Serbia dropped reference to biometric technologies from its draft Law on Police, but its interior ministry has anyway installed formidable facial recognition software already used by Russia and Iran to track down dissenters.

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Serbia dropped reference to biometric technologies from its draft Law on Police, but its interior ministry has anyway installed formidable facial recognition software already used by Russia and Iran to track down dissenters.

"US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows"
"GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft"
"Concerns Mount That EU Will Demand Age Verification for VPNs"
"Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags"
"A new way to fund internet freedom"

Check out the latest monthly news roundup for the full list of headlines.

https://theprivacycloud.substack.com/p/may-2026-privacy-news-roundup

#privacy #security #tech #surveillance #AI

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“1) Go to fec.gov . 2) Get the $$$ data for your House member & Senators. 3) If they get $$ from Palantir, Anduril, Google, or any other tech/defense entities that profit off of #surveillance programs #FISA 702. dema...”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:syr4pyycnawifxcinafpkctu/post/3mn3hnp2ixc2j

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

#Google #FamilyLink Exploit Enables Account Lockout and #Surveillance

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/05/29/google-family-link-exploit-enables-account-lockout-and-surveillance/

#cybersecurity #privacy

Chilling Effects

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/chilling-effects.html

#FreeSpeech #surveillance #politics #activism #protesting #Trump #privacy

The industry that profits from harvesting your personal data is about to cross $1 trillion. Meta and Google are racing each other to the top of that pile.

By Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/meta-poised-surpass-google-digital-ad-revenue-first-time-report-says-2026-04-13/

#privacy #adtech #surveillance #digitalprivacy

A deep dive into how behavioral advertising became the internet's dominant business model — and what it costs us in privacy.

By The Privacy Issue
https://theprivacyissue.com/data-tracking/big-business-ad-tech

#privacy #adtech #surveillance #digitalprivacy

Cindy Cohn of the @eff has been fighting for our privacy for over three decades. We dive into government & corporate surveillance, Snowden and so much more. Don't miss this one!

#News #Privacy #Surveillance #FirstAmendment #InternetFreedom #EFF

https://youtu.be/LXX9x5tX73M

Cities Are Covering #Flock Cameras With Trash Bags

https://www.404media.co/cities-are-covering-flock-cameras-with-trash-bags/

#privacy #surveillance #ALPR

A coalition of local groups will be hosting a teach-in against Palantir and their recent move to Miami. Happening on Monday, June 1 at 7 PM in North Miami Beach. Learn more about Palantir's role in mass surveillance that undermines your freedom.

#Miami #Palantir #Privacy #Surveillance

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War on immigrants: powered by Palantir. Teach-in happening on Monday, June 1 at 7 PM at Golem Games at 16460 NE 16th Ave, North Miami Beach

Flock Safety hosted a private webinar training police on how to address city councils and "reframe common concerns" about its surveillance cameras as opposition grows across California and beyond.

https://oaklandside.org/2026/05/28/flock-training-police-city-councils-webinar/

#surveillance #privacy #flock
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Cities Are Covering #Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their #surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
Cities are not sure what their contracts state on how to extricate themselves from those contracts, or whether the cameras are recording (and where that data is going). This uncertainty highlights the problems associated with using private, third-party surveillance infrastructure.
https://www.404media.co/cities-are-covering-flock-cameras-with-trash-bags/
https://archive.ph/gO2IH

Cindy Cohn of the @eff is one of the world's leading advocates for digital rights and online freedom. It was my honor to discuss all things privacy and online rights with her today!

#News #Privacy #Surveillance #FirstAmendment #InternetFreedom #EFF

https://youtu.be/LXX9x5tX73M

Daily podcast: Cindy Cohn of the @eff is one of the world's leading advocates for digital rights and online freedom. It was my honor to discuss all things privacy and online rights with her today!

#News #Privacy #Surveillance #FirstAmendment #InternetFreedom #EFF #podcast

https://soundcloud.com/nickaesp/eff

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their #SSD activity

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/

#privacy #surveillance #fingerprinting

NEW INVESTIGATION: Palantir in the UK—£600m+ in contracts, no competitive tender, hidden data surveillance network, Israeli military ties. This is how a Silicon Valley company captured the British state. Full investigation 👇
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/palantir-in-the-uk-the-600m-surveillance

#Palantir #UKGovernment #Surveillance #NHS #ministryofdefence #israel #peterthiel

The Riksdag voted in favour of the Government’s proposal to allow the Swedish Police Authority to use AI technology for real-time facial recognition.

https://www.riksdagen.se/en/news/articles/2026/may/26/police-may-use-ai-for-real-time-facial-recognition_cmsa0978678-2e7a-420e-9b39-5f36158aae2aen/

#surveillance #privacy #ai #sweden

Age verification expanding from websites to operating systems; California’s 2027 law requires OS setup age collection sharing age ranges to apps 🔐
OS-level age signals may enable app enforcement and future ID or biometric verification, raising privacy and open-source concerns 🔒

🔗 https://me.pcmag.com/en/security/37364/your-computer-may-soon-require-an-age-check-and-it-might-not-take-no-for-an-answer

#TechNews #AgeVerification #OperatingSystems #OS #Privacy #DigitalRights #California #California #Law #Tech #DataProtection #Surveillance #OpenSource #FOSS #Biometrics #BigTech #Regulation

Apple and Google urge Canada’s Parliament to amend Bill C-22 to require court approval before ministers can compel changes to encryption or systems 🔐
Bill C-22 also mandates up to one-year metadata retention and enables secret ministerial technical-capability orders without prior court review ⚖️

🔗 https://thenextweb.com/news/apple-google-canada-c22-lawful-access-judicial-oversight

#TechNews #Apple #Google #Canada #BillC22 #Encryption #Privacy #Surveillance #LawfulAccess #Law #DataRetention #DigitalRights #CyberSecurity #Internet #Parliament #Government

🗃️ ARCHIVE : « Jeux Olympiques Citoyens » (2020)
Pendant le confinement, les techniques de surveillance de masse déployées, c'était l'occasion de se remettre au sport…
▶️ https://grisebouille.net/jeux-olympiques-citoyens/
#BD #GriseBouille #humour #Covid #surveillance #JeuxOlympiques

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4. Le tir à l'arc sur cible fixe Gee, en train de viser une caméra de surveillance avec un arc : « Un point si vous traversez le boîtier, trois points si vous rentrez pile dans la lentille ! » La Geekette, les bras croisés : « Ouais mais là c'est pas du jeu, t'habites à Nice, vous avez le plus grand dispositif d'entraînement du pays… »

Online age-verification laws are forcing users to hand sensitive identity data to third parties, creating new risks for leaks, tracking, and misuse 🔐
Expanding age-gating systems also increases censorship and surveillance powers, threatening anonymous and open access to the web 🌐

@eff

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/age-verification-privacy-nightmare

#TechNews #AgeVerification #Privacy #DigitalRights #OpenWeb #Surveillance #Internet #Freedom #Cybersecurity #DataProtection #Encryption #FOSS #Security #OnlinePrivacy #Web #Tech

Arrested by facial recognition. 98% match, wrong person #proton #privacy #surveillance #technology

https://youtu.be/MJ8yFRa_q4E?si=5ym6L23-ZrcizYaQ

Can we stop calling these surveillance systems ALPR?

It's minimizing what they do, how they work, what data they collect, and the analysis they are capable of performing.

They are AI augmented surveillance that happens to support reading license plates. But also facial recognition, behavior analysis, location tracking, audio analysis, and who knows what else.

#Surveillance #Privacy #Flock #AI #NineteenEightyFour #DoublePlusGood

They need C-22 to set up the surveillance infrastructure to run the surveillance on Canadians. They need the data [fusion] centres to store our data. And they need your apathy and obedience to get away with it all. It passes June 19th if we don’t stop 🛑 them.

#privacy #surveillance #tech #Canada #cdnpoli #encryption

https://fournier.substack.com/p/meet-cohere-palantirs-canada-ai-partner

On tonight's (May 28, 2026) episode of #BluntYouthRadio, #MaineYouth talk about #Surveillance in #Maine. One takeaway -- that there are more surveillance cameras in areas with #ImmigrantHousing and #LowerIncome folks, rather than the mostly white affluent areas (like #WillardBeach). Not surprising...

"#WMPG’s Blunt Youth Radio Project brings together Maine teenagers to produce audio stories and interviews on topics that matter to them. Finished work is aired on WMPG or made available in podcast format."

Audio Archive (available for five weeks):
https://www.wmpg.org/show/thu1800-blunt/

Show info:
https://www.wmpg.org/show/thu1800-blunt/

#SurveillanceState #Orwellian #ThumbsOnThePoor #Fascism #USPol #MainePol

I am getting a lot of men replying who are in #IT who falsely believe their technical abilities to protect their #encryption outsmart C-22’s legislation. I encourage them to see what world-leading encryption experts have warned about this legislation. That is not the case.
#Canada #tech #privacy #surveillance #cdnpoli

https://www.globalencryption.org/2026/04/open-letter-on-bill-c-22-an-act-respecting-lawful-access/

Pentagon Says U.S. Military Personnel Are Reportedly Being Targeted Using Location Data

(Reuters via USNews, 28 May 2026)

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-05-28/exclusive-pentagon-says-us-military-personnel-are-reportedly-being-targeted-using-location-data

#surveillance #DataPrivacy #NationalSecurity #military #AdTech #LocationData #DataBrokers #DigitalRights #MediaLiteracy #privacy #edtechSR

"The city of Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras with black trash bags in part because police there are unsure whether the cameras are still active and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down. The move comes after months of resident outrage, a scandal in which the city was sharing Flock camera data for immigration enforcement apparently on accident, and a $30,000 audit into how the cameras are being used.

Joe Parlette, the deputy city manager of Dayton, said at a city commission meeting last week that the “Dayton Police Department agreed to work with Public Works to put bags over the cameras” as a stop-gap measure until Flock cameras could be removed entirely. I spoke to multiple people in Dayton who said they had seen bagged cameras in the last few days. The Dayton Daily News first reported on the baggings.

Bagged Flock cameras in Dayton. Image: Melissa Bertolo
Dayton is not the first city to cover its Flock cameras with trash bags because they can’t figure out how to immediately terminate the use of the cameras. Late last year, the city of Evanston, Illinois also covered its cameras with trash bags while it was waiting for the company to remove them from the city. Cities around the country have been reconsidering their relationship with the surveillance company after reporting from 404 Media and local news outlets that showed data from the cameras was making its way to Immigration and Customs Enforcement through Flock’s national camera network."

https://www.404media.co/cities-are-covering-flock-cameras-with-trash-bags/

#USA #Surveillance #Flock #Privacy #DataProtection #PoliceState

Our law makers are begging the Government to take their time on Bill C-22 so they are able as non-tech experts to properly study this bill and the government is determined to ram it through and install mass surveillance. This is not how a democracy is supposed to function. #cdnpoli
#polcan #Canada #privacy #surveillance
#encryption

The Video is here Mastodon won’t let me post it:

https://bsky.app/profile/lalegault.bsky.social/post/3mmwrzrcbb22w

The Public Safety Minister & police are claiming they need these surveillance powers in C-22 in order to combat trafficking & it has been revealed he has not been reading the reports on trafficking & they are no longer offering French services to survivors calling in to report it. #cdnpoli #polcan #Canada #privacy #surveillance
#encryption

The Video 🧵 is here Mastodon won’t let me post it:

https://bsky.app/profile/lalegault.bsky.social/post/3mmwt6p37tk2w

Canadian Privacy Lawyer:
#Canada #cdnpoli #tech #surveillance #privacy #encryption

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David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca • 15m Wow. The RCMP witness at #SECU just said encryption is the problem and Bill C-22 Lawful Access is the solution. 4 • 6 ... •

Solidarity over surveillance: The time is now to rein in the surveillance state

https://thenexusofprivacy.net/solidarity-over-surveillance/

#surveillance #privacy #activism

FBI procurement records show the agency wants nationwide access to automated license plate reader networks from vendors like Flock and Motorola. 🚔
Expanded ALPR access could enable broad vehicle tracking without warrants, as public opposition to mass surveillance systems grows across the U.S. 📷

🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/

#TechNews #FBI #ALPR #Flock #Motorola #Surveillance #Privacy #CivilLiberties #Tracking #Security #Transparency #FOSS #Data #Rights #Technology #MassSurveillance #US #USA #Trump

#Data is coming home, so to speak.

Of course, we always supported our corporate surveillance complex in collecting data,
but hey! they were not supposed to use them against us!
It s only for training #AI personalized ads, and such ...

https://www.wired.com/story/the-pentagon-knew-enemies-could-track-troops-phones-for-years-now-they-are/

#surveillance

The city of Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras with black trash bags in part because police there are unsure whether the cameras are still active and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down. The move comes after months of resident outrage, a scandal in which the city was sharing Flock camera data for immigration enforcement apparently on accident, and a $30,000 audit into how the cameras are being used.

Surveillance tech coming to a virtual couch near you!

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

https://www.404media.co/headway-therapy-facial-scan-biometric-data-identity-verification/

#Headway #Therapy #Security #Privacy #Surveillance #Health #Tech

You can't encrypt your physical face. So how do you fight back when police treat a flawed AI guess as divine truth?

Episode 28 of Impractical Privacy is out NOW.

🎧 Stream telemetry-free: https://ImpracticalPrivacy.com
#Privacy #FacialRecognition #MassSurveillance #Podcast #DigitalPrivacy #PhyiscalPrivacy #Police #PoliceTech #Surveillance #SurveillanceState #ImpracticalPrivacy #PrivacyTools #PrivacyMatters #DigitalSelfDefence

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From gait analysis to fingerprint theft, how worried should we be about the latest advances in biometric technology?
#Tech #AI #Biometrics #CyberSecurity #Surveillance #DataProtection #FacialRecognition #Fingerprint #VoiceAI #DigitalSecurity #DataPrivacy
https://the-14.com/from-gait-analysis-to-fingerprint-theft-how-worried-should-we-be-about-the-latest-advances-in-biometric-technology/

More #LicensePlateReader Mission Creep: #School Residency Verification, #BackgroundChecks , and Noise Complaints
#alpr #privacy #surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background

A formal petition has been brought to the House of Commons to repeal C-22 (the government mass surveillance bill). Please sign and share. #Canada #privacy #cdnpoli #Palantir #surveillance

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416

Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels

68% of Americans say they worry about surveillance pricing increasing the cost of goods, while just 5% believe it will lead to lower prices

#SurveillancePricing #ESLs #retail #shopping #privacy #surveillance #technology #tech

https://gizmodo.com/majority-of-americans-support-ban-on-surveillance-pricing-and-electronic-shelf-labels-2000762717

Researchers Issue Warning About Tech That Could Turn Every #Router ‘Into a Potential Means for #Surveillance’

https://gizmodo.com/researchers-issue-warning-about-tech-that-could-turn-every-router-into-a-potential-means-for-surveillance-2000763181

#privacy #WiFi

You can't sandbox a police department, and you can't encrypt your physical face. So how do you practice technical self-defense against state-level algorithms?

Episode 28 of Impractical Privacy is out NOW. We dive into the devastating human cost of flawed facial recognition software, how it loads the deck in police lineups, and real-world steps to fight the dragnet.

🎧 Stream it directly: https://ImpracticalPrivacy.com
#Privacy #FacialRecognition #MassSurveillance #TechJustice #Podcast #Surveillance

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‘#BusPatrol’ Put #AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access

https://www.404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-cameras-in-tens-of-thousands-of-school-buses-now-they-want-to-give-cops-access/

#police #education #privacy #surveillance

I was wondering if anyone had released any turn-key OS for a #PiZero or similar that detects devices like AXON cop tazers, wifi retail surveillance cameras, smart glasses etc...

So I asked #AI because it has indexed things like Github and should know this.

It didn't find anything, but immediately told me how to make it, and it was correct. I just wanted a shortcut.

I keep telling people, AI can be used against #bigtech

#surveillance #privacy #security #IT

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US #LawEnforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as #AI Hatred Grows

https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/

#privacy #FreeSpeech #surveillance

AI decides a grandmother looks "close enough" to a criminal suspect states away. The result? 6 months in a jail cell for a crime she didn't commit.

Ep28 of Impractical Privacy is out NOW.
We are talking the human cost of law enforcement's reliance on facial recognition software.

If AI can brand you a felon in a state you've never visited, your location doesn't protect you anymore.
🎧 Listen: https://ImpracticalPrivacy.com

#Privacy #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #Biometrics #AutomationBias #Podcast

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California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law

#AgeVerification #IDverification #dystopia #surveillance #privacy #Linux #opensource #technology

The FTC says Cox Media and two marketing firms falsely claimed they could listen to people through phones and smart devices to target ads. The companies agreed to pay $930,000 to settle the allegations.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/937027/cox-media-marketing-ai-powered-phone-spying-ads-ftc-fine

#privacy #surveillance #adtech
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#Surveillance #Palantir #Privacy #Anonymity #Freedom "Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." - Edward Snowden