Surveillance & Privacy
Cold TAKE: Amazon's New Encryption Method Still Doesn't Deliver Real Privacy
Documents corporate surveillance infrastructure (Ring cameras) where Amazon retains temporary encryption keys, enabling potential law… [more]
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Cops Play Hide and Seek About Using Spy Tech to Avoid Scrutiny and Bad PR
Documents systematic concealment by police of surveillance technologies (ALPR, facial recognition, cell-site simulators) and obstruction… [more]
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Podcast: DHS’ Secretive ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit Pulling People Over
Article documents secretive DHS predictive policing units conducting mass financial surveillance of Americans and directing local law… [more]
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Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around
Police are using Flock's private surveillance camera network to conduct mass monitoring and investigation of minor offenses like loitering… [more]
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
Secretive DHS units conduct mass financial surveillance on Americans without suspicion and direct local police to stop and search citizens… [more]
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OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
Multiple dystopian elements: tens of millions of drivers' licenses (biometric + personal data) sold on dark web represents mass… [more]
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Flock says its cameras make US safer - so why are they being sabotaged?
Documents expansion of AI-enabled surveillance cameras across US with growing citizen opposition, exemplifying real-world tensions between… [more]
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ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
Government agency uses commercial transaction data as dragnet surveillance tool to identify political protesters, exemplifying mass… [more]
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ICE Gave New Hires Access to Restricted Info on Palantir App Before They Passed Background Checks
Palantir's ELITE app enables ICE to systematically target immigrants using AI-driven analysis and confidence scoring, with security… [more]
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Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters
Corporate surveillance technology company trains law enforcement to deploy automated license plate readers against protesters and public… [more]
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This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops
AI-powered mass surveillance tool enabling real-time monitoring across multiple cameras using written descriptions exemplifies automated… [more]
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Face Recognition Is Becoming the Norm for Dating Apps
Normalization of facial recognition and biometric data collection by dating platforms represents incremental surveillance infrastructure… [more]
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
A federal immigration agency creating a national voter database represents significant surveillance infrastructure expansion with… [more]
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Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion
Police use of mass surveillance networks (Flock's 80,000+ cameras) combined with AI-generated reports to track a woman exercising… [more]
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ICE Is Paying a Controversial AI Firm to Hide the Identities of Agents
ICE deployment of AI technology to hide agent identities raises dystopian concerns about surveillance infrastructure being weaponized… [more]
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Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don't Destroy Them
Documents how law enforcement and surveillance corporations are adapting to evade public resistance against mass tracking infrastructure,… [more]
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Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users
Meta's settlement mandates invasive age assurance technology and age-gating that subjects all users to rights-threatening identification… [more]
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This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras
Documents the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras for mass detection and tracking, and highlights emerging countermeasures,… [more]
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Supreme Court: CRIF illegally collected data of millions in Austria. Way clear for class action!
Documents illegal mass surveillance by corporate credit agency CRIF collecting personal data from millions without proper consent,… [more]
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Privacy on the Map (Part 2): Progress, Pitfalls, and the Fight for Enforceable Location Data Protections
Covers the regulatory gap in commercial location surveillance systems that enable pervasive tracking of physical movements, documenting… [more]