Device fingerprinting systems used by carriers combine IMEI, IMSI, and behavioral data to track devices even when users replace SIM cards. #privacy #surveillance #indigoprivacy

Canadian legislation called the Lawful Access Act would give the government broad new powers to compel technology providers to build #surveillance tools into their systems. Canada has also been negotiating a cross-border data-sharing agreement with the United States that would require Canada to change its laws to allow US law enforcement to directly issue demands for personal data held by Canadian technology providers. https://thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-to-tap-your-phone-ottawa-might-let-him/

Guess I won't be going to The Garden anytime soon.

Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition

https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/

#MSG #Activism #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #Privacy #Tech

"Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who have publicly criticized the venue’s use of facial recognition technology, putting their tweets and comments into a document that was then accessible to other people inside the company, 404 Media has found.

The news shows that MSG, operated by Jim Dolan who has garnered a reputation for being pernicious against his perceived enemies, is not only deploying controversial facial recognition technology but keeping track of specific people who take issue with it. The document was included in a 45GB cache of data hackers stole from MSG and posted online this month, which 404 Media then downloaded and reviewed.

“The wake of a data breach would be a good time for Madison Square Garden to stop subjecting its patrons to biometric surveillance,” Adam Schwartz, privacy litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and one of the people included in the document, told 404 Media."

https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/

#USA #NYC #Surveillance #MadisonSquareGarden #FacialRecognition #Privacy #DigitalRights #Biometrics

“The problem is, there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia:
(…)
"Age verification" means that everyone who does anything online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of all their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry's fondest dream, a world where it's literally illegal to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kids…from them!

So it's not just a weird alliance of anti-Big Tech crusaders and the conspiratorial right that's pushing for age verification – they are unwitting allies of the very tech industry they think they're fighting. Those tech industry insiders are fully aware that an "age verification" mandate is really a way for the government to teach every child how to use a VPN. They're also fully aware that the next move is to ban VPNs:“

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/

#AgeVerification #Surveillance #Privacy #VPNs #DigitalRights

“[On 24 June] the EU Commission is expected to propose an overhaul of Europol’s mandate which will substantially expand its powers and more than double its (already huge) annual budget by 2034, to €444m annually

Keeping double books, operating in legally-murky areas to escape scrutiny, influencing governments to change laws so their illegal activities are legalised – these aren’t just plot points from The Sopranos or another mob thriller but seemingly the playbook of EU’s police agency.

Europol might be tasked with dealing with organised crime but that hasn’t stopped it from following similar tactics as those they’re claiming to fight against.

Europol’s shadowy nature is no secret to those who have been paying attention – privacy experts have been calling them out for everything from their links to private companies, lacklustre data protection practices, to their perpetual efforts to undermine end-to-end encryption, a critical feature that secures our private messages from being mass surveillance fodder.”

https://euobserver.com/222391/europol-is-going-rogue-so-brussels-is-doubling-its-budget

#EU #Europol #Privacy #Surveillance #DataProtection

Video with #AralBalkan

Keywords = #Planet #Earth #Surveillance #Population #Digital #Rich #People #Privacy #Monetise #Business #Model #Enshittification

"Excuse me, your unicorn keeps shitting in my back yard, can he please not?..."

https://aperi.tube/w/rsEV1YEWaubzeuJeayskvh

https://better.fyi/
= privacy tool which protected from behavioural #ads and companies #tracking, profiling, #monetising you on the web.

With the expansion of Met Police facial recognition cameras, might this not be a rather good time to bring back hats?

I can well imagine that a good, broad-rimmed hat would be the fashion statement for many this coming protest season, or just a day out feeding the ducks.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/23/met-to-expand-live-facial-recognition-central-london

#life #clothing #fashion #hat #surveillance #London #police #privacy

Hey #sfba residents: are you tired of #Flock? Do you want to learn more and organize to get rid of these #surveillance menaces? Well, Indivisible Palo Alto Plus is holding a Democracy Forum THIS SUNDAY on the subject.

📋 Democracy Forum: Who’s Watching? Safeguarding Our Privacy
🗓️ Sunday June 28
⏰ 3 pm–5:30 pm (orientation+social begins at 2:30 pm)
📍 First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper St, Palo Alto

Confirmed speakers:

👤 Cindy Cohn, EFF Executive Director
👤 Cyrus Farivar, journalist
👤 Brian Hofer, Secure Justice Executive Director
👤 Reem Sulaiman, Fight for the Future Senior Campaigns Director

This is going to by my first time attending an IPA+ event. Maybe I’ll see you there too!

#resist #organize #activism #privacy

Register: https://www.mobilize.us/ipaplus/event/961311/

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Videos intended to hold people in power accountable are being run through #surveillance databases and may later be used to identify some of the same people who made the footage. This is the surveillance ouroboros. spe...”

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“Thiel's secret society, 20 years of silence, cracked open because someone left the member directory in a webpage's source code. The panopticon-builders can't run a firewall.

#Politics #Surveillance #Resist #Democracy #P...”

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“#denmark #surveillance
i... i have no words.

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If you ever wondered how widespread surveillance is in the US, learn and be horrified.

#AI #surveillance
https://www.jalopnik.com/2194843/deflock-open-source-project-mapping-flock-cameras/

In the Soviet union the citizens are monitored constantly. USA is headed or already this is being done we do not know the whole extent. Flock cameras monitoring vehicles movements. Credit card’s tracking your purchases & locations. New automobile’s computers keeping track. Even the city’s are getting CCTV coverage. Facial recognition software is everywhere. Privacy is a joke on the internet. How does this feel America? The new USA is scary. #USA #surveillance #fascism #America #american #privacy

Smart meters report your electricity usage in 15-minute intervals, enough resolution to infer whether you're home, awake, or running specific appliances. #privacy #smartgrid #iot #surveillance #indigoprivacy

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

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#surveillance #Canada #BilC22 #cdnpoli

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#Canada Is Forging Ahead with Its Dangerous #Surveillance Bill

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.
#c22 #privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/canada-forging-ahead-its-dangerous-surveillance-bill

"A VPN ban could be on the table as part of the ongoing internet safety crackdown, which has already seen the Government announce a social media ban for under-16s.On Monday, Technology Secretary Liz Kendall announced a law change, set to be put in place by 2027, which will ban children from social media and AI chatbots as well as introduce ‘curfews’ to stop ‘doomscrolling’.

The ban was announced in response to concerns that social media is unsafe, making children miserable, and could cause lasting damage to their mental health. On Tuesday morning, Ms Kendall hinted that further restrictions could be introduced on Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).

VPNs have become increasingly popular in the UK since the Online Safety Act was enacted. Often used by employers to create a network to share resources, VPNs can also be used to spoof or hide your browsing location, thereby sidestepping geographical restrictions. A VPN is a system which connects somebody’s device – normally a computer or smartphone – to a server in a different location. This means that the websites that person visits cannot see their IP address.

It is used by many people for privacy or to get around restrictions that websites place on who can visit a page. It can also be useful for allowing people to work from home and still access their workplace’s resources."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2217934/vpn-ban-table-july-labour

#UK #VPNs #Privacy #NannyState #Surveillance #BigBrother #AgeVerification #DigitalID

U.S. law enforcement can purchase location data from data brokers without a warrant, the same data that would otherwise require court approval to obtain from carriers. #privacy #lawenforcement #locationdata #surveillance #indigoprivacy

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.

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RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108

W is for Warning.

⚠️

#WWarning #WSocial #fediverse #mastodon #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming

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@aral@mastodon.ar.al

Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.

You simply don’t need to.

You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.

Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.

The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.

And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.)

#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239

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Ursula von der Leyen’z post wishing a “warm welcome to all folllwers on W” and calling it user friendly, open source, privacy preserving and “humans only/no bots”. Oh and “European” (unlike Mastodon, which I guess was made on Mars).

Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.

You simply don’t need to.

You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.

Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.

The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.

And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.)

#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239

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Ursula von der Leyen’z post wishing a “warm welcome to all folllwers on W” and calling it user friendly, open source, privacy preserving and “humans only/no bots”. Oh and “European” (unlike Mastodon, which I guess was made on Mars).

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. 😓

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/17/milan-tram-drivers-used-whatsapp-for-sexist-chat-about-female-passengers

#privacy #HumanRights #Belgium #stib #sncb #delijn #tec

Nazi Bar but make it European.

Amirite, @EUCommission?

#WSocial #EuropeWashing #NaziBar #surveillance #capitalism

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

“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.

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/

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

Why the Inquisition Built the Surveillance State

https://clairesalerno.substack.com/p/why-the-inquisition-built-the-surveillance

The real motive behind web 2.0, web 3.0, the cloud, AI, and panopticon nonsense is to identify and isolate heretics.

"They began with the network. If you can find one suspected heretic and interrogate them about their associations, who they speak to, who they share meals with, whose homes they visit and which neighbours are sympathetic, you can build a list of names."

"Then, you visit each of those people on the list and ask them the same questions. From this you can build a map of the entire community, identifying relationships and flagging suspects."

"They used the social fabric of communities and rewarded those who denounced others. They reduced penalties for cooperation, and built the assumption that staying silent is itself suspicious."

"They made it so the rational choice for any individual in the community is to inform on neighbours before neighbours inform on them. This creates a self-policing community. The community does the work, with the institution as the receiving authority."

"Think about that for a moment, because it describes the current digital surveillance apparatus exactly."

#Inquisition #Surveillance #Panopticon #Privacy #Cathars #Censorship

"Realizing your trove exists is terrifying. So is learning that it’s never been more vulnerable."

Bridget Read for New York/Intelligencer: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/your-digital-self-is-vulnerable.html

#Longreads #Privacy #Surveillance #Data #Technology #Internet

Around 52 percent of parents track their 18- to 25-year-old children using smartphone apps, according to a University of Michigan survey.

Is it healthy and the new normal or bordering on surveillance?
https://flip.it/jccv0M

#Surveillance #Privacy #Smartphones

Free software offers trust and privacy; #Ring offers mass #surveillance: https://u.fsf.org/4aw

""Every failed attempt to make children safer online is followed by more surveillance and censorship," he said. "Children have rights too and these policies will harm their free expression and privacy rights, and push them into less regulated spaces. Meanwhile the business models driving harms are untouched."

Others questioned whether the measures can realistically be enforced. Mark Jones, an online harms specialist and partner at law firm Payne Hicks Beach, noted that the consultation closed only weeks ago and warned that determined teenagers have a habit of finding ways around restrictions.

"A social media ban only helps if it is genuinely enforceable," Jones said. "If large numbers of young people simply circumvent the restrictions, parents will just lose visibility into where their children are actually spending time online rather than reclaiming any control."

The political case for the crackdown appears relatively straightforward, but the practical one is less so. The government now has to persuade social media companies to enforce the rules and teenagers not to find ways around them."

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/15/britain-plots-digital-bedtime-after-kicking-under-16s-off-social-media/5255341

#UK #AgeVerification #NannyState #Surveillance #Oligopolies #Censorship #BigBrother #BigTech #Privacy #Anonymity

The Zine from 404media About ICE Surveillance Is Here!

https://www.404media.co/icezine/

"You are holding a zine about the surveillance tools used by ICE, and what we have learned so far about how you can resist this technology.

This zine was reported and written by 404 Media, a journalist-owned investigative website and now, we suppose, a print publication. Our status as a small outfit of reporters who own the means of production (a website), means that we have the freedom to report on the topics we believe are the most important. For the last year, that has been Donald Trumpʼs mass deportation
campaign, and the technology powering it."

PDF Zine: https://www.404media.co/content/files/2026/02/404ICEZINE.pdf

#Zine #Surveillance #USA #ICE #Tech #Technology

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” the document reads.

#Meta considered adding facial recognition #technology to the first version of its Ray-Ban smart glasses back in 2021, but dropped the plans over technical challenges and ethical concerns. The NYT reports that the company has revived its plans as the #Trump administration has grown closer to Big Tech, and following the unexpected success of its smart glasses."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/meta-plans-to-add-facial-recognition-to-its-smart-glasses-report-claims/

#BigTech #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #FaceID

‚Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives…..‘

https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything

#Meta #Surveillance #Privacy #RayBan #SmartGlasses #Data #Technology

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“australia's #surveillance act after 6 months: not working
starmer wanker: let's do the same shit like #australia but with more strictness. it surely will work.

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“We might finally end this #surveillance monstrosity after all. 😎

Trump says FISA extension must...”

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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.

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The UK government has adopted the Boris Johnson clown car. They've just announced a ban on under 16s accessing social media.

But, they have not first understood the implications of age verification on everyone else:

"The regulator #Ofcom has been asked to carry out a rapid study to identify the best ways to verify if someone is over 16. "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqdny4l3jdo

What utter stupidity from #KeirStarmer #LisaNandy of #UKLabour. If only Ofcom regulated the companies.

#surveillance #privacy #av

Y’all know self-driving robotaxis are rolling surveillance machines, right?

You think they’re not operating license plate/facial recognition readers on these rolling camera outfits? There’s money to be made selling video footage and search access this data to “law enforcement”. Selling #surveillance is how these things continue to make money even without passengers inside.

#cars #robotaxi

https://sfist.com/2022/05/12/report-sfpd-already-using-surveillance-video-from-self-driving-cars/

Surveillance has harmful effects on cognition and identity - deeper research and social knowledge is needed to foster healthy communities.

#ai #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #socialmedia #blackposts #darkpatterns #privacy #privacymatters

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Text describes the harmful effects of surveillance on cognition, identity and mental health.

@cxiao Why does this also feel like it's a massive backdoor being shoved into everything. (See eg; Indian surveillance smartphone app that thankfully got quashed, North Korean OS, etc.) #surveillance

I think people react more to flock cameras because they are relatively big (thus appear menacing).

The cellular radio hidden by the manufacturer inside your car... not so much. If the cams/mics are small, then people don't seem to care.

The psychology around this is interesting, though seldom explored.
#surveillance #iot #flock

Le Monde's research showed ad data from smartphone SDKs. #DataBrokers can expose identities and daily movements of police, military, and intelligence personnel… sold by data brokers from everyday apps. If those people can get exposed, everyone can. Mitigation below! Read: https://proton.me/blog/ad-tech-privacy #Privacy #DataBrokers 🛰️📱#Security #Surveillance #MassSurveillance

#tldr "…What can you do about it?
There’s no way to stop all kinds of tracking, but you can take the following actions to reduce the granularity of the datasets collected:

Turn off location services(new window) when not in use and deny apps location permissions.
Use a VPN(new window) to hide your real IP address. DNS filtering features such as Proton VPN’s NetShield Ad-blocker(new window) can also help bock ad and tracker scripts.
Delete your advertising ID on Android (Settings → Google → All services → Ads → Privacy and security → Ads → Delete advertising ID). iPhones don’t provide this option."

Use GrapheneOS without Google

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screenshot of how to delete advertising ids, OCR'd text: " Delete your advertising ID on Android (Settings —- Google — All services — Ads — Privacy and security —- Ads — Delete advertising ID). iPhones don't provide this option. <€ Manage the info used to show you ads and measure ad performance Reset advertising ID This generates a new advertising ID that apps can use from now on Delete advertising ID Apps can no longer use this advertising ID to show you personalised ads @ These settings help you control what data advertisers can use to show you ads Advertising ID: daa08b66-6b6c-4876-a283-d4e53064c155, Learn more about advertising |D" Quote: "Delete your advertising ID on Android (Settings → Google → All services → Ads → Privacy and security → Ads → Delete advertising ID). iPhones don’t provide this option. "

😎 New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses

｢ Europe's privacy concerns risk spoiling the rollout of Meta's eye-catching flagship product in the region. That could annoy the U.S. administration, which has long complained that EU laws and regulations unfairly target U.S. technology companies. ｣

https://www.politico.com/www.politico.eu/article/new-privacy-frontier-europe-eyes-crackdown-smart-glasses/

#meta #privacy #eu #smartglasses #surveillance

You can't encrypt your physical face. So how do you fight back when police treat a flawed AI guess as divine truth?

Episode 28 of Impractical Privacy is out NOW.

🎧 Stream telemetry-free: https://ImpracticalPrivacy.com
#Privacy #FacialRecognition #MassSurveillance #Podcast #DigitalPrivacy #PhyiscalPrivacy #Police #PoliceTech #Surveillance #SurveillanceState #ImpracticalPrivacy #PrivacyTools #PrivacyMatters #DigitalSelfDefence

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#C22Debate
#ClientSideScanning
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pettet8/116742131579090788

“Google was a different company 9 years ago.”

Hmm… was it, though? 🤔

https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie

#google #BigTech #peopleFarming #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #meaCulpa