Surveillance & Privacy
Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women
Demonstrates how corporate smart glasses infrastructure enables mass non-consensual surveillance and harassment of women, with social… [more]
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The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
Government fusion centers are systematically monitoring anti-surveillance activism and coordinating police responses to suppress public… [more]
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This Tool Unmasks the Shadowy World of Ads that Track Your Location
Article documents investigative tool exposing covert location-based advertising surveillance infrastructure, revealing how corporate ad… [more]
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Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts
Documents emerging corporate neurotechnology that enables direct brain activity monitoring, representing a critical frontier in privacy… [more]
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Germany news: Cabinet approves intelligence service reforms
German intelligence services gaining expanded powers to address hybrid threats represents surveillance capability expansion with potential… [more]
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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
ICE's purchase of LexisNexis data to feed into Palantir's algorithmic system represents mass surveillance infrastructure enabling… [more]
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The Mayor Who Said 'No' When Flock Came to Town
Documents real-world expansion of Flock's ALPR surveillance network across US municipalities and highlights concerning normalization of… [more]
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Malaysia Was Confident in Its Social Media Ban, but Kids Are Still Logged In
Malaysia's child social media ban requiring age verification through government-issued documents represents state surveillance… [more]
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Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed
Flock's expansion of rideshare dashcam networks for police coaching represents mass surveillance infrastructure enabling real-time… [more]
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State Department Wants Palantir’s Advice on Free Speech and “Countering Digital Surveillance”
A surveillance corporation with a history of attacking press freedom is advising the State Department on digital freedom and countering… [more]
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Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
A surveillance company planned to weaponize 350,000+ gig economy workers' vehicles into a distributed mass surveillance network for… [more]
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Technology Expands ICE’s Capacity for Abuse
Documents DHS/ICE's deployment of interconnected surveillance infrastructure including facial recognition, iris scanners, and spyware by… [more]
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Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers
Documents widespread deployment of automated license plate readers with AI capabilities designed for covert surveillance, representing… [more]
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A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
Documents North Korean state-sponsored cyber operations achieving widespread unauthorized access to hundreds of networks globally,… [more]
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DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats
Government agency weaponizes lawsuit to obtain encrypted protest communications, exemplifying surveillance tactics targeting political… [more]
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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
Police weaponized Flock automated plate reader data to profile and target an individual based on lawful interstate travel patterns,… [more]
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Podcast: This Man Might Go to Prison for Wiping His Phone
Case involving potential prosecution for phone deletion before government search represents concerning expansion of state surveillance… [more]
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Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users’ Real IP Addresses
Apple's privacy tool systematically fails to protect users' IP addresses while marketed as privacy protection, exemplifying corporate… [more]
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Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds
Advertising SDKs systematically extract location data without meaningful user consent through privacy-invasive defaults and financial… [more]
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Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy
Documents systematic location data harvesting by advertising SDKs enabling mass surveillance by data brokers, law enforcement agencies,… [more]