Surveillance & Privacy
Lawmakers Want States to Crack Down on Flock Cameras—or Pay the Price
Documents the proliferation of automated license plate reader networks that enable mass tracking of vehicle movements and the use of… [more]
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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
Law enforcement officers across thousands of jurisdictions are using mass surveillance camera networks with minimal oversight, searching… [more]
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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke
Documents systemic mass surveillance infrastructure abuse by law enforcement using automated license plate readers with minimal… [more]
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The New Moscow: A Digital Utopia Doubling as a Surveillance Trap
Documents how technological modernization in Moscow creates infrastructure for mass surveillance and social control under an authoritarian… [more]
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Mass surveillance of ChatGPT users' private conversations by corporate contractors without clear user consent represents significant… [more]
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The AI Doomsday Future Is Not Inevitable
Documents extensive government surveillance infrastructure operated by private corporations (Flock, Palantir, Claude) targeting domestic… [more]
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The EU must act now to protect privacy and encryption from Canada’s overreaching Bill C-22
Bill C-22 represents a significant surveillance expansion that threatens end-to-end encryption, mandates mass data retention, and allows… [more]
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Open letter from European civil society organisations on encryption and privacy threats in Canada’s Bill C-22
Bill C-22 represents a significant surveillance threat through mandated surveillance capabilities and blanket data retention regimes that… [more]
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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]