#digitalsurveillance — Public Fediverse posts

Cambridge Day: MIT professors bedazzle cameras to protest expanding surveillance network. “Armed with a stepladder, sheets of adhesive rhinestones and googly eyes, a group of MIT professors made their way through campus Tuesday evening hunting for surveillance cameras. The eye-catching decorations do not block the cameras or interfere with their operation. That’s the point. The professors […]

Denver Post: Denver woman sues Flock, police after being accused of a crime she didn’t commit. “When Columbine Valley police Sgt. Jamie Milliman knocked on Chrisanna Elser’s door in southwest Denver’s Fort Logan neighborhood on Sept. 27, 2025, he said he was certain he had caught a thief. Milliman had never met Elser and had never spoken to her, but used Flock cameras to ‘digitally stalk’ […]

Engadget: Florida county finds 11 unpermitted Flock cameras with unidentified owners . “After officials in Florida’s St. Lucie County opted to end use of Flock cameras and began removing them, they discovered several devices that were not connected to any local agencies. The Washington Post reported that the county leaders thought they had 52 cameras, but found 14 additional ones that were […]

Forcing VPN Companies to Become Palantir | Canada's Data Harvesting Law (CA-22)

c-22 bill ("The Lawful Access Act")

Alternate Link Invidious

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/3155/ Hiding in Plain Sight: The Geopolitics of Software Supply Chains #ArtificialIntelligence(ai) #CriticalInfrastructure #Cyber #cybersecurity #DigitalSurveillance #Drones #EmergingTechnology #geopolitics #GlobalSecurity #Military #NationalDefenseAuthorizationActNDAA #NationalSecurity #OpenSource

Reuters: Irish privacy regulator fines Google €403 million over location data processing. “The Irish watchdog found that Google infringed European Union privacy rules known ​as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) through three of its specific ⁠features – ‘Web & App Activity’, ‘Location History’ and ‘Location Accuracy’ — from 2018 to 2020.”

Gizmodo: LG Denies Its TVs Are Spying on You (Unless You Opted In). “LG is pushing back against claims that its TVs eavesdrop on owners constantly after a joint report by Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs discovered unsettling details about how much data it phones home—including when the devices are offline or in standby mode.”

EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

Employee surveillance of this nature is just evil. As well:

“Ravid conducted a 2022 meta-analysis that combined the results of studies involving more than 23,000 subjects in laboratory experiments and workplace settings, including workers in call centers and offices and police on patrol. Taken together, the studies found no correlation between levels of monitoring and employee performance.”

#DigitalSurveillance #AI #EmployeeTracking #Canada #Tech
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/surveillance-at-work-is-increasing

Ars Technica: LinkedIn beats “BrowserGate” lawsuits over scanning users’ Chrome extensions. “LinkedIn beat two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browser extensions, with a judge granting the Microsoft subsidiary’s motion to dismiss the cases. The users who sued LinkedIn failed to adequately allege that they have standing to sue because neither asserted that they ‘had […]

Cybernews: Are 200 million LG TVs listening in – even when switched off?. “LG smart TVs can listen in on voice commands, gather data that reveals your location, and scan your home for other connected devices, according to a major new investigation into the company’s webOS platform.”

Reuters: US military turns off ad trackers on devices amid Middle East targeting reports. “U.S. military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a ​range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and statements given ‌to Reuters, a development that follows reports that commercially available location data had been used to […]

ACPC: ‘It seemed like every town in America had something going on’: Week of Action against Flock and ALPRs gets people engaged. “[Len] Phillips said the man was an example of how the event’s 110 or so attendees included people of differing political ideologies—including Democratic Socialists, Libertarians and conservatives—who nonetheless shared concerns about the proliferation of […]

Ars Technica: I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.. “My experience placing these data access requests was incredibly time-consuming, from finding the right filing methods to verifying my identity multiple times. Most exasperating during this process were the companies that either responded to my access requests with messages concerning the deletion of information, which I […]

Politico: Own a gun? Go to church? Do yoga? AI can find out in seconds. “Lawmakers and staffers from dozens of congressional offices have seen AI’s privacy-busting prowess in demos arranged in recent months by CivAI, a nonprofit that says its aim is to educate the public about AI’s dangers and capabilities. Besides building troves of personal information gleaned from commercial databases, […]

Orlando Sentinel: Florida orders Flock cameras off of state roads. “Florida is revoking permits for Flock cameras and similar license-plate readers on state roads, dealing a blow to local law enforcement agencies that say they’re a critical crime-fighting tool. In a memorandum Monday, Florida Department of Transportation Assistant Secretary Will Watts gave agencies 30 days to remove the […]

PetaPixel: New York Nightclub Threatens to Permanently Ban Anyone Caught With Smart Glasses. “As Futurism reports, Basement in Queens, New York, is an underground techno club that has become one of the city’s best-known spots. It models itself on nightclubs in Europe, such as Berlin’s Berghain, operating a strict door policy where revelers have to pass the ‘vibe check.’ But it appears that […]

Texas Tribune: Gov. Abbott blocks state agencies from spending money on Flock cameras. “Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered all state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras as scrutiny over the AI-powered surveillance devices has mounted. The order came as The Texas Tribune was preparing to publish an investigation detailing how a state agency has devoted at least $30 million to building up the […]

Engadget: Meta is closing a loophole that allowed people to record with their smart glasses’ light covered . “Meta is making yet another change to its smart glasses to try to prevent people from covertly recording others. The company is rolling out a software update that closes one loophole that allowed people to bypass the LED by covering it up while a recording was in progress, according to […]

Ars Technica: Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they’re coming for monitors.. “Ads and tracking have turned TVs into privacy nightmares. Both are so widespread among smart TVs that I’ve written a guide for avoiding them. One recommendation in that guide is to use a computer monitor. But in recent years, monitors have become more capable of pushing ads and tracking users. Without more […]

The Register: Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks. “Unlike some other available tools that do the same, Glassbox provides a whole bunch of raw, unfiltered data you can sift through to see what makes your browser stand out, along with an estimate of how identifiable its fingerprint may be.”

Philadelphia Inquirer: Fighting AI and Flock, today’s Luddites are the revolutionaries we need. “[Cody] Morelock was arrested after the June incident and then prosecutors in Clermont County, Ohio took what looked like an open-and-shut case — with surveillance tapes, credit-card receipts, and other hard evidence connecting the 35-year-old man to the alleged crime — before a grand jury of […]

Brigham Young University: New Utah law protects student privacy after BYU research found K-12 apps were collecting and sharing data. “Using test student accounts, the team simulated 15-20 minutes of use per app while conducting analyses. They found that

Mashable: Have you been Flocked? This website lets you find out. “A website called Have I Been Flocked? lets you enter your license plate number and check whether it appears in publicly released records of searches conducted through Flock Safety’s system. As of Aug. 17, the website had compiled nearly 242 million searches involving more than 4.6 million plates.”

404 Media: The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts. “Government surveillance centers are monitoring viral anti-Flock Instagram posts, warning local police about upcoming DeFlock events including one scheduled to start next week, and have told cops to ‘increase patrols around ALPR [automatic license plate readers]’ as backlash to Flock grows, according to government […]

Gizmodo: Your McDonald’s File is Probably Bigger Than Your FBI File. “Wired reporter Reece Rogers requested the information that the fast food giant had stashed on him, and received a 515-page report that included predictions on how often he’d frequent the restaurant, when and where he was most likely to visit, and what he was most likely to order.”

Associated Press: Flock announces changes amid backlash over its license plate reader network. “Flock Safety, the surveillance technology company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers from both parties, civil liberties advocates and citizens across the U.S., announced Thursday that it is making changes to its platform intended to quell privacy concerns and address documented abuses of its […]

Common Dreams: New Database Documents Over 100 Cases of Cops Abusing Flock Surveillance Cameras. “A new database launched Wednesday that details more than 100 cases of alleged abuse by law enforcement officers using Flock Safety’s nationwide camera network is adding fresh urgency to the growing backlash against automated license plate readers.”

Note: Go check his channel btw, he made some cool/cute animations

Not trying to being a weeb or anything, so just 20 minutes ago, I watched a recent episode of Trouble Division 2099 by Gensho Yasuda (the animator behind Bad Apple x Mcdonald commercial).

SPOILERS BEWARE

The episode follows a guy got arrested by *cute* AI Police Girl, because he was PREDICTED gonna rob a bank in 3 days.

After the guy apprehended to Trouble Division 2099. It's turn out, the root cause of the predicted crime, is because he was arrested by the AI police girl. Where it leads to him to rob a bank.

What refletcs me not because of it's just a show, but how near that kind of scary thing in the future.

I remembered there is a push of such tech before. Without mentioning that too, there are already push of age verification, digital ID verification, and OS verification worldwide.

Which is possible to make the reemmergence of this push of "predictive crime". Don't go that far, there are news people falsely arrested because "Flock said so".

Entertainment media warned about this before, and will always do that.

It's time to act, before it's too late.

https://youtu.be/GPbFYEUjOOY

#animation #indie #cybersecurity #privacy #surveillance #digitalsurveillance #futurecrimealgorithm

PetaPixel: Meta Smart Glasses Face Calls for Bans Across Europe Over Privacy Concerns. “Several European countries — including France, Germany, and the Netherlands — are considering banning Meta’s smart glasses as regulators examine whether the devices comply with privacy laws.”

New York Times: How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners. This link goes to a gift article. “China monitors its 1.4 billion people on an unparalleled scale, with the help of cameras, cellphone signals and national IDs. The database Mr. Hofer found offered a rare window into how extensively the Chinese authorities also surveil foreigners, displaying entries about people categorized by nationality, […]