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  1. 🚨 Oh no, folks! The #apocalypse is upon us! #Apple has decided we all need personal #stenographers on our wrists. 🤖 #Privacy experts are probably clutching their pearls while conspiracists frantically adjust their tinfoil hats. Welcome to Apple's new feature: "Big Brother Now Fits in Your Pocket." 🙄
    dallincrump.com/dystopian-surv #Concerns #BigBrother #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🚨 Oh no, folks! The #apocalypse is upon us! #Apple has decided we all need personal #stenographers on our wrists. 🤖 #Privacy experts are probably clutching their pearls while conspiracists frantically adjust their tinfoil hats. Welcome to Apple's new feature: "Big Brother Now Fits in Your Pocket." 🙄
    dallincrump.com/dystopian-surv #Concerns #BigBrother #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 🚨 Oh no, folks! The #apocalypse is upon us! #Apple has decided we all need personal #stenographers on our wrists. 🤖 #Privacy experts are probably clutching their pearls while conspiracists frantically adjust their tinfoil hats. Welcome to Apple's new feature: "Big Brother Now Fits in Your Pocket." 🙄
    dallincrump.com/dystopian-surv #Concerns #BigBrother #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🚨 Oh no, folks! The #apocalypse is upon us! #Apple has decided we all need personal #stenographers on our wrists. 🤖 #Privacy experts are probably clutching their pearls while conspiracists frantically adjust their tinfoil hats. Welcome to Apple's new feature: "Big Brother Now Fits in Your Pocket." 🙄
    dallincrump.com/dystopian-surv #Concerns #BigBrother #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🚨 Oh no, folks! The #apocalypse is upon us! #Apple has decided we all need personal #stenographers on our wrists. 🤖 #Privacy experts are probably clutching their pearls while conspiracists frantically adjust their tinfoil hats. Welcome to Apple's new feature: "Big Brother Now Fits in Your Pocket." 🙄
    dallincrump.com/dystopian-surv #Concerns #BigBrother #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

  6. The Guardian: San Jose officer fired for misusing Flock camera database in domestic abuse case

    Police officer shared location of a woman with his relative who is accused of abusing woman

    "...A San Jose police officer was fired for using his department’s Flock license plate tracking system to share the location of a woman with the suspect accused of abusing her, Chief Paul Joseph told NBC Bay Area on Friday...."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #stalking #flock #privacy #bigbrother #surveillance

  7. 404 Media: Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’

    (Sept 14, 2026)

    404media.co/cops-search-thousa

    #flock #alpr #privacy #bigbrother

  8. 🔍 Big Brother 2.0, now with 130,000 cameras! 🕵️‍♂️ Flock's plan: trade your privacy for "safety"—because who doesn't love living in a fishbowl? 🐟 Just imagine the nostalgia of post-9/11 #surveillance... but better! 🙄
    newyorker.com/culture/infinite #BigBrother #Flock #PrivacySafety #Fishbowl #HackerNews #ngated

  9. #BR24:
    "
    Meta, Fielmann und Co. wegen Smart Glasses angezeigt
    "
    ".. 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"

    br.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/met

    14.8.2026

    #Abhören #ApolloOptik #BigBrother #Brille #Datenschutz #Fielmann #HateAid #Kamera #Meta #MisterSpex #Persönlichkeitsrechte #RayBan #SmartGlasses #TDDDG #Überwachung

  10. ""Every failed attempt to make children safer online is followed by more surveillance and censorship," he said. "Children have rights too and these policies will harm their free expression and privacy rights, and push them into less regulated spaces. Meanwhile the business models driving harms are untouched."

    Others questioned whether the measures can realistically be enforced. Mark Jones, an online harms specialist and partner at law firm Payne Hicks Beach, noted that the consultation closed only weeks ago and warned that determined teenagers have a habit of finding ways around restrictions.

    "A social media ban only helps if it is genuinely enforceable," Jones said. "If large numbers of young people simply circumvent the restrictions, parents will just lose visibility into where their children are actually spending time online rather than reclaiming any control."

    The political case for the crackdown appears relatively straightforward, but the practical one is less so. The government now has to persuade social media companies to enforce the rules and teenagers not to find ways around them."

    theregister.com/personal-tech/

    #UK #AgeVerification #NannyState #Surveillance #Oligopolies #Censorship #BigBrother #BigTech #Privacy #Anonymity

  11. 🚨 "...The audit revealed that even though OPD’s Flock Safety security settings had been set to “California only” access, a vendor-enabled “nationwide query” allowed agencies from outside of California, which also include federal agencies, to query OPD’s data without OPD's knowledge or approval... "

    oxnard.gov/pd-news/news-releas

    #privacy #alpr #privacy #flock #oxnard #bigbrother #VenturaCounty

  12. #Netzpolitik:
    "
    ADINT: Überwachungsfirmen können Menschen mit „anonymen“ Werbe-IDs ausspionieren
    "
    "Meist im Verborgenen bereiten Unternehmen Daten aus der Online-Werbung für Geheimdienste auf. Manche prahlen damit, praktisch jedes Handy verfolgen zu können. .."

    netzpolitik.org/2026/adint-ueb

    27.1.2026

    #ADINT #BigBrother #Daten #Geheimdienst #GläsernerBürger #ICE #Internet #LeMonde #Mobiltelefon #Rayzone #RCSLab #Smartphone #Stratcom #Überwachung #WaveGuard #Werbung #WerbeID

  13. Went to the last instance of Gothic Maine's #Plague night this weekend (the proceeds of which went to the #Unhoused in #Maine). I first DJ'ed with them 20 years ago, and had some very cool nights I organized with them... Including #WickerMan and #NineteenEightyFour nights! The end of an era!

    #Goth #GothNights #BigBrother #BurnTheRich #NoKings #NoFools

  14. "Facial recognition technology could be used more often by UK police forces, according to new plans announced by the Home Office."

    Well, isn't it lucky then that the entire history of giving the police new powers is that they never, ever abuse them.

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r7pw

    #Police #BigBrother #MakeOrwellFictionAgain #CreepingAuthoritarianism #UKPolitics

  15. To je děsivé.
    A i přes to existují lidé, kteří chtějí omezit nebo zrušit právo veta.
    (tady v tomto případě se rozhoduje kvalifikovanou většinou 55%/65%)



    #Regulace #EU #BigBrother
  16. #Orwell already knew in 1984: We willingly buy the ‘telescreens’ that are used against us.

    1984’s “telescreens” may not have been pocket-sized or connected to social networks. But they tell us a lot about the risks of life in 2018.

    By Henry Cowles, July 2018

    "#Snowden was right. Re-reading 1984 in 2018, one is struck by the 'TVs that watch us,' which Orwell called telescreens. The #telescreen is one of the first objects we encounter: 'The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.' It is omnipresent, in every private room and public space, right up until the end of the book, when it is 'still pouring forth its tale of prisoners and booty and slaughter' even after Smith has resigned himself to its rule.

    "What’s most striking about the telescreen’s ubiquity is how right and how wrong Orwell was about our technological present. Screens are not just a part of life today: they are our lives. We interact digitally so often and in such depth that it’s hard for many of us to imagine (or remember) what life used to be like. And now, all that interaction is recorded. Snowden was not the first to point out how far smartphones and social media are from what Orwell imagined. He couldn’t have known how eager we’d be to shrink down our telescreens and carry them with us everywhere we go, or how readily we’d sign over the data we produce to companies that fuel our need to connect. We are at once surrounded by telescreens and so far past them that Orwell couldn’t have seen our world coming.

    "Or could he? Orwell gives us a couple of clues about where telescreens came from, clues that point toward a surprising origin for the totalitarian state that 1984 describes. Taking them seriously means looking toward the corporate world rather than to our current governments as the likely source of freedom’s demise. If Orwell was right, #consumer choice–indeed, the ideology of choice itself–might be how the erosion of choice really starts.

    "The first clue comes in the form of a technological absence. For the first time, Winston finds himself in a room without a telescreen:

    'There’s no telescreen!' he could not help murmuring.

    'Ah,' said the old man, 'I never had one of those things. Too expensive. And I never seemed to feel the need of it, somehow.'

    "Though we learn to take the old man’s statements with a grain of salt, it seems that–at some point, for some people–the owning of a telescreen was a matter of choice.

    "The second hint is dropped in a book within the book: a banned history of the rise of 'the Party' authored by one of its early architects who has since become 'the Enemy of the People.' The book credits technology with the destruction of privacy, and here we catch a glimpse of the world in which we live: 'With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.'

    "What does the murky history of the telescreen tell us about the way we live now? The hints about an old man’s reluctance and television’s power suggest that totalitarian overreach might not start at the top–at least, not in the sense we often imagine. Unfettered access to our inner lives begins as a choice, a decision to sign up for a product because we 'feel the need of it.' When acting on our desires in the marketplace means signing over our data to corporate entities, the erosion of choice is revealed to be the consequence of choice—or at least, the consequence of celebrating choice."

    Read more:
    fastcompany.com/90208133/orwel

    #Orwell1984 #Smartphones #Telescreens #BigBrother #TechnologyAddiction

  17. Today in
    It Most Certainly CAN Happen Here:

    Defence firms and other companies were given almost $10 million to develop new ways to analyze social media and sift through accounts.

    ottawacitizen.com/news/nationa

    Six months after National Defence claimed it was shutting down efforts to collect social media data of Canadians, the military was back again developing new technology to accomplish such tasks.

    #PoliceState #BigBrother #FuckThePolice #FuckTheMilitary #StateControl #Dystopia #LyingLiarsWhoLie