Now that the CEO of Flock has called deflock.me a terrorist organization, I'd hate for other people to know about these other flock watchdog groups.

Please don't go on these websites, I beg you.

https://Alpr.wtf - Every U.S. jurisdiction using ALPR, plus how to file info requests.

https://EyesOnFlock.com - Crowdsourced map of Flock cameras and city contracts.

https://Deflock.me - Nationwide ALPR map tracking Flock deployments, removals, and resistance.

https://HaveIBeenFlocked.com — Quick check to see if Flock is watching your neighborhood.

https://DontGetFlocked.com — Plots your route, counts ALPR/Flock cameras, and suggests surveillance-free alternatives.

#flock #surveillance #uspol #police #politics #ai #noai #facialrecognition

"The border is open" was the headline. It's true, and it isn't the whole thing.

The fence at Gibraltar's crossing with Spain is genuinely gone — a real win for the 15,000 who cross daily for work. But the checks moved rather than disappeared: Spanish officers now check you at the airport and the port.

And where the fence stood, there are now 26 cameras, facial recognition, and plate readers.

#Gibraltar #Surveillance #Travel

https://www.thebluf.news/p/gibraltar-border-checks-moved-not-gone

"The retail sector [in Australia] has been so interesting, with broader surveillance technology. They're at the point where staff are wearing bodycams to protect them from customers, who are frustrated that there's no staff because everything's been automated."

https://burningplatforms.podbean.com/e/the-palantir-primer/

#BurningPlatforms #CentreOfThePublicSquare #PerCapita #privacy #surveillance #podcasts

Meta's new $299 glasses come with a higher true cost, sparking concerns about surveillance and data collection #surveillance

https://wesearch.press/s/surveillance-is-trendy-now-e84670cd?utm_source=social&utm_medium=auto&utm_campaign=mastodon

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Surveillance Is Trendy Now

"Police departments around the country have used Flock cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “heavy-set male with a black and white hat,” “person on skateboard,” and “person wearing orange vest and construction hat,” according to data reviewed by 404 Media. Sometimes searches reference a target’s race or signs of their political affiliation.

The searches highlight that while most people associate Flock cameras with scanning license plates and tracking vehicles, some of the cameras are also capable of following the movements of particular people or groups of people. Flock’s nationwide network of cameras lets police officers in one state search for a vehicle across many other states at once; the people searches do a similar thing, typically on a smaller scale, sometimes querying many hundreds of cameras at once. These are called “FreeForm” searches, and allow cops to use Flock’s system as though they would use a search engine, with Flock’s AI and image recognition interpreting what footage and which people are relevant to a police officer’s search."

https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/

#USA #Surveillance #Flock #Privacy

"This technical analysis provides the most detailed view yet into the inner workings of the Pegasus spyware system. This includes confirmation of key technical capabilities such as the infection vectors and methodologies used to infect devices, supported by analysis of internal NSO Group documents, that until now had only been identified via forensic investigations. It also presents new material further validating the accuracy and significance of the dataset underpinning the original Pegasus Project investigation. Finally, this research provides an updated analysis, drawing on previously published Pegasus forensic evidence and newly released materials, to validate the technical methodology used to forensically link Pegasus spyware attacks targeting different victims as originating from the same Pegasus customer.

A key aim of this publication is to document and demystify the functionality and operations of technological systems like Pegasus. We hope that it will inform the wider spyware accountability community on how complex surveillance systems such as Pegasus are used by government customers, and also illustrate the key and ongoing role of spyware vendors in keeping such systems operational. We believe this public understanding is of critical value to technologists, researchers, and policy makers and others with an interest in understanding the targeted surveillance ecosystem and threats posed to human rights by surveillance technologies.

The contents of this technical research draw heavily on a large pool of confidential NSO Group training material, presentations and internal technical documentation which were disclosed as part of a long-running civil case taken by WhatsApp and Meta against NSO Group in U.S. court. This new material provides an unprecedented insight into the evolution of NSO Group’s spyware."

https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2026/07/inside-pegasus-the-evolution-of-the-worlds-most-notorious-spyware/

#CyberSecurity #Spyware #NSOGroup #Pegasus #Surveillance #Privacy

"Health data is increasingly an important part of law enforcement or government investigations. Wearable data has been critical in a number of cases, where information about heart rate and steps was used to determine the whereabouts of individuals. And the surveillance company Penlink calls fitness trackers and wearables an “overlooked source” for law enforcement since they tend to show movement patterns and changes in heart rates. Law enforcement can try to get access to this data through subpoenas or warrants.

There are many potential privacy issues with these sorts of devices, including whether the companies who make them share or sell information to third-parties. But here we are choosing to focus on two facets we’re concerned with around health data itself: 1) whether the company shares information with law enforcement and governments and 2) if they offer end-to-end encryption, which means the company itself can’t access that health data to begin with."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/most-smart-watches-rings-and-bands-lack-basic-transparency-reports-and-key-privacy

#SmartObjects #SmartWatches #SmartRings #IoT #Surveillance #Privacy #CyberSecurity #Encryption

"The social media giant Meta partnered with controversial TV personality and cosmetics mogul Kylie Jenner for the design and marketing of an “entry-level” line of its widely criticized camera glasses late last month. The collaborative campaign quickly provoked a wave of public backlash over unresolved concerns about privacy, consent, and personal safety as surveillance technology rapidly evolves.

Based in the United Kingdom, the class-based activism group Everyone Hates Elon (EHE) visualized those concerns in a lenticular spoof ad that, based on where a viewer is standing, flips between a branded marketing photo of Jenner wearing a pair of Meta glasses and a black-and-white image showing a skeletal, X-ray version of her with the tagline “We’re always watching.”

The transformation element and the poster design appear to reference the politically charged sci-fi film They Live (1988), in which the main character encounters a pair of sunglasses that not only expose the extractive messaging of advertisements but reveal that humanity is being controlled, subdued, and exploited by a secret population of aliens masquerading as people. In the film, it’s later revealed that some humans have accepted monetary bribes to collaborate with the aliens."

https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/

#Meta #Rayban #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #Artivism #Privacy

Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras

Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.

 
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/4k77c#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance

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Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras

Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.

#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-public-schools-board-votes-to-continue-using-flock-cameras/article_9ebc2df1-6400-5deb-aa48-79d8b67088c0.html

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@elettrona @VeilleOff

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

(5/5)

...need for vision aids for target groups in need, but in public places, they should not be allowed at all.
You want to use it on private premises? Be my guest.

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@elettrona @VeilleOff

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

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..it is unacceptable for eyeware cameras to do the same thing with its surroundings.

Explain toe, why there needs to be an upload channel (if there is one so far) or even a permanent-storage (flash?) chip?

5) In some cultures, it is offensive to even take a picture without first asking consent.
From my point of view, filming me, in particular storing the pictures as you go, is offensive and unacceptable.

I do see a...

@elettrona @VeilleOff

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

(3/n)

...we all know Putin and MBS dies it.

3.) Why must there be a recording function? Biological eyes don't record, neither should mechanical aids.

4.) Likewise, we've all read the articles about these driving surveillance outfits, better known as #TESLAs, constantly filming its environment and its interior. (TESLA operators are reported to have made fun of their clients while observing them in the cars).
OFC, this is...

Acting on behalf of the Cleveland Mayor’s wishes, too.

Flock No… encountered opposition from a pro-Flock organization, seemingly led by the Cleveland Clergy Coalition, whose Executive Director is Pastor Aaron Phillips…

In fact, since May 2025, Mayor Bibb has paid [Phillips’] Engagement Consulting Inc., listed at the same address discussed above, $2,500 per month, for a total of $17,500 in 2025.

404 Media: How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars

Jul 16, 2026 at 9:56 AM

Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.

https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/

#bigbrother #surveillance #flock

@elettrona @VeilleOff

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

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1.) Does *everyone* really need such a tool, given the very serious #Security issues of #Meta's (Sp)AI glasses?

As this article shows, the downloads of these connected #RayBans can be sufficient to identify and track down a complete stranger's home address:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/116928975023533388

Anyone can imagine fanboy and stalker problems. How about sexual abusers? What if the data is used to hunt down regime critics...

Mullvad VPN Did A Complete F*CK-UP

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7UmyDGjxO_s

„Mullvad founder and co-owner Daniel Berntsson donated five million Swedish Krona, ~$500k, to a local political party in Sweden. That on its own is a red flag to someone like me, who believes private donations to politicians and their parties should be illegal. But that’s not the biggest problem of this donation.

The biggest problem is what kind of a party this Mullvad owner personally donated to. It’s to the Örebro Party. A party with policies so broad and across the spectrum they seem to appeal to everyone all at once. But one of them, the key one in fact, stands out as the most incompatible with privacy and personal freedom. Values that the Mullvad company claims to uphold.

Örebro's political platform amounts to establishing a deeply authoritarian surveillance state in order to enforce their policies. If I just told you what it is you might not immediately see why it’s a problem so let me give you a deep political analysis of this situation."

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#mullvad #vpn #privacy #opensource #foss #surveillance #technology

@elettrona

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

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I can see your point, Elena, the glasses are but a tool. (Also, I've worked with people with disabilities.)
So is a handgun, regarding which people in most countries think that it's distribution to people should be minimized.

Also, many people have concerns even about #SecurityCameras in public spaces with security issues.

So, I'd like to throw in a couple of discussion points for all:

@VeilleOff

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. #Flock #privacy #ALPR #surveillance #indigoprivacy

I just came across this video made by David Bombal. Yes, I know he’s an influencer trying to sell you his courses and promoting affiliate programs, so you should take this with a grain of salt. But unfortunately it’s true: vendors like Apple and Google are telling us what we’re allowed to do with our phones. When trying to setup your iPhone in the UK, you run into an age verification process before you can do anything else. And they’re claiming that they are using information like credit card or ID to prove that you are an adult.

And it’s not only happening in the UK, it happens everywhere. And it’s very likely that it’s going to happen in your country too. Maybe a good opportunity to consider getting a Pixel and install GrapheneOS on it…

#ageverification #privacy #surveillance

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ViWVlXg2NTU&ra=m

The US House passed the KIDS Act, a bill that would introduce internet age-gating measures aimed at protecting minors online. 🏛️
EFF argues the proposal would expand online surveillance instead of privacy protections, with broader implications for anonymity and the open web. 🔒

@eff

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/dont-let-congress-age-gate-internet-effector-3813

#TechNews #Kids #KIDSAct #Children #Privacy #AgeVerification #Surveillance #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #Cybersecurity #Technology #OpenWeb #Policy #Security #EFF

I thought at first the meta pervert glasses were a continuous connection, only to realize now that you need the meta AI app in order to export.

You need the ...Meta AI app... in order... to export...okayyy lol. Damn the user privacy really is zero; not to mention every other person's privacy in their sweep.

This is just an attempt to lock-in another market - now that their VR world is dead, and facebook/instagram is slowly dying, they're refocusing to another market that's dependent on wanna-be influencers and gross manosphere idiots.

I really was hoping meta would die off eventually but people keep taking the bait. Between flock cameras, waymo cameras, ring cameras, tesla cameras, meta glasses cameras., etc etc etc...we are really becoming quite a multi-perspective surveillance state.

#privacy #meta #metaAI #metaglasses #facebook #instagram
#surveillance #opsec

Daily podcast: Flock Cameras: Public Safety or Mass Surveillance?

#News #TechNews #Flock #FlockCameras #Surveillance #Privacy #PrivacyMatters

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DuA6kDhwjiz2eKdi5IaPE

Flock Cameras: Public Safety or Mass Surveillance?

#News #TechNews #Flock #FlockCameras #Surveillance #Privacy #PrivacyMatters

https://youtu.be/00h6-vKnZxs

Flock Cameras: Public Safety or Mass Surveillance?

#News #TechNews #Flock #FlockCameras #Surveillance #Privacy #PrivacyMatters

https://youtu.be/00h6-vKnZxs

The internet is full of privacy traps and data scrapers, but there is one big tech company you can't avoid: your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Through your router, they have the ability to see all the websites you visit and detect where you are in your home, even if you don't have a connected device near you.
#privacy #surveillance #proton #technology

https://youtu.be/24_94bGpWQM?si=wzq3mJxm9ZwPnnM-

The protest group Everyone Hates Elon is taking on Meta Glasses over surveillance.

Huff Post: Kylie Jenner's Dystopian Meta Glasses Get Brutal Backlash: 'It’s Giving Fascism, Not Fashion Hun' https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kylie-jenner-meta-glasses-fascist_n_6a565e74e4b0540b8c7b111a @huffingtonpost #Meta #surveillance #privacy

Texas bought $4.5 million SUVs equipped with fake cell towers to track every phone nearby. It's like Cyberpunk surveillance in real life.

The tech forces devices to connect and sweeps data from innocent bystanders, not just suspects. SCOTUS previously ruled location tracking counts as a search. This dragnet violates the 4th Amendment.

Source: https://cybernews.com/privacy/us-police-israeli-spy-vans-falconet-cognyte/

#Privacy #Surveillance

The "Digital Toll" is a double scam. The tech architect makes you pay to build the very infrastructure that enslaves you. These forced AI fees don't fund progress; they finance the expansion of a massive surveillance and control grid. We are paying the lords to build our own digital prison. #DigitalToll #Surveillance #AI

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​Set against a solid black background with a glowing cyan grid, a vibrant orange-red step line tracks the performance trajectory of proprietary "Closed weights" models (such as GPT-4, o1, and GPT-5.5 Pro). Running parallel is a glowing magenta-pink line mapping the rapid rise of "Open weights" models (including Llama, DeepSeek-R1, and Kimi K2.6). The visual features a neon green "2K115" logo in the top right corner, completing the sleek, high-contrast cyberpunk aesthetic.

«Drugs, Data and Justice: Resisting algorithmic policy, building safety»

🗓 Wednesday 22nd July
💻 Online (Zoom) ⏳ 1:30h
🕐 13:00 UTC / 🕒 15:00 CEST
💬🇬🇧🇵🇹 English and Portuguese
ℹ️ Full information: https://idpc.net/events/2026/07/drugs-data-and-justice-resisting-algorithmic-policing-building-safety
✍️ Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I5-sArc6RtW2NLjHcnqgFQ#/registration

> How does drug control fuel surveillance, and how can we build safety instead?

> Join us for a participatory roundtable on algorithmic policing and avenues for advocacy, resistance and accountability.

#HarmReduction #Surveillance #Online #Roundtable #Conectas #EDRi #IDPC #Statewatch #SWAN #2026W30

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«Drugs, Data and Justice: Resisting algorithmic policy, building safety» Interactive roundtable with live translation between English and Portuguese. 22 July 2026, from 15:00 to 16:30 CEST. How does drug control fuel surveillance and how are communities organising to build safety instead? From facial recognition to welfare profiling, participants will unpack real-world harms exchange advocacy approaches, and highlight community practices that navigate and resist surveillance. Presentations and facilitation by: Carla Vreche (Conectas Direitos Humanos), Juan Fernández Ochoa (IDPC), Romain Lanneau (Statewatch), Trajche Janushev (SWAN).] [logos: Conectas, EDRi, IDPC, Statewatch, SWAN.]

Chat Control : la surveillance de masse votée par la petite porte. (2026)
https://www.informassue.tuxfamily.org/pages/technologies_surveillance.php?art=chat_control_2025&st=eu_chat_control_09_07_2026
Le vote du 9 juillet 2026 : adopté malgré une majorité d'opposants. Seule consolation, une messagerie chiffrée de bout en bout comme Signal.org est épargnée, pour l'instant...

#ChatControl #Surveillance #EU #Messagerie

ICE’s internal watchdog has opened more than 100 investigations into alleged doxing and threats targeting agency employees, according to court filings. 🛡️
The cases include efforts to identify online critics, raising transparency and free speech concerns over expanding government surveillance powers. ⚖️

🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/ices-internal-watchdog-is-now-investigating-online-critics/

#TechNews #ICE #USA #US #Privacy #Surveillance #FreeSpeech #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #Government #Infosec #DataProtection #Security #CivilLiberties #Police #Trump

Florida police records allege an officer used DMV data and a license plate reader to track a woman he met before stopping her in traffic. 🚔
Investigators say he knew the database access was unauthorized, highlighting surveillance abuse risks and the need for stronger oversight. 🔒

🔗 https://www.404media.co/footage-shows-cop-stalking-woman-he-met-on-a-tv-set-after-surveilling-her-with-a-license-plate-reader/

#TechNews #Surveillance #Privacy #LicensePlateReaders #LawEnforcement #Law #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #DataProtection #Infosec #Technology #CivilLiberties #Government #Florida #USA #US

From Dave's Garage on Youtube:

The Controversial Flock Cameras Tracking Every Car — Full Breakdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJSgsf9ro38
#surveillance

We live in the sort of timeline where I had to spend extra effort while shopping for my new prescription glasses frame to make sure it was unambiguously clear that these aren't surveillance pervert glasses.

Yep. We're there.

These horrifying non-consensual surveillance glasses are everywhere now. That's life now. I hate it 🤓

#BanRayBan #Meta #PervertGlasses #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #Privacy #Consent

"The criticism of eye-worn gadgets capable of surveillance isn't new, though the online discourse — "Meta Glasses" repeatedly trended on Meta's own Threads app last week, for the wrong reasons — seems to have intensified following the release of Meta's latest cheaper lineup, as well as reports about an unreleased facial recognition feature for the product. For whatever reason, this time the backlash seems to be having a real effect.

Engadget spoke with five creators, photographers and others who were once enthusiastic about Meta's smart glasses about how public perception has changed their habits.

"A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product," Danielle, a Florida-based creator and travel host who asked to be identified by first name only, told Engadget. Initially she enjoyed using her smart glasses for capturing travel content from the international trips she hosts. Then she read a story about how contractors working for Meta said they had been tasked with reviewing intimate images and other sensitive details captured by glasses owners.

Further reporting of men using Meta-branded glasses to film videos of themselves harassing women in public sealed the deal. She says she hasn't used them since. "I wouldn't feel comfortable around somebody wearing them, so I wouldn't expect anybody to be comfortable around me wearing them, no matter where I am.
(...)
Other creators who have previously purchased the frames now say they are using the product less often due to fears that people around them will assume they're doing something "creepy."

Christian Eisenbarth is a Los Angeles-based videographer who was gifted a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses by his girlfriend. He says that while he had previously been eyeing a pair for use on his video shoots, he has yet to use them outside of his home "mainly due to being afraid of being labeled as a creep.""
https://www.engadget.com/2212604/the-meta-glasses-backlash-is-changing-how-or-if-people-use-them/

#Meta #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #Privacy

#LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen

https://www.404media.co/lapd-regularly-pulled-over-innocent-people-because-license-plate-readers-flagged-their-cars-as-stolen/

#privacy #Flock #ALPR #surveillance

The EU relaxes its replaceable batttery rules for smart glasses after US pressure.

Smart glasses are in European regulators’ and lawmakers’ crosshairs over privacy and surveillance concerns.

But the bloc’s batteries regulation also held up the EU rollout of Meta’s latest model in recent months because the glasses’ built-in batteries cannot be easily removed and replaced.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260714-the-eu-relaxes-its-replaceable-batttery-rules-for-smart-glasses-after-us-pressure?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#SmartGlasses #Tech #Batteries #Privacy #Surveillance #Meta #RayBan #EU

Some days working in data protection & information security feels like screaming into the void...

People attend the mandatory trainings every year, agree that the rules are important in theory... and then act completely surprised when those rules are supposed to apply to their own devices and habits. The moment privacy causes even the slightest inconvenience, it is treated as absurd bureaucracy rather than basic protection.

...And it doesn’t stop at work. In private life people hand enormous amounts of personal information to a handful of corporations without much thought, while reacting to privacy concerns or alternatives with eye-rolling, jokes or the usual “I have nothing to hide.”

#DataProtection #Privacy #InfoSec #DigitalRights #Surveillance #NothingToHide

This is a big deal!

A research scientist at Google DeepMind has broken cover and is calling out Google’s leadership on a deal it has signed with the US govt that could see its AI used for military and surveillance purposes.

#AI #Google #Surveillance

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Andreas Kirsch @BlackHC I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose” Not one safeguard survived intact

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Andreas Kirsch @BlackHC But today's LLMs are not robust enough to make life-and-death decisions on their own. They hallucinate. They fail in surprising, banal ways. They should not be used for targeting decisions or as part of autonomous weapons. And the bigger problem isn't military use at all. 8:37 AM - Jul 14, 2026 - 4,435 Views

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Andreas Kirsch @BlackHC The reported contract does not exclude mass surveillance, and it keeps paths open that could extend to autonomous policing. These don't defend us against foreign adversaries. They shift power from citizens toward the state, in ways that are very hard to reverse. 8:37 AM - Jul 14, 2026 - 3,995 Views

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Andreas Kirsch @BlackHC An Al system instructed to suppress a protest does not feel the moral weight of that order. It will not hesitate, unless it is appropriately aligned. Soldiers are required by law to refuse manifestly illegal orders. I know of no such requirement for autonomous military Al. 8:37 AM - Jul 14, 2026 - 3,387 Views