A Tale of Two Bills: Lawful Access Returns With Changes to #Warrantless Access But Dangerous #Backdoor #Surveillance Risks Remain

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/a-tale-of-two-bills-lawful-access-returns-with-changes-to-warrantless-access-but-dangerous-backdoor-surveillance-risks-remains/

#privacy #Canada #politics #MassSurveillance

How to ditch Ring’s surveillance network
- Opt out of a cloud subscription
- Turn off AI and facial recognition
- Turn off Search Party
- Opt out of Community Requests.
- Enable end-to-end encryption

#ring #surveillance #privacy #artificialintelligence #AI #facialrecognition #biometrics #searchparty #enryption #technology #tech

https://www.theverge.com/tech/890910/best-ring-alternatives-privacy-focused-video-doorbell-local-storage-reolink-aqara-tapo-ecobee

Policiers et gendarmes utilisent un outil de surveillance de façon illégale, selon Disclose, qui évoque le chiffre ahurissant de 2 500 consultations quotidiennes au mépris de la loi. "Quand des policiers peuvent photographier qui ils veulent pour savoir qui est qui, c’est un renversement de l’État de droit. On bascule dans un État policier ou de surveillance de masse " https://disclose.ngo/fr/article/la-reconnaissance-faciale-deployee-a-grande-echelle-sur-les-telephones-des-forces-de-lordre

#Politique #Police #justice #Surveillance #Gendarmerie #TAJ #IPGN #Interieur #Securite #Liberte

https://proton.me/blog/pokemon-go-ai-robots

Pokémon Go data including pictures, are now being used to train AI systems that help robots navigate cities with high precision.

This highlights serious privacy issues around how user-generated data is repurposed, whether consent was truly informed, and how location data can be used beyond its original intent.

#Privacy #AI #Surveillance #DigitalRights #Security

New car surveillance tech becomes mandatory by 2027, using infrared cameras to monitor driver sobriety and alertness with privacy and cost concerns.

Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s #AI #surveillance ambitions
Records show #DHS tech incubator spending large sums on partnerships that would expand surveillance capabilities
Iincluding automated surveillance in #airports; adapters allowing agents to use phones for biometric scanning; and an AI platform that ingests all 911 call data nationally and builds “geospatial heat maps” to “predict incident trends”, which appears to be a form of predictive policing.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/15/hacked-data-homeland-security

📢 A new colleague joins the CDT Europe team!

🌟 Rand Hammoud is the new Director of the Security, Surveillance and Human Rights Programme.

Previously at Access Now, she is an expert on #spyware, targeted #surveillance and the protection of human rights.

Excited to have her on board!

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Rand Hammoud in front of CDT Europe's banner.

Meta, lobbying, dark money, surveillance and age verification

It has all the doings of a dark fantasy, unfortunately it is not

https://tboteproject.com/

#IT #Surveillance #AgeVerification #Meta #Lobbying #Democracy #DemocracyUndone

Meta Is Turning Its Smart Glasses Into A Mass Surveillance Tool… And You Can’t Stop It
#surveillance

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/15/meta-is-turning-its-smart-glasses-into-a-mass-surveillance-tool-and-you-cant-stop-it/

Before we spend the next trance of billions of dollars we don't have on eroding civil rights, could we at least ask, what the result of the last trainload of money was? Somehow, all this surveillance money does very little in stopping terrorism.
#surveillance #AI #terrorism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/15/hacked-data-homeland-security

"Online age verification"?

You need to know this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260313090844/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

tl,dr: ALL of the online age verification bills being presented in multiple states right now were written by Meta, which spent huge amounts of money to get them before legislatures, and they create a pervasive #surveillance layer within the operating system which allows anything running on your computer to query the age bracket of whoever is using the computer at any time, for any reason.

Compare this to what the EU built. The EU Digital Identity Wallet under eIDAS 2.0 is open-source, self-hostable, and uses zero-knowledge proofs. You can prove you're over 18 without revealing your birth date, your name, or anything else. No per-check fees, no proprietary SDKs, no data going to a vendor's cloud. The EU's Digital Services Act puts age verification obligations on Very Large Online Platforms (45M+ monthly users), not on operating systems. FOSS projects that don't act as intermediary services are explicitly outside scope. Micro and small enterprises get additional exemptions.

Federal Right To #Privacy Act

The Solution: A Comprehensive Privacy Bill

The bill imposes hard limits on #surveillance , hidden collection, #coercive “consent,” brokered data trafficking, and government circumvention of what should be a lawful process balancing #freedom with evidence of wrongdoing. It restores rule-based protections people can understand and courts can enforce.

https://righttoprivacyact.github.io/

Canada's Bill C-22 Mandates Mass Metadata Surveillance of Canadians

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-reading

#HackerNews #Canada #Bill #C-22 #Metadata #Surveillance #Privacy #Rights

EU Parliament approved extending Chat Control scanning until August 2027 but now mandates targeted, proportional measures that exclude end-to-end encrypted chats 🛡️.

This protects private communications from mass surveillance as CSAR negotiations test EU commitment to user privacy rights 🔒

🔗 https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/chat-control-eu-parliament-said-no-to-big-tech-mass-surveillance-of-your-chats-but-the-battle-for-privacy-isnt-done

#TechNews #Privacy #EU #Europe #Encryption #ChatControl #Security #DigitalRights #Surveillance #DataProtection #UserFreedom #Technology #Regulation #CivilLiberties #FOSS #OpenSource

US Lawmakers Move to Kill the #FBI’s Warrantless #Wiretap Access

https://www.wired.com/story/us-lawmakers-move-to-kill-the-fbis-warrantless-wiretap-access/

#politics #surveillance #Section702

Instagram will remove end‑to‑end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026 🔓.

Without E2EE, private messages could become accessible for data analysis or AI training, raising serious privacy and user‑trust concerns 🤔.

🔗 https://proton.me/blog/instagram-end-to-end-encryption

#TechNews #Facebook #Instagram #Meta #Privacy #Encryption #Security #DataProtection #SocialMedia #Chat #Policy #AI #Surveillance #UserRights #FOSS #DigitalRights #Technology #E2EE

Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions | US news | The Guardian
#AI #surveillance #technology

https://share.google/gUF8Q5YLOhbCEmNz5

Federal #Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New #Cars by 2027
Of course just for safety!

Infrared cameras and sensors will monitor eye movement and alertness in all new passenger vehicles starting 2026-2027

https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-in-new-cars-by-2027

‚Thanks to Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, NHTSA must finalize rules forcing all new passenger vehicles to include “advanced impaired driving prevention technology”—essentially turning your dashboard into a judgment-free zone that’s anything but judgment-free…‘

#Tech #Technology #Data #Privacy #Antireport

Cars as Cameras

A short overview of #Tesla #surveillance features and lessons for attack.

„Most expect to be captured on video when walking through downtown streets, which are often littered with traditional types of security cameras, such as the dome cameras, bullet cameras, or the newer remote controlled PTZ (Point, Tilt, Zoom) cameras. Previously, this was less expected in residential neighborhoods, which now have an increasing amount of home surveillance systems like Amazon’s Ring or Google Nest cameras.

Police departments have seized on the increasing popularity of these devices and struck deals with their parent companies to directly incorporate them into existing surveillance networks and access data without the knowledge or permission of the camera owner. Some doorbell style cameras offer forms of audio surveillance as well…
(...)
Even without being bugged, almost every modern car contains technology that logs your trips (and much more) and can be easily accessed by law enforcement."

https://anarchistnews.org/content/cars-cameras

#Data #Privacy #Musk #Technology #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillanceCapitalism

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picture shows several partly burned out teslas

Hacked data🚨from the #DHS tech incubator spending large sums on ptnshps that'd expand #surveillance capabilities with #AI,

The projects at the OIP incl🚨AUTOMATED SURVEILLANCE in a/ps; adapters allowing agents to use phones for biometric scanning; & an AI platf *ingests all 911 call data nat & blds “geospatial heat maps” to “predict incident trends” appears to be *predictive policing. "Tech-washing”: racially biased policing methods give the appear of objectivity.
#USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/15/hacked-data-homeland-security

deeply disturbing... and according to the local story linked here, she lost her home, car, and dog while locked up

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

#AI #surveillance #FacialRecognition

Larry Ellison is quickly climbing in the #Billionaires I wish didn't exist standings.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/oracle_ai_mass_surveillance_cloud/

https://youtu.be/sQqQtgRdjZU

https://youtu.be/tdXqs_cHi6k

#LarryEllison #Oracle #AI #Surveillance #PoliceState

"When we decline to monitor and be monitored, we reclaim a slice of the sovereignty tech companies have stolen from us" — Tatum Hunter.

Powerful wake-up call: Rejecting surveillance rebuilds the private space where real trust grows. 🛡️

@tatumhunter
@washingtonpost

#Privacy #Security #DigitalSovereignty #Surveillance #Tech #TechEthics #Tracking #Data #Trust

A redditor (Ok_Lingonberry3296) traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 states to figure out who's behind the age verification bills.

The answer is Meta - a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.

Page: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file

Page backup: https://archive.ph/2026.03.13-193015/https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file

Reddit discussion: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313143853/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

#Meta #Facebook #AgeVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #socialmedia #technology

The Government Must Not Force Companies to Participate in #AI-powered #Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/government-must-not-force-companies-participate-ai-powered-surveillance

#politics #privacy

Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled

Large volumes of sensitive identity data can become targets for government demands and hackers. But at a more fundamental level, the surveillance strikes at the foundation of the free and open internet

#ageverification #surveillance #privacy #FirstAmendment #technology #tech

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html

🗃️ ARCHIVE : « Refusons la surveillance biométrique » (2023)
Il y a 3 ans, la France s'enfonçait déjà dans une dystopie de surveillance inquiétante…
▶️ https://grisebouille.net/refusons-la-surveillance-biometrique/
#BD #GriseBouille #satire #surveillance #dystopie #vidéosurveillance

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La VSA, c'est la vidéosurveillance accompagnée d'algorithmes qui analysent les corps et les comportements pour détecter des personnes « suspectes ». Geekette : « C'est un peu comme Big Brother, mais… » Gee : « Mais quoi ? » Geekette : « Non rien. C'est carrément Big Brother, en fait. » Smiley : « Quand 1984 cesse d'être un exemple de dérive possible mais un exemple tout court, ça pue. »

The problem with having a surveillance state is not that they will know everything about you. The problem is that they will assert that they know everything about you. And you’re screwed either way; no matter if they’re right or wrong.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

Via @yawnbox

#privacy #humanRights #democracy #surveillance #surveillanceState #policeState