First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.
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Today we celebrate German Unity Day!
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/germany-unity-day
On October 3rd in 1990, Germany became one, and became a truly democratic country. 🗳️
We are reminded that we can't take the freedoms we currently enjoy for granted, including privacy & the freedom of speech.
Outlook not so good 🎱
Police tech doesn’t predict crime. It predicts policing.
Based on biased data, it brings more of the same – racist policing and poverty punishment.
Read our latest blog on why crime 'predicting' police tech must be BANNED ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/why-predictive-policing-must-be-banned/
#policing #AI #precrime #justice #criminal #police #ukpol #ukpolitics #surveillance
Age-verification laws are a backdoor for #surveillance.
Remember, any time legislators demand that you give them the ability to monitor your activities using the tired excuse of “think of the children!”: they really don’t give a shit about the children. They only want to monitor you.
If they really think social media is addictive and bad for children, they’d regulate the industry, instead of asking everyone to upload a video of their ID and/or faces to verify their identity.
Pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map and resource that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/
By mapping out the intricate web of surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, we hope to expose the enablers fueling this industry's extensive rights violations, ensuring they cannot evade accountability for being complicit in this abuse.
#Privacy #Surveillance #InfoSec
1/4 🚨 The Digital Omnibus proposals are here - and our rights and protections online are officially under threat 🚨
The proposals published today endanger the very core of EU's digital protections for people - the #GDPR, #ePrivacy and the #AIAct.
Weakening these safeguards would entrench #surveillance, profiling and algorithmic #discrimination in every aspect of society 🙅🏾
Read our press release for more details: https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/
Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, Microsoft.
#microsoft #copilot #ai #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #tech #github #softwaredevelopment
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK is rogue in trying to order a backdoor to Apple encryption.
US lawmakers slam the UK's secretive order, calling it what it is:
🔥 'Dangerous' for global cybersecurity
🔥 'Effectively a foreign cyberattack'
The Home Office must back off ✋
#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple #privacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/13/apple-uk-security-back-door-adp/
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Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked — you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that
Windows 11's online Microsoft Account requirement means your PC is automatically backing up its data encryption key to the cloud, and Microsoft says it will hand those over to the FBI if asked.
#Microsoft #Windows11 #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #encryption #technology #software #dystopia
We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/we-caught-4-more-states-sharing-personal-health-data-with-big-tech
#maine #surveillance #healthcare #HealthData #BigTech #IllegalMonopoly
Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn
Maine’s exchange, CoverME.gov, sent information on drug prescriptions and dosages to Google through an analytics tool. It also sent the names of doctors and hospitals that people had previously visited.
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/we-caught-4-more-states-sharing-personal-health-data-with-big-tech
#maine #surveillance #healthcare #HealthData #BigTech #IllegalMonopoly
If Cloudflare really is "verifying" that I'm human with its obnoxious widget, why does it do this for multiple web sites and over and over again for a given web site? Shouldn't it be able to verify I'm human once and for all? What exactly are they doing with their sprawling control of all these web sites if not adding value through economy of scale?
#Cloudflare #SecurityTheater #surveillance #web #tech #dev #DarkPattern
#Cloudflare #SecurityTheater #surveillance #web #tech #dev #DarkPattern
My Pixel 10 warned me that there was a rogue connection made on my phone.
A concerning thing happened today while I was walking through my building. I have a #Pixel 10 Pro XL phone, which may be the first phone to give warnings when the phone connects to a rogue cellphone tower or IMSI catcher. The OS cannot block it; it can only tell you that someone read information, and it presents an alert. It says,
"Your data may be at risk. Device ID accessed. At 6:57 PM a nearby network recorded your device's unique ID (IMSI or IMEI) while using your T-Mobile SIM. This means that your location, activity, or identity has been logged."
I didn't ever get an alert before walking through the building, but this time, during a 30-minute walk through the building, I got about 8 alerts, ranging between 1 and 3 minutes apart.
Using this information from repeated connections, someone can follow my movements and location; they can identify it's me because the IMSI number is unique to my phone, so it can be an indication that someone was collecting all the cellphone information in the area, most likely law enforcement.
It can also mean that I was connecting to a rogue cell phone tower, not just an IMSI catcher, and it was an attempted Stingray attack, likely also law enforcement. If successful, they can try to see and hear what I'm doing on my phone, as my phone won't know that it's a fake cellphone tower.
Be aware that a rogue tower will try to negotiate your phone's connection down to a 2G connection, which is unencrypted, providing them with access to everything that you are doing and saying. Please go into your phone's settings and disable 2G!!
It's been believed for some time that this technology has been used by law enforcement secretly and consistently. This is creepy and unnerving.
Turning off the phone, by the way, doesn't stop an IMSI catcher. Your phone still responds. You need to keep the phone in a Faraday bag if you're really concerned.
It's a good thing that phones are now starting to inform people that they are being watched and that people will begin to see how much of an issue this is. You can assume that your local law enforcement knows where you are all the time.
#CyberSecurity #LawEnforcement #PoliceAbuse #Privacy #surveillance
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I've published a new essay on my website.
“Into the Dark Wood: The Right to Be Unknown.”
Oblivion, autonomy, surveillance, and resisting a world that refuses to let us disappear.
Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
You "may be part of an experiment where your information will be processed by an age-assurance vendor, Persona."
#Discord #privacy #surveillance #AgeVerification #enshittification #Persona #Palantir #dystopia #socialmedia #gaming #technology
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116561792802802294
demanding everybody submits to #spyware and 24/7 #surveillance is digital slavery. it turns anywhere there is a mobile phone into an open prison.
you are gaslighting people to trap generations, now and forever, into open prisons controlled with #mobile tech and the #internet.
the Digital Services Act will turn #techbros into a globalized tyranny.
this isn't about protecting children.
this is about Brussels complicity in #USA #SiliconValley #fascism.
An #introduction post. New here, if I break a norm, please DM me.
I hate #BigTech and #surveillance and love #FOSS and #sewing. I am a non-violent #anarchist #vegan and politically engaged in #uspol and my local community. I've been a #hacker and #autodidact my entire life. I love learning. Very #queer and #transgender.
I've zero tolerance those who deny the genocide in #Palestine. I am rabidly pro #Ukraine.
I don't talk about my family, friends, work, town, or local organizing. #WeKeepUsSafe
"This page has expired. Please click refresh."
Oh? It smelled fine to me.
#web #internet #DarkPatterns #surveillance
Oh? It smelled fine to me.
#web #internet #DarkPatterns #surveillance
New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
#surveillance #tech #SocialMedia #GregAbbott #police #border #privacy #security #USpol #politics #news
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Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
#News #Indigenous #Environment #Surveillance #Nevada #ThackerPass #FBI
The war on crypto never ends. The war on privacy, civil rights, security and freedom of speech never ends.
This time we are dangerously close to lose. The "Child Sexual Abuse" (CSA) EU regulation proposal, more aptly nicknamed "ChatControl", will be voted AGAIN this October, and many countries who opposed it last year are now undecided. The proposal at its roots aims at allowing authorities to break end-to-end encryption for the usual reason: "because of the children". As a father of two, I am disgusted by this recurring, cheap rhetoric.
What you can do: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo
#eu #CSA #CSAM #ChatControl #privacy #security #surveillance #authoritarianism #crypto #cryptography #civilrights
My Rayhunter is live! All clear, so far. We'll see if it finds anything at this weekend's festivities. 🤔
This was pretty painless to get going (<$50 hardware, <5min setup).
#Rayhunter #CellSiteSimulator #Stingray #privacy #surveillance
US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search
very interesting #privacy and #surveillance case to keep an eye on
#grapheneOS #duress #counterDisruption #googlePixel #4A
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ld3UHAu6o
#Demonstreren is een #mensenrecht. Toch wordt het in de praktijk steeds vaker gezien als een #risico
In #Nederland zetten #autoriteiten #surveillance in tegen #demonstranten: #socialemedia worden doorzocht, er is #cameratoezicht bij #protesten en #activisten krijgen soms zelfs de #politie aan de deur. Dat kan mensen #afschrikken om gebruik te maken van hun recht om te demonstreren, terwijl juist dat recht cruciaal is in een #democratie #rechtsstaat #politiek #politie
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