#bigbrother — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bigbrother, aggregated by home.social.
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Santa Barbara Independent: City of Santa Barbara to End Contract with Flock Cameras
After Public Backlash About Data Sharing, City Council Will Discuss Alternative System on August 25
https://www.independent.com/2026/08/21/city-of-santa-barbara-to-end-contract-with-flock-cameras/
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Nothing screams Team Freedom during a political campaign, than a clear Big Brother image of the candidate.
#life #politics #elections #Germany #Schwerin #BigBrother #fascism
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I've been looking at what route LinkedIn has been going on for the past few years, and it's honestly sickening. Been getting a lot of updates about not only the platform in general, but also about the practices that they have been delving into.
My main problem with LinkedIn is with the identity verification system.
My friend, Ilia Kuzmin (@rm3g), a senior Delphi developer, just lost his account thanks to LinkedIn because he didn't have the "right" passport. He's been on this platform for multiple years, and has been consistently growing and posting both useful and interesting content over here on the platform – which is honestly a refreshing break from all the AI slop that's been plaguing the platform over the years.
LinkedIn says that it's not going to restore his account, JUST BECAUSE of his passport, and I find that argument completely ridiculous and racist.
This identity verification scenario will only get worse as time goes by, and it will not just be LinkedIn at that point. Soon, you might find yourself locked out of your house or even your car just because you belong from a certain place.
That is not the world I want to live in.
Delete your official verification from LinkedIn.
I just did.
#IdentityVerification #BigBrother #MassSurveillance #Privacy #AgeVerification #LinkedIn
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Die Leute reißen wirklich massenhaft Flock-Kameras ab. Oder: Die öffentliche Unterstützung krimineller Handlungen ist ein Hauptantrieb für gesellschaftlichen Wandel
Vor drei Wochen haben in Winona, Minnesota, eine oder mehrere unbekannte Personen jede einzelne Flock-Kamera in der Stadt abgerissen und gestohlen. Vier Paare mit je zwei Kameras, die auf die Ein- und Ausfahrtsstraßen der Stadt gerichtet waren.
Die Polizei veröffentlichte auf ihrer Facebook-Seite einen Aufruf, in dem sie die Öffentlichkeit um Mithilfe bei der Aufklärung des Verbrechens bat – nur um von Menschen überschwemmt zu werden, die die Vandalen unterstützten.
Letzte Woche in Winona, Minnesota, erklärte die Polizei ihre Kapitulation.
Das Vertrauen unserer Gemeinschaft ist die Grundlage für eine effektive Polizeiarbeit, und wir haben hart daran gearbeitet, dieses Vertrauen aufzubauen und zu bewahren. Zwar war Flock ein wertvolles Instrument, doch glauben wir, dass sein Einsatz zu wachsenden Bedenken hinsichtlich des Vertrauens in die Polizeiarbeit beigetragen hat – sowohl vor Ort als auch landesweit und landesweit. Nach reiflicher Überlegung hat die Polizei von Winona beschlossen, keine Flock-Kameras mehr in der Stadt Winona zu installieren.
Und ich habe mindestens zwei weitere Gerichtsbezirke ausgemacht, die dem gleichen Muster gefolgt sind.
Soziale Bewegungen sind gerade dann wirksam, wenn Solidarität zwischen ihrer breiten Basis und den Menschen herrscht, die kriminelle direkte Aktionen begehen. Wenn soziale Bewegungen hinter ihren „Kriminellen“ stehen, gewinnen sie.
Winona, Minnesota, ist kein Einzelfall. Gerade in diesem Jahr haben Menschen im ganzen Land – egal ob in „roten“ oder „blauen“ Bundesstaaten – den Überwachungsstaat angegriffen und wurden dafür als Helden gefeiert.
Ich weiß ehrlich gesagt nicht, ob ich jemals eine populärere Verbrechenswelle gesehen habe.
Letzte Woche habe ich in einer Stadt im „Rust Belt“ meine Reifen wechseln lassen und mich eine Weile mit den Leuten dort unterhalten. Im Gespräch kam das Thema Überwachungskameras zur Sprache.
„Wo sind denn all unsere mit Mais gefütterten Arschlöcher? Die müssen endlich was gegen diesen Scheiß unternehmen“, sagte mir ein Mann.
„Du weißt doch, die haben Schrotflinten“, stimmte ich zu.
Im Nachhinein habe ich gute Nachrichten für den Reifenmann. Mit Schrotflinte und Winkelschleifer (und Handbandsäge), mit Expansionsschaum und Sprühfarbe sind die Leute tatsächlich da draußen und zerstören diese Kameras massenhaft. Viele werden dabei erwischt (meistens von anderen Kameras), aber nicht alle. Am 13. August veröffentlichte die Stadt Charlotte in North Carolina einen Beitrag auf ihrer offiziellen Facebook-Seite, in dem sie die Öffentlichkeit um Hilfe bat, um diejenigen aufzuspüren, die Expansionsschaum auf ihre Kennzeichenlesekameras gesprüht hatten. Dabei gaben sie versehentlich zu, dass diese Kameras mehr als nur Kennzeichen erfassen. Bislang gibt es mehr als 70.000 Kommentare zu diesem Beitrag, die überwiegend die Zerstörung dieser Kameras befürworten.
(...)Weiterlesen in meiner Übesetzung des Textes "People Really Are Cutting Down Flock Cameras En Masse or: public support for criminal activity is a primary driver of social change" von Margaret Killjoy / @margaret vom 19. August 2026
#NoICE #ALPR #Flock #FlockOff #FlockCameras #BigBrother #Überwachung #Polizei #Anarchismus
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There’s no such thing as free ice cream … even if we want it
Candid camera experiment where people were asked #personal questions in exchange for #free ice cream.
Most of them refused to answer and preferred not to get a #free ice cream.
https://threema.com/assets/videos/ice_cream/260812_glace_aktion_en.mp4
#privacy #messaging #BigData #BigBrother #video #IceCream #data #surveillance #CorporateGreed #SurveillanceCapitalism #PersonalData
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Geez, this keeps happening.
WSB TV Florida: Affidavit: Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times
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Wired: Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
"...Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has learned.
...Because the system also reaches police case files, 911 dispatch logs, and commercial identity records, those plates can be turned into names, home addresses, and relatives. It can search for people in an area drawn on a map based on nothing more than a physical description...."
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Full Strictly 2026 line-up and release date – and there isn’t long to wait
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404 Media: "....The National Park Service (NPS), the agency tasked with managing the U.S. national parks and monuments, has purchased Flock cameras and had them installed at parks including in Yosemite...."
https://www.404media.co/the-national-park-service-is-using-flock-rangers-are-pissed/
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🎉 Oh, joy! Meta's latest innovation: turn your face into a walking, talking #surveillance camera! Who needs #privacy when you can be recorded 24/7? 🚀 It's like having your very own Big Brother—who could resist? 🙃
https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/17/meta-files-patent-for-facial-recognition-automatic-recording-of-people/ #Meta #Innovation #BigBrother #Technology #HackerNews #ngated -
#China - Mass #homelessness is exposing the rot in Chinese society
by Gordon G. Chang, opinion contributor - 08/16/26
Excerpt: "This post-reform period, however, is seeing even more distressing signs of dislocation. Chinese people, for instance, are opting out of society with many choosing to flee, something evident with the unprecedented surge of Chinese nationals across America’s southern border during the Biden administration. Many of them were poor, but some were middle-class Chinese, evidently desperate to live in a free society.
"Most Chinese, however, cannot leave. Street dwellers often have low social credit scores. A person’s score reflects all interactions with society, and those with low ones are not allowed to, among other things, maintain bank accounts, buy train tickets or obtain coveted jobs. As a result, they have no home."
Read more:
https://thehill.com/homenews/6030358-china-homelessness-rising-youth-unemployment/#WorldPol #Homeless #Unhoused #Orwellian #BigBrother #ChinaPol
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Mais on préfère interdire, censurer, et laisser des Big Tech / Big Ai, entre autres entreprises privées, contrôler les identités, vérifier les âges, avec en plus des solutions propriétaires en boite noire.
Ou proposer des solutions numériques qui n’ont pas fait leurs preuves.
Sachant que ce qui est autorisé aujourd’hui peut être interdit demain.
Les français sont des veaux, c’est incroyable.
#opensource #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #NiPigeonNiEspion #bigbrother #numerique
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Better eyes for #BigBrother ?
"U.S. Coast Guard to convert new cargo planes into surveillance aircraft"
#Ukraine #News #Politics #Nato #War #ww3 #Military #Russia #USA #Escalation #Europe #EU #UN #Spy #Government #Paranoia #Security #Immigration #Invasion
https://defence-blog.com/u-s-coast-guard-to-convert-new-cargo-planes-into-surveillance-aircraft/
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Wired: "...In one case, a CBP officer allegedly used government databases to contact a flight attendant. In another, an officer was accused of pulling information from trusted-traveler applications to ask people out. Other CBP employees were accused of providing border-crossing data to someone involved in a “heated divorce.” And yet another DHS employee allegedly used controversial ad-tech-derived location data to track several coworkers’ cell phones..."
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Wired: CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones. -
#BR24:
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Meta, Fielmann und Co. wegen Smart Glasses angezeigt
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".. Spionage-Brillen .. Unter anderem Smart Glasses von Meta und Ray-Ban machen es möglich. Muss man nun hinnehmen, ständig heimlich gefilmt zu werden? Nein, sagt HateAid und hat Anzeige erstattet.""Klare Kennzeichnung als Ziel"
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/meta-fielmann-und-co-wegen-smart-glasses-angezeigt
14.8.2026
#Abhören #ApolloOptik #BigBrother #Brille #Datenschutz #Fielmann #HateAid #Kamera #Meta #MisterSpex #Persönlichkeitsrechte #RayBan #SmartGlasses #TDDDG #Überwachung
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🚨 BREAKING: The US spent taxpayer dollars on a masterclass in #paranoia, surveilling activists like it's the next Olympic sport 🤦♂️. Turns out, Big Brother's favorite pastime is keeping tabs on anyone with a protest sign 📉.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters #surveillance #BigBrother #activism #taxpayerdollars #protestrights #HackerNews #ngated -
Posting again for others. My #Facebook account was suspended today. They wanted me to submit a photo ID, but my hubby, who also had his account suspended, told me that didn't change anything. This is #Fascism and #FaceSurveillance at it's highest form. If you're still on FB and get suspended, download your archive and maybe make an announcement on #Instagram (mine was still working).
#BigBrother #ZuckSucks #SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #TechBros #SurveillanceState
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"...At one anti-ICE event at a church, agents documented the license plate information of attendees, the records showed. When two agents were approached by a man who “asked if they were ICE”, the agent responded, falsely, that they were not...." #surveillance #bigbrother #privacy #uspol
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Per the Guardian: "..One investigative record showed DHS used administrative subpoenas to obtain “wire transfers from various financial institutions to and from” SEIU, one of the largest unions in the US. Investigators also requested that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provide financial data from the Communications Workers of America, an international union, the records showed....DHS further obtained financial records related to the Sunrise Movement, a national non-profit focused on the climate crisis."
#unions #uspol #bigbrother #surveillance #climate #climateemergency
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The Guardian: US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
"...Newly disclosed records reveal the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing the immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year...."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters
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‘Big Brother’ Season 28, Week 5 Eviction: Fifth Housemate Voted Out After Surprising BB Block Buster
#News #BigBrother #CBS #RealityTVhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/big-brother-season-28-week-5-eviction-cbs-1237033488/
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Flock CEO: "...Misuse proved so rampant that Langley decided Flock needed to make the audit feature standard...."
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#Britain's #BigBrother State is here. We just don't realise it yet
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WaPo: How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking
Flock's array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other
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Aaron Rodgers, quarterback by day and covert #surveillance mogul by night, apparently bankrolls his hometown's Big Brother antics. 🤦♂️ While trying to read about this bizarre plot twist, I got blocked by a digital bouncer—because nothing screams top secret like getting stonewalled by #Cloudflare. 🚫💻 #TechWoes
https://www.foiaball.com/p/aaron-rodgers-secretly-bought-police-alpr-cameras #AaronRodgers #BigBrother #TechWoes #BizarrePlot #HackerNews #ngated -
#FlockCameras Can Track Every Car in America. #Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t.
In Texas, there’s one thing liberals and conservatives agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars.
By Fernando Alfonso III and Kashmir Hill
Aug. 10, 2026Excerpt: "A #Texas officer used Flock’s cameras to track a woman across state lines who was suspected of self-administering an abortion. Officers across the country have abused their access to Flock’s cameras, including to track romantic partners, resulting in discipline and termination. #LosAngeles and #DaytonOH , among other cities, recently suspended their contracts with Flock to prevent immigration authorities from accessing data from the cameras. Dayton resorted to covering the cameras with trash bags. In cities like Houston, Oakland, Calif., and Grand Junction, Colo., residents have taken matters into their own hands, with police reports and surveillance footage documenting Flock cameras being cut down, splattered with paint and even shot.
"Flock’s pitch is simple: It can help the police find stolen cars, locate wanted people and solve crimes. One license-plate reader led to the arrest in Florida of a man who had threatened a mass shooting in Louisiana; another helped police find the man eventually convicted in an assassination attempt against Donald J. Trump.
"But as its cameras have spread, so has the opposition. Americans are accustomed to surveillance cameras. They put them on their doorbells and tolerate them on street corners, offices and restaurants. What sets Flock’s cameras apart is that they are connected, creating a vast, searchable national network — often surprising residents who didn’t realize their local governments had signed up for them and raising fears of #BigBrother style surveillance. And they are hard to miss once you start noticing them."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/3PnB8#USPol #ACAB #ICE #SurveillanceState #Fascism #Orwellian #PoliceState #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #CharacteristicsOfFascism