RE: https://lawoffice.social/@barry/117191675217913156

Kristen Volpe, a 22‑year‑old student teacher in Washington, IL, sent a private #Snapchat #joke about “shooting” a student who wrecked her lesson plan. Snapchat’s #AI flagged the DM, alerted the FBI, and within an hour deputies arrested her for disorderly conduct—released on $0 bond, no charges, but her placement was terminated. This is the new pre‑crime era: AI‑driven surveillance decides threat, hands you to law‑enforcement before you even think #AIPrecrime #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism

I'm noting that Twitch is now (by default, unless disabled) mining user's streams to train Amazon's AI.

This reminds me that users of corporate controlled services have to maintain constant vigilance to have any hope of securing any privacy. The thing is though that most folk won't know (not on Fedi, for example), don't have the technical knowledge, or can't keep-up with all the changes to all the sites.

Best approach: stay away from corporate silos.

#privacy #Amazon #SurveillanceCapitalism

If you ever thought of chastising people for looking at their phone, consider this: If we end surveillance capitalism, the profit motive for hijacking everyone's attention disappears.

Let's put the blame where it belongs, because that's also where the solution is.

Also, for all you know, they might be talking someone off a ledge. Don't be too quick to deal out judgement, as the wizard said.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

The digital texture hardens, grainy with biometric scans demanding ID or selfie matches before lawful content. On #texturetuesday consider #DigitalID laws during our period of #ImperialDecline. #SurveillanceCapitalism is surrendering anonymity to read a book or stream a show. 28 states now enforce this. SCOTUS cleared the path in Paxton. The cost of #ChildSafety anonymity. The state is normalizing checkpoints for adults. Access to culture shouldn't require showing yoru papers. #SusanKlopferTruth

There are false binaries everywhere.

Politics. Gender. And in mobile phones the assumption is a phone's O/S is either iPhone or Android.

Not true. In this age of surveillance capitalism on the cusp of being supercharged by AI, there is no time like the present to reduce the amount of breadcrumbs we leave to the bad guys.

And one of the most effective ways, with behaviour modification and internet hygiene, is opting out of this fake binary.

#privacy #auspol #surveillancecapitalism

https://tuta.com/blog/degoogled-phones

They see you when you're speaking, they know when you take a shit 🎶

Canadian workers speak out against growing screen time surveillance

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/td-bank-bell-workplace-screentime-monitoring-9.7296526

#Surveillance #CDNPoli #Banking #Capitalism #SurveillanceCapitalism #Resist

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/117044102199638267

FLOCK OFF!

#Flock #Surveillancecapitalism

See how /e/OS protects my device from tracking attempts!
Mobile apps trackers are one of the most impactful threats regarding your privacy and your freedom.

#privacy #tracking #AppTracking #apptrackingprotection #eos #surveillancecapitalism

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Trackers blocked: 100% of all tracking attempts neutralized 21,659 just this week

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116968826554216628

"When it comes to making a new, good internet, there's plenty of room for labor law, civil rights legislation, antitrust, and other legal regimes. But privacy has the biggest constituency, gets us the most bang for the buck, and has the fewest harmful side-effects. It's a policy we can all agree on, even if we don't agree on much else. It's a coalition in potentia that would be unstoppable in reality." - @pluralistic

#privacy #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #tech #BigTech

Verona Wisconsinites voted to end the gaze, but #Flock refused to blink. The black trash bag is not concealment—it is a signal. It tells the apparatus we see it seeing us. Our city councils must mandate this shroud as policy: blind the cameras visibly until physical removal is complete. Don't negotiate with machines. Reclaim our sovereignty. #DeFlockAmerica #BlindTheEye #StopTheGaze #Privacy #ALPR #SurveillanceCapitalism

If you see this u r the #SurveillanceResistance

https://www.404media.co/flock-objects-to-our-removing-their-equipment-emails-reveal-why-a-town-put-bags-over-its-flock-cameras/

The new #Epstein playbook: a state archive of every citizen’s movements, formatted for extortion. #Flock mutated from car-tracking to scanning bodies—tattoos, race, attire. Mapping your life in real-time isn’t crime-fighting; it’s stockpiling leverage. When anonymity dies, surveillance becomes blackmail. The infrastructure of total control is live #SurveillanceCapitalism #SusanKlopferTruth #ALPR #Privacy #Palantir #trump #thiel #lonsdale #musk #zuckerberg #techbrofascism

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

It's a day of digital autopsies on #SurveillanceCapitalism island. We say goodbye to Sir #SamNeill #JurrasicPark while #Microsoft reveals Windows 11 is essentially surveillance software. An FBI complaint exposed #GDID, a persistent device fingerprint that tracks you across VPNs with no off switch. Buried in enterprise docs, not user consent. The architecture of control is built in plain sight. You're just #TooBusyTo read the registry keys they planted at HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\IdentityCRL

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116884302738509527

"To the argument that certain technologies and surveillance are in some way inevitable, I don't believe that to be true. It certainly doesn't have to be. You don't need to buy or use these invasive technologies, and you can reject them. Friends don't let friends wear pervert glasses." - Zack Whittaker

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #surveillance #resist

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Zack Whittaker » 🌐 2026-07-08
@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social

Smart glasses with cameras and microphones built-in and facial recognition to come are the latest fad in surveillance tech.

For my blog & newsletter ~ this week in security ~ I wrote about why the backlash against smart glasses — aka "pervert glasses" — is justified from a security and privacy perspective. Please read and share!

More: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/reframing-smart-glasses-as-pervert-glasses/

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What I think is unarguable at this point is Sillicon Valley wants a soul-sucking surveillance dystopia for 99.99999% of us. A place only billionaires have the privilege to escape from. #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #SiliconValley

I've stopped wearing my Apple Watch and surveillance capitalism is very mad at me

#surveillanceCapitalism

@Tutanota #Privacy is like #freebeer… it is better without #SurveillanceCapitalism. ✨ 👍

Whoops.

"Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock exposed the reasons cops conducted searches, and sometimes the specific searched license plates, in common search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing, according to tests by privacy advocates and 404 Media and a statement from the company."

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

#privacy #surveillancecapitalism

Your landlord doesn't just own the walls. They own the data.

Smart locks. Thermostats. Water sensors. They are logging your comings, goings, and habits to the cloud. And you didn't choose them.

Stop renting a surveillance node. Start reclaiming your sanctuary.

🎧 Ep 25 is live: impracticalprivacy.com

#ImpracticalPrivacy #TenantRights #DigitalPrivacy #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #DigitalRights #RentersRights #SmartHome #IoT

The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed

https://youtu.be/onYWQJsWFpk

Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to police without warrants, leading to a massive surveillance operation that generated $94 million in fines. This explosive investigation reveals how SMUD transformed smart meters into government spy devices, monitoring when you shower, sleep, or use appliances.

Innocent homeowners faced armed police raids for using electricity to power medical equipment or mine cryptocurrency. One resident was forced outside in his underwear at gunpoint, while another disabled veteran was threatened with arrest for refusing warrantless entry. The surveillance threshold dropped dramatically from 7,000 to just 2,800 kilowatt hours per month, making air conditioning use suspicious in Sacramento's brutal heat.

Internal documents expose how SMUD analysts actively mined customer data for police, checking over 10,000 homes in a single month. Despite California law explicitly prohibiting utilities from sharing precise meter data without warrants, SMUD violated these protections daily for a decade.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit could reshape smart meter privacy nationwide. With the October 2025 court decision approaching, every American with a smart meter needs to understand how their utility company might be spying on them right now.

#SMUD #SmartMeters #EFF #Privacy #Utilities #Electricity #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Spying #4thAmendment #WarrantlessSearch #Constitution #CivilRights #Courts #Lawsuit #SCOTUS #Cops #Police #Extortion #Fraud

@privacy@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe