores Need to Reform #Section702 Spying
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/pulte-appointment-underscores-need-reform-section-702-spying
eff.org
President Trump’s highly politicized appointment of an entirely unqualified acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) underscores why the government’s warrantless mass spying power must be reformed. Congress now faces a deadline of Friday, June 12 to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign...
Immigrant Rights Lawyers File Lawsuit Over #Palantir’s #ELITE
https://www.404media.co/immigrant-rights-lawyers-file-lawsuit-over-palantirs-elite/
404media.co
Just Futures Law is seeking a wealth of documents related to the tech Palantir provides to ICE.
Russian #spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into #surveillance devices
#Russia #privacy #politics #espionage #cybersecurity #phone #FSB #smartphone
theregister.com
FSB claims large-scale snoop op compromised phones of senior officials, but gives no technical evidence to back allegations
There was even a Simpsons meme related to this:
“Won't somebody please think of the children?!”
⸺ Helen Lovejoy
#privacy #spying #surveillance #WontSomeonePleaseThinkOfTheChildren
Spying and mass surveillance are often rebranded as “child safety”.
mastodon.social
With AB 1856, California lawmakers could have dramatically narrowed the harmful age-bracketing regime set to go into effect next year. Instead, the bill extends those requirements to browsers and websites. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-cas-ab-1856-exempts-open-source-expands-age-gating
With AB 1856, California lawmakers could have dramatically narrowed the harmful age-bracketing regime set to go into effect next year. Instead, the bill extends those requirements to browsers and websites. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-cas-ab-1856-exempts-open-source-expands-age-gating
eff.org
After public outrage, California lawmakers are moving closer to exempting open-source operating systems from the sweeping age-bracketing regime mandated by last year’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043). Nonetheless, the current bill still jeopardizes internet users’ speech, privacy, and security....
A decade or two ago — a certain type of (state) "professional" was excited by the idea that you could track someone using public social-media data across multiple social-networks.
And, even improve the tracking using "private" data.
You should assume that not only does this technology exist now, but it is common.
The people who would use this against your interests won't care about robots-txt files, nobot hash-tags, or Mastodon name-spaces.
Act accordingly.
There was even a Simpsons meme related to this:
“Won't somebody please think of the children?!”
⸺ Helen Lovejoy
#privacy #spying #surveillance #WontSomeonePleaseThinkOfTheChildren
Spying and mass surveillance are often rebranded as “child safety”.
mastodon.social
With AB 1856, California lawmakers could have dramatically narrowed the harmful age-bracketing regime set to go into effect next year. Instead, the bill extends those requirements to browsers and websites. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-cas-ab-1856-exempts-open-source-expands-age-gating
With AB 1856, California lawmakers could have dramatically narrowed the harmful age-bracketing regime set to go into effect next year. Instead, the bill extends those requirements to browsers and websites. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-cas-ab-1856-exempts-open-source-expands-age-gating
eff.org
After public outrage, California lawmakers are moving closer to exempting open-source operating systems from the sweeping age-bracketing regime mandated by last year’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043). Nonetheless, the current bill still jeopardizes internet users’ speech, privacy, and security....
"We Sued #ICE to Get Its #Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything"
#privacy #cybersecurity #surveillance #transparency #politics
404media.co
Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.
A decade or two ago — a certain type of (state) "professional" was excited by the idea that you could track someone using public social-media data across multiple social-networks.
And, even improve the tracking using "private" data.
You should assume that not only does this technology exist now, but it is common.
The people who would use this against your interests won't care about robots-txt files, nobot hash-tags, or Mastodon name-spaces.
Act accordingly.
Quote of the day by #Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of #privacy
Ellison has outlined a vision for an increasingly aggressive #surveillance state in the 21st century
techradar.com
Legendary technologist Larry Ellison has outlined a vision for an increasingly aggressive surveillance state in the 21st century
DeFlock proudly announces they've mapped 100k license plates in the land of the free, because nothing says "privacy" like stalking cars with the enthusiasm of a toddler on a sugar high. 🚗🔍 Meanwhile, the NSA takes a break to let the amateurs have some fun with mass #surveillance. 😂🔐
https://deflock.org/ #DeFlock #licenseplates #privacyevasion #masssurveillance #HackerNews #ngated
deflock.org
Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.
#Google #FamilyLink Exploit Enables Account Lockout and #Surveillance
privacyguides.org
Google Family Link, Google's child safety feature, can be leveraged by an attacker to lock you out of your Google account and surveil and control your activity
Chilling Effects
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/chilling-effects.html
#FreeSpeech #surveillance #politics #activism #protesting #Trump #privacy
schneier.com
Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent. This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has involved lawsuits, arrests, deportations and expulsions. Reports cite a range of complicated factors for the restraint, from apathy to technology-induced incapacity. But as ...
Cities Are Covering #Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
https://www.404media.co/cities-are-covering-flock-cameras-with-trash-bags/
404media.co
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their #SSD activity
arstechnica.com
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
Researchers Issue Warning About Tech That Could Turn Every #Router ‘Into a Potential Means for #Surveillance’
gizmodo.com
Researchers warn that a new method for detecting people through WiFi signals poses a serious privacy risk.
‘#BusPatrol’ Put #AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access
404media.co
BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles.
US #LawEnforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as #AI Hatred Grows
https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
wired.com
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
Oh nice, is this something @Fairphone and other ethical phone makers could build as well?
heise.de
With iPhone 16e, 17e and Air, Apple has introduced new privacy features with its own C1 and C1X modems. This is what's behind it.
A Bipartisan Amendment Would End #Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide
wired.com
One line tucked into a federal highway bill would strip funds from cities and states unless they kill their automated plate tracking programs—effectively banning the tech for all but toll collection.
After Town Bans #Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban
404media.co
A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits" and"a total termination of all internet services."
#Microsoft Took a Step Toward #HumanRights Accountability. #Google and #Amazon (and Others) Should Pay Attention!
eff.org
For years, civil society organizations, workers, journalists, and human rights experts have warned that major technology companies risk enabling grave human rights abuses when they provide cloud computing, AI, and surveillance infrastructure to governments implicated in violations of international...
#Google: "Intelligent eyewear is coming this fall"
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/android-xr-io-2026/
blog.google
Intelligent eyewear combines new hardware and the power of Gemini, you can get directions, send texts and snap photos — without taking out your phone.
The #FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/
404media.co
Only a couple vendors could likely fulfill what the FBI is after, namely Flock and Motorola.
We Must Not Normalize Digital #Surveillance Abuses. #EFF’s New Guide Underlines Concrete Steps to Fight Back.
eff.org
Poor accountability, feeble control mechanisms, and insufficient legal frameworks have led to systematic human rights violations in the Americas, with no consistent remedy or reparation to victims. What's needed is to materialize essential guarantees and measures to combat repeated surveillance...
Dispute between city council, mayor over #Flock cameras in #Troy
https://wnyt.com/top-stories/dispute-between-city-council-mayor-over-flock-cameras-in-troy/
wnyt.com
Troy leaders are fighting over Flock cameras as the city council challenges the mayor’s emergency order to keep the cameras running.
@EUCommission Age verification [sic] is surveillance, and puts LGBTQI+ people at risk, especially younger people.
Just an FYI, for Uschi.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
That free online tool is tracking you – here’s how it works
https://anonyome.com/resources/blog/free-online-tools-tracking/
anonyome.com
Free online tools aren't really free. They fund themselves with ads and tracking. Learn what's happening every time you use one.
404media.co
The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.
#Canada’s #BillC22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s #Surveillance Nightmare
eff.org
Last year, the Canadian government pushed Bill C-2, which would erode Canadian digital rights in the name of “border security.” The bill was so bad it didn’t even make it to committee because of the backlash from the privacy community. Now, the spring’s worst sequel, Bill C-22, aka The Lawful Access Act, is trying it again.
Security News This Week: Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
wired.com
Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia's school for elite hackers, and more.
#FiberOptic cables can eavesdrop on nearby conversations
https://www.science.org/content/article/fiber-optic-cables-can-eavesdrop-nearby-conversations
#US #defense contractor who sold hacking tools to Russian broker ordered to pay $10M to former employers
techcrunch.com
Former cybersecurity executive Peter Williams stole several surveillance and hacking tools and sold them for $1.3 million to a Russian broker that works with Putin’s government.
In the 1960s, if you wanted to surveil one person, you had to hire someone else to bug them or follow them. Today, we surveil everyone by default; you just have to tap into the data collected by the spies in their pockets (smartphones), on their wrists and fingers (smart watches and rings), their work tools (laptops), and in the public sphere (CCTV cameras) – you’ll have more on any person than the Stasi could ever dream of.
https://aeon.co/essays/things-have-jobs-and-digital-devices-are-made-to-track-you
#DHS can’t create vast #DNA database to track #ICE critics, lawsuit says
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/ice-protesters-sue-to-stop-dhs-from-seizing-dna-samples/
arstechnica.com
Lawsuit accuses DHS of plugging DNA database into ICE surveillance machine.
@evacide A hypothesis I haven't tested but think we can assume unless someone wants to do the necessary web archive scraping:
Every porn site that would ever follow "age verification" laws—every site subject to any of the applicable jurisdictions—already had meta tags for adult content before those laws were ever bills. Minimum adequate parenting of "digital native" children—thus minimally adequate implementation of device administrative access and parental controls—would already block every site that would ever comply with the laws.
Therefore (as @404mediaco have also predicted), relative to porn access, the only real effect of such online panopticon laws is to direct people away from sites subject to democratic jurisdictions, which at least attempt to lawfully moderate content, and towards sites outside such jurisdictions, which deliberately distribute CSAM and other sex trafficking and SA content.
Legislatively outsourcing parenting onto the porn sites thus increases harm to everyone such laws claim to seek to protect.
#uspol #surveillance #censorship #privacy #idVerification #ageVerification
#FTC to ban #DataBroker #Kochava from selling Americans’ location data
bleepingcomputer.com
The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary, Collective Data Solutions (CDS), from selling location data without consumers' explicit consent to settle charges alleging that it sold precise geolocation data collected from hundreds of millions of mobile devices.
Uncovering Global #Telecom Exploitation by Covert #Surveillance Actors
https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/
citizenlab.ca
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose how suspected commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) exploit the global telecom interconnect ecosystem, leverage private operator networks, and conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years.
Getting Digital Fairness Right: #EFF's Recommendations for the #EU's #DigitalFairnessAct
eff.org
For digital fairness to work, the European Union must focus on addressing the root causes of harm, not requiring platforms to exert more control over their users. This means safeguarding privacy, freedom of expression, and the rights of users and developers. The EU’s Digital Fairness Act must first prioritize privacy. Reforms should address harms driven by surveillance-based business models, alongside deceptive design practices that impair informed choices. Second, it must strengthen user sovereignty, which is also a necessary precondition for European digital sovereignty more broadly. Strengthening user sovereignty means taking measures that address user lock-in, coercive contract terms, and manipulative defaults that limit users’ ability to freely choose how they use digital products and services.
First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.
A sign on a store window indicates "NO META GLASSES," featuring images of different sunglasses models. It also includes instructions to respect staff by asking permission before taking pictures or videos, with a friendly "Thank you!" at the bottom.
First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.
A sign on a store window indicates "NO META GLASSES," featuring images of different sunglasses models. It also includes instructions to respect staff by asking permission before taking pictures or videos, with a friendly "Thank you!" at the bottom.
That disposable hotel keycard in the bin? It still has your name, dates, and credit card data on it. Nobody is required to erase it.
#data #digital #privacy #Surveillance #technology
https://riftlymedia.com/hotel-keycard-personal-data-privacy/
Riftly
arstechnica.com
Meta said the Kenyan workers didn't "meet our standards."
#DualUseTech: the #LockheedMartin example
https://privacyinternational.org/report/5764/dual-use-tech-lockheed-martin-example
privacyinternational.org
Lockheed Martin Corporation is the world’s largest arms dealer, generating nearly 10% of the revenues of the top 100 global defence companies combine
Open Records Laws Reveal #ALPRs’ Sprawling #Surveillance. Now States Want to Block What the Public Sees.
eff.org
Reporters, community advocates, EFF, and others have used public records laws to reveal and counteract abuse, misuse, and fraudulent narratives around how law enforcement agencies across the country use and share data collected by automated license plate readers (ALPRs). EFF is alarmed by recent...
Smart glasses or spy glasses: #Meta may let people see too much
https://adguard.com/en/blog/smart-glasses-meta-face-recognition.html
adguard.com
In an experiment gone viral, a person wearing smart glasses was able to find out extensive personal information about strangers just by glancing at them. How dangerous is this new tech?
City Learns #Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
404media.co
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
#Webloc and ad-based #surveillance: How everyday app data fuels a global intelligence effort
https://adguard.com/en/blog/weblock-location-tracking-surveilliance.html
#advertising #adblocker #adblocking #SDK #Cobwebs #Spire #Penlink #Quadream
adguard.com
Today we'll talk about Webloc system, a location-tracking system that collects data from millions of mobile phones through commercial data brokers, and sells them to intelligence actors
Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them.
Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.
Preview of online dashboard displaying a variety of stats.
Palantir tracks everyone. So I built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them.
Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.
#Congress Must Reject New Insufficient 702 Reauthorization Bill
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/congress-must-reject-new-insufficient-702-reauthorization-bill
eff.org
Speaker Johnson has introduced a new fig leaf over the American surveillance state, the Foreign Intelligence Accountability Act. Introduced with only days to go before Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) expires and the U.S. government loses one of its most invasive...
A bank robber’s cellphone gave him away. Now the Supreme Court is hearing his case
apnews.com
Okello Chatrie’s cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and he eluded the police.
US government ramps up mass #surveillance with help of #AI tech, data brokers – and your apps and devices
theconversation.com
To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.
techcrunch.com
The IRS has used Palantir's software since at least 2018, The Intercept reports.
#California Coastal Community Must Reject #CBP's #AI-Powered #Surveillance Tower
eff.org
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking permission from the California city of San Clemente to install an Anduril Industries surveillance tower on a cliff that would allow for constant monitoring of entire coastal neighborhoods. The proposed tower is Anduril's Sentry, part of the Autonomous...
#Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say
techcrunch.com
The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.
#Niantic created #PokemonGo
An app that millions of users used, ran around their regions, and took pictures with all location and sensor data of their surroundings.
Hard to get regions, different times, phones, weather. TONS of valuable data!
This data is now used in a positioning model, and allows them to track you wherever you are, based on a single image.
If Youtube doesnt block you, watch it there. Video shared for archival purposes.
#MassSurveillance #GeoData #Bigdata #Surveillance #Tracking #Pokemon #Anonymity
Video of the incident by Nick Vogel
"Behind the scenes, the atmosphere is so rooted in paranoia that former Knicks players warn one another about rooms being bugged, and staffers worry about being watched when they go out to local bars." — Noah Shachtman and Robert Silverman for Wired https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-jim-dolan-surveillance-machine/?src=longreads #surveillance #security #journalism #reporting #longreads
wired.com
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
The Weird, Twisting Tale of How #China Spied on #AlysaLiu and Her Dad
https://www.wired.com/story/the-weird-twisting-tale-of-how-china-spied-on-alysa-liu-and-her-dad/
wired.com
Years before the figure skater became an Olympic superstar, a Chinese operative tried to stalk her father and monitored other US residents deemed dissidents against China. And that’s just the beginning.
apnews.com
Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant.
“If you criticise [Palantir’s Federated Data Platform for the NHS] one more time, you are going to lose your job.”
Senior NHS officials warned staff over criticising rollout of Palantir platform:
https://www.ft.com/content/ff701533-aa19-4ab0-80ff-70c9420f37d9?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition on its smart glasses
#surveillance #privacy #safety #meta #wearables #facialrecognition #technology #tech
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ray-ban-oakley-smart-glasses-no-face-recognition-civil-society/
wired.com
More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.
Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition on its smart glasses
#surveillance #privacy #safety #meta #wearables #facialrecognition #technology #tech
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ray-ban-oakley-smart-glasses-no-face-recognition-civil-society/
wired.com
More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.
zwei kaputte kamera in nahaufnahme an einer laterne. In den Kameras haben sich jeweils zwei Spatzen eingenistet.
#DigitalSovereignty when you think #BuyEuropean is the solution:
Germany’s Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger wants a European alternative to American data analytics giant #Palantir, he told @POLITICOEurope.
“My preference is that we develop our own products and companies in #Europe that are competitive on the global market … That is why, in the long term, we want to rely on European alternatives,” Wildberger said in an interview.
"He found himself sucked into what he terms 'the algorithmic rage loop.' And he was questioning how work like his could avoid playing into that dismal phenomenon." —Brendan I. Koerner for Wired https://www.wired.com/story/opposing-ice-might-save-the-country-could-also-ruin-your-life/?src=longreads #immigration #technology #surveillance #longreads
wired.com
For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.
Congress banned federal agencies from collecting bulk data on Americans in 2015. So some of them just started buying it from data brokers instead. 😳 ICE signed a contract with a company whose tool can track mobile phone movements or locate phones that have visited specific locations. No warrant. Taxpayer money. Done. One privacy attorney put it plainly: it's like the police paying your landlord $100 for a spare key and walking through your house without a warrant.
Now add AI to that picture. Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei warned that records the government can purchase can be used by AI to assemble "a comprehensive picture of any person's life automatically and at a massive scale." That's not hypothetical. That's now. And the window to close this through FISA reauthorization closes April 20!
The business angle nobody's talking about: the same data brokers selling to ICE are selling data your employees, customers, and executives generate every day. You have no control over what happens to it after it leaves your app or browser. That should be in your risk conversation, not just your privacy policy.
🏛️ This is bipartisan; Republicans and Democrats are co-sponsoring the fix
📅 April 20 is the deadline
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic
#Privacy #AI #Leadership #Cybersecurity #security #cloud #infosec #surveillance
npr.org
Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.
ein Papier an eine Wand geklebt. Darauf zu sehen ist oben eine schwarze Umrandung. in dem Kasten steht. Birdś aren´t real! Darunter steht Wake up, 35c3! schwarz unterstrichen. Ganz unten ein schwarzer Vogel. Daneben steht "Gouverment Surveillance Drone"
zwei kaputte kamera in nahaufnahme an einer laterne. In den Kameras haben sich jeweils zwei Spatzen eingenistet.
Wer heute für Palantir arbeitet oder mit diesem Unternehmen kooperiert, kann sich nicht mehr damit herausreden, »von nichts gewusst« zu haben. Der Chef sagt offen, dass Palantir Kriegsführung unterstützt und stolz darauf ist. Parallel wird dieselbe Plattform als Heilsbringer für Krankenhäuser, Behörden und Industrie verkauft. Das ist keine neutrale Softwarefirma, sondern ein Machtapparat für Militär, Überwachung und Kontrolle. Wer mit Palantir paktiert, legitimiert genau das.
#palantir #krieg #surveillance
/kuk
heise.de
„There are no secrets“, so das Motto von Palantirs Konferenz, auf der die Software als Wunderwaffe inszeniert wird – vor allem für Militär und Gesundheitswesen.
@ivycyber @privacysafe @JohnKiriakou
If you haven't yet joined us, we have 10 weeks of educational material about #surveillance and #privacy we're building out LIVE based upon your feedback, as well as these live sessions (tonight is session #5 ! ). A big thanks to @JohnKiriakou
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@adamsaidsomething @eff Oh! Here we go: I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Spanish🇪🇸 regime when I am seeing this. I feel
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towards the UK🇬🇧 regime when I am seeing this. I feel
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towards the Danish🇩🇰 regime when I am seeing this. I feel
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towards the Australian🇦🇺 regime when I am seeing this. I feel
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towards the French🇫🇷 regime when I am seeing this. I feel
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towards the Malaysian🇲🇾 regime when I am seeing this.
#censorship #authoritarian #orwell #orwellian #privacy #surveillance #concentrationcamp #dictatorship #totalitarianism #totalitarian #authoritarianism #kafkaesque #denmark #spain #uk #france #australia #ageverification #socialmedia #contempt #teenagers #identitytheft #teen #teens #teenager #youth #herewego #hereyougo
I've published a new essay on my website.
“Into the Dark Wood: The Right to Be Unknown.”
Oblivion, autonomy, surveillance, and resisting a world that refuses to let us disappear.
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by occult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ld3UHAu6o
#Demonstreren is een #mensenrecht. Toch wordt het in de praktijk steeds vaker gezien als een #risico
In #Nederland zetten #autoriteiten #surveillance in tegen #demonstranten: #socialemedia worden doorzocht, er is #cameratoezicht bij #protesten en #activisten krijgen soms zelfs de #politie aan de deur. Dat kan mensen #afschrikken om gebruik te maken van hun recht om te demonstreren, terwijl juist dat recht cruciaal is in een #democratie #rechtsstaat #politiek #politie
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Demonstreren is een mensenrecht. Toch wordt het in de praktijk steeds vaker gezien als een risico.In Nederland zetten autoriteiten surveillance in tegen demo...
“There’s this veneer of respect for privacy that is painted over all of this data aggregation and consolidation.”
But beneath it all, #privacy experts warn that smartphone-monitoring software "Tangles" is the latest in a law enforcement arsenal, from surveillance #tech to an army of drones, operating with little oversight.
Our latest from Francesca D'Annunzio is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/
#police #surveillance #law #politics #USpol #news
texasobserver.org
One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties experts say its use violates constitutional rights.
1/4 🚨 The Digital Omnibus proposals are here - and our rights and protections online are officially under threat 🚨
The proposals published today endanger the very core of EU's digital protections for people - the #GDPR, #ePrivacy and the #AIAct.
Weakening these safeguards would entrench #surveillance, profiling and algorithmic #discrimination in every aspect of society 🙅🏾
Read our press release for more details: https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/
Hands symobolising the European Commission are tearing off a sheet, which represent the EU digital rulebook. People are on the background to reflect our communities impacted by these proposals.
... #Security_2025 - Endangered #Privacy: Large-Scale Monitoring of #VideoStreaming Services,
by Martin B, Romaric D,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8U__f9Z6E
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-bjorklund.pdf
... #SOUPS_2025 - “TikTok, Do Your Thing”: User Reactions to Social #Surveillance in the Public Sphere,
by Meira G, Miranda W, Lindah K,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcEUCYj_ZIo
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/soups2025-gilbert.pdf
#socialMedia #socialMediaSurveillance #privacy #trawlingUSENIX
I'm giving another #surveillance detection seminar in our intimate small classroom setting. Sign up for our full course at https://ivycyber.com/product/course-surveillance-defense/
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For months now, whispers have turned into a roar 
about a certain EU proposal. At first, it sounds like a noble cause - protecting children from harm online 👶🛡️ Who could argue with that?
But this is no ordinary mission. This is the turning point 🔄 A moment where the digital realm risks falling into a shadow 
A plan that demands all our private conversations be scanned 
No suspicion. No crime. No reason. Just everyone. All the time ⏰
Imagine a system powerful enough to scan every message, every image, every whisper - on every device, for every person 📱💻 It doesn't need physical access or a noisy presence. It runs silently in the background, all the time
It was created to protect 🛡️ But its effectiveness is uncertain, and privacy is seriously compromised 🔓 Instead of focusing on real threats, it treats everyone the same - as if risk came from simply being online 🌐
A digital weapon built before anyone can understand its consequences ⚠️ Like a Death Star - not made of kyber, but of code 
Created in the name of safety, but capable of something far more dangerous ☠️
Officially, this proposal is called CSAR (Child Sexual Abuse Regulation) 📜, but most of us know it as ChatControl 
And that's no accident - the latter name more accurately reflects what this system really is and the consequences it brings
If passed, it will mark the end of private digital communication in the EU 🚫
And if it happens here, it can happen anywhere 🌍 Because what is accepted in one democracy can quickly become the norm in others. Europe often sets the standards others follow 🇪🇺 And the world is watching 👁️
This proposal changes the rules ⚖️ It weakens encryption 🔐, the very foundation of secure communication. When encryption is weakened, every message becomes vulnerable to interception 
, and privacy is no longer guaranteed. When privacy disappears, democracy crumbles with it 🏛️⚠️ The consequences do not end there - surveillance will become part of daily life , and control over our digital world will only grow stronger.
I was born into a free internet 🌐 I want to die in one too 🗽
This proposal breaks fundamental rights 🚨:
- the right to private communication (Article 7)
- the right to data protection (Article 8) 🔒
- the presumption of innocence ⚖️
- the principle of proportionality ⚖️
This is not a debate over ideology 🚫🗯️ This is a matter of principle 🔥
To the @EUCommission: I know your intentions are good 🙏 But history does not judge intentions. It judges consequences 
You want to protect people 🛡️ But you may end up building something that will be used to control them 
Don't build a machine you yourselves would fear 
You will not be remembered for good intentions - but for what you leave behind 👣 Think about how it will affect us all. Choose security, not surveillance. 🚫 This is your moment ⏳ Don't waste it.
To everyone else: You don't have to be from Europe 🇪🇺 to care 
When harmful laws pass without resistance - the impact is felt everywhere 🌎 We are citizens of one digital world 🌐 And in that world, staying silent comes at the highest cost 🤐
Freedom does not die loudly. It disappears - quietly - unless we stop it 
Visit fightchatcontrol.eu. Learn. Message your MEP. Take action! 
@chatcontrol #chatcontrol #fightchatcontrol #csar #eu #europeanunion #europe #encryption #privacy #security #cybersecurity #freedom #digitalfreedom #democracy #humanrights #surveillance #stopsurveillance #stopscanningme #resistance #policy
Through the #European Innovation Council (#EIC), a body of the European Commission created to promote scientific and technological excellence, "#Israel" receives millions of euros that directly fuel its industry of #war and #genocide.
#Drone technologies, #surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence programs applied to population control continue to receive European financial support. These are not “neutral innovations”: they are integral components of the genocidal machinery devastating #Gaza.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the #EU suspended all scientific and technological cooperation, imposed sanctions, and politically isolated Moscow.
When "Israel' destroys Gaza and accumulates accusations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, with an international arrest warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu issued by the International Criminal Court, Brussels maintains and strengthens its cooperation, transferring public funds that end up in Israeli military-industrial companies.
An intolerable double standard: in #Ukraine, international law is invoked to sanction #Russia; in #Palestine, it is trampled to protect "Israel".
...Every euro flowing from Brussels to Tel Aviv becomes active complicity in genocide.
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-european-union-finances--israel-s--war-machine
#EUcomplicity #DoubleStandards #DestroyEU
One of the immutable truths of any large scale, targeted fascist oppression operation, is that the most horrifying consequences will tend to fall directly on marginalized communities, and within those communities, the outcomes will be the worst for the most marginalize people overall. As such, it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone to learn that the Gestapo's recent mass deportation project is disproportionately destroying the lives of undocumented sex workers as a result of targeted ICE raids featuring common abuses, and even sexual extortion. Unfortunately, the reason that it *may* still surprise you is that despite widespread coverage of the Gestapo's fascist abuses targeting other migrants, almost nobody, even among migrant activists and civil rights organizations, is speaking out for migrant sex workers targeted as part of the Trump regime's slow motion ethnic cleansing project.
This excellent essay on Truthout is divided up into main themes. Firstly, it raises awareness about targeted ICE raids on massage parlors, and calls advocates out for not standing up for sex workers who're being disappeared into the Gestapo's migrant cages at an alarming high rate without anyone really keeping track of it at all. Additionally, the piece also explores the way anti-sex work legislation and surveillance technology, originally adopted under the guise of preventing human "trafficking" has functioned as both a permission gate and a testing ground for the anti-migrant panopticon DHS is operating; a panopticon Trump is now trying to turn towards his political enemies more broadly by partnering with companies like Palantir to create dossiers on as many Americans as they possibly can.
Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics
"Since January 2025, police raids on massage parlors have intensified, targeting immigrant women suspected of sex work. Amid nationwide protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), these workers — among ICE’s most systematically targeted — are largely excluded from community defense."
I don't want to give short shrift to the primary thrust of authors Kate Zen and Chanelle Gallant's work here, because at the end of the day it really is both alarming and disheartening to see that we as a society have learned very little over the past six months about how the regime targets those it is somehow socially acceptable to victimize (migrants instead of Americans, brown people instead of white people, trans people instead of cis people, etc) for fascist repression and abuse first, and uses that to create a gateway that allows those very same policies to work more broadly against everyone. The fact that nobody is fighting to protect migrant sex workers, calling for the release of kidnapping victims who happened to be captured at massage parlors, or even tracking what's happening to these (primarily) women isn't just respectability politics; it's mutual suicide in the face of a fascist ethnic cleansing and a broader eliminationist program. Migrant sex workers are migrants. Migrant sex workers are workers. Migrant sex workers are human beings. That makes the issue of Gestapo kidnappings targeting migrant sex workers a labor issue, a civil rights issue, and a human rights issue all rolled up into one horrifying fascist jelly roll of oppression.
Which of course then brings us to the long term costs of ignoring carceral violence, oppression, and civil rights violations of sex workers in the first place.
"The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act (2015) authorized the creation of the Cyber Crimes Center within ICE, enabling wiretaps and internet surveillance. Between 2014 and 2018, DHS funneled over $3 million to local police for license plate readers to combat trafficking — now used in broader workplace raids.
Authorities justified travel bans, surveillance, racial profiling, raids, detentions, deportations, asset seizures, even sexual assault as anti-trafficking measures to protect women and children. But these measures do more harm than good, exposing migrants to additional forms of violence. Most funding went to prosecutions and public campaigns promoting false statistics and racist stereotypes, not victims’ services — fueling misguided vigilantism and MAGA fearmongering around child trafficking."
Folks, the authors of this piece are absolutely correct to point out that our decades long obsession with stopping "trafficking" was just an excuse to crack down on sex workers, and the digital panopticon used to do so is now being expanded to target migrants and even Trump's political opposition. Once you're willing to sacrifice the human rights of some ppl, for nothing more than patriarchal morality in this case, you're inevitably fueling the argument that your rights too, are subject to conditions and exemptions. And well, here we are.
#Fascism #Trump #ICE Gestapo #SexWork #Labor #HumanRights #Kidnapping #surveillance
truthout.org
Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.
✅ If your #privacy and #dataprotection are important to you;
✅ If you're tired of the #surveillance #capitalism that drives the business models of #GAFAMI and #BATX tech giants, as they extract your #data and feed it to their #algorithms and #AI;
✅ If keeping control over your #personalInformation matters and #transparency matter to you;
then, join me on the #Threema #messenging platform !
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An #introduction post. New here, if I break a norm, please DM me.
I hate #BigTech and #surveillance and love #FOSS and #sewing. I am a non-violent #anarchist #vegan and politically engaged in #uspol and my local community. I've been a #hacker and #autodidact my entire life. I love learning. Very #queer and #transgender.
I've zero tolerance those who deny the genocide in #Palestine. I am rabidly pro #Ukraine.
I don't talk about my family, friends, work, town, or local organizing. #WeKeepUsSafe
Weaponised Hate - The Hungarian State
"The fascist government in Hungary has been ruling with two thirds majority in parliament since 2010, and with emergency powers since the COVID-19 pandemic began. They have full legal power to do anything they want to without cooperating with the arguably non-existent opposition, and have taken full advantage of this for their own ends. They have been using anti-queer rhetoric for years now, and there were multiple legal steps that led to the current situation, I will try to outline the main steps here, but there were many more."
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/03/24/weaponised-hate-the-hungarian-state-current-events/
Maja is still in solitary confinement there! #FreeMaja
#Hungary #Orban #Fascism #EU #Europe #LGBTQ #Surveillance #Antifa #Repression #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Trans
organisemagazine.org.uk
The fascist government in Hungary has been ruling with two thirds majority in parliament since 2010, and with emergency powers since the COVID-19 pandemic began. They have full legal power to do anything they want to without cooperating with the arguably non-existent opposition, and have taken full advantage of this for their own ends. They […]
Alerte aux dangers sur la sécurité informatique de tous posés par le projet de loi dite de "lutte contre le narcotrafic" en débat à l'Assemblée : https://philo.ydns.eu/it/alerte-loi-narcotrafic.fr/ (lettre ouverte aux députés)
#surveillance #security #assembleenationale
philo.ydns.eu
New paper online, open access:
‘AI, insurance, discrimination and unfair differentiation: an overview and research agenda’
By Marvin van Bekkum, Tom Heskes, and me.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17579961.2025.2469348
#law #discrimination #privacy #surveillance #fintech #insurance
Screenshot of the paper's abstract, which is as follows: 'Insurers underwrite risks: they calculate risks and decide on the insurance price. Insurers seem captivated by two trends enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI). First, insurers could use AI for analysing more and new types of data to assess risks more precisely: data-intensive underwriting. Second, insurers could use AI to monitor the behaviour of individual consumers in real-time: behaviour-based insurance. For example, some car insurers offer a discount if the consumer agrees to being tracked by the insurer and drives safely. While the two trends bring many advantages, they may also have discriminatory effects on society. This paper focuses on the following question. Which effects related to discrimination and unfair differentiation may occur if insurers use data-intensive underwriting and behaviour-based insurance?’
#UShistory #USpol #Fascism
#TrumpCoup
(4/n)
...army will be the tool’s ability to rapidly process large quantities of #Surveillance material in order to “answer questions” about specific individuals..." 2)
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https://dair-community.social/@alex/114116841341723953
#UShistory #USpol #Fascism
#TrumpCoup
#BigBrother (#1984,) #Fahrenheit451, #TheHungerGames, as well as #TheHandmaidsTale jointly will look quite bleak when contrasted with #MAGAmerica.!
I'd argue that with #tRump's...
dair-community.social
'a key benefit for the army will be the tool’s ability to rapidly process large quantities of surveillance material in order to “answer questions” about specific individuals...' '“AI amplifies power,” an intelligence source who has closely followed the [IOF] development of language models.. “It allows operations [utilizing] the data of far more people, enabling population control."' Why do we need surveillance studies when Unit 8200 just tweets it out? https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-chatgpt-8200-surveillance-ai/
🇫🇷 Alerte à la vie privée : Nouvelle loi de surveillance en France ! 📢 Si vous vivez en France, contactez votre député local et demandez-lui comment il va voter sur cette loi invasive. Comment peuvent-ils ajouter des portes dérobées à nos outils de communication tout en respectant le RGPD ? Agissons ensemble pour protéger nos droits numériques ! 📞💬
👉 Lisez plus sur la loi ici : https://tuta.com/blog/france-surveillance-nacrotrafic-law et contactez votre député ici : https://www.laquadrature.net/narcotraficotage/#phiphone #ViePrivée #Surveillance #DroitsNumériques #RGPD #France #Activisme
L'image représente une scène où deux chevaliers en armure sont assis derrière des ordinateurs portables affichant des cadenas. Une chaîne massive entoure les ordinateurs et des objets divers tels que des casques et des cadenas sont dispersés autour. Un drapeau français est visible en arrière-plan, ainsi qu'une arme à feu. L'ensemble suggère un thème de cybersécurité et de protection des données sous l'égide de la France.
What Trump’s Hobbling of the Privacy Oversight Board Portends for Exercise of Surveillance Powers
https://www.justsecurity.org/106738/trump-privacy-oversight-board-surveillance/
With all that is going on, it is very hard to keep track. But this seems important.
justsecurity.org
A “small” story about the removal of the three Democrats on the Private and Civil Liberties Board (PCLOB) is ominous.
Is end to end encryption about to become irrelevant?
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5718181?episode=32805109029
#e2ee #Signal #SignalApp #Matrix #xmpp #SessionMessenger #simplex #deltachat #privacy #Threema #WindowscCopilot #AppleIntelligence #MicrosoftcCopilot #encryption #surveillance
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The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/nothing-to-Hide-v7-ODYSEE-20241213-001:a
Surveillance is a weapon that is too often used to silence opposition, suppress individuality, and enforce conformity. Privacy is what allows us to think, act, and connect without fear. Without privacy, we lose the ability to dissent, to innovate, and to live freely.
#privacy #surveillance #stateMafia #deepState #freedom #corruption #establishment #smartCities #FtheWEF
odysee.com
“I have nothing to hide”.
"Hungary’s intelligence agency spied on EU officials visiting the country, searching their hotel rooms and recording their phone conversations, according to a bombshell report."
Source: a joint investigation by Direkt36 and De Tijd.
politico.eu
Officials from EU anti-fraud office were allegedly followed, wiretapped and had their laptops hacked by Hungary’s intelligence agency.
These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and #surveillance #BigTech
#Data #Privacy #Capitalism #SurveillanceCapitalism #twitter #Musk #Bluesky #Meta #instagram #antireport
techcrunch.com
Not every app or service wants to monetize your personal data. Here are some of our favorite alternatives to popular apps.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-- President Eisenhower
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwighteisenhowercrossofiron.htm
econofwar.org (inet statistics)
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/teaching
#war #economics #MilitaryPoliceState
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/social/rights/surveillance
#BigTech #Surveillance
#ExecutiveOrder12333 #Section215 #Section702 #PatriotAct #Cyber #Pentagon #HSIN #FBI #DHS #MilitarizedSociety #TotalInformationAwareness
Costs of War
https://lemmy.world/post/21005003
lemmy.world
$14 Trillion spent on Pentagon since Afghanistan Surveillance and War Tech https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/social/rights/surveillance [https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/social/rights/surveillance] - Executive Order 12333 - Section 215 and 702 of Patriot Act - HSIN (DHS) Big Tech and War https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/siliconvalley [https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/siliconvalley] Total Information Awareness https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/surveillance [https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/surveillance] 7,057 dead military post-911 and 30,187 suicides Which means deceased members of the US Armed Forces are more 3 times more likely to have killed themselves than to have been killed in action. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/military/killed [https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/military/killed] 432,093 direct civilian deaths, 3.6-3.8 million related harmed, 7.6 million child malnutrition https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians [https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians] 40℅ (increase to over half in next decades) of vets with lifetime disability https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic/budget/veterans [https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic/budget/veterans]
#introduction: I'm interested in how tech and society interact in ways that impact marginalized people. I'm currently focusing on the intersection of high tech police surveillance & racial residential segregation in the US.
I'm known for my work centering marginalized people in tech & gaming: AlterConf & Fund Club.
I talk about #surveillance, #police, #AntiCapitalism, #AntiRacism, #AntiImperialism, #abolition, #leftist politics, #sociology, #PublicInterestTech, #STS, #tech, #AI, and #books.
Please do watch this brilliant talk by @rene_mobile if you want to understand why #messenger #surveillance is not possible in a way that politicians would like to have/use.
Thanks to everyone reading me recently (or at all)!
I'm a former #nonprofit tech worker from Mexico, current sociotechnical scholar at MIT (#STS or Science, Technology, and Society -- or Science and Technology Studies!). I study media and IT, especially as they contribute to public interest and social change.
My current work: What does it entail to challenge #surveillance in a place where #privacy is not to be expected? Some of my ethnographic fieldwork notes from MX https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/challenging-normalized-surveillance-birds-on-the-wire-surveillance-in-mexico/
blog.castac.org
Les #JO2024 nous ont laissé la
#surveillance de masse en héritage en autorisant la #vidéosurveillance algorithmique (#VSA) jusqu’en 2025.
Pour que l’espace public reste un lieu de libertés et que l' #IA ne soit pas utilisée pour scruter nos moindres faits et gestes,
@LaQuadrature a lancé #pasdeVSAdansmaville :
https://www.laquadrature.net/vsa et @AttrapSurveillance
Pour rappel, voici la carte des caméras à #Nantes : https://nantes.sous-surveillance.net
Sur #NantesPassion, des réclamations pour plus de #technopolice sont régulièrement publiées : https://www.calameo.com/read/004590458ed9ba33c8aab?page=7
Rappelons à la #MairiedeNantes, qu'il y a d'autres points de vue... et des Nantais'es sur #Mastodon !! 😉
Je kunt #DPIA's blijven doen tot je een ons weegt, maar zolang BigTech geld kan verdienen met jouw data zullen ze nooit privacy vriendelijk worden.
Het is niet normaal dat we dit soort #surveillance diensten onderwijzen! Alsof kinderen na school opeens de privacy policy gaan lezen en denken "hey, dat is slecht, laat ik naar een alternatief gaan zoeken"
Lees verder:
https://ibestuur.nl/artikel/het-onderwijs-loopt-nog-steeds-aan-de-leiband-van-google/
#Google #BigTech #DigitaleSoevereiniteit #school #onderwijs #privacy #opensource #SurveillanceKapitalisme
ibestuur.nl
Op 27 juni 2024 heeft de minister aan de Tweede Kamer gemeld dat nu echt alle problemen met Google Workspace in het onderwijs zijn opgelost. Blijkens recent onderzoek (DPIA en DTIA) is er geen sprake meer van hoge risico's op het gebied van privacy en van internationale gegevensdoorgifte, mits scholen een aantal nieuwe instellingen in de software doorvoeren en er regelmatig wordt gecontroleerd of Google zich aan de gemaakte afspraken houdt.
Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the #internet sewer" and I really liked that phrase.
#drawing #comic #krita #web #surveillance #google #SocialMedia #enshittification #privacy #adblocker #ads
Drawing of a cartoon style man, wearing silver protective suit with UBlock Origin logo on it, surfing in sewer with green toxic water. There are cookies and fanged monsters looking like Chrome logos floating around him. On the background wall there are red crosses, like for closing websites or errors. There are also industrial cameras, one yellow eye and graffiti with TikTok logo. On the railing on path's edge there is photo camera attached, looking similar to old Instagram logo, and rotting blue bird. There is big text "Google" near water, with both "o" replaced with ends of pipes and small texts around: crossed out "AI", "Buy this, only $2!" and below "scammer!" and "it's con". Above the picture there is description "Surfing The Internet Sewer".
"The popular messaging app Telegram can leak your IP address if you simply add a hacker to your contacts and accept a phone call from them.
(...)
#Telegram boasts 700 million users all over the world, and has always marketed itself as a “secure” and “private” messaging app, even though experts have repeatedly warned that Telegram is not as secure as end-to-end encrypted app #Signal, for example.
The fact that Telegram leaks your #IP address to people in your contacts during a voice call has been known for years, but it’s likely that new, less technical users may not be aware."
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/19/telegram-is-still-leaking-user-ip-addresses-to-contacts/
Dark background. in the middle you can see a cell phone with the telegram app on the home screen. at the top the telegram symbol (blue circle with white sent sign) underneath it says " the worlds fastest messaging app. it's free and secure" at the very bottom of the cell phone screen blue start messaging button
NoTrace Project
No trace, no case. A collection of tools to help anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught.
Black background depicted head (balaclava) in white. Both hands raised in black as glasses in front of eyes.
Turn off your phone! And other basic digital security strategies
#Zine / August 2023
"Phone and tech security is often the least important part of a plan... until it isn't. If you or your device(s) are under criminal investigation, this stuff really matters. And if you haven't thought about any form of digital security until you are arrested... Uh oh.
(...)
This zine is written by anarchists for people who face legal investigation or repression in the United States. However, it may be helpful for anyone who wants to reduce the data that cops or companies have about them. It should also be considered a 101-level document; the tips in this guide are the most basic steps you can take to protect yourself and your data."
For Reading:
https://www.csrc.link/download/turn-off-your-phone/turn-off-your-phone-read.pdf
Printing:
https://www.csrc.link/download/turn-off-your-phone/turn-off-your-phone-booklet.pdf
Counter Surveillance Ressource Center:
https://www.csrc.link/
#mobile #Surveillance #security #data #Privacy #Repression #Police #State
notrace.how
No trace, no case. A collection of tools to help anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught.
Security Culture - Recipes for Disaster (EN/DE)
How to fight for a more compassionate future and keep yourself and your friends safe!
".....erste deutsche Übersetzung der Broschüre zum Security-Culture-Konzept von Crimethinc.
Das englische Original findet ihr bei black-mosquito.org und im Crimethinc.-Reader
„Recipes for Disaster“
https://de.crimethinc.com/books/recipes-for-disaster
(...)
Wir haben uns entschieden diesen Text zu übersetzen, weil er unseres Erachtens nach wichtige Diskussionsanstöße zu den Grundlagen sicherer Kommunikation liefert. Daraus ergibt sich auch ein weiterer Grund für diese Übersetzung: wir wollen den Text einer breiteren, nicht-englischsprachigen Leser*innenschaft zugänglich machen. Außerdem kann er neuen Aktivistinnen oder solchen, die es werden möchten, ein paar erste Infos über Grundsätze und Verhaltensregeln in aktivistischen Kreisen geben."
https://archive.org/details/sicherheitskulturweb/mode/1up?view=theater
gezeichnetes Bild Fuchs und Katze klatschen sich ab. stehen mit Farbeimern auf einer Wiese, fuchs mit sturmhaube, katzenlady mit maske im hintergrund ein plakat welches übermalt wurde in rot steht auf einem schwarzen Streifen Security Culture in weiß klein in der ecke: deutsche Übersetzung
Zine Recipes for a disaster. a anarchist cookbook oben steht in groß und kursiv recipes unten disaster . nur konturen der buchstaben . im hintergrund eine straße
Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression
"...offers the first in-depth study of how various communities and activist organizations are resisting such efforts by integrating digital media activism into their actions against state surveillance and repression and for a better world. The book focuses on a wide array of movements within the United States such as Latinx copwatching groups in New York City, Muslim and Arab American communities in Minneapolis, undercover animal rights activists, and countersummit protesters to explore the ways in which government surveillance and repression impacts them and, more importantly, their different but related online and offline tactics and strategies employed for self-determination and liberation. Digital media production becomes a core element in such organizing as cell phones and other forms of handheld technology become more ubiquitous. Yet such uses of technology can only be successfully employed when built upon strong grassroots organizing that has always been essential for social movements to take root."
Buchcover zeigt eine Demo. Menschen unter einer Ampel. Beschriftung Abolishing surveillance Digital Media Activism and state Repression
Threat Library: Six Repressive Operations Added
- #Chile: 2019-2020 case against Mónica and Francesco
https://www.csrc.link/threat-library/repressive-operations/2019-2020-case-against-monica-and-francesco.html
- #Germany: Repression against Zündlumpen #München
https://www.csrc.link/threat-library/repressive-operations/repression-against-zundlumpen.html
- Germany: The three from the park bench #Hamburg
https://www.csrc.link/threat-library/repressive-operations/the-three-from-the-park-bench.html
- #France: Repression of Lafarge factory sabotage
https://www.csrc.link/threat-library/repressive-operations/repression-of-lafarge-factory-sabotage.html
- #UnitedStates: Repression of the first Jane’s Revenge arson
https://www.csrc.link/threat-library/repressive-operations/repression-of-the-first-jane-s-revenge-arson.html
- Germany: #Berlin 2023 railway conspiracy case
https://www.csrc.link/threat-library/repressive-operations/berlin-2023-railway-conspiracy-case.html
https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/28/threat-library-six-repressive-operations-added/
actforfree.noblogs.org
How to delete yourself from the #internet
"Want to delete yourself from #Google Search, social media, and the entire internet? Our guide gives you all the details with links to get started."
https://www.androidpolice.com/how-to-delete-yourself-from-the-internet/
androidpolice.com
Want to disappear from the internet? This guide will show you how to delete your social media, email, Google search, and more
Minimizing DNA Traces During Riotous Moments #Zine
"[Y]ou can be pretty certain that whenever arson is involved, a DNA forensics team will be involved too. [...] We want to briefly summarize some practical considerations. By arming ourselves with some preparation and an accurate understanding of how DNA is transferred, it is possible to drastically limit the amount of DNA we leave behind."
View Online
https://www.csrc.link/read/minimizing-dna-traces-during-riotous-moments.html
Source
https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/04/27/minimizing-dna-traces-during-riotous-moments/
#Surveillance #Selfdefence #socialwar #socialcontroll #technology #antireport #DNA #riot #directaction #police
Overview of police investigations tied to a combative demo against mega-basins - Zine (EN/FR)
"Two people alleged to have damaged a water reservoir in Charente-Maritime[2] are on trial this Thursday in La Rochelle. Phone bills, tailing and geolocation... To identify them, the investigators have deployed methods that are out of the ordinary.
Suspects geolocated in real time, their tax, social security or health insurance statements dissected, their telephone bills analyzed in minute detail, their social circle identified; a woman followed and photographed by police even though her cell phone did not locate her at the scene of the crime (she will be exonerated)... This array of methods was deployed by the police in order to find the people suspected of having damaged an agricultural basin in November 2021, in Cram-Chaban (Charente-Maritime). Even though this water reservoir, which was supposed to be used for irrigation, could not be used and was ultimately judged to be illegal."
#Surveillance #Videosurveillance #police #Repression #SocialControll #climate #megabassines #SainteSoline #france
Overview of police investigations tied to a combative demo against mega-basins 2023 by Libération (liberation.fr) darunter Foto eines Mega-Wasserbeckens
Strategies for Countering Police Access to #DNA Data (Chapter 10) #Zine
"#OPSEC is military and intelligence jargon for "operational security" and refers to techniques designed to prevent their people being caught during or after an "operation".
The fact that we have to talk about such things at all when it comes to issues like exercising the fundamental right to freedom of assembly or small acts of civil disobedience is a clear indication of how far the state's mania for security and collection has already developed. It is generally better to invest resources on pushing back the security apparatus than in a technical arms race with state agencies!"
Download: PDF (read, A4 booklet, letter booklet) • TEXT
https://www.csrc.link/download/der-polizeiliche-zugriff-auf-dna-daten-strategien-der-gegenwehr/strategies-for-countering-police-access-to-dna-data-booklet-letter.pdf
View Online
https://www.csrc.link/read/strategies-for-countering-police-access-to-dna-data.html
#Data #Police #Activism #directAction #Surveillance #antireport
Strategies for Countering Police Access to DNA Data (Chapter 10) by Gen-ethisches Netzwerk gen-ethisches-netzwerk.de 2020 darunter aufnahme in einem Labor. Teil einer Hand mit Latexhandschuh bei der LAborarbeit
(en/it/pt) Doxcare: Prevention and Aftercare for Those Targeted by Doxxing and Political Harassment
"This step-by-step guide explains how to protect yourself from online stalkers, why it is important, and what to do if you are targeted for “doxxing”—the publishing of your private information. In a era of universal surveillance, when livestreamers broadcast every major demonstration while fascists, FBI agents, and police officers comb through social media posts to gather intelligence with which to harass activists, there has never been a better time to take steps to secure your privacy. Here’s how."
Via @CrimethInc
https://crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/doxcare-prevention-and-aftercare-for-those-targeted-by-doxxing-and-political-harassment
PDF
https://www.csrc.link/download/doxcare/doxcare-en.pdf
#Surveillance #Selfdefence #Datasecurity #datas #technology #antireport #doxcare #privacy #activism
"This guide is an incomplete, evolving project collecting some of the many guides and instructions available on how to handle digital security threats and general practices. The tools available and risks offered are constantly in flux and we encourage anyone with additional guides or information that might be of use or any questions not covered by this guide to email digitaldefense@riseup.net ."
https://digitaldefense.noblogs.org/
#Repression -#Surveillance #Selfdefence #Datasecurity #technology #antireport #data
notrace.how
No trace, no case. A collection of tools to help anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught.
CSRC Bulletin #1 - Counter-surveillance resource center
(de/en/fr/ru)
International Coordination Against Targeted Surveillance
"We are anarchists. We believe in an international coordination of informal anarchist groups to pursue the fight against all forms of domination. We believe that sharing knowledge about our enemies’ capabilities and tactics should be an important part of that coordination."
PDF: https://www.csrc.link/download/csrc-bulletin/csrc-bulletin-1-en-a4.pdf
https://www.csrc.link/read/csrc-bulletin-1-en.html
#Surveillance #Selfdefence #socialwar #socialcontroll #technology #antireport
Mensch mit schwarzem Hoodie (mit rosa Umrandung) und hochgezogener Kapuze von hinten, blickt auf schwarzen Hintergrund.
(de/en/fr/el/es/ru) CSRC Bulletin #1
"The Counter-surveillance resource center is a searchable database of resources on evading targeted surveillance. We want to help anarchists and other rebels acquire a practical understanding of the surveillance threats they may face in their struggles and in their lives. We prefer resources that are easy to understand and written by friends."
https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/26/de-en-fr-csrc-bulletin-1/
#Surveillance #Selfdefence #socialwar #socialcontroll #technology #antireport
actforfree.noblogs.org
Internationale Koordination gegen zielgerichtete #Überwachung
CSRC Bulletin Nr. 1
"Dies ist die erste Ausgabe einer unregelmäßig erscheinenden Publikation des Counter-surveillance resource center, eine Datenbank von Hilfsmitteln zur Umgehung zielgerichteter #Überwachung."
https://www.csrc.link/de/
"Wir sind Anarchist·innen. Wir glauben an eine internationale Koordination informeller anarchistischer Gruppen, um dem Kampf gegen jegliche Formen der #Herrschaft nachzugehen. Wir glauben, dass das gegenseitige Teilen von Kenntnis über Fähigkeiten und Taktiken unserer Feind·innen einen bedeutenden Teil dieser Koordination bilden sollte. Die Kenntnis ist kein Selbstzweck, sondern ein Mittel zur Begrenzung der Aussichten gefasst zu werden, damit wir weiter angreifen können."
https://de.indymedia.org/node/269067
#Repression #directAction #Surveillance #Antireport #SozialeKämpfe #SozialeKontrolle #Anarchismus
Beschriftung : Counter - Surveillance Resource Center csrc.link/de Ganz unten steht: "Für die, die etwas zu verbergen haben. in der Mitte eine hasenartige Karikatur mit Rosa Schuhen, Rosa Handschuhen und Rosa Maske und schwarzem Anzug in Kampfhaltung. darüber in jeder ecke je eine Überwachungskamera welche wie ein Scheinwerfer wirkt, das Wesen in der Mitte befindet sich dadurch im Schatten.
1/3
"Nicht entgangen sind Habeck auch Tests mit Supermärkten in westlichen Ländern, wo "beim Reingehen eine #Face-ID-Scannung" erfolge. Der Kunde nehme dann Produkte aus Regalen, wobei alles gemessen und aufgezeichnet werde. Der Computer rechne die Summe aus und bestelle gleich nach. Der Minister freute sich: "Das ist keine abgefahrene Spökenkiekerei." Viele aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Probleme und #Krisen inklusive #Klimawandel und #Pandemien könnten und müssten digital beantwortet werden, hob der #Grünen-Politiker hervor."
Nee Robert, das ist echt keine "abgefahrene Spökenkiekerei". Das ist einfach nur euer scheiß übergriffiger #Überwachungskapitalismus, den ihr "Grünen" hier aufs erbärmlichste grün zu waschen versucht. Und das ist auch keine "neue #Kultur" von der dein Kollege #Wissing da faselt, sondern einfach nur das technische Update für die alte Nummer namens Ausbeutung des Menschen durch den Menschen. Wobei das wahrscheinlich schon das ganze Kulturverständnis der #FDP abdeckt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Digitalgipfel-Habeck-schwaermt-vom-Bezahlen-mit-Iris-Scan-7372336.html
#Gesichtserkennung #Surveillance #netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #Datenschutz #antireport
heise.de
Mit aller Macht will die Bundesregierung erreichen, dass mehr Daten bereitgestellt und genutzt werden. Die Beispiele könnten teils auch von Orwell stammen.
Warnung vor Big-Brother-Olympiade verhallt im französischen Parlament
@heiseonline
https://www.heise.de/news/Warnung-vor-Big-Brother-Olympiade-verhallt-im-franzoesischen-Parlament-7540846.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege
#Biometrie #Datenschutz #Überwachung #Videoüberwachung #Surveillance #Überwachungskapitalismus #antireport #Olympiade #france
heise.de
Ein umstrittenes System für die "intelligente" Videoüberwachung der Sommerspiele 2024 in Paris hat in der Nationalversammlung eine wichtige Hürde genommen.
Bundesregierung setzt sich auf EU-Ebene für mehr #Gesichtserkennung ein:
"Digitalcourage hält die Ratsposition, die nur Echtzeitsysteme verbietet, für problematisch und lehnt diese ab. Denn diese Klausel verhindere nicht den Missbrauch biometrischer Daten zur #massenuberwachung Außerdem sei unklar, wie viel Zeit verstreichen müsse, damit es sich nicht um einen Einsatz etwaiger Systeme in „Echtzeit“ handelt. „Vieles wäre mit der Begrenzung auf Echtzeit zulässig, zum Beispiel die biometrische Massenüberwachung aller, die sich 2017 während der Zeit des G20-Gipfels durch Hamburg bewegt haben“, so @digitalcourage weiter."
netzpolitik.org
Im Rat der Europäischen Union hat sich die Bundesregierung dafür eingesetzt, dass biometrische Überwachung teilweise erlaubt wird. Bürgerrechtsorganisationen kritisieren „gefährliche Schlupflöcher“ für neue Möglichkeiten der Massenausspähung. In ihrem Koalitionsvertrag hatte die Ampel noch versprochen, biometrische Erkennung im öffentlichen Raum auszuschließen.
Selbst Wohnzimmer-Aufnahmen sind nicht vor Polizei sicher
"Ein Mann aus dem US-Bundeststaat Ohio sollte der Polizei Aufnahmen aus seinem Wohnzimmer vorlegen, obwohl nur gegen seinen Nachbarn ermittelt wurde. Als er sich weigerte, legte die Behörde einen richterlichen Beschluss bei #Amazon Ring vor. Das Unternehmen gab alle verfügbaren Aufnahmen an die #Polizei heraus."
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/amazon-ring-selbst-wohnzimmer-aufnahmen-sind-nicht-vor-polizei-sicher/
Vernetzte Dashcam:
#Amazon bringt #Überwachungstechnik Ring auf die Straße
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/vernetzte-dashcam-amazon-bringt-ueberwachungstechnik-ring-auf-die-strasse/
#netzpolitik #Überwachung #videosurveillance #Surveillance #sozialeKontrolle #antireport #Überwachungskapitalismus
netzpolitik.org
Amazons Heimüberwachung Ring verlässt die Häuser und soll nun auch Autos und Straßen überwachen. Das von der Bürgerrechtsorganisation EFF als „größter Überwachungsapparat des Landes“ bezeichnete Unternehmen wird damit noch tiefer in den öffentlichen Raum eingreifen als bisher.
#Privacy #GDPR #EUdataP #TERREG #DSA #DMA #DarkPatterns #cookies #NOYB #DuckDuckGo #AdTech #surveillance #DigitalRights #IAB
#Antitrust #Google #Microsoft #Twitter #Facebook #CloudFlare #MicrosoftTeams #Office365 #GoogleAnalytics #WhatsApp #Instagram #Gitlab #GitHub #Apple
#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin #FediMeta #ActivityPub #FediAdmin #MastoMeta #PleromaBot #fediverso #CommunityMayNotScale
#OpenCollective #SocialCoop #cooperative #sustainability #cooperatives #commons
If democracies don't finally begin pulling together and fighting the spread of #autocracy *everywhere*, more and more developing democracies will fail and fall into a pit of #surveillance #dictatorship where civil society will be deprived of any possibility of organizing opposition again.
We know which regime is driving these "developments", but bankers and industrialists from democracies are still queueing up to kowtow its Leader while lobbying at home to ensure business continues as usual.
One sometimes wonders what #Tibetans, #Uighurs, #SouthMongolians, #Hongkongers and all the other silenced subjects of repressive regimes (read the article) might think about the ethics and moral backbone of #democracies.
Hi all, been lurking for a few days but introducing myself now! I'm Matt and a #security reporter at WIRED. Like many others here, I'm coming to Mastodon after the chaos at the bird site in the last week.
The things I cover on a regular basis are #privacy, cybersecurity, #surveillance, internet freedom, #tech and human rights, and a bunch more things in the wider security realm.
I'm based in #London—and have lived here for the last decade—so I'm often reporting on issues from across Europe. When not writing words for the web, I'm often found #running and have been dabbling in the #ultramarathon a few times over the last few years #introduction (edited to add introduction hashtag)
I haven't gotten around to it yet, but here goes: #introduction
#anarchist working as a #malware researcher in Montreal.
Will post mostly stuff related to #privacy #infosec #DigitalRights #surveillance #unions #APT #threatintel #Workersrights #ReverseEngineering
Show me your Adversarial interoperability (aka Competitive compatibility) projects, I love that stuff!
Hi @ all,
I am a political scientist researching #cyber operations as a tool for power competition in international relations. Also all the fun stuff like #cybercrime, #surveillance, #disinformation and more. Also I am hosting a little podcast on these topics. If you are interested in #infosec, feel free to reach out. Curious about this platform. #introduction
My message for #GlobalEncryptionDay... for every entity interested in #surveillance:
I will resist and it's my human right.
Encryption is not for bad actors only, it protects innocent people every day.
We are not criminals.
My modified photo. Woman in grey hoodie and black trousers, with right hand up and close to camera, is blurred. Top and bottom parts of the image are covered with added dark blue shadow. Whole picture is covered with semi-transparent Base64 PGP message. There is pale yellow text near bottom part: "I am not a criminal. I am not a terrorist. I USE ENCRYPTION."
Note: #Android’s “Sensors off” feature does not apply to regular #phone calls (both incoming and outgoing). However, since regular calls are neither encrypted nor protected from #metadata #surveillance, you should always use end-to-end #encrypted messengers for calling, such as #Signal or @threemaapp.
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉
🌊 #woke
