For #TaylorSwift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

https://www.wired.com/story/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark/

#MSG #privacy #surveillance #FRT #FacialRecognition

Leaked Document Shows the #Surveillance Tech at #ICE’s Fingertips

https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips/

#privacy #politics

Benn Jordan details his hacking and investigation of Flock at a city council meeting in March 2026.

A short:
https://youtube.com/shorts/I_y7OjsI1Zk

#flock #surveillance #cameras #infosec

What Happened When #Flock Came to My Town

https://www.404media.co/what-happened-when-flock-came-to-my-town/

#privacy #surveillance #ALPR

#Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras

https://www.404media.co/flock-objects-to-our-removing-their-equipment-emails-reveal-why-a-town-put-bags-over-its-flock-cameras/

#ALPR #surveillance #privacy

Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-knows-your-face

#bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116968826554216628

"When it comes to making a new, good internet, there's plenty of room for labor law, civil rights legislation, antitrust, and other legal regimes. But privacy has the biggest constituency, gets us the most bang for the buck, and has the fewest harmful side-effects. It's a policy we can all agree on, even if we don't agree on much else. It's a coalition in potentia that would be unstoppable in reality." - @pluralistic

#privacy #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #tech #BigTech

How many ways can we spell out fascist totalitarian dictatorship before American normies realize it’s happening?

https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips

There needs to be more ICE doxxing. These people need to be exposed and publicly berated. They should lose their friends and be ostracized by their families.

A dictatorship can’t function unless it has subservient lackeys. If we reduce the pool of candidates through shame and humiliation, it reduces the harm that can be done.

#ICE #ICEOut #Surveillance #Privacy #Technology

“Some notable entries in the document include:

- Accurint: a LexisNexis tool for locating people that contains all sorts of personal data like addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and more
Chameleon: a tool which provides “Anonymized means to conduct online investigations, web research, and undercover work”

- Locate X: a tool that lets ICE search a massive database of location data harvested from smartphones. Made by Babel Street, the tool uses data sourced through ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones or the advertising ecosystem. 404 Media previously reported how the tool could be used to track phones at abortion clinics after privacy advocates gained access to the technology. “It allows investigators to draw a digital fence around an address or area, pinpoint mobile devices that were within that area from mobile data sources,” the document reads

- Cobwebs: a social media tracking tool. 404 Media previously reported Cobwebs also includes Webloc, which can monitor phone locations in entire neighbourhoods

- ISO ClaimSearch: a database that contains property and casualty insurance claims and medical bills. The database is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills”

https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips/

#USA #ICE #Immigration #Surveillance #Privacy

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

https://www.wired.com/story/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark/

#surveillance #ai #cybersecurity #privacy

Awful:🚨">100 police agencies in FL have access to #Flock cams, which scan & capture license plates in specific locations & times. These #surveillance data pts have been increasingly used to stalk & detain #immigrants w no criminal record thru indiscriminate arrests.

Police in FL’s TR Coast were reported to have🚨sharply increased their use of Flock lic plate readers for IMM enf, despite previously claiming: cams wouldn't be used for that purpose.
#DHS #Deportations #USPol
https://truthout.org/articles/floridians-fights-against-flock-cameras-and-ai-are-shaking-up-state-politics/

An Explosion of #Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/explosion-surveillance-towers-coming-us-borders-costing-over-1-billion

#border #DHS #privacy #politics

#US #police now armed with Israeli spy vans simulating mobile phone towers

https://cybernews.com/privacy/us-police-israeli-spy-vans-falconet-cognyte/

#privacy #Israel #FalcoNet #Cognyte #IMSIcatcher #surveillance

#RevueDePressive
#Internet #Surveillance
« Arrêtez de tuer Internet » : la riposte citoyenne contre la vérification d'âge en ligne est lancée

> La Commission européenne a annoncé ce mercredi 22 juillet l’enregistrement de l’initiative citoyenne européenne « Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification », jugée juridiquement recevable.
https://www.01net.com/actualites/verification-dage-ligne-riposte-citoyenne-europeenne-officiellement-lancee.html

https://lesliensde.jeey.net/shaare/RoVQdw

"For weeks, Verona, Wisconsin tried to get Flock to remove the three automated license plate cameras that its city council had voted to stop using. Flock told city employees not to remove the cameras, and a Flock employee told city officials that they were unsure whether the cameras could be remotely disabled, which led the town to decide to put black plastic trash bags over them until Flock eventually removed the cameras itself, according to emails obtained using a public records request by 404 Media.

The emails give insight into the process cities face while deFlocking themselves after voting not to renew a contract with the AI surveillance company. As we’ve previously reported, multiple cities around the country have decided to put black trash bags over their Flock cameras while they wait for them to be removed; this is in part because, until the cameras are physically removed by Flock, cities are unsure whether they have the legal right to remove the cameras themselves and are not sure whether they can disable their recording operations. The emails show Verona city officials telling each other that they had made multiple requests to Flock to have the cameras removed, and show a work order from Flock in which the cameras were set to have maintenance performed on them rather than being removed."

https://www.404media.co/flock-objects-to-our-removing-their-equipment-emails-reveal-why-a-town-put-bags-over-its-flock-cameras

#USA #Surveillance #ALPRs #Flock #Privacy #DataProtection #PoliceState

They are hiding mobile Flock Cameras now

Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1v3kjm2

#surveillance #politics #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #policestate #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #nokings #abolishice #privacy #flock #palantir #4thamendment #Chatrie_v_United_States

#MIT to Become Hotbed of #AI Video #Surveillance

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/mit-to-become-hotbed-of-ai-video-surveillance.html

#privacy #education #university

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116964067623030790

community service in 2026 🗑️

then: picking up plastic bags
now: putting plastic bags on surveillance cams

#flock #surveillance

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@josephcox@infosec.exchange

"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that would be great." https://www.404media.co/flock-objects-to-our-removing-their-equipment-emails-reveal-why-a-town-put-bags-over-its-flock-cameras/

There is no single blueprint for global control. There does not need to be.

Digital ID, CBDCs, health surveillance, AI governance, pathogen monitoring and neurotechnology are being built separately—but increasingly operate through compatible infrastructure.

This evidence-graded dossier maps the system, the funding and the safeguards still missing.

Read: https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-global-governance-infrastructure

#DigitalID #CBDC #Surveillance #Privacy #AI #DigitalRights #WHO #Neurotechnology

For the past three decades, #BigTech have been secretly, continuously, systematically tracking all aspects of our personal lives, and they have been exploiting that data to extract more and more profits. To the delight of many technology fanciers, all these nefarious acts are now #AI powered. It is only during this period of exploration that IT had its first billionaire.

We Americans have tacitly accepted this invasive surveillance, in exchange for essential modern goods and services, like toilets that flush automatically after shitting and shit-posting on social media in the wee small hour of the morning. So long as the two parties involved have the “meeting of the minds”, this process counts as a “fair exchange” under law.

It is now evident that our federal #government is using those same #surveillance technologies and procedures to monitor, control, manipulate, and oppress us. Regardless of our nonchalance, this process is "government overreach" in violation of our constitutional rights to privacy.

Why so dramatic a difference between these two forms of privacy violation that employ the same technologies and procedures?

• The first form of privacy violation is a private act that induces us to waste our time and money, individually and collectively.
• The second form of privacy violation is a governmental action that erodes our individual #freedom and our collective #democracy.

But we #American citizens are equally unperturbed by both forms of #privacy violation.

If you have been wondering about the effectiveness of the social media ban of under 15 year olds, this study got you :)

Spoiler: 92%+ of kids age 14-15 in #Australia still use it 🥳

Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate 😉

Source:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf

#Privacy #ageverification #IDverification #Study #Data #Science #Survey #Tech #SocialMedia #Technology #Internet #Censorship #Authoritarianism #MassSurveillance #Surveillance

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Screenshot of graphic from this study of Australia's social media ban: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf Percent of banned 14-15-year olds (b) Compliance rate, April versus June 2026 Usage rate: 64% April, 92% June Implied compliance: 27% April, 6% June Notes: Figure 5 reports self-reported past-7-day use of any banned platform.

🇫🇷🚨 FRANCE BANS SOCIAL MEDIA FOR U15s → EVERYONE TO VERIFY THEIR AGE.

“For four months, all of us in France will have to prove our age,” said digital minister, Anne Le Hénanff 😡

If you're in France → you'll need to user your ID card, France Connect, or facial recognition (selfie) to log in.

🚩 What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans. 🚩

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

Find out more: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

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French President Emmanuel Macron wearing glasses and speaking on stage at the Annual Meeting Davos 2026. Next to him is a sign showing no under 15s.

I am very tired of all the tech companies embracing dystopian surveillance, overhyped AI, authoritarianism and fascism.

Which tech company do you know that hasn't?

Edit: Please keep the focus in replies on reporting on positive solutions and organizations for others to discover.
And if you wish to debate with each other, then please remove my handle from it (because this creates a lot of notifications in my phone 🫣), thanks! 🙏

#Tech #DigitalRights #HumanRights #NoAI #Privacy #Surveillance #Fascism

On #Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/on-flock-license-plate-tracking-cameras.html

#ALPR #privacy #surveillance #police

The #ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State #Surveillance Secrets

https://www.wired.com/story/the-aclu-is-arming-lawyers-to-expose-state-surveillance-secrets/

#cybersecurity #law

Have fun with this surveillance pricing investigation. Different prices for different people, or rather personas.

And meet the person who used a drone to put Minnesota's wealthiest zip code on Google Maps and got banned from the place because it is all private property.

https://youtu.be/tCSwx9LZtD8

#wealth #surveillance #prices #discrimination #data

"We created this project to give defense attorneys a practical toolkit: a set of model discovery and preservation motions they can adapt to cases involving specific surveillance technologies. And when defense attorneys don’t yet know what kinds of digital surveillance technologies law enforcement employed, the generalized model motion for digital surveillance technologies addresses requests for a variety of surveillance tools.

The models are grounded in constitutional law, Brady obligations (requiring the prosecution to disclose potentially exculpatory information), and Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure.

These model motions were assembled to be useful right now, in real criminal cases.

These model motions are written to assist criminal defense attorneys practicing in Massachusetts, though the underlying constitutional arguments—rooted in core constitutional protections of privacy and due process—are broadly applicable across jurisdictions. Local discovery rules in other jurisdictions may be different, and should be reviewed by attorneys practicing in those states.

The toolkit includes model discovery motions addressing the following surveillance technologies, with a model discovery motion for generalized digital surveillance technologies for cases where specific technology has not yet been identified:"

https://www.aclum.org/news/digital-surveillance-criminal-defense/

#USA #Surveillance #PoliceState

"The US’s excessive demands for travellers’ profiling and surveillance in order to stay in its Visa Waiver Programme are nothing less than blackmail. The EU accepting the terms of this power struggle is extremely worrying for the rights of Europeans and any third country nationals registered in European databases.

The scheme implies systematic transfers of biometric data and other highly sensitive and subjective “indications of risk” based on European national databases to the US government, which has shown a blatant disregard for basic human rights in its harsh and inhumane treatment of migrants and visitors. In that regard, the draft text does nothing to protect from discrimination based on political opinions, which is worrying because the US is already cracking down political dissent, including its unlawful practice of screening travellers’ social media profiles. The sharing of individual risk assessments to supposedly protect “public security and public order” under the EBSP could further target opposition to the Trump administration, support to transgender people’s rights or protests against the genocide in Gaza expressed (publicly) on social media, with potentially significant impacts, including detention at the borders.

Furthermore it is very difficult to know the terms of the negotiations as the talks are shrouded in secrecy. However, in May 2026, EDRi member Statewatch leaked a “revised version” of the draft Framework Agreement, revealing the direction the future deal has taken."

https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/

#EU #USA #Surveillance #Biometrics #Privacy #DataProtection

Okay, LISTEN UP

DO NOT BUY LG.

Not ANYTHING LG.

Not only are they actively spying on you, not only have they updated their TOS to include requiring you to NOTIFY GUESTS ABOUT WIRETAPPING LAW, on Windows they're pushing ADWARE through WINDOWS UPDATE along with their monitor drivers - including on OLD monitors.

Gamers Nexus has all the deets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uefFYe6bM

DO NOT BUY LG PRODUCTS.

GN had a three-year-old monitor get an "update" that was adware. It wasn't even part of their investigation. It just happened to come in while they were investigating.

DO NOT BUY LG PRODUCTS.

#adware #spyware #surveillance #fascism #LG #FuckLG #DoNotBuy #boycott

2/4 This 'Enhanced Border Security Partnership' Framework Agreement would mean an automated exchange of personal data, including highly sensitive information, and access to EU biometric databases to screen and identify travellers.

In short, the US is demanding excessive and unfettered access to information and sensitive personal data of people in the EU, intensifying #surveillance 🙅🏽‍♀️

A leak of the draft agreeement shows that the Commission is giving into US's demands and risking our rights.

If you don't want unknown entities spying on your emails, setting up email encryption is a great way to protect your #privacy and use your #UserFredom: u.fsf.org/1bq #surveillance #FSF #FreeSoftware #GNU

If passed, the #GUARD Act would would require all users of chatbot services in the United States to submit to mandatory verification: https://u.fsf.org/4bq #UserFreedom #FSF #FreeSoftware #surveillance

A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.

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The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?’
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/adversarial-clothing-garments-designed-confuse-090005960.html

#Fashion #Surveillance #Camouflage

This is not one isolated policy, one organisation or one government.

It is a global convergence of UN frameworks, WEF partnerships, AI infrastructure, digital identity, finance, surveillance, NGOs, corporations and national legislation—all moving in the same direction.

Follow the links. Follow the funding. Follow the implementation.

The architecture is already being built around us.

#Agenda2030 #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalID #WEF #UnitedNations #Surveillance #CBDC #GlobalGovernance

Student government ID cards with RFID chips allow schools to track student location throughout campus and create attendance records automatically.

#privacy #surveillance #children #indigoprivacy

Y'all, let's talk about #WAZE. It is blowing up on the socials because someone read the #TOS. This happens every couple of years. The terms everyone is freaking out about is that the app, even though owned by #google, is protected by #Israel's laws, not #US. But only for #Americans. The #EU app doesn't have that provision.

The US provision has been there since 2008. What should be of more concern is that it was founded by members of 8200, and it is possibly the largest continuously updating surveillance database in the world.

Researchers say that it is still possible to identify and track users of the platform via api interception. (I have not verified.)

I wouldn't install it. Your risk acceptance level may be different. But the TOS hasn't changed. They've always been #Israeli crowdsourced #surveillance.

https://undercodetesting.com/wazes-silent-surveillance-how-a-navigation-app-became-the-worlds-largest-crowdsourced-tracking-tool-video/

TOS: https://support.google.com/waze/answer/12373727?hl=en (ctrl F Israel)

Different nations. Different cultures. Different beliefs.

Yet ordinary people everywhere are facing the same expanding systems: digital identity, programmable finance, surveillance, automated governance and increasingly powerful AI.

This lecture is not designed to divide the world into sides. It is an invitation to recognise what we share.

Watch it. Verify it. Share it across borders.

#Humanity #DigitalFreedom #AI #Surveillance #DigitalID

Victory! #Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/victory-flock-ends-rollout-audio-distress-detection-human-voices

#privacy #surveillance

If you don't want unknown entities spying on your emails, setting up email encryption is a great way to protect your #privacy and use your #UserFredom: u.fsf.org/1bq #surveillance #FSF #FreeSoftware #GNU

How the #WatchDogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/how-watch-dogs-video-game-series-mirrored-and-predicted-real-world-digital-rights

#surveillance #privacy #SDCC

Amazing and fun workshop using make-up to fool face recognition software.

Thanks @vecna and N.I.N.A. for bringing it to Genova!

You can play yourself with Ghostmaxxing

#Genova #G8 #G8Genova #surveillance #surveillanceState #faceRecognition #surveillance #stateSurveillance #makeup

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Selfie with Bea and our painted faces

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A person painting an eye on the forehead of another.

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Same photo as before but focusing on the painter rather than the painted

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Vecna adding some final touches to his makeup before running face recognition again.

The SAVE Act does not mandate biometric ID—but it places federal identity verification inside the electoral process as governments worldwide build interoperable digital identity, biometric, payment and data systems.

This investigation separates provable infrastructure from speculation and reveals how the pieces could eventually converge.

Read the full investigation:
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-save-america-act-the-domestic

#SAVEAct #DigitalID #Biometrics #Surveillance #Privacy #ElectionIntegrity

For fuck's sake!

Mass surveillance authorized on NC highways, all other state roads

https://www.wral.com/news/nccapitol/surveillance-drivers-camera-alpr-license-plate-reader-nc-budget-public-safety-privacy-july-2026/

#NC #Flock #AI #Camera #Surveillance #Privacy #Tech

How Cops Use #Flock to Track People, Not Cars

https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/

#police #ALPR #surveillance #privacy

Another privacy-facing Guardian article (hey I can't help it if the posts are decent), this time on a fashion line marketed as deceiving/confusing facial (& body/gait?) detection systems.

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jul/17/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream

Would be good to see Adam Harvey (@adam_harvey ) get a mention when these comp vision surveillance camouflage projects are in the press. His CV Dazzle project was years before this went vogue, years as in 2010:

https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle/

#privacy #surveillance #policestate

"The border is open" was the headline. It's true, and it isn't the whole thing.

The fence at Gibraltar's crossing with Spain is genuinely gone — a real win for the 15,000 who cross daily for work. But the checks moved rather than disappeared: Spanish officers now check you at the airport and the port.

And where the fence stood, there are now 26 cameras, facial recognition, and plate readers.

#Gibraltar #Surveillance #Travel

https://www.thebluf.news/p/gibraltar-border-checks-moved-not-gone

"The retail sector [in Australia] has been so interesting, with broader surveillance technology. They're at the point where staff are wearing bodycams to protect them from customers, who are frustrated that there's no staff because everything's been automated."

https://burningplatforms.podbean.com/e/the-palantir-primer/

#BurningPlatforms #CentreOfThePublicSquare #PerCapita #privacy #surveillance #podcasts

"Police departments around the country have used Flock cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “heavy-set male with a black and white hat,” “person on skateboard,” and “person wearing orange vest and construction hat,” according to data reviewed by 404 Media. Sometimes searches reference a target’s race or signs of their political affiliation.

The searches highlight that while most people associate Flock cameras with scanning license plates and tracking vehicles, some of the cameras are also capable of following the movements of particular people or groups of people. Flock’s nationwide network of cameras lets police officers in one state search for a vehicle across many other states at once; the people searches do a similar thing, typically on a smaller scale, sometimes querying many hundreds of cameras at once. These are called “FreeForm” searches, and allow cops to use Flock’s system as though they would use a search engine, with Flock’s AI and image recognition interpreting what footage and which people are relevant to a police officer’s search."

https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/

#USA #Surveillance #Flock #Privacy

"This technical analysis provides the most detailed view yet into the inner workings of the Pegasus spyware system. This includes confirmation of key technical capabilities such as the infection vectors and methodologies used to infect devices, supported by analysis of internal NSO Group documents, that until now had only been identified via forensic investigations. It also presents new material further validating the accuracy and significance of the dataset underpinning the original Pegasus Project investigation. Finally, this research provides an updated analysis, drawing on previously published Pegasus forensic evidence and newly released materials, to validate the technical methodology used to forensically link Pegasus spyware attacks targeting different victims as originating from the same Pegasus customer.

A key aim of this publication is to document and demystify the functionality and operations of technological systems like Pegasus. We hope that it will inform the wider spyware accountability community on how complex surveillance systems such as Pegasus are used by government customers, and also illustrate the key and ongoing role of spyware vendors in keeping such systems operational. We believe this public understanding is of critical value to technologists, researchers, and policy makers and others with an interest in understanding the targeted surveillance ecosystem and threats posed to human rights by surveillance technologies.

The contents of this technical research draw heavily on a large pool of confidential NSO Group training material, presentations and internal technical documentation which were disclosed as part of a long-running civil case taken by WhatsApp and Meta against NSO Group in U.S. court. This new material provides an unprecedented insight into the evolution of NSO Group’s spyware."

https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2026/07/inside-pegasus-the-evolution-of-the-worlds-most-notorious-spyware/

#CyberSecurity #Spyware #NSOGroup #Pegasus #Surveillance #Privacy

"Health data is increasingly an important part of law enforcement or government investigations. Wearable data has been critical in a number of cases, where information about heart rate and steps was used to determine the whereabouts of individuals. And the surveillance company Penlink calls fitness trackers and wearables an “overlooked source” for law enforcement since they tend to show movement patterns and changes in heart rates. Law enforcement can try to get access to this data through subpoenas or warrants.

There are many potential privacy issues with these sorts of devices, including whether the companies who make them share or sell information to third-parties. But here we are choosing to focus on two facets we’re concerned with around health data itself: 1) whether the company shares information with law enforcement and governments and 2) if they offer end-to-end encryption, which means the company itself can’t access that health data to begin with."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/most-smart-watches-rings-and-bands-lack-basic-transparency-reports-and-key-privacy

#SmartObjects #SmartWatches #SmartRings #IoT #Surveillance #Privacy #CyberSecurity #Encryption

"The social media giant Meta partnered with controversial TV personality and cosmetics mogul Kylie Jenner for the design and marketing of an “entry-level” line of its widely criticized camera glasses late last month. The collaborative campaign quickly provoked a wave of public backlash over unresolved concerns about privacy, consent, and personal safety as surveillance technology rapidly evolves.

Based in the United Kingdom, the class-based activism group Everyone Hates Elon (EHE) visualized those concerns in a lenticular spoof ad that, based on where a viewer is standing, flips between a branded marketing photo of Jenner wearing a pair of Meta glasses and a black-and-white image showing a skeletal, X-ray version of her with the tagline “We’re always watching.”

The transformation element and the poster design appear to reference the politically charged sci-fi film They Live (1988), in which the main character encounters a pair of sunglasses that not only expose the extractive messaging of advertisements but reveal that humanity is being controlled, subdued, and exploited by a secret population of aliens masquerading as people. In the film, it’s later revealed that some humans have accepted monetary bribes to collaborate with the aliens."

https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/

#Meta #Rayban #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #Artivism #Privacy