License to Track: #Criminalization, #Deportation, and the Surveillance State @txcivilrights.bsky.social Tue 23 JUN Noon-1p. Discuss the #surveillance landscape, what it means for #immigration enforcement, repro. #justice, gov't #accountability & #privacy. LINK https://secure.everyaction.com/cUKm5ZE1dUKUz8iARpi9Hw2 #TX #Texas #Houston #Dallas #FortWorth #FtWorth #DFW #SanAntonio #Austin #ElPaso

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A black flyer with neon green graphics of a globe and icons of a person's silhouette, lock, smartphone, key, digital eye, map pin, ring camera and boxes of text. Texas Civil Rights Project logo is at top right. License to Track: Criminalization, Deportation, and Surveillance State. Tuesday June 23 12pm CT Zoom. #TX #Texas

"Realizing your trove exists is terrifying. So is learning that it’s never been more vulnerable."

Bridget Read for New York/Intelligencer: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/your-digital-self-is-vulnerable.html

#Longreads #Privacy #Surveillance #Data #Technology #Internet

You don't want to do this.

It's digital verification by a different name. And it could be tied to the government. Anthropic doesn't care about you. It just wants its business back.

"A policy provision for scanning customers’ identity documents could enable Anthropic to distinguish between foreign and domestic users of its most powerful AI model."

Computerworld: Anthropic’s new privacy policy offers US consumers a way around the Fable ban https://www.computerworld.com/article/4185515/anthropics-new-privacy-policy-offers-us-consumers-a-way-around-fable-ban-2.html #Anthropic #digitalid #surveillance #Anthropic

#Meta Tapped a #Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-rank-one-computing-face-recognition-smart-glasses/

#FRT #FacialRecognition #SmartGlasses #RayBan #Oakley #privacy #surveillance

Around 52 percent of parents track their 18- to 25-year-old children using smartphone apps, according to a University of Michigan survey.

Is it healthy and the new normal or bordering on surveillance?
https://flip.it/jccv0M

#Surveillance #Privacy #Smartphones

#usa #tyranny #corruption #privacy #surveillance

Some States want to introduce mandatory surveillance in all 3D Printers and CNC's to "prevent making guns", Don'y be fooled, This is NOT the reason! They want to enforce 'copyright' next, then 'political speech', And all of this is pushed from a SINGLE LOBBY, managed by a SINGLE BILLIONAIRE.

FIGHT THIS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOyrFus1Yus

This pole is far worse than any Flock Camera

Sam Bent digs in to how shadowy companies associated with Italy and Israel are wiring cities & towns across the USA with RF sensing capability mounted on utility poles which logs every unique identifier it hears from all of your radio-capable devices every time you pass by.

And no, turning on MAC randomization is not enough to defeat it.

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

#Surveillance #Privacy #DragnetSurveillance #ELSAG #Leonardo #LeonardoELSAG #SurveillanceState

Starmer’s Social Media Ban: the Reinvention of the Surveillance State

Tyranny masquerading as child safety needs you to feel guilty before you feel suspicious. Downing Street is counting on it.

https://reclaimthenet.org/starmers-social-media-ban-surveillance-state

#UK #AgeVerification #IdVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #technology

Free software offers trust and privacy; #Ring offers mass #surveillance: https://u.fsf.org/4aw

Cops are human beings. Despite constantly pretending they’re on a higher plane (see also: Thin Blue Line, etc.), they’re just as fallible as anyone else. Especially now. This occupation is self-selecting. Righting wrongs is rarely the main draw. It’s almost always the immense of amount of power that comes coupled with nearly zero accountability. There […]

Last month I noted how the Trump FCC had unveiled a brand new plan to “stop robocalls.” As with most efforts the proposal doesn’t actually do much to stop robocalls because a well-lobbied U.S. government (1) refuses to hold big companies accountable or collect fines, (2) constantly embraces weak rules that make telemarketers and debt […]

Have Americans finally had it with this mass surveillance system? Flock Safety cameras are artificial intelligence automated license plate readers and if there’s one thing people in the comments can unite on, it’s their hatred for this.

""Every failed attempt to make children safer online is followed by more surveillance and censorship," he said. "Children have rights too and these policies will harm their free expression and privacy rights, and push them into less regulated spaces. Meanwhile the business models driving harms are untouched."

Others questioned whether the measures can realistically be enforced. Mark Jones, an online harms specialist and partner at law firm Payne Hicks Beach, noted that the consultation closed only weeks ago and warned that determined teenagers have a habit of finding ways around restrictions.

"A social media ban only helps if it is genuinely enforceable," Jones said. "If large numbers of young people simply circumvent the restrictions, parents will just lose visibility into where their children are actually spending time online rather than reclaiming any control."

The political case for the crackdown appears relatively straightforward, but the practical one is less so. The government now has to persuade social media companies to enforce the rules and teenagers not to find ways around them."

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/15/britain-plots-digital-bedtime-after-kicking-under-16s-off-social-media/5255341

#UK #AgeVerification #NannyState #Surveillance #Oligopolies #Censorship #BigBrother #BigTech #Privacy #Anonymity

The Zine from 404media About ICE Surveillance Is Here!

https://www.404media.co/icezine/

"You are holding a zine about the surveillance tools used by ICE, and what we have learned so far about how you can resist this technology.

This zine was reported and written by 404 Media, a journalist-owned investigative website and now, we suppose, a print publication. Our status as a small outfit of reporters who own the means of production (a website), means that we have the freedom to report on the topics we believe are the most important. For the last year, that has been Donald Trumpʼs mass deportation
campaign, and the technology powering it."

PDF Zine: https://www.404media.co/content/files/2026/02/404ICEZINE.pdf

#Zine #Surveillance #USA #ICE #Tech #Technology

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” the document reads.

#Meta considered adding facial recognition #technology to the first version of its Ray-Ban smart glasses back in 2021, but dropped the plans over technical challenges and ethical concerns. The NYT reports that the company has revived its plans as the #Trump administration has grown closer to Big Tech, and following the unexpected success of its smart glasses."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/meta-plans-to-add-facial-recognition-to-its-smart-glasses-report-claims/

#BigTech #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #FaceID

‚Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives…..‘

https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything

#Meta #Surveillance #Privacy #RayBan #SmartGlasses #Data #Technology

It can be overwhelming to try to take back your privacy online. Why not start by learning from our trusted resources? Many of these sites focus on explaining digital privacy in an accessible way. :)
https://www.miamitech.club/resources/

#Privacy #Surveillance #Tech

Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing

Flock appears to be leaking tons of law enforcement vehicle queries and possible user data. Data publicly visible in search result URLs includes: license plate state and numbers, make, model, color, identifiers such as ‘window stickers’ and ‘top rack,’ case number, and more.

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

https://www.404media.co/flock-leaked-cops-license-plate-searches-via-duckduckgo-bing/

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“australia's #surveillance act after 6 months: not working
starmer wanker: let's do the same shit like #australia but with more strictness. it surely will work.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mspg53rhq553n6...”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mchshjk3m27xjgaaj56mvevj/post/3mocfe2dlbc22

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From automotive dealerships to retail spaces, hotels, and industrial sites, businesses today face increasing risks like theft, unauthorized access, and blind spots.

Modern protection now depends on smarter solutions such as remote guard monitoring, AI-powered surveillance, and advanced video systems designed for real-time threat detection.

Read the full blog here:
https://ohzsecurity.blogspot.com/2026/06/complete-guide-to-modern-security-tips.html

#Security #CommercialSecurity #AI #RemoteMonitoring #Surveillance #PropertyProtection

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“We might finally end this #surveillance monstrosity after all. 😎

Trump says FISA extension must...”

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Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

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Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

The UK government has adopted the Boris Johnson clown car. They've just announced a ban on under 16s accessing social media.

But, they have not first understood the implications of age verification on everyone else:

"The regulator #Ofcom has been asked to carry out a rapid study to identify the best ways to verify if someone is over 16. "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqdny4l3jdo

What utter stupidity from #KeirStarmer #LisaNandy of #UKLabour. If only Ofcom regulated the companies.

#surveillance #privacy #av

Meta’s pivot from Llama to Muse Spark confirms the shift: the "open" era was just a marketing lure. Now, it's about proprietary lock-in. With 97.6% of revenue still tied to ads, Zuckerberg’s AI subscriptions are just a new tax to fund the surveillance engine. The trap is closing.
​#Meta #AI #Business #Surveillance

#2K115

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Mark Zuckerberg wearing Meta’s AI-integrated smart glasses, symbolizing the transition from a social media platform to an invasive, closed-loop surveillance ecosystem.

Flock let internal police search records get crawled by DuckDuckGo and Bing, exposing the stated reasons officers ran license plate searches. The surveillance built to watch everyone could not keep its own audit trail off a search engine.

https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/flock-leaked-cop-searches-bing

#democracy #technology #privacy #surveillance #government

Y’all know self-driving robotaxis are rolling surveillance machines, right?

You think they’re not operating license plate/facial recognition readers on these rolling camera outfits? There’s money to be made selling video footage and search access this data to “law enforcement”. Selling #surveillance is how these things continue to make money even without passengers inside.

#cars #robotaxi

https://sfist.com/2022/05/12/report-sfpd-already-using-surveillance-video-from-self-driving-cars/

Surveillance has harmful effects on cognition and identity - deeper research and social knowledge is needed to foster healthy communities.

#ai #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #socialmedia #blackposts #darkpatterns #privacy #privacymatters

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1/2 YES! I have been looking for something like this brilliant talk by @carissaveliz , that explains in a clear way exactly why democracy dies as privacy is taken away from us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE

She is also spot on about how technology is not completely neutral. Pots and pans invite you to make food. Guns don't. In the same way, digitization and surveillance tech invites people to spy on others.

#privacy #democracy #surveillance

@cxiao Why does this also feel like it's a massive backdoor being shoved into everything. (See eg; Indian surveillance smartphone app that thankfully got quashed, North Korean OS, etc.) #surveillance

Call me easily rage-baited, but it angers me when a technically proficient person who understands surveillance and big-tech monopolisation tells me they don't care about privacy.

You have to live in a privileged bubble to think that the worst consequence of surveillance is targeted ads.

#Surveillance #BigTech #Privacy

Victory! 702 has Expired!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/victory-702-has-expired

#Section702 #FISA #privacy #surveillance #politics

Controversial #FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/controversial-fisa-spying-law-expires-tonight-the-spying-will-continue/

#Section702 #privacy #surveillance #politics

I think people react more to flock cameras because they are relatively big (thus appear menacing).

The cellular radio hidden by the manufacturer inside your car... not so much. If the cams/mics are small, then people don't seem to care.

The psychology around this is interesting, though seldom explored.
#surveillance #iot #flock

Push back on the surveillance state before the door closes and we're all locked in.

#surveillance #privacymatters

The crackdown on Anthropic isn't about 'national security'—it’s about control. Dario Amodei drew red lines against mass domestic surveillance and autonomous lethal weapons. The DoD and White House, heavily influenced by the Thiel-Vance axis, demanded 'any lawful use' without exceptions. Resistance isn't a supply chain risk; it’s an ethical stand. #Anthropic #DoD #Surveillance #AI

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Le Monde's research showed ad data from smartphone SDKs. #DataBrokers can expose identities and daily movements of police, military, and intelligence personnel… sold by data brokers from everyday apps. If those people can get exposed, everyone can. Mitigation below! Read: https://proton.me/blog/ad-tech-privacy #Privacy #DataBrokers 🛰️📱#Security #Surveillance #MassSurveillance

#tldr "…What can you do about it?
There’s no way to stop all kinds of tracking, but you can take the following actions to reduce the granularity of the datasets collected:

Turn off location services(new window) when not in use and deny apps location permissions.
Use a VPN(new window) to hide your real IP address. DNS filtering features such as Proton VPN’s NetShield Ad-blocker(new window) can also help bock ad and tracker scripts.
Delete your advertising ID on Android (Settings → Google → All services → Ads → Privacy and security → Ads → Delete advertising ID). iPhones don’t provide this option."

Use GrapheneOS without Google

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There's a message that the governments around the world are sending that we all should remember.

There's a reason they are implementing mass surveillance.

They are scared.
There is strength in numbers.
We hold the power.

'When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the #government fears the people, there is liberty.' -Thomas Jefferson

#peace #surveillance #control

Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them.

Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.

›› https://palantirwatch.org

#privacy #government #surveillance #technology #osint

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😎 New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses

｢ Europe's privacy concerns risk spoiling the rollout of Meta's eye-catching flagship product in the region. That could annoy the U.S. administration, which has long complained that EU laws and regulations unfairly target U.S. technology companies. ｣

https://www.politico.com/www.politico.eu/article/new-privacy-frontier-europe-eyes-crackdown-smart-glasses/

#meta #privacy #eu #smartglasses #surveillance