Because we know that there is no backdoor for the good guys only! 

Help us fight for Canadian's privacy & say no to this surveillance bill.  

Send a letter to reject Bill C-22 here 👉 https://www.internetsociety.org/our-work/internet-policy/keep-canada-protected/

#Canada #CanadaBill #Surveillance 

🛡️ FBI Plans Nationwide License Plate Data Access, Sparking Privacy Debate

The FBI aims to access a vast network of license plate cameras across the US, prompting privacy concerns and legal challenges.

https://www.byte-pulse.net/article/fbi-plans-nationwide-license-plate-data-access-sparking-privacy-debate

#FBI #licenseplate #privacy #surveillance

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FBI Plans Nationwide License Plate Data Access, Sparking Privacy Debate

🚨 Your BitLocker might not be locking anything.

A new zero-day called "YellowKey" bypasses default Windows encryption with just a USB stick and a key press. The researcher who found it calls it a backdoor. Microsoft has no patch yet.

On tomorrow's Impractical Privacy: how the exploit works, why default security failed you, and the steps to fix it right now.

Listen: ImpracticalPrivacy.com

#BitLocker #Privacy #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #Windows11 #Microsoft #DigitalPrivacy #Surveillance

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Image is AI generated.

AI is making it very easy for the government to spy on you. Some lawmakers are worried

Privacy advocates have long sought to require warrants for searches of Americans’ data swept into the databases powered by Section 702 and curated by data brokers.

#FISA #artificialintelligence #AI #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ai-making-easy-government-spy-lawmakers-are-worried-rcna341499

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/

#ALPR #privacy #surveillance #Flock #Motorola #FlockSafety

Your #Privacy Shouldn't Be A #Corporate Decision

#Meta isn't the only company actively eroding your privacy. We found that #Google has broken its promise to some users to inform them about government #surveillance. And #Palantir is completely failing to live up to its purported human rights commitments.

Corporations bear responsibility for violating user trust and human rights, and @eff is holding them accountable with your support.
#humanriights

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/your-privacy-shouldnt-be-corporate-decision

We Must Not Normalize Digital #Surveillance Abuses. #EFF’s New Guide Underlines Concrete Steps to Fight Back.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/we-must-not-normalize-digital-surveillance-abuses-effs-new-guide-underlines

#privacy #guide

Ontario police are using spyware that lets them remotely take over your smartphone. They’re fighting to keep almost everything about it secret
Original: https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/ontario-police-are-using-spyware-that-lets-them-remotely-take-over-your-smartphone-theyre-fighting-to-keep-almost-everything-about-it-secret/article_56ef6906-4008-48ec-8b4c-d56e57a00ea5.html
Archived: https://archive.is/9PMwF
#Surveillance #ONPoli #CDNPoli #ACAB

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/

#privacy #ALPR #surveillance #politics #NewYork

Disney is increasingly becoming the least magical place on Earth.

Disney faces a class action lawsuit over facial recognition tech - Engadget

https://www.engadget.com/2176016/disney-faces-a-class-action-lawsuit-over-facial-recognition-tech/

#Disney #ClassAction #Lawsuit #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #Privacy #Tech

Key Privacy Updates:
• US: AI oversight tightens, press freedom at 25yr low
• EU: Data storage mandates spark transatlantic friction
• Russia/China: Privacy tools face scrutiny & controls
#DigitalRights #Surveillance #CorporateGovernance
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Disney Hit With Class Action Over Facial Recognition Technology at Park Entrances
#surveillance

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-class-action-lawsuit-facial-recognition-disneyland-1236598890/?shem=dsdf,sharefoc,agadiscoversdl,,sh/x/discover/m1/4

"When states or tech companies invoke the language of scientific objectivity or technological inevitability—“the science is clear”; “the data show”— these phrases launder inherently political decisions about who gets what and how into the seemingly neutral register of technical necessity. But science does not, by its nature, dictate policy nor any next social arrangements. The sleight of hand that claims political choices are dictated by science operates differently in Washington and Beijing but it operates in both places. In the US, the language of inevitability is market-inflected and imperial: AI will transform everything, the race must be won, regulation is a luxury that only the losing side can afford. In China, the language is developmental and civilizational: AI is a productive force, its diffusion is a historical necessity, its deployment by the state is an extension of the Party’s mandate to make the country secure and steer society toward its flourishing.

In much Western discourse, political responsibility for the social consequences of AI is quietly evacuated under the banners of historical inevitability, technical complexity, and geopolitical necessity—what the German sociologist Ulrich Beck famously described as the “organized irresponsibility” of risk management. In China, by contrast, the Party’s absolute primacy over society mechanically assigns it the ownership of such outcomes (...) In the Chinese political imaginary, AI is not an uncontrollable force but an instrument whose effects on society the Party is understood to ultimately own.
(...)
AI built outside of authoritarian systems can also produce authoritarian effects. It confers on any state astonishing—almost irresistible—capacities for surveillance and social control.
(...)
With AI, the surveillance state and surveillance capitalism are no longer merely compatible; they are rapidly converging and reinforcing one another."

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/shooting-the-suns/

#AI #Surveillance #Privacy #China #USA

"The problem isn’t that OpenAI is necessarily going to behave badly. The problem is that we are building systems whose usefulness increases the more intimate the data we give them, and whose economic value increases the better they can infer our intentions. Financial personalization can be extraordinarily beneficial, but it can also become the most sophisticated form of business segmentation ever invented. A searcher knew what you wanted to find. A social network knew what made you react. A financial assistant will know what you can afford.

And then there is Plaid. A widespread fintech infrastructure, in 2021 it accepted a $58 million class action privacy, data uses and transparency settlement, although it did not involve an admission of guilt. Today Plaid offers services to manage connections and erase data, but the precedent reminds us of something basic: in finance trust is about more than policy statements.

The regulatory dimension also matters. The Consumer Finance Protection Board’s open banking rules aim to give users more control over their financial data, facilitate portability, and prevent unwanted secondary uses, including the use of financial data for targeted advertising unrelated to the requested service. That’s the right direction: that the user can move their data, yes, but under clear constraints of purpose, retention, security, and liability."

https://medium.com/enrique-dans/chatgpt-for-personal-finance-digital-banking-meets-surveillance-capitalism-24531f363147

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection

Stalled surveillance bill highlights tension between privacy and public safety | Capitol News Illinois https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/stalled-surveillance-bill-highlights-tension-between-privacy-and-public-safety/
#surveillance #Illinois

https://www.404media.co/researchers-wanted-preschool-teachers-to-wear-cameras-to-train-ai/

University of Washington researchers wanted preschool teachers to wear body cameras that recorded everything from the teacher’s perspective, including the kids, so the footage could be used to train AI models. Instead of requiring explicit consent, parents had to opt OUT.

The idea that recording preschoolers for AI training should be the default is genuinely disturbing. Privacy and consent apparently just don’t matter anymore

#Privacy #AI #Surveillance #DigitalRights

Du néolibéralisme à l’illibéralisme : la crise du futur devient un ordre autoritaire

De Beckert à Ward, en passant par Davies, Hendrikse et Scheiring & Szombati, un même diagnostic se dessine : quand le néolibéralisme perd sa promesse d’avenir, il ne disparaît pas, il se recompose en sécurité, souveraineté, surveillance et autoritarisme. #security #sovereignty #surveillance #authoritarianism #neoliberalism #illiberalism #politics L’ensemble des études discutées ici…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/du-neoliberalisme-a-lilliberalisme-la-crise-du-futur-devient-un-ordre-autoritaire/

Yarbo robot mower live surveillance "attack scenario"

https://github.com/Bin4ry/yarbo-nat-in-my-back-yard#attack-scenarios

#IOT #Surveillance #Privacy #Yarbo

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Why I'm publishing this directly Usually something like this would start with responsible disclosure: reach out to the manufacturer, give them a chance to fix it before it goes public. In this case, the manufacturer put the NAT punching backdoor on the robot on purpose. They even documented the remote access on their own wiki. When I reached out voicing my concerns, got a canned support response. A further follow up from me resulted in a response saying "all is secure and the remote connection capability is not permanently enabled and cannot be accessed by any third parties.", my response to this was that i feel the company has a huge disconnect in understanding security isues and i will continue with further steps according to rfpolicy. Read Yarbo's full emails in the section "What Yarbo tells users (and what it doesn't)".

A #security researcher says #Microslop secretly built a #backdoor into #BitLocker, releases an #exploit to prove it

#YellowKey exploit bypasses BitLocker full volume #encryption via USB stick and WinRE

https://www.techspot.com/news/112410-security-researcher-microsoft-secretly-built-backdoor-bitlocker-releases.html

#Microsoft #Windows11 #technology #privacy #surveillance

Modern vehicles had already become “rolling surveillance devices” by the beginning of this decade. But that’s just the start. Much more dystopian tech is in the pipeline.

"This may not be the Nuremberg trial, but we all know that the excuse of “following orders” is not an alibi when you know what you are doing. And everybody at Meta knew what they were doing. They knew they were designing systems to maximize engagement that polarized society. They knew this when they turned privacy into an exploitable variable. They knew it when the evidence mounted up on the harm Instagram was causing. They knew this when the platform became an infrastructure of propaganda, hatred and manipulation. And they knew this because many of these damages were documented, denounced and discussed inside and outside the company.

And now the same machinery is beginning to be applied inwards. Meta employees who for years helped surveil, profile, and exploit billions of users now discover that they too can be monitored, measured and turned into training data. As The New York Times notes with more than a hint of irony, Meta’s embrace of AI is making its employees miserable”.

Let’s be clear, Meta’s workforce have not had a Damascene moment: It’s something more human and more uncomfortable: the belated realization that the system they helped build had no limits, it just hadn’t come for them yet."

https://edans.medium.com/e7bb510a9127

#Meta #SocialMedia #Surveillance #Capitalism #Privacy #DataProtection

@EUCommission Age verification [sic] is surveillance, and puts LGBTQI+ people at risk, especially younger people.

Just an FYI, for Uschi.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#IDAHO #IDAHOBIT #Surveillance #DigitalSurveillance

RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@arichtman/116583583697455397

cue Admiral Akbar’s IT’S A TRAP dot jiff

#honeypot #infosec #surveillance #finance

""The European Union has failed to prevent member states from exporting surveillance technology to governments with well-documented histories of using technology to spy on activists, journalists, and other critical voices, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The European Commission should strengthen its implementation of EU regulations on the export of cybersurveillance technology to ensure that European technology is not facilitating rights abuses around the world.

The 54-page report, “Looking the Other Way: EU Failure to Prevent Surveillance Exports to Rights Violators,” assesses how the EU’s landmark Dual-Use Regulation, adopted in 2021, is functioning in practice. The regulation was intended, in part, to prevent the export of dual-use technologies—those that may be used for both civilian and military purposes, including commercial surveillance technology—to places where they are likely to be used to violate international humanitarian or human rights law. But that goal is not being achieved because it is not being implemented effectively.

“The EU is currently doing too little to prevent the export of surveillance technology from its member states to governments who are likely to use it to crack down on dissent,” said Zach Campbell, senior surveillance researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The European Commission should take urgent action to change this and provide much needed transparency for surveillance exports.”"

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/05/12/european-union-surveillance-technology-sold-to-rights-violators

#EU #Surveillance #Privacy #HumanRights

TechNadu spoke with Jillian C. York from EFF about internet shutdowns, surveillance, metadata exposure, and digital safety during conflict situations.

“Digital security is about reducing risk, not eliminating it.”

📖 Read:
https://www.technadu.com/internet-safety-during-war-eff-expert-guidance/627918/

#CyberSecurity #DigitalRights #InternetFreedom #EFF #Surveillance #InfoSec

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Internet Shutdowns and Surveillance in War Zones: What Experts Want You to Understand

That free online tool is tracking you – here’s how it works

https://anonyome.com/resources/blog/free-online-tools-tracking/

#privacy #surveillance

🔬 Russia Joins GEO Spy Satellite Race

The US, China, and Russia are all stepping up their satellite surveillance in geosynchronous orbit. It's a crowded, tense new space race.

https://byte-pulse.net/article/russia-joins-geo-spy-satellite-race

#satellites #space #geo #surveillance

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Russia Joins GEO Spy Satellite Race

Makes more surveillance possible.
#surveillance #surveillancecapitalism

Five years after WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy update, the service continues sharing user data with Meta for advertising and service personalization. 📊
Metadata, including communication patterns and social connections, enables detailed user profiling even without message content. 🔒

🔗 https://threema.com/en/blog/deletewhatsappday-more-relevant-than-ever

#TechNews #WhatsApp #Meta #Policy #Data #FOSS #Encryption #Advertising #Ad #SocialMedia #Social #Messaging #OpenSource #DigitalRights #AI #AdTech #Privacy #Surveillance #Freedom