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“"[Clarifai's] access violated OkCupid’s own privacy policy, the FTC alleged, since it didn’t give users a chance to opt out of their data being shared."
https://www.theverge.com/policy/903999/okcupid-settles-claims-it-sh...”

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“Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone
https://alecmuffett.com/article/153062
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #irony #surveillance

Age ...”

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Grab a copy of your favourite open source OS and archive it locally.

Because in future it will become infested with LLM code and biometric exfiltration malware.

#opensource #privacy #surveillance #security #AIslop #llm

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Slackware cd rom

Traffic Violation! License Plate Reader Mission Creep Is Already Here

Flock now lists six different companies providing traffic enforcement technology on its “Partner program” site. Public records also show that speed enforcement cameras have been connected to Flock's ALPR network.

#flocksafety #alpr #surveillance #privacy #police #technology #tech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/traffic-violation-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-already-here

#Google and #Amazon: Acknowledged Risks, and Ignored Responsibilities

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-and-amazon-acknowledged-risks-and-ignored-responsibilities

#privacy #surveillance #ProjectNimbus #politics

Interactive timeline of warrantless surveillance in the United States:
https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/2223082/A-History-of-Warrantless-Surveillance/

#surveillance #privacy #USPol

Apple continues to roll out age verification around the world

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/31/apple-continues-to-roll-out-age-verification-around-the-world-more-uk-methods/

#Apple #iPhone #iOS #AgeVerificarion #IDVerification #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #technology

Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone https://alecmuffett.com/article/153062 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #irony #surveillance

Age Verification causing peopl...

Banger video by Benn Jordan about the wisdom of running cloud-connected (and even non-cloud-connected) surveillance cameras inside or outside your home. Lot's of things that I had not even considered.

Being outside the US I hope some of the more distopic elements apply less to me but that may be wishful thinking. Actually, let me rephrase that. I'm certain it applies "less to me" but I'm not sure by how much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMIwNiwQewQ
#surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #capitalism

Ryan Lovelace published a piece today, “Exposing the FBI’s Human Experimentation Studies,” that details how an ostensible national police force has invested in bizarre programs like taking saliva samples from twins, or developing “interrogation science” and better facial recognition technology.

As a younger reporter in the early 2000s I was surprised to learn many municipalities still funded political intelligence units descended from the infamous “red squads,” and later was stunned to find ex-con friends of Eric Garner who’d witnessed gruesome dermatological experiments at places like Holmesburg Prison in Pennsylvania. Wasn’t the era of widespread domestic spying and treating citizens like guinea pigs for goofball dreams of scientific control supposed to be over?

We’ve since learned the worst Hoover-era practices didn’t just come back, they were lapped many times over in the years since 9/11 by a vast new array of legal and illegal security state programs. One obnoxious characteristic of the era has been the way both Republicans and Democrats gobble surveillance contracting concepts, bringing us everything from Marco Rubio’s AI-powered “Catch and Revoke” program to loony truth-squadding ideas like Joe Biden’s ill-fated Disinformation Governance Board. Programs that read like paranoid science fiction when they came out, like the “Total Information Awareness” program developed by DARPA (motto scientia est potentia, or “Knowledge is Power”) seem tame next to current capabilities.

More grassroots movements to bringing awareness of creepy surveillance. New and improved with age verification tracking! #surveillance #atx #bigbrotheriswatchingyou

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A poster pasted to a high traffic underpass. With a creepy horror movie theme but with AI slop of multiple arms watching a mom with her infant. With Slogan: THE CREEP STATE 👁 is watching!

🚨 LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

｢ Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits https://linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.
The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it ｣

https://browsergate.eu/

#linkedin #privacy #surveillance

#Congress is about to renew warrantless #surveillance. And #VPN users are caught in the middle

https://proton.me/blog/fisa-702-vpn-surveillance-risk

#privacy #politics #Section702

@ChrisMayLA6 and while we're rejecting #Palantir why not cut to the source of most problems: our behavioural data being harvested by #BigTech

I set up a non-profit, the Rebel Tech Alliance, to show people all the non-spyware alternatives that they can switch to:

https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/

We have a step-by-step programme called the #BigTechWalkout 😁 Collective action we can all take individually!

#privacy #surveillance

Largest Dutch pension fund cuts ties with controversial tech firm Palantir

ABP, the Netherlands’ largest pension fund, has withdrawn from the controversial AI company Palantir, the Financieele Dagblad reported. Palantir is known to provide services to the American immigration service, ICE, and the Israeli army.

Six months ago, ABP still held €825 million in investments in Palantir. The pension fund for civil servants in the Netherlands has sold those shares, according to FD.

Palantir is globally renowned for its advanced AI data analysis software, which can combine colossal amounts of seemingly unrelated data such as online communications, DNA, fingerprints, financial transactions, travel records, contacts, and surveillance footage. The software is used by hundreds of intelligence and investigative services worldwide to track down all kinds of suspects. Amnesty International has warned multiple times that the use of Palintir’s software violates human rights.

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#palantir #ABP #ICE #USA #uspol #AI #surveillance

https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/02/largest-dutch-pension-fund-cuts-ties-controversial-tech-firm-palantir

Young people needing mental health support in the UK mustn't be funnelled through Prevent.

A system designed for surveillance exposes people to widespread data sharing that can destroy opportunities.

With data potentially retained for 25 years after their 18th birthday, Prevent worsens the mental health crisis.

https://www.ft.com/content/72fc1e1b-8f0f-41b0-adaf-cb9ed197164b?syn-25a6b1a6=1

#Prevent #dataprotection #surveillance #mentalhealth #ukpolitics #ukpol

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

CEO Sam Altman happens to head a company that provides age verification services. Probably a coincidence.

https://gizmodo.com/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-turns-out-to-be-sneakily-backed-by-openai-2000741069

#OpenAI #ChatGPT #AgeVerification #IDVerification #privacy #surveillance #technology #enshittification #dystopia

Mobile video surveillance: AI, smart city e trasporti: della Redazione La videosorveglianza mobile si conferma uno dei segmenti piu' dinamici dell'industria della sicurezza, grazie alla capacita' di offrire monitoraggio flessibile e in tempo reale in contesti operativi complessi. A differenza dei sistemi fissi, le soluzioni di mobile video surveillance...
#surveillance #videosorveglianzamobile #AI #smartcity #trasporti http://dlvr.it/TRqbw8

That creepy date isn't the only one swiping right on your dating photos

OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/okcupid-match-pay-no-fine-for-sharing-user-photos-with-facial-recognition-firm/

#OkCupid #Photos #Privacy #Security #Surveillance #FTC #Tech

"He found himself sucked into what he terms 'the algorithmic rage loop.' And he was questioning how work like his could avoid playing into that dismal phenomenon." —Brendan I. Koerner for Wired https://www.wired.com/story/opposing-ice-might-save-the-country-could-also-ruin-your-life/?src=longreads #immigration #technology #surveillance #longreads

Proton reports a 770% rise in Big Tech data requests, with Google, Apple, and Meta sharing data from millions of accounts with authorities. Centralized data collection enables disclosure, raising risks for children’s privacy and long-term digital profiles 🔍

🔗 https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-government-requests-parenting

#TechNews #Proton #BigTech #Privacy #DataRequests #Surveillance #DigitalRights #Encryption #DataProtection #Security #AI #Technology #Internet #Families #IT #Google #Apple #Meta

#AdGuard ad trackers report: What advertising-based #surveillance does to your traffic

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-ad-tracker-report-2025.html

#advertising #privacy

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#Europe #EU #Petition #Surveillance #Privacy #Genocide

Say No to Palantir in Europe”

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Governments from Australia to Canada are requiring online age verification, forcing users to share personal IDs to access content. These measures raise serious privacy, security, and freedom-of-speech risks for all users 🌐

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/global-age-verification-measures-2024-year-review

#TechNews #OnlineSafety #AgeVerification #DigitalRights #EFF #Privacy #UserControl #FOSS #InternetFreedom #Freedom #DataSecurity #Transparency #OpenSource #CyberLaw #Anonymity #Surveillance

"Over 400 Cybersecurity and Privacy Experts Warn of Digital ID Threat to Internet Security"

#surveillance #ageverification #privacy

https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/over-400-cybersecurity-and-privacy-experts-warn-of-digital-id-threat-to-internet-security/

How Thomson #Reuters Powers #ICE and #Palantir

https://www.404media.co/how-thomson-reuters-powers-ice-and-palantir/

#privacy #DataBroker #politics #surveillance

Russia's main security agency and KGB successor is expanding its sweeping surveillance powers, deepening the state's reach into economic and social life to suppress any risk of dissent to President Vladimir Putin. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/31/world/politics/kgb-successor-putin-russia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #kgb #fsb #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #surveillance

Während Robert #Habeck von den #Grünen biometrische Überwachungstechnologien liebevoll als "keine abgefahrene Spökenkiekerei" bezeichnet und von Iris-Scans und "digitalen Identitäten" schwärmt, sollte nicht vergessen werden, dass es sich bei #Biometrietechnologien um Werkzeuge handelt, die primär zur Kontroll- und Machtausübung in der Kriegsführung entwickelt und/oder verfeinert wurden, bevor sie jetzt zu einem Schlüsselinstrument im Zeitalter des #Überwachungskapitalismus werden sollen.

Gefährliche Sammelwut
@matthimon über ausufernde Biometrie-Datenbanken
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1169646.biometrie-datenbanken-gefaehrliche-sammelwut.html

Gefährliche Daten frei verkäuflich
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/afghanistan-taliban-biometrische-daten-101.html

AI Act: Bundesregierung setzt sich auf EU-Ebene für mehr Gesichtserkennung ein
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/ai-act-bundesregierung-setzt-sich-eu-ebene-fuer-mehr-gesichtserkennung-ein/
@netzpolitik_feed Recherche u.a. von @digitalcourage

#Biometrie #Afghanistan #ReclaimYourFace #Taliban #Überwachung #DigitaleTransformation #Krieg #Surveillance #DigitaleTransformation

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Iris-Scan durch US-Militär im Irak. zu sehen ist der halbe Kopf eines Mannes von einer Kamera verdeckt welche sein Auge ablichtet.

Auch in #Iran erweist sich die Erfassung biometrischer Daten, natürlich mit Hilfe deutscher Großkonzerne, als sehr hilfreich....

Iran Says Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Hijab Laws

https://www.wired.com/story/iran-says-face-recognition-will-id-women-breaking-hijab-laws/

Ohne Kopftuch droht „gnadenlose Verfolgung“
https://anfdeutsch.com/frauen/iran-ohne-kopftuch-droht-gnadenlose-verfolgung-36914

-Gesichtserkennung soll Frauen in #Hidschab zwingen-
https://tumulte.org/2022/11/articles/iran-gesichtserkennung-soll-frauen-in-hidschab-zwingen

Gesichtserkennung: #Iran nutzt #Bosch -Kameras zur Kontrolle der Kopftuchpflicht
https://emrawi.org/?Gesichtserkennung-Iran-nutzt-Bosch-Kameras-zur-Kontrolle-der-Kopftuchpflicht-2763

#Biometrie #Iran #IranRevolution #WomanLifeFreedom #surveillance #Videoüberwachung #antireport #Gesichtserkennung

Iran Says Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Hijab Laws

"Iranian women are baring their heads to protest government controls. A top official said algorithms can identify anyone flouting dress codes."

https://www.wired.com/story/iran-says-face-recognition-will-id-women-breaking-hijab-laws/

#Surveillance #Iran #Biometrie #Gesichtserkennung #Digitalisierung #WomanLifeFreedom #Antireport

Iran installs cameras in public places to identify, penalise unveiled women

"In a further attempt to rein in the increasing number of women defying Iran's compulsory dress code, authorities are installing cameras in public places and thoroughfares to identify and penalise unveiled women, the police announced on Saturday.
After they have been identified, violators will receive “warning text messages as to the consequences”, police said in a statement."

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-installs-cameras-public-places-identify-penalise-unveiled-women-police-2023-04-08/

#Iran #Repression #videosurveillance #Surveillance #socialcontroll #Biometrie #Gesichtserkennung #WomanLifeFreedom #Antireport #faceID #reclaimyourface

Überwachung mit «Safe City» :
Nowhere to hide
Es gibt keinen Ort, um sich zu verstecken

"Ob in Ghana, Serbien oder Ecuador: Das vernetzte Kamerasystem des chinesischen Techkonzerns Huawei kontrolliert Städte auf der ganzen Welt. Ermöglicht es den Regierungen bald eine lückenlose Überwachung inklusive Gesichtserkennung?
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«Nowhere to hide» – kein Ort, um sich zu verstecken: Mit diesem Versprechen preist der chinesische Techkonzern Huawei auf seiner Website sogenannte «Safe City»-Lösungen an. Dank intelligenter Kamerasysteme und der passenden Analysesoftware soll es möglich sein, Städte oder gar ganze Länder sicher zu machen – oder zumindest sicherer....."

https://www.woz.ch/2249/ueberwachung-mit-safe-city/es-gibt-keinen-ort-um-sich-zu-verstecken/!1X7A0YFDHY1M

#SmartCity #Smart #Huawei #Digitalisierung #Überwachung #DigitaleTransformation #Autoritarisierung #Biometrie #Gesichtserkennung #Surveillance

Police seize on COVID-19 tech to expand global surveillance

"In the pandemic’s bewildering early days, millions worldwide believed government officials who said they needed confidential data for new tech tools that could help stop coronavirus’ spread. In return, governments got a firehose of individuals’ private health details, photographs that captured their facial measurements and their home addresses.

Now, from Beijing to Jerusalem to Hyderabad, India, and Perth, Australia, The Associated Press has found that authorities used these technologies and data to halt travel for activists and ordinary people, harass marginalized communities and link people’s health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools. In some cases, data was shared with spy agencies."

https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-covid-19-3f3f348d176bc7152a8cb2dbab2e4cc4

#surveillance #Covid19 #Autoritarisierung #Pandemie #Digitalisierung #Corona #antireport #Überwachung #DigitaleTransformation #Technology #Tech #SurveillanceCapitalism

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Gloomy picture shows several flashing cameras on a wall of a house

#Clearview #AI used nearly 1m times by US police

"Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC.
Clearview's system allows a law enforcement customer to upload a photo of a face and find matches in a database of billions of images it has collected.
It then provides links to where matching images appear online. It is considered one of the most powerful and accurate facial recognition companies in the world."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011

#Surveillance #faceID #Überwachung #police #netzpolitik #antireport #reclaimyourface