surveillance

“There’s this veneer of respect for privacy that is painted over all of this data aggregation and consolidation.”

But beneath it all, #privacy experts warn that smartphone-monitoring software "Tangles" is the latest in a law enforcement arsenal, from surveillance #tech to an army of drones, operating with little oversight.

Our latest from Francesca D'Annunzio is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/

#police #surveillance #law #politics #USpol #news

The Museum Of Urban Reclaimed Spaces in NYC will be hosting a film festival all about #privacy and #surveillance from September 24th - 26th!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/14th-annual-morus-film-festival-spyborg-tickets-1998438711984

#fediverse #mastodon @privacyguides @privacyint @naomibrockwell @deflocktheusa @eff @defcon

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"The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy." ~ Elizabeth Holtzman

#quote #surveillance #winter #nature #FootBridge

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RE: https://g0v.social/@tony915/117029355642888146

是監控所有人。外籍人士只是順便而已。
在系統和數據庫中，
中國籍和非中國人員可能是分開的。
記者正好發現了境外人員的。

新冠疫情後有個顯著特徵是，攝像頭大幅增加。
原來也很多，但疫情發生後就非常瘋狂了。
自己認為城市裡的公共空間幾乎全覆蓋了。
非城市的部分可能會有遺漏，
畢竟人煙稀少的地方大量部署成本不划算。

這也意味著從每天出門到回來，
所有人的活動軌跡都是盡在掌握的。
配合線上線下到處都是實名制，
畫面太美Stasi都會笑出來。

還有想起來，以前看到現在有些年輕人，
甚至不知道疫情前中國的大學是可以自由進出的。
真的是悲哀。

https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20260803/china-surveillance-foreigners-database/zh-hant/

#中國 #China #在21世紀理解極權專制 #監控社會主義時代 #SurveillanceSocialism #數字極權時代 #監控 #Surveillance

ONE BILLION personally-identifiable records were leaked by IDMerit an “AI-powered digital identity verification solutions provider”. The leaked data included:

Full names
Addresses
Post codes
Dates of birth
National IDs
Phone numbers
Genders
Email addresses
Telco metadata

Good thing we’re not uploading personally-identifiable documents for age or identity verification or anything whatsoever OH WAIT

FUCK all this surveillance tech. FUCK this identity verification bullshit. No one can be trusted with this information.

#dataBreach #surveillance #privacy

https://cybernews.com/security/global-data-leak-exposes-billion-records/

Yes, we do.

Former Military Officials, Academics, and Tech Policy Leaders Denounce Pentagon's Tactics Against Anthropic

https://gizmodo.com/former-military-officials-academics-and-tech-policy-leaders-denounce-pentagons-tactics-against-anthropic-2000729872

#AI #Anthropic #AIethics #Pentagon #Hegseth #surveillance #privacy #news #press

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pettet8/116742131579090788

“Google was a different company 9 years ago.”

Hmm… was it, though? 🤔

https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie

#google #BigTech #peopleFarming #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #meaCulpa

🇪🇺 🚨Final negotiations on Chat Control 2.0 just started between the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the EU.

What is good:

✅ Encryption will not be broken

What is bad:

❌ Commission & Council want #IDchecks

Lots of journalists, whistleblowers, activists and dissidents choose Tuta to protect their identity. We hope the European Parliament will stick to their decision to oppose mass #surveillance and #censorship.

More on Chat Control: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism

#Surveillance #SurveillanceCameras

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Proton built their entire brand on one promise: Swiss law means government agencies can't touch your data.
Their own Terms of Service, their own infrastructure contracts, and a federal court case from March say otherwise.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/not-even-government-agencies

#bigtech #blog #infosec #privacy #proton #protonmeet #security #surveillance #userhostile #selfhosting

#IsraelFirst Doesn't Want You To Have #Privacy #tyt #yt #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #Security #ADL #Israel

https://youtu.be/HHy2LBBiW4s

ADL #Greenblatt: I’m paraphrasing, we are monitoring all of them—be it left-wing, be it anti-war, be it pro-Palestine… 24/7/365. Everywhere on all platforms… Wow, apparently the #ADL has nothing better to do than to monitor their fellow citizens… cynical 👏👏👏

I have tolerance for many things… BS like this isn’t part of it…

Not only does #BigTech #AI #surveillance capitalist #nerdreichers want our data to farm us like pack animals. But also people who are genocide apologists…

And all the laws that are trying to weaken privacy and security make much more sense now, doesn’t it. #VPNs? Nah. #E2E? Who needs that—#AgeID verification… It’s much easier to smear and defame one when someone already has a troublemaker’s ID, amirite? Surveillance #adtech yes please #brokergate I SAY FUCK THIS SHIT TO ALL OF IT… #FlockOFF

https://activistchecklist.org

#flock #deflock #mastodon #fediverse #surveillance

https://noalprs.com/

@deflocktheusa

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🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. 🚨

Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.🇦🇺🇬🇷 🇧🇷

What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

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⚠️ Github CLI now has telemetry spyware built in:

https://cli.github.com/telemetry

They're shifting the burden onto users by requiring YOU to opt out, instead of making it opt in.

Run `gh config set telemetry disabled` to disable it.

#privacy #foss #github #cybersecurity #surveillance

December I’ll be back on the job market!

Looking to counter:
- police surveillance tech
- smart city tech being repurposed as surveillance

Especially at the intersection of racial residential segregation in the US.

My background is in public interest tech, tech, and sociology.

Prefer advocacy org to municipal government, but I’m open-minded.

I’ve worked remote for 15+ years and my disability kind of makes it necessary for that to continue.

#GetFediHired #police #surveillance

Rated V for Vendetta 8/10

Schattenweg ✨🥾☂️🥷🏽

For everyone with an #Android phone in #Berlin, download #Schattenweg to avoid (AI) #surveillance cameras!

Plan routes avoiding surveillance cams, filter by cam type & other layers. Live AI cams in #Kotti now mapped.

Fully Offline, Private, Free & #OpenSource! All data is crowd sourced by amazing people like us 🖤

Here is the guide to install:
🔗 https://github.com/phrag/SchattenWeg

在中國，這不叫backdoor，而是feature。
而且有關部門也不需要後門，
因為可以直接走正門。
那些科技大廠都會配合的很好。

對於中國用戶來說，
物理隔離最多只是第二好的方案。
最好的方案是能不要用，就不要用。
如果不得不使用，
做好物理隔離的同時，還要儘可能減少使用。

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/russian-super-app-max-spy-citizens

#監控社會主義時代 #SurveillanceSocialism #數字極權時代 #監控 #Surveillance

NATO Militaries Seek Satellite Imagery to Spot Threats Early: CEO https://www.byteseu.com/2388165/ #area #continent #demand #Europe #Marshall #NATO #NatoAlly #orbit #planet #SatelliteImagery #SatelliteService #service #surveillance #Ukraine #UsSignal #year

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Learn about #encryption at #EncryptFest online, in Boston, or New Haven on October 25: https://u.fsf.org/4ck #FreeSoftware #surveillance #FSF

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This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago.

The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely staggering. And it gets worse if you use their apps, particularly the LG TV "network":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

Having an old set DOES NOT HELP YOU; they've been adding these spying functions in firmware updates.

So DO NOT BUY ANYTHING LG. Certainly not anything "smart."

#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus

Updating my #FediIntro post for #AoIR #AoIR2026: I'm a former #nonprofit tech worker from Mexico, current lecturer and researcher at MIT (#STS or Science, Technology, and Society -- or Science and Technology Studies!) I study past and present data controversies using archival, ethnographic, and participatory research techniques.

Outside my session and side events, I might be running #surveillance tours in CDMX. Please ping me if you need Mexico recs or troubleshooting!