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“STOP on noise cameras: 'If you install a noise camera, it could be used to listen to just about anything in the vicinity․' - William Owen, STOP Communications Director
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Wat een goed idee om Steve Mann te strikken voor een gesprek over #surveillance, #privacy en de Meta-brillen @joritverkerk!
Citaat uit het verhaal: 'Decennia geleden begon Mann camerabrillen te dragen om zich te verweren tegen de camera’s van de staat. Maar de staat is niet langer de vijand, zegt Schuilenburg. „Dat is juist Big Tech, de surveillancekapitalisten die als verdienmodel hebben zoveel mogelijk van onze data te verzamelen, om die persoonsgegevens aan derden te verkopen of nog gerichter producten en diensten aan de man te brengen.” Het idee van de camerabril als verzetsmiddel tégen surveillance gaat dus niet meer op, zegt Schuilenburg – tenzij je Steve Mann heet, en de bril gewoon zelf maakt.'
Zelfs de uitvinder van de camerabril windt zich op over Metabrillen
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/10/16/zelfs-de-uitvinder-van-de-camerabril-windt-zich-op-over-metabrillen-a4938546/appview
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COMPAS-style risk algorithms now drive bail and sentencing decisions in courts across dozens of states, and audits still find they flag Black defendants as higher-risk at nearly twice the rate of white defendants.
So what: automated decisions are often wrong and hard to appeal. Request your records, ask for a human to review it, and keep copies.
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“ICE protestors in Maine found their data entered into Palantir’s Gotham-based ICM system, which automatically shares data with Customs and Border Protection․
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“Facial recognition software was crucial for DHS's massive federal enforcement campaign in Minneapolis, highlighting the ways Black migrants have heightened vulnerabilities to mass surveillance․ ﹫techpolicypress․bsky․soc…”
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RE: https://hostux.social/@fsf/117440631552860399
Friends don't let friends use PGP. In no particular order, the criticisms against PGP:
- https://secushare.org/PGP
- https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/giving_up_on_pg.html#c6740847
- https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/
- https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/13/whats-matter-with-pgp/
- https://cs-people.bu.edu/tromer/handsoff/
- https://archive.ph/lEGcZ
- https://words.filippo.io/openpgp-is-broken/
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/not-so-pretty-what-you-need-know-about-e-fail-and-pgp-flaw-0
- https://www.wired.com/story/efail-pgp-vulnerability-outlook-thunderbird-smime/
- https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/05/21/PGP-signatures-on-PyPI-worse-than-useless
#FreeSoftware #surveillance #FSF #encryption #crypto #cryptography
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#Amazon launches new #Bee ‘personal #AI’ devices that listen to conversations
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/15/amazon-bee-frontier-eclipse-ai-devices.html
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DiPLad released a detailed report today on personal data harvesting & #surveillance practices of European "data workers" training AI. These workers often have unstable "gigs" and are also having their own personal information harvested as part of their job, violating their #privacy.
https://diplab.eu/report-new-diplab-report-surveillance-at-scale/
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Remember this situation: Mark Zuckerberg in court asked about his surveillance technology, tries desperately to make an argument that being spied on is good actually, because they can shove more personally relevant ads down people's throats. Like come on man... how do you want this to be a good argument? But you think about it and realize: he is fucking rich. He might actually have a huge issue with what to buy. For him a system that learns what he likes and suggests what to spend his money on, is a system that solves his problem.
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“Even after Syracuse ended its contract with Flock in March, the company continues to surveil Central New York through clients like school districts and retailers․ This data has real, tangible effects on our lives․
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New.
"This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru’s spyware."
Citizen Lab: Exposing AdFection https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/ @citizenlab #infosec #surveillance #spyware
Not enough surveillance in your life? Amazon has the answer.
Gizmodo: Amazon’s New AI Gadget Is a Credit Card-Sized Puck That Listens to Everything, All the Time https://gizmodo.com/amazon-bee-eclipse-frontier-2000826303 @Gizmodo #Amazon #privacy #surveillance
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“NYPD Flock usage overwhelmingly lacks transparency․ 'It's at least 24 officers who used Flock, but there's an awful lot of blanks․ There are 418 searches, with no officer name, conducted by who knows who for the NYPD․' …”
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Plate readers on police cars scan every passing car, not just suspects. Vendors like Flock and Motorola now pool billions of scans into a nationwide searchable database any officer can query to map where your car has been for years.
So what: map the readers near you at deflock.org, and check whether your plate was searched at haveibeenflocked.com.
The #Palantir Mafia is changing the business of war and #surveillance
https://proton.me/blog/palantir-modern-warfare
#privacy #Epirus #Valinor #Valthos #Anduril #Kela #Rivet #Peregrine #police
#Tesla's 'Security Protocols' Stopped #DHS From Installing a Tracking Device
https://www.404media.co/teslas-security-protocols-stopped-dhs-from-installing-a-tracking-device/
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“'[There is a] general shift of policing toward a constant monitoring, rather than the original promises of the Fourth Amendment․․․ it's very much a false narrative that surveillance will always lead to safety․' - Michel…”
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Has anyone else noticed? time is moving faster
Is it just me or is anyone else noticing that time is moving faster?
I’ve heard it said that as you get older the time seems to accelerate, whereas when you are a child time moves slow.
Time Moves Slow by BadBadNotGood
I’m not actually meaning that. What I mean is that the cacophony of news, disasters, severe f*ck ups by different people in power doing silly things in brazen view of the general public takes our time.
Another thing that takes our time accelerate and disappear is AI.
I’m using the collective ‘we’ here, but I have no idea if it’s a shared experience to be honest. However on a human-to-human basis of shared humanity I really hope that this is the case. Just knowing that others feel this same feeling is deeply comforting to me.
Along with AI is the violent crab-fight by various technology barons wrenching people’s autonomy away from them forcing them to watch inane content instead of understanding the true gravity of what is occuring. This happens incrementally and slowly but it is happening. An erosion of our rights to privacy and autonomy, to dignity without the prying eyes of omnipotent surveillance.
They tell us it is for our own good to ‘catch the bad guys’ but once the genie is out of the bottle there is no returning to an earlier time where you could browse the internet without age verification, or to cash transactions without the knowledge of authorities.
Why is that important and what have you got to hide? they would ask.
Nothing, but that’s entirely besides the point because all people living on this planet deserve dignity and dignity means privacy.
Sometimes in quiet moments I have a surreal and overwhelming sense of uncertainty, unmoored like I’m walking underneath of the ocean.
I have a peaceful life filled with activities I enjoy, work and a lot of laughter and sometimes even adventures and travel.
I can pinpoint my malaise and worry to the state of our world.
The general mainstream trajectory (if one chose such a route through life) in western countries at least was: birth, youth, teenagehood, young adulthood, seeking a partner, committing to that partner, growing one’s career in parallel, buying a property, having some children with said partner, growing older, getting grandchildren. Seeing these successive generations go out and make something of themselves and then dying. The trajectory even for the most mainstream of people is no longer set in stone.
However it seems that today’s world is hostile even to the most mainstream of dreams. Housing and mortgages are unaffordable for most people. Likewise the cost of raising children is prohibitively expensive. The economic prospects for those hypothetical children would not be the same as our own. It is highly likely they would never work due to AI and would therefore be a lot poorer than we are. The world has finite resources that we are burning through quickly and it may be the case that the Halcyon days of plentiful food and water and access to whatever products or services one might need may be coming to an end too.
If it feels like we are on the precipice of a a cyberpunk reality where technology companies are taking over our world and removing our rights to a free and open internet, the right to having our own private lives without knowledge of the state or surveillance companies, then perhaps that’s because this is actually the case.
Sorry for the doomer dump but these are the things that sometimes keep me awake at night. Sometimes as I go off to sleep I think of these things and I solemnly promise myself I’ll get up and write a post about it the next day. Today I actually did.
As for us, PB and I – We chose the road less travelled of being happy together and childfree. We able to live and work on two different continents but it still doesn’t make our world less disconcerting. Even being mobile, agile and skilled in the old world doesn’t guarantee you will be able to survive in the new world.
What that new world looks like is anybody’s guess right now – which is why it’s so worrying. If the might of technology and power manages to silence the rights of billions of people with very little resistance then I’m sorry but we are all so f*cked.
I wish I could organise and rally together people to resist (as I am quite adept at doing activism) but I am myself subject to the same restrictions as others – needing to work, needing to cook, clean and maintain my home, needing to take care of others I love.
Currently as it stands, only the most skilled people who work in technology get to stay employed, everyone else – juniors and interns are no longer employed. Same goes for marketing, graphic design, writing, conveyancing, legal advice, accounting, book-keeping, stockbroking. A lot of white collar professional jobs are on the edge of being gone forever.
I guess if I lose my job permanently I will have a lot more time on my hands to organise and resist.
I wonder if anybody else thinks about all of this, or other flavours and shades of this? I’m not sure what the answer is but it feels much better to let that out!
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Financial Collection Agencies. Orange data streams converge into a white line on black. Year - 1977. Industry art
This research was posted yesterday.
Netskope: XWorm Reborn: From infostealer to surveillance platform https://threatlabs.netskope.com/blog/2026/09/xworm-reborn
More:
SecurityWeek: XWorm RAT Evolves Into Surveillance Platform https://www.securityweek.com/xworm-rat-evolves-into-surveillance-platform/ @SecurityWeek #threatresearch #infosec #surveillance #Windows
#Flock is catching flak. Experts say other #police #surveillance tools are more worrisome
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/08/nx-s1-5981343/beyond-flock-police-ai-surveillance-tools
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“Cities are now being forced to sign agreements allowing their ALPR data to be channeled into federal government surveillance servers- data which then becomes accessible to other law enforcement agencies who might previo…”
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Denver woman sues #police, #Flock Safety after being falsely accused of stealing package from porch
https://coloradosun.com/2026/10/06/flock-cameras-columbine-valley-police-colorado-lawsuit/
LA and Miami-Dade police bought access to Raven, an AI tool that can pinpoint a home from one interior photo using Airbnb, Vrbo, and Zillow listings. So what: be careful posting interior photos of your home, and take down old listings you don't need.
Workplace violence threat assessment programs analyze employee communications and behavior patterns to predict potential threats, sometimes without employee knowledge.
So what: assume anything on a work device or network is monitored. Keep personal browsing on your own phone, off company Wi-Fi.
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“'Privacy is certainly a key concern, as well as how these technologies will contribute to the terror that immigrant communities are facing․․․ I fear that these will be showing up at protests more and more' - STOP Commun…”
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“A new frontier of surveillance: Amazon has introduced smart delivery glasses, a technology that will allow the company to record and surveil its employees' every move․
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What if we went back to a dumb phone?
For one week, I want to carry only my old Nokia 1650 when I go out. My smartphone stays at home, with all internet traffic routed through Tor.
Less tracking, fewer distractions, more freedom.
Has anyone tried living this way? How did it go?
#Privacy #DigitalMinimalism #DumbPhone #Tor #Surveillance
#Surveillance company #Flock cuts staff as #privacy backlash grows
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/surveillance-company-flock-cuts-staff-as-privacy-backlash-grows/
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“A surveillance company shared plans with cops to add facial recognition to Flock cameras․ They say the technology can be used to categorize individuals based on age, race, and gender to add to larger 'watchlists․'
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Internet Age Verification
= Surveillance under the logic of "protecting children".
(Rules are often disguised for one reason but are created for another reason only the rule-makers know / plan.)
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“'Flock’s own newly announced guardrails are nothing more than a crisis PR stunt, still granting officers plenty of power to misreport how they are using the database․' - William Owen, STOP Communications Director
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VoIP phone providers that use carrier networks collect call metadata and in some cases audio recordings, often with fewer privacy protections than traditional carriers.
So what: move sensitive conversations to Signal, and use an email alias for signups so your real inbox stays clean.
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“After reading our report with ﹫latinojustice․bsky․social, ﹫nytimes․com reporter Maria Cramer investigated and found ⌗NYPD officers used ⌗Flock after the firm approached them with a free trial—without approval from NYPD …”
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"They were as old as 70 and as young as 5. They died in the heat or the cold. But they all died within range of a surveillance camera." Lillian Perlmutter for MIT Technology Review & Times of San Diego https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1144170/border-towers-surveillance-feature/ #migration #surveillance #borders #technology #journalism #longreads
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Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb #Flock After 404 Media Coverage
https://www.404media.co/lawmakers-introduce-multiple-laws-to-curb-flock-after-404-media-coverage/
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“Flock wants to shut down the Flock Surveillance Map, a detailed map of its surveillance devices․ The database not only shows the scope of Flock's reach, but also its vulnerability to data leaks․
Read Nikita Mazurov's …”
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#Texas city demands $2M for public records on #Flock usage
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/texas-city-demands-2m-for-public-records-on-flock-usage/
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“'Surveillance is booming with the Trump administration’s unprecedented spending on spyware․․․ This has led to a surge in spyware firms looking to cash in on the erosion of our civil rights and privacy․' -William Owen, S…”
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“'The outrage is reaching beyond Flock now to other license plate reader companies․․․ There are lots of alternatives waiting to fill Flock’s shoes․ And they’re already deployed by the hundreds of thousands․' -STOP Resear…”
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“'The outstanding question is, was the NYPD knowingly using Flock?․․․ It’s just completely unclear what the NYPD relationship with Flock is and we had assumed, until we saw this data, that it simply wasn’t using Flock․' …”
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404 Media: USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
https://www.404media.co/usps-to-put-cameras-in-trucks-that-scan-roads-for-community-safety/
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“'Faith leaders across the Twin Cities say they're still dealing with fallout from the surge, whether it's lingering fear among migrants, tensions over government surveillance, or persistent financial assistance requests…”
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“Signed into law earlier this year, SB 73 attempted to regulate adult websites by requiring them to block VPN users or to identify the physical location of visitors using them or similar tools that mask their network traffic. It even went so far as to prohibit websites from offering instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass these checks. This made Utah, to EFF’s knowledge, the first state in the nation to target the use of VPNs to avoid legally mandated age-verification gates.
The Utah federal court halted enforcement of the law's VPN provisions last week, ruling that the law likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on passing laws that significantly burden businesses and people outside Utah’s borders.
SB 73 burdens the rights of all internet users outside of Utah because it requires adult websites to either know every visiting user’s physical location, and then block those in Utah, or to verify every visitor’s age just in case they might be in Utah. The law’s “actual-location provision in practice requires an entity to perform age verification services for every user visiting its site from any location because the entity would violate the law if even one of those users happened to be obfuscating,” the court wrote. The court essentially ruled that Utah has less-burdensome ways to prevent Utah minors from accessing adult websites than requiring all users in the world to comply with SB 73.
Aylo’s lawsuit does not challenge SB 73’s provision prohibiting the websites covered by the law from sharing information about VPNs.”
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Opt Out October: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) offers tips how to opt out of surveillance and tracking:
https://www.eff.org/pages/welcome-opt-out-october-lets-take-control-our-data-and-our-devices
#EFF #OptOutOctober #privacy #surveillance #DataPrivacy
#USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
https://www.404media.co/usps-to-put-cameras-in-trucks-that-scan-roads-for-community-safety/
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“'From small towns to cities as large as Los Angeles, communities across the country are canceling their contracts with Flock and condemning mass surveillance․' - STOP Advocacy & Community Engagement Manager Corinne Wort…”
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WaPo: Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner
The discovery presented a mystery about the controversial surveillance technology: Who installed these devices, and who had access to the data they collected?
#flock #bigbrother #surveillance #privacy #alpr
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Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner
The discovery presented a mystery about the controversial surveillance technology: Who installed these devices, and who had access to the data they collected?
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“The tide is turning nationally against Flock cameras․ President Trump’s response? 'I like them․' Read more here: washingtonpost․com/technology/2026/09/14/trump-expresses-support-flock-license-plate-surveillance-technolo…”
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"California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting workers from the threats of artificial intelligence, including potential job losses and workplace #surveillance.
The laws ban employers from using the technology to predict a worker's emotional state by using their #biometric data, require employers to send written notices to workers if #AI is responsible for mass layoffs and ban employers from relying on AI to decide to fire someone."
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-newsom-signs-ai-worker-protections/
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“BREAKING: NYPD Ran 1,710 Flock Searches Despite Publicly Denying Contract․
Read the full press release here: stopspying․org/content-input/nypd-ran-1710-flock-searches-despite-publicly-denying-contract”
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“The European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius said that Palantir Technologies is ‘a great company’”
https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/24/palantir-is-a-great-company-eu-defence-chief-tells-euronews
Meanwhile, Palantir:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/rakVcO7hfT
You know, I think I’m wrong about @EUCommission – they’re not clueless and incompetent. They’re evil, clueless, and incompetent.
#EU #EUCommission #Palantir #surveillance #fascism #technoFascism
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“State Senator Sabrina Cervantes cited our 2024 research report 'Deportation Data Centers' to request an audit of California's five fusion centers․ These federally funded intelligence hubs raise many privacy concerns ove…”
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Bundesregierung setzt sich auf EU-Ebene für mehr #Gesichtserkennung ein:
"Digitalcourage hält die Ratsposition, die nur Echtzeitsysteme verbietet, für problematisch und lehnt diese ab. Denn diese Klausel verhindere nicht den Missbrauch biometrischer Daten zur #massenuberwachung Außerdem sei unklar, wie viel Zeit verstreichen müsse, damit es sich nicht um einen Einsatz etwaiger Systeme in „Echtzeit“ handelt. „Vieles wäre mit der Begrenzung auf Echtzeit zulässig, zum Beispiel die biometrische Massenüberwachung aller, die sich 2017 während der Zeit des G20-Gipfels durch Hamburg bewegt haben“, so @digitalcourage weiter."
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"Nicht entgangen sind Habeck auch Tests mit Supermärkten in westlichen Ländern, wo "beim Reingehen eine #Face-ID-Scannung" erfolge. Der Kunde nehme dann Produkte aus Regalen, wobei alles gemessen und aufgezeichnet werde. Der Computer rechne die Summe aus und bestelle gleich nach. Der Minister freute sich: "Das ist keine abgefahrene Spökenkiekerei." Viele aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Probleme und #Krisen inklusive #Klimawandel und #Pandemien könnten und müssten digital beantwortet werden, hob der #Grünen-Politiker hervor."
Nee Robert, das ist echt keine "abgefahrene Spökenkiekerei". Das ist einfach nur euer scheiß übergriffiger #Überwachungskapitalismus, den ihr "Grünen" hier aufs erbärmlichste grün zu waschen versucht. Und das ist auch keine "neue #Kultur" von der dein Kollege #Wissing da faselt, sondern einfach nur das technische Update für die alte Nummer namens Ausbeutung des Menschen durch den Menschen. Wobei das wahrscheinlich schon das ganze Kulturverständnis der #FDP abdeckt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Digitalgipfel-Habeck-schwaermt-vom-Bezahlen-mit-Iris-Scan-7372336.html
#Gesichtserkennung #Surveillance #netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #Datenschutz #antireport
This week in privacy:
Apple Watch can now transcribe your last 15 seconds; Apple says it stores no raw audio and keeps Siri Recap off by default, critics call it always-on listening.
Arizona court breach may have exposed protective-order addresses.
TP-Link Tapo C200 flaw let attackers grab admin and live video; fixed firmware shipped Aug 18.
A New Mexico jury found Meta deceived Facebook users on privacy.
So what: update your Tapo firmware today.
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“BREAKING: NYPD Ran 1,710 Flock Searches Despite Publicly Denying Contract
S․T․O․P․ and LatinoJustice PRLDEF Demand Records Related to Their Findings
﹫latinojustice․bsky․social ⌗Flock ⌗NYPD
stopspying․org/content-inpu…”
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A security researcher mapped 300,000 Flock surveillance devices across the US: 170,000+ license plate cameras and 27,000 acoustic sensors. He built it from Flock's own database, exposed by a leaking access token he reported in November 2025. His findings reached a Senate hearing this week. Flock still claims it has never been breached.
So what: look up the cameras near you at flocksurveillance.org, and ask your city council what your town shares.
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“'AirTags and Ring doorbells are in fact similar to Flock in that they also come with myriad privacy threats․' — S․T․O․P․ Communications Director Will Owen
'But Flock’s massive, nationwide dragnet is on an entirely diff…”
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Learn about #encryption at #EncryptFest online, in Boston, or New Haven on October 25: https://u.fsf.org/4ck #FreeSoftware #surveillance #FSF
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US supreme court lifts restrictions on controversial voter database
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/25/supreme-court-trump-citizen-voter-database
#PoliceState #Dictatorship #news #elections #VoterRights #surveillance #nineteeneightyfour #Fascism #Authoritarianism
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“S․T․O․P․'s latest blog post explains how new legislation threatens Fourth Amendment rights and privacy protections more than ever before in America's 250 years․
Read here: stopspying․org/content-input/at-250-america-is…”
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Meta's new $349 Ray-Ban Audio glasses are camera-free. No camera doesn't mean no recording: they still capture and summarize the audio around you. A summary can hold sensitive details even when the raw audio isn't saved. Courts and cities from New York to London are already restricting smart glasses.
So what: learn the recording indicator (LED or chime), know owners can tape it over, and you can ask someone to stop.
Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About #Flock at City Council Meeting
#Springfield #Missouri #MO #privacy #police #ALPR #surveillance
Join th e FSF for #EncryptFest online, in Boston, or New Haven on October 25: https://u.fsf.org/4ck #FreeSoftware #surveillance #FSF
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“' Sept․ 11 really accelerated the infrastructure development and kind of opened that Pandora's box that we no longer can go back to what things were like before,' -Michelle Dahl, executive director of STOP․
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"Google is bringing its age assurance technology — which uses artificial intelligence to detect underage users — to Canada.
“Our age estimation model uses machine learning to interpret a variety of signals already associated with a user’s account, such as the types of information a user has searched for or the categories of videos they’ve watched on YouTube,” the company said in a blog post Monday.
The company says that if the technology identifies someone as underage, their Google account will be changed to include additional protections, such as safeguards on content recommendations.
If it mistakenly identifies an adult as being under 18, the company says that person will be able to prove their age using things like a government ID or a selfie.
“In the coming days, we’ll begin to gradually roll out this technology in Canada, carefully monitoring progress as we expand its availability,” Jeanette Patell, director of government affairs and public policy at Google Canada, said in the post.
She said the company won’t be collecting any new information that isn’t already associated with the user’s account."
#Canada #AI #BullhshitTechnology #Google #AgeVerification #Censorship #BigTech #Surveillance
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“Protect your rights on and off campus with STOP’s Power Down Surveillance webinar on September 16, 3–4 PM․
Register here: us02web․zoom․us/webinar/register/WN_TLx8xk2gQxCYaI7s1r3N3A⌗/registration”
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Home security systems that store footage locally still transmit metadata including motion event timestamps to cloud servers run by the manufacturer.
So what: put smart devices on a guest Wi-Fi, and turn off smart-TV tracking (Samsung: Viewing Information Services; LG: Live Plus).
404 Media: Is Your City Using #Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
https://www.404media.co/is-your-city-using-axon-license-plate-cameras-we-need-your-help/
Ring Neighbors app allows users to share footage with neighbors and police, and footage can be accessed by Amazon employees for safety and legal review.
So what: turn off Request for Assistance in the Ring app so police can't blanket-request your video, and turn on end-to-end encryption.
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“Flock's founder is ready to make mass surveillance impossible to avoid, regardless of what that means for your privacy․
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New Europol proposal pushes for deregulation and more AI in policing
‚Under a new proposal, Europol is set to receive unprecedented access to personal data related to current and potential cross-border investigations. It’s part of a wider plan to expand the use of AI in policing….‘
#Europol #Data #BigTech #Surveillance #Police #Repression #AI #Privacy #Europe
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software
Police and spy agencies are keen to combat criminality and terrorism with artificial intelligence. But critics say the CIA-funded Palantir surveillance software enables "predictive policing."
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117
#Surveillance #Tech #Technology #Germany #Palantir #USA #Antireport
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“Anthropic is establishing a system to spy on activists calling for a slowdown of AI development, with a goal of stopping protests before they happen: a clear effort to surveil speech․
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Brown University has added 700+ security cameras since December, about 2,000 total, and may join Providence's Real Time Crime Center to share footage with police after a crime.
Faculty and students warn the footage could be subpoenaed to target campus protesters and visa-holders. The ACLU of RI flagged its privacy risks.
So what: surveillance built for safety becomes a subpoena target. Ask your campus its camera retention and sharing rules.
#Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-is-offering-voluntary-buyouts-to-employees/
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“'This is really alarming․ Hospitals must scrutinize the platforms they work with in their data collection to minimize information that can be weaponized․' - STOP Communications Director Will Owen ⌗Qgenda ⌗surveillance
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#404Media x #TheIntercept Live: How #AI Is Used to Surveil and Kill
https://www.404media.co/404-media-x-the-intercept-live-how-ai-is-used-to-surveil-and-kill/
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“'The last thing ICE needs is a camera-equipped canine that can open doors․․․Congress must step in and put ICE’s spending on a leash․' - S․T․O․P․ Communications Director Will Owen ⌗ICE ⌗BostonRobotics
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#Flock Once Touted Its Cameras as ‘Made in the USA.’ Now It’s Not So Clear
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-once-touted-its-cameras-as-made-in-the-usa-now-its-not-so-clear/
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“ICE reportedly placed a $2 million order for Boston Robotics' robotic dogs, a policing technology that S․T․O․P․ has long condemned․ Placing this dystopian machinery in the hands of immigration agents marks a dangerous s…”
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The Texas Tribune: Texas freezes installation of Flock cameras along state roads
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/texas-flock-camera-pause-highways-txdot/
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25 Years of Mass #Surveillance Is Enough - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html "as it becomes increasingly evident that the Trump administration is using mass surveillance to keep itself in power, stifle dissent, and undermine political opponents, these questions are now more urgent than ever."
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RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/117286020053320946
asking the question when you already have the answer?
1. what do parents need in order to NOT give a kid a tablet to keep them calm?
2. do you really not see how creating a database of faces with id numbers of a new generation of Europeans isn't just a new form of digital #fascism but outright #slavery? why not go the extra mile and demand every baby be tatooed with a QR or bar code?
DOES ANYBODY INVOLVED IN #EU #SURVEILLANCE #EUPOLICY ACTUALLY NOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEIR HISTORY OF VIOLENCE?
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“Flock is 'putting a name to people’s fears․'
'People have woken up to the harms of ALPRs' but 'that’s the problem with targeting specifically the vendor, not the technology as a whole․' — Corinne Worthington, S․T․O․P․ …”
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10 News (NBC, TN): Flock removes 133 license plate readers across Knox County
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/flock-removes-133-license-plate-023952128.html