#surveillance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #surveillance, aggregated by home.social.
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Texas pauses funding for Flock Safety cameras after an investigation found $30M+ quietly allocated to build a statewide license plate reader network. The privacy question isn't just about the cameras — it's about who has access to the data, for how long, and under what legal framework. Infrastructure first, governance later is a pattern worth watching. #surveillance #OSINT #privacy
https://www.techmeme.com/260828/p27#a260828p27 -
How an #Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing #Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
#Alpharetta , #Georgia , cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.
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Cities terminate #Flock contracts at record pace in August
New data compiled by a #BayArea anti-surveillance #advocacy group shows that not only are American localities dropping cameras from #FlockSafety ,but they are doing it at an accelerating rate.
Communities from #Lansing , #Michigan , to #Pflugerville , #Texas , are ending their relationship with Flock, largely over concerns regarding out-of-control #surveillance , unwanted data sharing, high expenses, and reports of #police abusing the tool.
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Since 2001, the Australian government has passed more than 100 pieces of "national security" legislation that limits our speech, our liberties, our rights and our movements, in ways most people don’t understand until it applies to them.
#australia #ausgov #authoritarianism #civilliberties #activism #surveillance
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/dave-hughess-common-sense-is-just -
Great!
Now they want fucking robot dogs!
ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-spends-millions-on-boston-dynamics-dog-robots/
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How AI‑powered policing is endangering the public’s trust in police
#Canada #AI #Police #Tech #RCMP #Policing #Surveillance #Privacy #Justice #Justice #AIEthics #Law #PublicTrust
https://the-14.com/how-ai-powered-policing-is-endangering-the-publics-trust-in-police/ -
"New fronts are opening up in the opposition to big tech. The anti-data center movement is rolling, AI is unpopular as ever, and now, a widespread backlash to Meta’s new AI glasses—termed Pervert Glasses by the masses—is unfolding at breakneck pace. Silicon Valley, of course, is in denial about all of it.
This week on the podcast, to help make sense of this latest revolt against a Silicon Valley project, I spoke with Chris Gilliard, an author, thinker, and surveillance scholar who’s spent many years investigating big tech’s efforts to seduce us with sleek, aspirational products, track us, and harvest our data. Gilliard is the author of Luxury Surveillance, a forthcoming book about this very subject from MIT Press; you may better know him as Hypervisible, the handle he uses online and on Bluesky."
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt-against-metas-pervert
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@theblufnews/117175174328149983
Surveillance tech barons have no code of ethics beyond profit.
#surveillance #surveillancestate #Ai #ethics #unethical #amoral #tech #broligarchy #corruption #treason #news #usnews #globalnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #globalpolitics #history #ushistory #worldshitory -
Gaza Not 4 Sale
#Turnberry golf course has staged the Open four times. Tee times for non-residents are listed at up to £1,000 a head at the #Ayrshire resort, which Trump added his name to after buying it from a #Dubai based group in 2014 for an undisclosed sum.#DirectAction #Gaza #Golf #Palestine #solidarity #surveillance #Trumpland
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This is not good news. This is past slippery slope, we're already passing the buck and allowing #Meta to surveil & addict us. [I stopped using]
#Algorithms driving ppl to suicide? Let's limit children's access only, it's be fine for the rest of the users.
Dems and Repubs of course want the $$$ from (social) #media companies, so they write off (all of) our freedoms, w the old cry "Won't somebody think of the #children?!?"
#TheSimpsons #surveillance #state #online #privacy
https://apnews.com/article/meta-trial-instagram-settlement-97d342f2a33d835eda2356c5e1af9e37 -
A #Georgia #Cop Used #Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend
https://www.wired.com/story/a-georgia-cop-used-flock-to-track-2-other-cops-his-ex-and-her-friend/
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#Americans have turned against #police cameras that track #licenseplates, new survey shows
Fearing the potential for invasive monitoring or abuse, more people now oppose #lawenforcement’s use of #AI-powered cameras than support it, a new survey shows.
According to a new YouGov survey of 20,000 people across #US, 46% of respondents opposed the #Flock’s surveillance cameras in their communities, while 38% supported them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/28/americans-turn-against-license-plate-readers-privacy-concerns-grow/
https://archive.ph/N7IDQ #ALPR #Privacy #Surveillance -
RE: https://lawoffice.social/@barry/117174731424394701
The problem was never #Flock. It's that #ALPR, facial recognition, data brokers, and dragnet monitoring all feed one machine — a panopticon documenting your every move without consent: where you pray, who you associate with, whether you crossed state lines to protest. "Public safety" is the brand. Mass surveillance is the product. We deserve better than being watched.
Privacy isn't dead.
#ImperialDecline #Surveillance #SurveillanceResistance #SurveillanceCapitalism
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"People who don’t want to be surveilled going to a church, dispensary, or medical appointment have more in common than they think. "
This is part two in a series I've been working on that looks at how local governments are sharing our personal information: https://progressnownm.org/dont-wait-for-somebody-else-inside-the-effort-to-reveal-nms-surveillance-for-profit-economy/
It focuses on #NewMexico but was written to help people understand what's happening more broadly
