@elettrona @VeilleOff

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

(5/5)

...need for vision aids for target groups in need, but in public places, they should not be allowed at all.
You want to use it on private premises? Be my guest.

//

@elettrona @VeilleOff

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

(4/n)

..it is unacceptable for eyeware cameras to do the same thing with its surroundings.

Explain toe, why there needs to be an upload channel (if there is one so far) or even a permanent-storage (flash?) chip?

5) In some cultures, it is offensive to even take a picture without first asking consent.
From my point of view, filming me, in particular storing the pictures as you go, is offensive and unacceptable.

I do see a...

@elettrona @VeilleOff

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

(3/n)

...we all know Putin and MBS dies it.

3.) Why must there be a recording function? Biological eyes don't record, neither should mechanical aids.

4.) Likewise, we've all read the articles about these driving surveillance outfits, better known as #TESLAs, constantly filming its environment and its interior. (TESLA operators are reported to have made fun of their clients while observing them in the cars).
OFC, this is...

404 Media: How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars

Jul 16, 2026 at 9:56 AM

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.

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

#bigbrother #surveillance #flock

@elettrona @VeilleOff

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

(2/n)

1.) Does *everyone* really need such a tool, given the very serious #Security issues of #Meta's (Sp)AI glasses?

As this article shows, the downloads of these connected #RayBans can be sufficient to identify and track down a complete stranger's home address:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/116928975023533388

Anyone can imagine fanboy and stalker problems. How about sexual abusers? What if the data is used to hunt down regime critics...

@elettrona

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

(1/n)

I can see your point, Elena, the glasses are but a tool. (Also, I've worked with people with disabilities.)
So is a handgun, regarding which people in most countries think that it's distribution to people should be minimized.

Also, many people have concerns even about #SecurityCameras in public spaces with security issues.

So, I'd like to throw in a couple of discussion points for all:

@VeilleOff

Plate readers on police cars scan every passing car, not just suspects. Vendors like Flock and Motorola now pool billions of scans into a nationwide searchable database any officer can query to map where your car has been for years. #Flock #privacy #ALPR #surveillance #indigoprivacy

Chat Control : la surveillance de masse votée par la petite porte. (2026)
https://www.informassue.tuxfamily.org/pages/technologies_surveillance.php?art=chat_control_2025&st=eu_chat_control_09_07_2026
Le vote du 9 juillet 2026 : adopté malgré une majorité d'opposants. Seule consolation, une messagerie chiffrée de bout en bout comme Signal.org est épargnée, pour l'instant...

#ChatControl #Surveillance #EU #Messagerie

We live in the sort of timeline where I had to spend extra effort while shopping for my new prescription glasses frame to make sure it was unambiguously clear that these aren't surveillance pervert glasses.

Yep. We're there.

These horrifying non-consensual surveillance glasses are everywhere now. That's life now. I hate it 🤓

#BanRayBan #Meta #PervertGlasses #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #Privacy #Consent

"The criticism of eye-worn gadgets capable of surveillance isn't new, though the online discourse — "Meta Glasses" repeatedly trended on Meta's own Threads app last week, for the wrong reasons — seems to have intensified following the release of Meta's latest cheaper lineup, as well as reports about an unreleased facial recognition feature for the product. For whatever reason, this time the backlash seems to be having a real effect.

Engadget spoke with five creators, photographers and others who were once enthusiastic about Meta's smart glasses about how public perception has changed their habits.

"A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product," Danielle, a Florida-based creator and travel host who asked to be identified by first name only, told Engadget. Initially she enjoyed using her smart glasses for capturing travel content from the international trips she hosts. Then she read a story about how contractors working for Meta said they had been tasked with reviewing intimate images and other sensitive details captured by glasses owners.

Further reporting of men using Meta-branded glasses to film videos of themselves harassing women in public sealed the deal. She says she hasn't used them since. "I wouldn't feel comfortable around somebody wearing them, so I wouldn't expect anybody to be comfortable around me wearing them, no matter where I am.
(...)
Other creators who have previously purchased the frames now say they are using the product less often due to fears that people around them will assume they're doing something "creepy."

Christian Eisenbarth is a Los Angeles-based videographer who was gifted a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses by his girlfriend. He says that while he had previously been eyeing a pair for use on his video shoots, he has yet to use them outside of his home "mainly due to being afraid of being labeled as a creep.""
https://www.engadget.com/2212604/the-meta-glasses-backlash-is-changing-how-or-if-people-use-them/

#Meta #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #Privacy

#LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen

https://www.404media.co/lapd-regularly-pulled-over-innocent-people-because-license-plate-readers-flagged-their-cars-as-stolen/

#privacy #Flock #ALPR #surveillance

#LAPD lets contract with #surveillance giant #Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and #privacy

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/

#ALPR

A Leak of #SanFrancisco #Police #Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban #Surveillance

https://www.wired.com/story/sfpd-drone-video-leak-surveillance/

#privacy

Vindication #2? India’s biometric and digital-control infrastructure is no longer dismissible as fringe speculation. Gates is now openly celebrating the Indian model—without calling it “capture.”

This update preserves the original date-stamped article, shows what was predicted accurately, what is now verified, and what remains hypothesis.

https://thomaster.substack.com/p/indias-bio-nano-web-of-control

#BillGates #India #DigitalID #Surveillance #Technocracy #Aadhaar #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #CBDC #UN #WEF #GlobalGovernance

Alarm over launch of #FacialRecognition in #UK shops that instantly alerts #police

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/10/facewatch-facial-recognition-uk-shops-instantly-alerts-police-civil-liberties

#privacy #surveillance #FRT

Grocery Outlet Bargain Market is deploying #AI facial recognition in their stores.

It’s used for profiling.

“The system takes images of customers and runs them against a “watchlist,” a database of people who have previously been identified after “causing harm in some way,” said Chris Ochs, who works at SAFR at RealNetworks, the AI company that created SAFR Guard, the security system being used at Grocery Outlet. If there is a match, a phone notification is sent to the retailer using the system.”

#california #sfba #surveillance

https://missionlocal.org/2026/07/sf-grocery-outlet-facial-recognition/

It's crazy what a strong wind is capable of, it is almost like dystopian surveillance devices are not meant to be there.

Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1uvorfo

#surveillance #politics #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #pedo47 #epsteintrump #releasetheepsteinfiles #ice #policestate #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #nokings #abolishice #privacy #flock #palantir #4thamendment #Chatrie_v_United_States

"The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is reportedly ending its deal with Flock Safety, a surveillance company that helps law enforcement track vehicles using thousands of its license plate cameras placed across the United States.

A senior LAPD official told news outlets, first reported by ABC7 and the Los Angeles Times, that the police department would allow its three-year contract with Flock to expire when it ends on Saturday. The department cited “serious concerns” around civil liberties and privacy. Flock’s cameras are operated by the Atlanta, Georgia-based company and not the LAPD.

“This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues, particularly around privacy and the data that is being collected from these cameras,” LAPD’s chief information officer Dean Gialamas was quoted as saying. “The LAPD had to make a difficult decision, in this case discontinuing using Flock services until we can get those data, privacy, security and sharing concerns ironed out through a contractual relationship.”

A spokesperson for the LAPD did not respond to a request for comment from TechCrunch over the weekend, and it’s unclear if Flock’s cameras will continue recording in absence of an active contract. According to ABC7, the police department is seeking new language in its contract addressing privacy and data storage concerns."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/

#USA #LA #LosAngeles #Flock #LAPD #Privacy #Surveillance #CivilLiberties

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.

Alt...

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

The EU built mass surveillance disguised as child protection.

Our investigation found German police data proving 48% of alerts aren't crimes, 40% target minors.

Thorn (Ashton Kutcher's company) helped write the law. Thread below 👇

https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion

#Privacy #EU #ChatControl #Surveillance

How #Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked a Journalist for Days, Then Sent #Police to Arrest Him

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/11/0556236/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-a-journalist-for-days-then-sent-police-to-arrest-him

#privacy #surveillance #ALPR #journalism

Increased drone #surveillance of illegal July 4th fireworks led to $100K fine

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/on-americas-250th-more-cities-used-drone-surveillance-to-spot-illegal-fireworks/

#privacy #IndependenceDay

#AI #Surveillance and Social Progress

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-surveillance-and-social-progress.html

#privacy

"We Want Texans to Know Their Rights": Q&A with #MaydayHealth on the Impact of #Surveillance on #Abortion Care

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/we-want-texans-know-their-rights-qa-mayday-health-impact-surveillance-abortion

#privacy #Texas

Oh, ima gonna barf.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-surveillance-and-social-progress.html

#surveillance #ai #🤮

📰 SCOTUS Ruling Could Be Bad News for Flock — But Won’t Stop Mass Surveillance

Organizers across the country are using every tool in their arsenal against Flock surveillance cameras.

https://truthout.org/articles/scotus-ruling-could-be-bad-news-for-flock-but-wont-stop-mass-surveillance/

#Organizing #Surveillance #Truthout

#KaiserPermanente nurses say technology is making their jobs — and patient care — worse

https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2026/07/09/kaiser-permanente-nurses-say-technology-is-making-their-jobs-and-patient-care-worse

#healthcare #privacy #AI #bossware #surveillance

“ Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications (“Chat Control 1.0”) to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes. As a result, mass scanning is now permitted again until 2028.

A symbolic exemption was adopted for encrypted communications—though in practice, service providers do not scan these anyway. Furthermore, while a majority of voting MEPs wanted to restrict the scanning of private communications strictly to suspects identified by the judiciary (322 to 255 votes), this amendment likewise fell short of the required absolute majority.

Dr. Patrick Breyer, civil rights activist and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP), warns of the consequences:

“The fact that Chat Control is moving forward against the will of the majority of voting MEPs is a farce and damages democracy.””

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/

#EU #ChatControl #Surveillance #MassScaning #Privacy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116884302738509527

"To the argument that certain technologies and surveillance are in some way inevitable, I don't believe that to be true. It certainly doesn't have to be. You don't need to buy or use these invasive technologies, and you can reject them. Friends don't let friends wear pervert glasses." - Zack Whittaker

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #surveillance #resist

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Zack Whittaker » 🌐 2026-07-08
@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social

Smart glasses with cameras and microphones built-in and facial recognition to come are the latest fad in surveillance tech.

For my blog & newsletter ~ this week in security ~ I wrote about why the backlash against smart glasses — aka "pervert glasses" — is justified from a security and privacy perspective. Please read and share!

More: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/reframing-smart-glasses-as-pervert-glasses/

Sign up/RSS for my weekly newsletter: https://this.weekinsecurity.com

"In recent years, the Signal messaging app has become a newsroom staple, enabling journalists, colleagues, sources, and others to speak to one another securely with end-to-end encryption. This means no one except those in conversation — not even the service provider — can read your messages or listen in on your calls. Journalists use it individually, and we also see a trend toward using organizational Signal tiplines.

But it’s important to understand this is not a ”set it and forget it” decision. When talking to sensitive contacts, you do need to maintain your account to ensure it is safe and does not fall into the wrong hands.

Imagine if someone took over your Signal account. They could impersonate you, causing reputational damage, or worse, putting sources at risk. Unfortunately, this is not a hypothetical. We have seen at least one public example (and some less public) where newsrooms have lost access to Signal identifiers, sometimes leading to abuse.

There are a few simple things journalists can do to maximize the safety of their Signal account."

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-account-safety/

#Messaging #Signal #Privacy #Surveillance #Encryption #PrressFreedom #Journalism #Media

"I think this backlash against smart glasses is justified from a security and privacy perspective. Using technology to secretly record someone else isn't new, but bringing this audio- and video-collecting wearable tech into the mainstream has the potential to make it easier to carry out cybercrime and fraud by lowering the bar to entry for abuse.

The ability to covertly record and play back something displayed on someone's phone or computer screen or while someone taps in their password on a keyboard presents a major security problem — especially if that person is unaware of it happening. Recording sensitive data also creates a future risk of that information getting compromised, hacked, or obtained by a legal authority.

It is understandable why some are reframing smart glasses as "pervert glasses," by rejecting the sanitized marketing of tech companies and calling these products what they see them as: surveillance devices. It also speaks to the distrust that some consumers have with tech giants after years of abuses and scandals misappropriating people's data.

There are valid concerns that smart glasses on the market today could soon bake-in more privacy invading tech, like facial recognition."

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/reframing-smart-glasses-as-pervert-glasses/

#Surveillance #Meta #SmartGlasses #Privacy

Lucky this driver was not a person of color, because this would more likely than not ended in jail, with physical abuse, or a tragedy involving firearms.

How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me

A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-me-for-days-over-stolen-plates-and-sent-police-after-me

#flock #bigbrother #surveillance #crime

Insurance companies have hired investigators to conduct physical surveillance on disability claimants, filming them in public spaces to challenge claims.

#privacy #surveillance #indigoprivacy

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/

#privacy #surveillance #police

Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists, and a #ransomware gang last year

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/canadian-spy-agency-says-it-hacked-drug-traffickers-extremists-and-a-ransomware-gang-last-year/

#Canada #privacy #surveillance #cybersecurity #intelligence #crime #CSE

#ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

https://www.wired.com/story/ices-internal-watchdog-is-now-investigating-online-critics/

#privacy #surveillance #FreeSpeech #politics #DHS

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

#privacy

@Tupp_ed Hi Simon, I beg of you: can I please just print this and hand it out in my workplace when I'm delivering data protection training..?

https://mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2026/07/07/can-employers-monitor-staff-on-cctv-gdpr-rules-for-ireland/

#DataProtection #CCTV #surveillance

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

This game could be used as a huge explainer into how surveillance capitalism works and how people are exploited on both sides of the screen.

MajorOffline: Hae Stack – MajorLinux

https://buff.ly/ANONU8v

#Gaming #HaeStack #Investigation #PointAndClick #Political #Privacy #Puzzle #Steam #SteamNextFest #Surveillance #Capitalism #Tech #YouTube

"AI surveillance raises a range of public policy challenges: technical biases, unauditable systems, and inflexible automated law and social rule enforcement that can promote discrimination and undermine transparency, accountability and the rule of law. But we believe the most urgent and long-term impact will be its broader chilling effects.

In a new book, Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age, Jon Penney explains how surveillance, technology and power can be weaponized to influence behavior at scale. Surveillance, personalization, uncertainty and authority are all key mechanisms to increase the scale and impact of chilling effects. They cause people to self-censor their words and actions, to become more conformist and compliant and thus easier to manage and control. And the effects are additive: the more mechanisms employed, and the more powerful the form, the greater the chill.

Computerization has long allowed data collectors to track our locations, collect lists of whom we communicate with, and monitor our spending habits – unless we use cash. What’s new is an unprecedented fusion of each of these mechanisms, persistent and unrelenting. AI brings an analytical ability to spy on the contents of our communications, and to answer sophisticated questions about our whereabouts and activities: actions that previously required human analysts are now automated. The result will be a kind of supercharged societal level of chilling effects where fear, self-censorship and groupthink reign, and dissent, creativity and innovation become increasingly rare."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/06/ai-surveillance-policy

#AI #Surveillance #ChillingEffects #SelfCensorship #PoliceState

"Innocent shoppers should not have to submit to Orwellian identity checks just to buy a loaf of bread or pick up nappies. The mass rollout of live facial recognition across Sainsbury's stores is a shameful decision that treats customers like suspects, putting millions of law-abiding people at serious risk of privacy intrusions and humiliating false shoplifting accusations."

#surveillance #FacialRecognition #Sainsburys

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/06/brit-supermarket-giant-triples-down-on-facial-recog-to-nab-shoplifters/5266935

#AI #surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/06/ai-surveillance-policy "These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject it"

Opinion
"AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress
Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney

These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject it"

#privacy #surveillance #ai #noai #BruceSchneier

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/06/ai-surveillance-policy

(the images cover about half of the article)

Alt...

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. These systems will combine powerful AI, public and private surveillance via real-time facial recognition technology and digital tracking, mass databases and highly personalized enforcement. If deployed at scale, they will have profound chilling effects not just on personal freedoms, but democracy and social progress itself. China has been developing its surveillance infrastructure for years. The country has over 600 million surveillance cameras, increasingly powered by AI and facial recognition to enforce legal and social rules. Take the case of Lao

Alt...

Duan, a Chinese citizen blacklisted by the system after he lost his job and was unable to repay a series of loans. When he visited Beijing, the city’s AI surveillance system identified him by his face at a major intersection and displayed his face, name, and citizen ID number on a large electronic billboard nearby with a message that he was an untrustworthy person. Similar systems are now being deployed across China and integrated with its infamous online monitoring, censorship, and social credit systems. AI surveillance is now being experimented with in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. According to a new report, the US Department of Homeland Security is rapidly increasing its use of AI-based surveillance, including facial recognition and the monitoring of social media accounts, to keep tabs on immigrants, dissidents, journalists, legal observers and protesters. While the systems are ostensibly used to maintain security and public safety, the real aim is often social control. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle – a powerful tech giant that works closely with the Trump administration – has said: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re constantly recording and reporting.” The chilling effects are the point.

Alt...

AI surveillance raises a range of public policy challenges: technical biases, unauditable systems, and inflexible automated law and social rule enforcement that can promote discrimination and undermine transparency, accountability and the rule of law. But we believe the most urgent and long-term impact will be its broader chilling effects. In a new book, Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age, Jon Penney explains how surveillance, technology and power can be weaponized to influence behavior at scale. Surveillance, personalization, uncertainty and authority are all key mechanisms to increase the scale and impact of chilling effects. They cause people to self-censor their words and actions, to become more conformist and compliant and thus easier to manage and control. And the effects are additive: the more mechanisms employed, and the more powerful the form, the greater the chill.

Alt...

Computerization has long allowed data collectors to track our locations, collect lists of whom we communicate with, and monitor our spending habits – unless we use cash. What’s new is an unprecedented fusion of each of these mechanisms, persistent and unrelenting. AI brings an analytical ability to spy on the contents of our communications, and to answer sophisticated questions about our whereabouts and activities: actions that previously required human analysts are now automated. The result will be a kind of supercharged societal level of chilling effects where fear, self-censorship and groupthink reign, and dissent, creativity and innovation become increasingly rare. In this atmosphere of fear and conformity, risky ideas, social activism and self-reinvention – especially by disfavored groups and targeted populations – are also chilled. This will have long-term effects on social progress.

AI glasses with built-in cameras are making people uneasy about being recorded in public without consent. Critics say they blur everyday life into surveillance, and the pushback is real: workplace bans, public callouts, and apps that scan for hidden cameras.

#privacy #smartglasses #surveillance #consent #indigoprivacy

#EU Presidency to revive expired and dismissed #ChatControl 1.0 as early as next week, final CC2.0 trilogue done

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/reminder-eu-presidency-to-revive-expired-and-dismissed-chat-control-1-0-as-early-as-next-week-final-cc2-0-trilogue-done/38982

#privacy #Europe #cybersecurity #surveillance

#Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/flock-cameras-can-surveil-cars-without-license-plates.html

#privacy #surveillance #alpr

Want to know what surveillance tech your local police use? The Atlas of Surveillance is a free EFF database that maps drones, license plate readers, and facial recognition by city and county. Search your area at atlasofsurveillance.org

#privacy #surveillance #EFF #policetech #indigoprivacy

Commercial surveillance software sold to domestic abusers is installed by 70% of victims without their knowledge, according to domestic violence organization surveys.

#privacy #surveillance #indigoprivacy