Search results for tag #surveillance
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The Guide to Peer-to-Peer, Encryption, and Tor: New Communication Infrastructure for Anarchists
"An exhaustive anarchist overview and guide to various apps and tech that utilize peer-to-peer and encryption.
Shhhhh
This is a discussion about digital tools for communicating securely and privately. To begin, it must be stressed that a face-to-face meeting, out of sight of cameras and out of earshot from other people and devices, is the most secure way to communicate. Anarchists were going for walks to chat long before encrypted texting existed, and they should still do so now, whenever possible."
Download and Print PDF Version from @igd_news
For Reading online
https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/petguide_read.pdf
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https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/petguide_imposed.pdf
#Surveillance #Metadata #Datasecurity #Datenschutz #activism #antireport #support
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Karikatur einer Hand mit einem Handy mit Sprechblase. Aus der Sprechblase kommt eine Flamme in Rot.
Beschriftung :
"The Riot is one Night..... (oben)
......but Metadata Lasts Forever (unten)
#Surveillance #SurveillanceCameras
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zwei kaputte kamera in nahaufnahme an einer laterne. In den Kameras haben sich jeweils zwei Spatzen eingenistet.
#ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate #Surveillance - https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-adult-mode-new-era-of-intimate-surveillance/ "OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a #privacy nightmare."
Strong recommend to see this new BBC documentary Inside The Rage Machine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sw4z
It shows you, in less than an hour, how big tech deliberately farms rage, to boost "engagement", to boost advertising $.
One of those programs that, if everyone saw it, the world would be a better place.
Find alternatives to #bigtech here:
The US government is secretly developing one of the largest surveillance systems in American history — a mega-database merging information from dozens of federal agencies to create "360-degree profiles" of immigrants.
The DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) program integrates data from Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and the IRS. What's being collected includes immigration status, employment records, tax filings, biometric data, and potentially social media monitoring.
Privacy experts warn this could become the most comprehensive surveillance tool ever created by the US government. The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls it "a dangerous expansion of government surveillance threatening the privacy rights of millions."
Five key risks:
No transparency about what data is collected or how it will be used
Mission creep — systems built for immigrants inevitably expand to other populations
Inadequate privacy protections and independent oversight
Data breach risk from concentrating sensitive information in one system
Discriminatory potential for profiling based on ethnicity or national origin
This program follows a global trend toward digital authoritarianism. China's social credit system, Russia's "Sovereign Internet" — now America's version. Tools built for "protection" become tools of control.
https://newsgroup.site/doge-immigrant-surveillance-database-usa-2026/
#Surveillance #Privacy #DOGE #CivilRights #DataPrivacy #DigitalRights
Pivoted to AI. Engineers at Meta are high on their own supply, uncritically believing instructions from their own AI.
Aisha Down: #Meta #AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees. Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internally.
#privacy #surveillance @davidgerard
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees
RE: https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/reply/the-local-tech-neighbourhood
@fabio compares the "just use Linux" guys and "just self-host it" guys to professional and hobbyist bakers who tell people with other priorities to "just make your own bread" in a hypothetical scenario where Big Bread would start to charge subscription fees.
In such a world, hobbyist bakers could offer their friends to make bread for them at modest prices, perhaps even teach those who show interest. They wouldn't tell them all to learn baking and buy the machines and to learn gardening and to grow their own tomatoes because nobody can do everything.
We computer people should start thinking like that: Letting our 10–20 friends in on our DIY Netflix server or Nextcloud instance for a few bucks to cover electricity costs. It's a win-win situation for everyone.
Wild.
"Parr’s experiment and documentary raises questions, of course, about who gets to have privacy in America. A wealthy enclave has set up the legal and surveillance infrastructure to be able to prevent being mapped. The rest of us, meanwhile, are subject to all sorts of surveillance by our neighbors and law enforcement."
#google #googlemaps #mapping #image #maps #privacy #surveillance #street #public #private
https://www.404media.co/mapping-googles-unmappable-city/
A partir del 8 de mayo, META podrá acceder al contenido de todas las conversaciones privadas en Instagram; podrá ver y disponer del contenido de todos los mensajes enviados entre usuarios. Ahora vienen por los datos PRIVADOS para el entrenamiento de sistemas de IA generativa y cibervigilancia ⚠️
#META #AI #Instagram #E2E #data #private #dataprotection #privacy #Zuckerberg #generativeAI #surveillance #signal
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Funciones de Instagram
Mensajes
Qué es el cifrado de extremo a extremo en Instagram
Los mensajes cifrados de extremo a extremo en Instagram dejarán de estar disponibles a partir del 8 de mayo de 2026.
Si tienes chats que se vean afectados por este cambio, verás las instrucciones sobre cómo puedes descargar cualquier contenido multimedia o mensaje que quieras conservar.
Si utilizas una versión anterior de Instagram, es posible que también tengas que actualizar la aplicación para poder descargar los chats afectados.
https://help.instagram.com/491565145294150/?helpref=uf_share
#Surveillance #FaceRecognition #Data #SocialMedia #Privacy #KI #AI
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Yellow background with black color blobs and pink labeled boxes.
"My Face / My Data" in two pink boxes each. Underneath in yellow "stop posting people on the internet without permission" (also highlighted in pink)
next to it is a sketched person with a black bar over his eyes.
https://hermine-termine.net/myfacemydata/
The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized database containing intimate details about every resident of this country, fully searchable by artificial intelligence. This powerful tool would empower the government to conduct previously unimagined levels of surveillance and harassment against its own people.
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/17/government-surveillance-centralized-database-privacy/
#US #privacy #surveillance #AI #technology #dystopia #fascism #AgeVerification
Espionnés par nos apps | Documentaire | ARTE
— Présentées comme anonymes et confidentielles, les données collectées par les applications mobiles sont en réalité revendues par des courtiers sur un vaste marché mondial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvycdwmyeek
#vieprivée #donnéespersonnelles #surveillance
Private Email Providers that respect GDPR #Privacy #GDPR #Proton #Tuta #Bigtech #EU #email #degoogle #european #Surveillance #mailbox #Europe #startmail #mailfence #encryption
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Email providers that respect privacy tuta.com, protonmail, inbox.eu, mailfence.com, mailbox.org mail.de startmail soverin.com eclipso.eu runbox.com combell.com posteo.de theyxz
#Android vs #iOS security: Which operating system is safer? | Proton
https://proton.me/blog/android-vs-ios-security
#vieprivée #donnéespersonnelles #surveillance #privacy
Congress Proposes Legislation to Require Warrants for FBI Access to Americans’ Communications
📰 Original title: US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/congress-proposes-legislation-to-require-warrants-for-fbi-access-to-americans-communications/?redirpost=4a192eb5-1d6f-4699-9680-b3c2f7e5d8cb
#surveillance #ArtificialIntelligence #TechLawyer
"The human right to #privacy enshrined in the non-binding Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), has been sidelined by successive US administrations. " Act accordingly, 🌎
From 2021... This started before #Trump, but things are way worse now!
#AntiProtestLaws Threaten #Indigenous and #Climate Movements
“#CriticalInfrastructure” laws in over a dozen states wrongly invoke national security to justify targeting #PipelineProtesters.
Kaylana Mueller-Hsia, March 17, 2021
"In 2016 as a member of Congress, #DebHaaland stood for four days in solidarity with protesters at the #StandingRockSioux Reservation against construction of the #DakotaAccessPipeline. Today, as the first #NativeAmerican to be the secretary of the interior — the first to lead any cabinet department — she has the opportunity to support the #FirstAmendment rights of the protesters she joined in the past.
"With her authority over energy development on federal lands, Haaland can be a voice for Indigenous and climate movements facing an urgent threat: the rapid spread of laws to protect 'critical infrastructure' that single out activists.
"Since 2016, 13 states have quietly enacted laws that increase criminal penalties for trespassing, damage, and interference with infrastructure sites such as oil refineries and pipelines. At least five more states have already introduced similar legislation this year. These laws draw from national security legislation enacted after 9/11 to protect physical infrastructure considered so 'vital' that the 'incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety.'
"Many industry sectors are designated critical infrastructure, including food and agriculture, energy, water and wastewater, and communications, but most state critical infrastructure laws focus more narrowly on oil and gas #pipelines. While protecting critical infrastructure is a legitimate government function, these laws clearly target environmental and Indigenous activists by significantly raising the penalties for participating in or even tangentially supporting pipeline trespassing and property damage, crimes that are already illegal. Many laws are modelled on draft legislation prepared by the American Legislative Exchange Council, also known as #ALEC, a powerful lobbying group funded by #FossilFuel companies like #ExxonMobil and #Shell.
"Central to the new critical infrastructure laws are increased criminal penalties and vague, broad definitions that could discourage protest and particularly, nonviolent civil disobedience. Many laws make any 'damage' to or 'interference' with a facility deemed critical infrastructure a felony. Under #Ohio’s law, trespass with the purpose of 'tampering' with a facility is a third degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. In Indiana, a felony conviction is applied for any facility trespass, a crime that is typically a misdemeanor or fine.
"Vague language like 'damage,' 'tamper,' and 'impede' in critical infrastructure laws makes it unclear if, for example, knocking down #SafetyCones and starting a fire next to a natural gas facility are the same under the law. Many critical infrastructure laws do not clarify if they apply only to land a company fully owns or also to pipeline easements, which run through both public and private lands. At least some laws apply to both. Only a week after Louisiana’s critical infrastructure law was enacted, opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline were charged with trespassing for boating on public waters on the border of a pipeline easement.
"The combination of overly broad language and steep penalties in critical infrastructure laws make it likely that future activists and supporting organizations will be discouraged from exercising their First Amendment-protected protest rights. A lawsuit brought in response to the #BayouBridge charges will test the laws for the first time on First Amendment grounds.
"Many of these laws even extend beyond the protesters. In a proposed law in #Minnesota, anyone who 'recruits, trains, aids, advises, hires, counsels, or conspires' someone to trespass without a 'reasonable effort' to prevent the trespassing is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. In #Oklahoma organizations that conspire with perpetrators are liable to be fined up to $1 million. These laws may infringe on the freedom of association protected under the First Amendment. Indeed, the Supreme Court ruled that the illegal actions of a few individuals do not implicate an entire group.
"The criminalization of environmental protest is fueled by federal security agencies and oil and gas companies, who are often major political donors. For years, the Department of #HomelandSecurity and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have labelled activists at infrastructure sites as #DomesticTerrorists and violent extremists in order to justify further #surveillance and #policing. Government documents have been released that detail the FBI’s focus on '#AnimalRights / #EnvironmentalExtremism,' describing even #NonviolentProtesters as #extremists.
"At Standing Rock, a private security firm [#Blackwater] hired by the pipeline companies consistently referred to protesters as 'terrorists' while working with law enforcement. Ahead of the #KeystoneXLPipeline protests in 2018, #DHS agents held an '#AntiTerrorism training' for state and local authorities. In contrast, members of the #FarRight militant group the #ThreePercenters have established a significant presence at oil and gas plants with little law enforcement reaction.
"To be sure, as the recent power outages in Texas showed so vividly, the United States needs reliable energy. But it’s questionable whether pipeline construction sites that could feasibly be moved or replaced with renewable energy sources should legitimately be considered 'vital' to the energy grid. Furthermore, a singular focus on this aspect of security comes at the cost of others. Whose essential resources do pipeline projects protect and whose do they threaten? Black Americans are disproportionately likely to live near natural #GasPipelines and experience higher #CancerRisk due to unclean air. An oil spill from the Dakota Access Pipeline could devastate the #SiouxTribe’s water source. Meanwhile, on some reservations, 10 percent of households lack electricity and as many as 40 percent of households must haul water and use outhouses. The well-being of these communities must count too.
"The rise in critical infrastructure laws may foreshadow more anti-protest legislation to come. A similar wave of anti-protest laws has already begun in response to the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter protests. State legislators contemplating critical infrastructure laws should bear in mind that laws that criminalize trespassing and protect the safety of construction workers and law enforcement already exist. Critical infrastructure laws don’t fill an unmet need — they only raise the penalties for specific groups of people. Courts adjudicating #FirstAmendment challenges in the coming years should recognize that these laws are overbroad and impose disproportionately severe penalties that chill freedom of assembly and association.
"As secretary of the interior, Haaland promises to uplift the voices of Indigenous and climate protesters in the Biden administration. State legislators, law enforcement, and the fossil fuel industry should follow suit and listen to these activists rather than suppressing constitutionally protected activity under the guise of national security."
#BrennanCenter #Authoritarianism #Fascism #NoDAPL #NoKXL #PipelineProtests #WaterIsLife #ACAB #ErikPrince #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #CorporateColonialism #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #ExxonLied #Blackwater #StandWithStandingRock #StandingRockSioux
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"The proposed laws hammer Apple’s App Store and Google Play with compliance requirements but reportedly spare social media platforms [...] a competitive strategy that shifts liability from platforms to operating system makers."
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Tiandy Easy7 surveillance platform: multiple CVSS 6.9 vulnerabilities. Camera management auth bypasses = your security cameras become attacker assets. 📹🔓
Spotted this snazzy new cyborg parcel post box near me yesterday. I don't like the fact that the camera faces outwards though. #postbox #royalmail #surveillance
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Photo of a red post box with E II R marking. Under the usual post slot is a parcel hatch with instruction panel and a camera for scanning barcodes.
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Close up of the post box canera
The effect of Bill C-22: “…the blanket retention of metadata about the communications of every Canadian who uses a service provided by a core provider with no regard for wrongdoing.”
#privacy #canpoli #surveillance
Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses are quickly becoming mainstream wearable tech with over 7 million pairs of glasses already sold!
That raises new questions about consent, surveillance, and how these devices could be misused.
In our latest @sharedsecurity podcast episode we discuss the risks, the technology, and what it means for everyday privacy.
What do you think about AI glasses like these? Are they a privacy risk or do you think these are the next big thing? Let me know in the comments!
Watch this episode on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/gxZj-XGIQ3Y
Listen and subscribe wherever you like to get your podcasts:
https://sharedsecurity.net/subscribe
https://sharedsecurity.net/2026/03/16/the-privacy-problem-with-metas-ray-ban-smart-glasses/
"British politicians and authorities are working intensively to escalate #censorship and mass #surveillance. When Mullvad tried to address this with the TV ad “And Then?”, it was banned on British television. The outdoor ad campaign meant to criticise the TV ban was also largely halted."
"Here, we bring you the ads that were too much for British television:"
@geeknik Gosh, I wish folks had warned us about this stuff… oh, I don’t know… maybe a decade ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=yHoLopZSYJw&t=334s&pp=2AHOApACAQ%3D%3D
Federal Right To #Privacy Act
The Solution: A Comprehensive Privacy Bill
The bill imposes hard limits on #surveillance , hidden collection, #coercive “consent,” brokered data trafficking, and government circumvention of what should be a lawful process balancing #freedom with evidence of wrongdoing. It restores rule-based protections people can understand and courts can enforce.
Canada's Bill C-22 Mandates Mass Metadata Surveillance of Canadians
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-reading
#HackerNews #Canada #Bill #C-22 #Metadata #Surveillance #Privacy #Rights
📢 We've updated the Rebel Tech Alliance site: it now has app icons for all the Alternatives we list 😀
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html
Click around the site and have a look!
We also added a better light mode, that matches the blog newsletter sepia look, and search boxes on the bigger tables e.g.
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/otheralts.html and
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/media.html
We hope you can share our site with friends and family, and use it to get away from #bigtech #surveillance 🥳
Through many popular apps including game apps like Candy Crush, weather apps, fitness apps and dating apps like Tinder and Grindr, back end advertiser bids have allowed DHS to purchase the location data of millions of phones without any warrants to do so.
Instagram removed end‑to‑end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026 🔓.
Without E2EE, private messages could become accessible for data analysis or AI training, raising serious privacy and user‑trust concerns 🤔.
🔗 https://proton.me/blog/instagram-end-to-end-encryption
#TechNews #Facebook #Instagram #Meta #Privacy #Encryption #Security #DataProtection #SocialMedia #Chat #Policy #AI #Surveillance #UserRights #FOSS #DigitalRights #Technology #E2EE
#Palantir einzusetzen ist der komplette Wahnsinn. In Kürze wohl auch in Baden Württemberg.
@RegierungBW @Polizei_BW @Landtag_BW
... bitte schaut euch das an, leitet es an die verantwortlichen Stellen weiter und stoppt die Einführung! Oder wollt ihr wirklich so eine Denkweise des CEOs unterstützen?
@pallenberg hat das aktuelle Interview des CEO sehr gut zusammengefasst:
https://pallenberg.video/w/h5tmMDpAr5zQaMm54eZumN
Wer heute für Palantir arbeitet oder mit diesem Unternehmen kooperiert, kann sich nicht mehr damit herausreden, »von nichts gewusst« zu haben. Der Chef sagt offen, dass Palantir Kriegsführung unterstützt und stolz darauf ist. Parallel wird dieselbe Plattform als Heilsbringer für Krankenhäuser, Behörden und Industrie verkauft. Das ist keine neutrale Softwarefirma, sondern ein Machtapparat für Militär, Überwachung und Kontrolle. Wer mit Palantir paktiert, legitimiert genau das.
#palantir #krieg #surveillance
/kuk
"Your driving privacy expires with your current car’s lifespan"
"Your car simply watches and decides whether you’re fit to drive"
Using technology to save lives is one thing, but this data will be in the hands of bad people.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-161321992.html
#driving #cars #AI #surveillance #surveillancetech #biometrics #infrared
#privacy #surveillancecapitalism #bigbrother
@IanHill For the foreseeable future, the only cars worth buying will be the ones BEFORE this. And, IMO/IME the ones prior to late 00s.
Let's forget, for a moment, the ethics of mandatory spyware (both in software and hardware) in your car.
Every time you add a system, there are costs. Integration with other systems? Nearly double that cost. Integration with ALL critical systems? Ooph.
#cars #Surveillance #BigBrother #Enshittification
Instagram to discontinue end-to-end encryption for DMs [Update: Meta's statement]
https://www.androidpolice.com/instagram-is-getting-rid-of-end-to-end-encryption-for-dms/
#Vieprivée #donnéespersonnelles #surveillance
deeply disturbing... and according to the local story linked here, she lost her home, car, and dog while locked up
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud
#AgeVerification #Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your #Linux Computer Might be Next
What started as age gates on adult websites has quietly crept into app stores and operating systems.
#EFF's year-end review put it bluntly: 2025 was "the year states chose #surveillance over safety." The foundation's concern, which I concur with, is, where does this stop? Self-reported birthday today, government ID tomorrow? There appears to be no limit to these laws' overreach.
https://itsfoss.com/news/age-verification-pandemic/
A redditor (Ok_Lingonberry3296) traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 states to figure out who's behind the age verification bills.
The answer is Meta - a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.
Page: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file
Page backup: https://archive.ph/2026.03.13-193015/https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file
Reddit discussion: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313143853/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/
#Meta #Facebook #AgeVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #socialmedia #technology
from 2020:
Gates’ lifelong obsession is population control. his brand of fascism is called #technolibertarianism.
Silicon Valley technolibertarians are, “#apartheid, but make it tech”.
that's why they’re obsessed with AI #surveillance, genetics, #eugenics, GMOs, Mars (for us not them).
Bundesregierung setzt sich auf EU-Ebene für mehr #Gesichtserkennung ein:
"Digitalcourage hält die Ratsposition, die nur Echtzeitsysteme verbietet, für problematisch und lehnt diese ab. Denn diese Klausel verhindere nicht den Missbrauch biometrischer Daten zur #massenuberwachung Außerdem sei unklar, wie viel Zeit verstreichen müsse, damit es sich nicht um einen Einsatz etwaiger Systeme in „Echtzeit“ handelt. „Vieles wäre mit der Begrenzung auf Echtzeit zulässig, zum Beispiel die biometrische Massenüberwachung aller, die sich 2017 während der Zeit des G20-Gipfels durch Hamburg bewegt haben“, so @digitalcourage weiter."
1/3
"Nicht entgangen sind Habeck auch Tests mit Supermärkten in westlichen Ländern, wo "beim Reingehen eine #Face-ID-Scannung" erfolge. Der Kunde nehme dann Produkte aus Regalen, wobei alles gemessen und aufgezeichnet werde. Der Computer rechne die Summe aus und bestelle gleich nach. Der Minister freute sich: "Das ist keine abgefahrene Spökenkiekerei." Viele aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Probleme und #Krisen inklusive #Klimawandel und #Pandemien könnten und müssten digital beantwortet werden, hob der #Grünen-Politiker hervor."
Nee Robert, das ist echt keine "abgefahrene Spökenkiekerei". Das ist einfach nur euer scheiß übergriffiger #Überwachungskapitalismus, den ihr "Grünen" hier aufs erbärmlichste grün zu waschen versucht. Und das ist auch keine "neue #Kultur" von der dein Kollege #Wissing da faselt, sondern einfach nur das technische Update für die alte Nummer namens Ausbeutung des Menschen durch den Menschen. Wobei das wahrscheinlich schon das ganze Kulturverständnis der #FDP abdeckt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Digitalgipfel-Habeck-schwaermt-vom-Bezahlen-mit-Iris-Scan-7372336.html
#Gesichtserkennung #Surveillance #netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #Datenschutz #antireport
Secret #EU law threatens #Internet security #massSurveillance
Last Chance to fix #eIDAS
"New legislative articles, introduced in recent closed-door meetings and not yet public, envision that all web browsers distributed in Europe will be required to trust the certificate authorities and cryptographic keys selected by EU governments.
These changes radically expand the capability of EU governments to surveil their citizens by ensuring cryptographic keys under government control can be used to intercept encrypted web traffic across the EU. Any EU member state has the ability to designate cryptographic keys for distribution in web browsers and browsers are forbidden from revoking trust in these keys without government permission.
Digitale Identitäten
eIDAS-Trilog: Hunderte Wissenschaftler:innen und NGOs warnen vor #Massenüberwachung
"Die #EU will eine digitale Brieftasche für alle Bürger:innen einführen․ Rund 400 Forschende und 30 NGOs kritisieren in einem offenen Brief, dass die aktuellen Pläne staatlichen Behörden ermöglichen, die Kommunikation aller EU-Bürger:innen auszuspähen․"
Auch zu "digitalen Identitäten" (aber nicht nur) passt dieser allgemein ganz lesenswerte Text über digitale Kontrollgesellschaften (wie sie auch die EU gerade auf- und ausbaut)
The Enclosure of Information: Alternative Data, Bossware, and the Societies of Control
Auszug:
"If the enclosure of land led to peasant revolts, what forms of resistance might emerge against the enclosure of data? The answer is uncertain, but one thing is clear: the commodification of information serves only to reinforce class hierarchies. As financial elites manipulate alternative data for speculative gain and employers use bossware to extract ever more surplus-value, the question we must ask is not merely how to regulate these practices, but how to dismantle the very system that enables them. A society built on the enclosure of knowledge is not a free society. It is a society of control, and it is time to resist."
The problem with having a surveillance state is not that they will know everything about you. The problem is that they will assert that they know everything about you. And you’re screwed either way; no matter if they’re right or wrong.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud
Via @yawnbox
#privacy #humanRights #democracy #surveillance #surveillanceState #policeState
Elbows Down: Warrantless Wiretapping Appears on Notice Paper
The US government has been pressuring the Canadian government to implement warrantless wiretapping. It's now on the notice paper.
https://www.freezenet.ca/elbows-down-warrantless-wiretapping-appears-on-notice-paper/
#News #Privacy #Security #BillC22 #Canada #CSIS #LawfulAccess #legislation #surveillance #WarrantlessWiretapping
#ThomsonReuters employees were alarmed to learn that #ICE was paying the company $22.8 million for "software to pull public and private information about individuals, and to track license plates." More than 200 employees signed an internal letter asking management "not [to] renew the ICE contract when it expires in May." The letter is not yet public.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/technology/thomson-reuters-ice-minnesota.html
Tails –is a portable operating system that protects against #surveillance and #censorship
(EN/ ES/ ES/ FR/ IT/ PT/ RU)
"The amnesic incognito live system"
Anleitung zur Nutzung des Tails-Live-Betriebssystems für sichere Kommunikation, Recherche, Bearbeitung und Veröffentlichung sensibler Dokumente.
https://capulcu.blackblogs.org/neue-texte/bandi/
https://capulcu.blackblogs.org/ueber-uns/
Download:
https://tails.boum.org/
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zu sehen in der Mitte ein schwarzer Streifen mit einem Menschen welcher mit einem Fernglas nach vorne schaut. Beschriftung : Tails
The amnestic incognito live system
darunter steht in schwarz .
Anleitung zur Nutzung des Tails-Live-Betriebssystems für sichere Kommunikation, Recherche, Bearbeitung und Veröffentlichung sensibler Dokumente
7. Auflage
Disconnect - keep the future unwritten!
"For years waves of a technological attack have been breaking over us - we misjudge this attack as a supposedly neutral "technological development" and willingly play along.
It's time for a more informed analysis, it's time to conspire against dramatically increasing foreign domination. This booklet is our first collection of discussions and ideas on this.
Our goal is to reject the smart grip on our sociality, creativity, autonomy - our lives. We are looking for ways of self-assertion.
(...)
"Technological change will be so rapid that human life will be irrevocably transformed." (Ray Kurzweil, chief engineer of Google)."
https://capulcu.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2015/12/BandIIen-2016-02-20_orig.pdf
https://capulcu.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2015/12/BandII-enbooklet.pdf
The Gov Must Not Force Companies to Participate in AI-powered #Surveillance
The rapidly escalating conflict between #Anthropic and the #Pentagon , which started when the company refused to let the gov use its tech to #spy on Americans, has now gone to court…Now, Anthropic is asking courts to block the designation, arguing that the #FirstAmendment does not permit the gov to coerce a private actor to rewrite its code to serve gov ends
#si #artificialintelligence #privacy
#FBI Investigates #Breach That May Have Hit Its #Wiretapping Tools
The FBI is investigating a breach affecting systems tied to wiretapping and #surveillance #warrant data, after abnormal logs revealed possible unauthorized access to law-enforcement-sensitive information. "The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond,"
#privacy #security
#PrivacyInternational & Women on Web - Securing Reproductive Justice: A Guide to Digital #Privacy for Sexual and Reproductive Justice Activists
"A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine and China used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned. The tools, which were intended for Western spies, wound up in the hands of various hacking groups, including Russian government spooks and Chinese cybercriminals.
Last week, Google revealed that over the course of 2025 it discovered that a sophisticated iPhone-hacking toolkit had been used in a series of global attacks. The toolkit, dubbed “Coruna” by its original developer, was made of 23 different components first used “in highly targeted operations” by an unnamed government customer of an unspecified “surveillance vendor.” It was then used by Russian government spies against a limited number of Ukrainians and finally by Chinese cybercriminals “in broad-scale” campaigns with the goal of stealing money and cryptocurrency.
Researchers at mobile cybersecurity company iVerify, which independently analyzed Coruna, said they believed it may have been originally built by a company that sold it to the U.S. government.
Two former employees of government contractor L3Harris told TechCrunch that Coruna was, at least in part, developed by the company’s hacking and surveillance tech division, Trenchant. The two former employees both had knowledge of the company’s iPhone hacking tools. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to talk about their work for the company."
#CyberSecurity #Hacking #Ukraine #China #L3Harris #USA #Coruna #Surveillance #iPhone
From #Iran to #Ukraine ,everyone's trying to #hack #security #cameras
For decades, #satellites , #drones , & human spotters have all been part of war’s #surveillance & #reconnaissance tool kit. In an age of cheap, insecure, Internet-connected consumer devices, however, #militaries have gained another powerful set of eyes on the ground: every hackable security camera installed outside a home or on a city street, pointed at potential bombing targets
#intelligence #privacy
Are conservatives & libertarians really ok with the surveillance state they voted for? I suppose as long as “those people” are being targeted.
#surveillance #SurveillanceState #privacy #GovernmentDataPractices #uspol #ice #dhs #ThomsonReuters #WriteYourRep
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Headline and first portion of a Minnesota Star Tribune article. Complete article link: https://www.startribune.com/ice-crackdown-thomson-reuters-eagan-license-plate-data-westlaw-clear/601583754
“Thomson Reuters workers question contract with ICE Concerns raised over possible misuse of data. U.S. Immigration and Cus- toms Enforcement (ICE) has a contract with Thomson Reuters for its CLEAR investigative data- By MIKE HUGHLETT The Minnesota Star Tribune base, which includes cellphone numbers, addresses and much more. Thomson Reuters is facing CLEAR also allows law pressure from employees to be enforcement officers to tap into more transparent about how a vast collection of surveillance the federal government may data culled from license plate- be using a massive trove of per- reading cameras. sonal data sold by the company. "We are concerned ICE is Internal chat boards have misusing CLEAR," said one lit up with concerns the data is Eagan-based Thomson Reuters being used to detain immigrants employee. without criminal records and The Minnesota Star Tri- intimidate observers, employ- bune interviewed half a dozen ees say. SEE THOMSON ON A5 »”
So, if I understood correctly, the BW Greens gave all our data to Palantir "so that Palantir doesn't go to waste, because it has already been bought".
That reminds me of a joke where a guy visits his friend and sees the friend's children naked in the snow:
- Why are your children naked in the snow?
- Oh, I found some cough syrup about to expire, so I wouldn't want it to go to waste!
#bw #BadenWurttemberg #AI #noAI #surveillance #surveillanceState
How do you create a world of paranoia, distrust, and adverse behaviors?
#Surveillance.
Smart phones, smart appliances, smart televisions, smart cars, software you no longer own or control, renting entertainment, targeted ads, data brokers, algorithms. The atrocities continue and there isn''t enough character space to list them all.
Your neighbors participate. Your family participates. Your friends participate. All of us participate.
Stop the surveillance. #Privacymatters
#Anthropic is suing the #Trump admin, asking federal courts to reverse the #Pentagon’s decision designating the #AI company a “supply chain risk” over its refusal to allow unrestricted #military use of its #tech.
Anthropic filed 2 separate suits Monday, one in California federal court & another in the federal appeals court in Washington, DC, challenging different aspects of the Pentagon’s actions against the company.
#law #surveillance #AutonomousWeapons
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-trump-pentagon-hegseth-ai-104c6c39306f1adeea3b637d2c1c601b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-03-09-Breaking+News
Today in Labor History March 8, 1971: The Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI stole 1,000 documents from the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. They later released the documents to newspapers, revealing the FBI’s COINTELPRO program, which harassed, imprisoned & murdered US political dissidents. According to Noam Chomsky, 40% of the documents were dedicated to political surveillance. James Ellroy wrote about the burglary in his 2009 novel, “Blood’s a Rover.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #fbi #cointellpro #noamchomsky #jamesellroy #novel #books #writer #author #surveillance #journalism #prison #murder @bookstadon
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Cover of James Ellroy’s novel, “Blood’s a Rover.”
People Across The US Are Tearing Down Flock's Traffic Cameras - Here's Why - BGR
https://www.bgr.com/2115954/why-people-across-us-tearing-down-flock-cameras/ #security #privacy #surveillance #Flock #cameras
"Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company.
“I resigned from OpenAI,” she posted on X and LinkedIn. “I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I’m proud of what we built together.”
Her departure comes amid an escalating dispute over how far AI companies should go in supporting U.S. military uses of the technology. In recent days, negotiations between the Pentagon and Anthropic collapsed after the company pushed for strict limits on domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. Soon after, OpenAI reached its own agreement with the Defense Department to deploy its models on a classified government network."
#OpenAI #Robotics #Surveillance #AutonomousWeapons #USA #Trump #Pentagon #DoD
An Android app “Nearby Glasses” alerts users when Bluetooth signals from smart glasses like Ray‑Ban Meta are detected nearby, raising fresh questions about everyday surveillance 👓📡 Read more: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Against-surveillance-Android-app-detects-nearby-smart-glasses-11196154.html #privacy #surveillance #Android #SmartGlasses #Newz #RayBan #Meta Or Share your own post let people know about this ✅ 💡
Surveillance used to look like cameras.
Now it often looks like advertising infrastructure.
Behavior tracking, data brokers, and behavioral models create datasets that governments can access later.
*The surveillance already happened.*
https://knowprose.com/2026/03/when-surveillance-isnt-called-surveillance/
From #Ukraine to #Iran , #Hacking #Security #Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’
New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state #hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to #missile and #drone strikes. #Israel , #Russia , and Ukraine have also adopted this trick.
#surveillance
"Israel is now 100% confirmed to be Googling anonymous users on X and their family members shortly after they speak out against the country,” wrote another, concluding that, “X is now the largest honeypot operation on the planet.”
X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software "Au10tix"
[Why people still use twitter?]
#IsraelTerroristState #Palestine #Genocide #TechBros #Surveillance
#Zionism
https://www.mintpressnews.com/x-users-find-their-real-names-are-being-googled-in-israel-after-using-x-verification-software-au10tix/290703/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sushubh/116183479324542713
Also, Meta workers are watching the video streaming from Meta’s smart glasses. I don’t care if I’m fully clothed, in a public place just going about my business.
I DO NOT CONSENT!
EU Chat Control drops mandatory encryption-breaking scans — huge privacy win after years of resistance! 🎉
But now pushes mandatory age verification across apps, risking anonymity while letting Big Tech "voluntarily" scan. Fight continues in trilogues. 🛡️
🔗 https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism
#TechNews #Privacy #Chat #Control #ChatControl #EU #Europe #Encryption #AgeVerification #Surveillance #DigitalRights #Resistance #Cybersecurity #Anonymity #BigTech
Facebook and Google are handing over user #data to help police prosecute #abortion seekers
"As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication – and online platforms like #Google and #Facebook are helping.
This spring, a woman named Jessica Burgess and her daughter will stand trial in #Nebraska for performing an illegal abortion — with a key piece of evidence provided by #Meta, the parent company of Facebook."
#tracking #Profiling #surveillance #sozialeKontrolle #criminalisation #USA #antireport #MyBodyMyChoice
The biopolitical surveillance regime - friendly sponsered by Twitter's official partners
U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
"Twitter’s “official partner” monitored the precise time and location of post-Roe demonstrations, internal emails show.
Dataminr, an “official partner” of Twitter, alerted a federal law enforcement agency to pro-abortion protests and rallies in the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request."
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/
#tracking #Profiling #surveillance #criminalisation #USA #antireport #abortion #Twitter #Dataminr
FBI Hired #SocialMedia Surveillance Firm That Labeled #BlackLivesMatter Organizers “Threat Actors”
"A new Senate report calls out the FBI for lying to Congress about its social media monitoring, pointing out the FBI’s hiring of ZeroFox.
(...)
The FBI’s primary tool for monitoring social media threats is the same contractor that labeled peaceful Black Lives Matter protest leaders DeRay McKesson and Johnetta Elzie as “threat actors” requiring “continuous monitoring” in 2015.
The contractor, ZeroFox, identified McKesson and Elzie as posing a “high severity” physical threat, despite including no evidence that McKesson or Elzie were suspected of criminal activity."
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/06/fbi-social-media-surveillance-zerofox/
#Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
„Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it….“
https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/
#Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #Data #Datenschutz #Privacy #Repression
Atlanta Police Must Stop High-Tech Spying on Political Movements
„ The Atlanta Police Department has been snooping on social media to closely monitor the meetings, protests, canvassing–even book clubs and pizza parties–of the political movement to stop “Cop City,” a police training center that would destroy part of an urban forest. Activists already believed they were likely under surveillance by the Atlanta Police Department due to evidence in criminal cases brought against them, but the extent of the monitoring has only just been revealed. The Brennan Center for Justice has obtained and released over 2,000 pages of emails from inside the Atlanta Police Department chronicling how closely they were watching the social media of the movement….“
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/atlanta-police-must-stop-high-tech-spying-political-movements
#Copcity #StopCopCity #Atlanta #Surveillance #Repression #Police #Antireport
Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online
The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/
#AgeVerification #IDverification #privacy #surveillance #censorship #dystopia #technology #USA
🇪🇺 🚨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
"Signs an FBI wiretapping & surveillance NET🚨got hacked.
Extremely concerning.🚨These sys' have huge potential access to every citizens sens data.
Making them an incredibly juicy🎯or for #hacking.
America has a bad history with #surveillance sys' getting hacked by #China & other for ops.
When you build a backdoor, or a mechanism for accessing comms o/s the usual controls,🚨hackers will come for it."
J S-Railton
#FBI Dir Patel: inept loyalist.
NatSec: compromised‼️
#USPol
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/politics/fbi-investigating-cyber-breach-critical-surveillance-network
EFF says an internal DHS document reported by 404 Media shows Customs and Border Protection used location data sourced from the online ad ecosystem, including real-time bidding bidstream, to track phones. The reported pilot ran in 2019-2021, and the post argues this enables warrantless location surveillance via data brokers. Suggested mitigations include disabling mobile advertising IDs, tightening app location permissions, and reducing or removing precise location and ad IDs from ad tech workflows, alongside stronger privacy laws.
Inspiring!
#Surveillance #Sabotage #DirectAction #Art
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Painted picture. A 360° surveillance camera on a lantern. Below it a hand with a gray glove pressing on a yellow spray bottle and spraying yellow paint on the camera. The background is light blue
Researchers Uncover Method to Track Cars via Tire Sensors
Using low-cost receivers deployed along roads, academic researchers tracked drivers and their movement patterns.
https://www.securityweek.com/researchers-uncover-method-to-track-cars-via-tire-sensors/
Age Verification Mandates: The ‘Protect the Kids’ Scam That’s Building a Permanent Surveillance Grid
‚Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives…..‘
#Meta #Surveillance #Privacy #RayBan #SmartGlasses #Data #Technology
Kenyan workers training #Meta’s #AI glasses say they see users’ most intimate moments - https://techcabal.com/2026/03/04/kenya-meta-ray-ban-ai-intimate-moments/ a #privacy and #surveillance nightmare
We have sooooo many new users signing up for our @privacysafe https://privacysafe.social community!!! Who has a question for me? Any way we can help you transition away from #BigTech #surveillance ?
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PrivacySafe.Social
Sharing this Proton guide on how to protect your privacy at protests — from burner/“clean” phones and Faraday bags to encrypted apps, metadata scrubbing, and masking against AI facial recognition. 🛡️
Worth a read if you’re worried about surveillance at demonstrations. 🎭
🔗 https://proton.me/blog/how-to-protect-privacy-at-protests
#TechNews #Privacy #Protest #Surveillance #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #Encryption #Security #FacialRecognition #DataBrokers #VPN #Signal #Biometrics #Rights #Freedom #War #Activism
These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and #surveillance #BigTech
#Data #Privacy #Capitalism #SurveillanceCapitalism #twitter #Musk #Bluesky #Meta #instagram #antireport
SURVEILLANCE SELF-DEFENSE
TIPS, TOOLS AND HOW-TOS FOR SAFER ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS
„This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and your friends from online spying.
Read the BASICS to find out how online surveillance works. Dive into our TOOL GUIDES for instructions to installing our pick of the best, most secure applications. We have more detailed information in our FURTHER LEARNING sections. If you’d like a guided tour, look for our list of common SECURITY SCENARIOS.…“
Tranks to @eff
#Data #Privacy #SelfDefence #Technology #Surveillance #Repression
@josephcox @404mediaco Then I told a few stories of #surveillance from my personal experience, and I talked about @JohnKiriakou to remind the US Naval Academy how important it was that *he remembered* his oath was *not* to the administration, but to the #Constitution. I hope cadets will also remember.
@josephcox @404mediaco The event, called "Nothing to Hide? #Surveillance Tech and #AI's Risks & Rewards," was mostly dire warnings from the panel for a packed room of young students from Tufts, the US Naval Academy, Brazil, Cameroon, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Pakistan, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.
On Feb 20, I had the honor of speaking at the Fletcher School at Tufts University on a panel with, among others, @josephcox of @404mediaco . He highlighted his incredible journalism on #adtech surveillance over the years and the ever-looming threat of #smartphone #surveillance. https://www.vice.com/en/article/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x/
Anthropic es una empresa de IA fundada en 2021 por dos hermanos, exmiembros destacados de OpenAI que dejaron dicha compañía «preocupados por la dirección que estaba tomando». Aunque a muchos les guste romantizar la historia de los hermanitos a lo Hansel y Gretel, esto no es un cuento de hadas.
No caigan en la nueva trampa marketinera que intenta posicionar a una de las BigTech como «la más ética» No existe tal cosa.
#AI #IA #OpenAI #Anthropic #Palantir #genAI #surveillance #war
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«OpenAI y Anthropic se promocionaron como empresas dedicadas a la "seguridad de la IA" para evitar que máquinas ficticias superinteligentes nos llevaran a la extinción.
¿Y lo hacen asociándose con el ejército y Palantir, organizaciones cuya función es matar gente?
No se dejen engañar por la teatralidad, chicos»
Captura de pantalla del tweet de Timnit en X
@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)
@timnitGebru
OpenAI & Anthropic were advertised as “AI safety” companies to stop fictional super intelligent machines from rendering us extinct. And they do that by partnering with the military and Palantir, organizations whose jobs are to kill people? Don’t fall for the theatrics guys.
If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare
"Bad news: your car is a spy. If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine that may collect personal information as sensitive as your race, weight, and sexual activity. Volkswagen’s cars reportedly know if you’re fastening your seatbelt and how hard you hit the brakes.
That’s according to new findings from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project. The #nonprofit found that every major car brand fails to adhere to the most basic privacy and security standards in new internet-connected models, and all 25 of the brands Mozilla examined flunked the organization’s test.
#Mozilla found brands including #BMW, #Ford, #Toyota, #Tesla, and #Subaru collect #data about drivers including race, facial expressions, weight, health information, and where you drive. Some of the cars tested collected data you wouldn’t expect your car to know about, including details about sexual activity, race, and immigration status, according to Mozilla."
https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars-data-privacy-report-1850805416
#Privacy #Surveillance #Data #SurveillanceCapitalism
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Straße mit leuchtenden Zahlen auf welcher Autos fahren
Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called “Patty,” is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only assist employees with meal preparation but also evaluate their interactions with customers for “friendliness.”
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/884911/burger-king-ai-assistant-patty
You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.
I got bored and ran uBlock across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously.
Claude:
- Six parallel telemetry pipelines.
- A tracking GIF with 40 browser fingerprint data points baked into the URL, routed through a CDN proxy alias specifically to make it harder to block.
- Intercom running a persistent WebSocket whether you use it or not.
- Honeycomb distributed tracing on a chat UI because apparently your conversation needs the same observability stack as a payments microservice.
ChatGPT:
- proxies telemetry through their own backend to hide the Datadog destination URL from blockers.
- uBlock had to deploy scriptlet injection — actual JS injected into the page to intercept fetch() at the API level — because a network rule wasn't enough.
- Also ships your usage data to Google Analytics. OpenAI. To Google. You cannot make this up.
- Also runs a proof-of-work challenge before you're allowed to type anything.
Gemini:
- play.google.com/log getting hammered with your full session behavior, authenticated with three SAPISIDHASH token variants, piped directly into the Google identity supergraph that correlates everything you've ever done across every Google product since 2004.
- Also creates a Web App Activity record in your Google account timeline. Also has "ads" in one of the telemetry endpoint subdomains.
When uBlock blocks Gemini's requests, the JS exceptions bubble up and Gemini dutifully tries to POST the error details back to Google. uBlock blocks that too. The error messages contain the internal codenames for every upsell popup that failed to load.
KETCHUP_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MUSTARD_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MAYO_DISCOVERY_CARD.
Google named their subscription upsell popups after condiments and I found out because their error handler snitched on them.
All three of these products cost money.
One of them is also running ad infrastructure.
Touch grass. Install @ublockorigin
... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
The tech industry have been hyping "voice control" simply as a Trojan Horse to make you let them use the microphone at all times.
If you bought into it, you've been had.
#OpenAI is now officially data supplier for the Pentagon and is very proud of it!
Your Data flows directly to the U.S. Department of War! #ChatGPT
--> Delete your Account!
https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/
#US #Surveillance #KI #AI #Technology #Tech #War #Data #Privacy
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Prohibition sign with crossed-out OpenAI logo in a red circle
We're so happy to be able to bring our audience @JohnKiriakou 's perspective to our growing community of learners in the @ivycyber classes - without #surveillance and with open conversation for a free society! 🙌
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classroom
@ivycyber @privacysafe @JohnKiriakou
If you haven't yet joined us, we have 10 weeks of educational material about #surveillance and #privacy we're building out LIVE based upon your feedback, as well as these live sessions (tonight is session #5 ! ). A big thanks to @JohnKiriakou
for imparting his expert knowledge onto our great cohort of students. 🎓
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John Kiriakou
"Friday afternoon, Anthropic learned that the Pentagon still wanted to use the company’s AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans.
That could include information such as the questions you ask your favorite chatbot, your Google search history, your GPS-tracked movements, and your credit-card transactions, all of which could be cross-referenced with other details about your life."
LA Times:
"...After previously denying it had federal contracts, Flock Chief Executive Garrett Langley admitted in interviews in recent months that the company has worked with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations. ..."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-01/surveillance-company-flock-safety-los-angeles
#privacy #surveillance #bigbrother #flock #ICE
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Much of the backlash has been aimed specifically at Flock — a heavyweight in the surveillance market that contracts with a reported 5,000 U.S. policing agencies. The company’s data-sharing with federal authorities and cybersecurity lapses have been documented by 404 Media and other outlets.
After previously denying it had federal contracts, Flock Chief Executive Garrett Langley admitted in interviews in recent months that the company has worked with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations. The company has since said that it has severed ties with both agencies, and responded to other concerns by giving communities more power to decide whom to grant access to state or nationwide lookup networks.
Signal schützt vor Massenüberwachung – und das zuverlässig. Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung, minimale Metadaten, Open-Source-Code. Kein anderer Mainstream-Messenger steht da besser da.
Wer Angst vor seinem Mobilfunkanbieter hat, vor Vorratsdatenspeicherung oder vor dem neugierigen ISP – Signal ist die richtige Wahl.
Wer hingegen ins Visier eines Geheimdienstes oder einer autoritären Regierung gerät, hat ein anderes Problem. Dann reicht kein Messenger der Welt. Dann muss das gesamte Gerät abgesichert sein – und selbst das ist gegen professionelle Spyware schwer.
Signal ist kein Allheilmittel. Aber für den Alltag der meisten Menschen ist es das Beste, was es aktuell gibt.
#Signal #Datenschutz #Verschluesselung #Surveillance #Privacy
Signal ist US-amerikanisch und unterliegt FISA sowie dem CLOUD Act. Behörden können Daten anfordern – auch mit Maulkorberlass, ohne dass Signal es öffentlich machen darf.
Aber: Signal hat technisch kaum etwas herzugeben. Keine Inhalte, keine Kontaktlisten, nur Registrierungsdatum und letzter Login. Durch reale Gerichtsverfahren belegt.
FISA ist ein aufwendiges Geheimgerichtsverfahren – das wird nicht gegen einzelne Journalisten oder Aktivisten angestrengt. Wer gezielt überwacht wird, bekommt kommerzielle Spyware auf sein Gerät – Pegasus, Predator, FinFisher und Konsorten. Dann ist der Messenger egal. Der Angreifer liest mit, bevor die Nachricht verschlüsselt wird.
Die Schwachstelle ist das Endgerät, nicht das Protokoll.
Previously: "We know where the checkpoints are. We warn one another when the Border Patrol is nearby. In public space, we adjust our bodies and behavior, attempting to go unnoticed, offering smiles of compliance as a way to disarm." https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-border-militarization-minnesota-alex-pretti/
#surveillance #border #immigration #politics #USpol #news #Texas #SouthTexas
Anonymisierendes #Linux : #Tails 7.5 mit sichererem #Thunderbird | Security https://www.heise.de/news/Anonymisierendes-Linux-Tails-7-5-macht-Thunderbird-zu-Zusatzsoftware-11192291.html #Datenschutz #privacy #surveillance #Überwachung
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
"I wonder how the government of California plans to enforce it?"
#AgeVerification #dystopia #privacy #surveillance #software #technology #Linux
I had one of the most disturbing tech support experiences of my life yesterday and the TLDR version is that the tech support company subscribed to the Zoom Info data broker service and was given my private personal cell phone number to contact me about a support issue. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
So I've been doing some support with one of our department heads that put me in touch via email with the support for a vendor that we're using. Emails go back and forth a few times without much progress and I suddenly get an unexpected call on my personal cell phone while I'm at work. Now like most people my cell phone isn't for phone calls so this was weird. It turns out it was the tech support person I've been emailing with. The short version is a company called Go to
This is most disturbing.
My private cell phone number is not on my work account, not in my email signature, or even have it been given to any of my co-workers because of abuses I've had to deal with in the past.
So for a random tech support person that I've never spoken to to find my private personal contact information and call me on it to finish resolving a support issue is an incredible violation of my privacy.
I'm furious. I know it's not the text problem and they are very intent on resolving this issue and ending the call but I get them to tell me how they got that information before continuing with the support call.
I'm already a little extra pissed because a few months ago I'd finally signed up for the incogny private data deletion service, so I'm expecting to see a reduction in these kinds of incidents. Turns out this is one that they haven't made a business agreement with so they won't remove my data from them. I have to do it. And so do you. Below is a link they provided instructions on how to move yourself from this one specific(of thousands) data broker.
Check your mailbox and take note of your 4-digit code.
Enter the 4-digit code and click “confirm.”
Tick the checkbox next to “I would like to delete my information,” solve the CAPTCHA, and click “remove.”https://blog.incogni.com/zoominfo-opt-out/
#Privacy #DataPrivacy #incogni #MassSurveillance #Surveillance #Capitalism
Fuite massive de données médicales : «Cela aura des conséquences irrémédiables»
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/sante/fuite-massive-de-donnees-medicales-cela-aura-des-consequences-irremediables-20260227_5HHXXNKTDFATTKA3KZ4MHFL2MU/
#CegedimSanté #Cegedim #Santé #Vieprivée #donnéespersonnelles #surveillance
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