Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.

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Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC 👇

“"Civil rights authorities like surveillance technology expert Albert Fox Cahn have long warned about the use of location data by government officials looking to track people’s movements and crack down on civil rights."

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https://bsky.app/profile/stopspyingny.bsky.social/post/3mhqdhdgii22m

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FBI director Kash Patel confirmed the agency buys commercially available location data to track Americans, bypassing warrants and raising constitutional privacy concerns 📍

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Cybersecurity #Data #Security #DigitalRights #Freedom #Law #Government #BigData #Tech #Policy #Rights #DataProtection

Congress Is Dropping the Ball with a Clean Extension of #FISA

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/congress-dropping-ball-clean-extension-fisa

#privacy #politics #surveillance

RE: https://digipres.club/@dsalo/116279321909878298

“As the research went on, I began noticing how much #surveillance already shaped my own routines. Facial recognition unlocks my phone. Photos are automatically tagged with location #data. Social media platforms track what I watch, like, and come back to — usually better than I do. I had accepted these #systems without much thought, telling myself, this is just how things work.”

OpenAI’s safety pledges in the wake of Tumbler Ridge aren’t AI regulation — they’re surveillance
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #AI #Surveillance #Privacy #Canada #Regulation #CivilLiberties #AIEthics #DataPrivacy #Tech #Government #DigitalRights #Accountability #Policy
https://the-14.com/openais-safety-pledges-in-the-wake-of-tumbler-ridge-arent-ai-regulation-theyre-surveillance/

A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support #Trump’s Spy Machine

https://www.wired.com/story/a-top-democrat-is-urging-colleagues-to-support-trumps-spy-machine/

#surveillance #privacy #politics #JimHimes #Section702

The Online ID Check Situation is Crazy #Privacy #Security #Surveillance #AgeIDCheck #MetalOutlaw #yt

https://youtu.be/hiMqdYh9LNU

GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information

Doesn’t care if its devices can’t be sold in regions that require ID verification.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws

#GrapheneOS #AgeVerification #IDVerification #privacy #surveillance #technology

A global map of mass surveillance programs

https://negativepid.blog/a-global-map-of-mass-surveillance-programs/

#surveillance #FiveEyes #privacy #dataSecurity #dataPrivacy #compliance #governance #Europe #US #dataRegulations #onlinePrivacy #negativepid

How the FBI can conduct mass surveillance – even without AI
#surveillance #privacy #fbi

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/fbi-mass-surveillance-data-artificial-intelligence

GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information
#grapheneos #android #privacy #surveillance #technology

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws

Age verification is here to stay
Age verification will replace you
Implement age verification or you'll be left behind

#ageverification #ai #privacy #surveillance #opensource

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

they prevent all young people from finding community online, and that they violate young people and adults' First Amendment rights.

#ageverification #surveillance #privacy #censorship #freespeech #technology #tech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/fbi_patel_location_data/

#FBI buys tracking data?

Great

Oh look in the same day
#Microsoft #teams says it is helpfully updating #location

#surveillance #privacy #security #snooping #sneakyBarStewards

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A Top #Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s #Spy Machine

Congressman #JimHimes claims a sweeping #surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by #KashPatel 's #FBI , according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED.
#privacy #security

> an #authoritarian administration loves to #abuse surveillance. Either he’s not looking or I start wondering if they have something on him

https://www.wired.com/story/a-top-democrat-is-urging-colleagues-to-support-trumps-spy-machine/

Mark Zuckerberg really can’t be bothered to pretend to be a good guy anymore.

Meta kills its end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs so it can mine ever more personal & private information so they can sell you things you don’t need.

Be wary of how you communicate on any Meta apps even WhatsApp.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-danger-behind-metas-decision-to-kill-end-to-end-encrypted-instagram-dms/

#BigTech #RootesNews #meta #fascism #privacy #surveillance

#FBI is buying #location data to track #US citizens, director confirms
When asked by Sen #RonWyden, if FBI would commit to not buying Americans’ location data, Patel said that agency “uses all tools … to do our mission.”
“We do purchase commercially available information that is consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act — and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us,” Patel testified Wed.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/
#privacy #surveillance

#Walmart Wins Patents To Give Algorithms More Sway Over Prices

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/19/0430224/walmart-wins-patents-to-give-algorithms-more-sway-over-prices

#SurveillancePricing #privacy #AI #surveillance #finance

#FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/

#privacy #politics #surveillance

Series: "Made in America, Watched Worldwide"

"Across the world, surveillance technology – often made by Silicon Valley and sold with the U.S. government’s blessing despite sanctions – is increasingly monitoring the moves of citizens who have done nothing wrong. The consequences of getting caught in this expanding digital cage can be dire..."
https://apnews.com/surveillance-digital-cage v @yaelwrites, et al.
#surveillance #DigitalSurveillance #tech #technology

The #Pentagon is developing alternatives to #Anthropic

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/the-pentagon-is-developing-alternatives-to-anthropic-report-says/

#politics #AI #privacy #surveillance #cybersecurity

"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc

#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon

"When powerful surveillance systems exist without strong, enforceable audit protocols and independent oversight, the risk of abuse is not theoretical — it is foreseeable."
– – Letter from Milwaukee Common Council President José Pérez and Alders Marina Dimitrijevic, Alex Brower, and Sharlen Moore to the Fire and Police Commission.

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/03/15/police-misuse-of-flock-surveillance-becoming-statewide-issue/

#Wisconsin #surveillance #Flock

"Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Smart glasses are a trendy item that relies on cameras to feed AI models and to answer queries. However, while this is viewed as a fun feature by many and a way to film their life in a hands-free way, it's still a massive privacy issue if not used correctly.

An investigation by Svenska Dagbladet on February 27 looked into the workings of the Meta Ray-Ban partnership and its AI glasses. It found that the footage is collected and seen by many eyes, including human trainers of AI.

Anonymous sources from a company in Nairobi, Kenya revealed that they have seen footage of people at their most private and vulnerable — times when the users of Meta's smart glasses would rather not have the cameras rolling."

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/03/03/what-privacy-as-expected-meta-ray-bans-are-a-privacy-disaster

#Surveillance #Privacy #Meta #SmartGlasses #RayBan