#surveillance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #surveillance, aggregated by home.social.
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"Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media shows a police officer explaining why he used police databases and license plate reader cameras to research, stalk, and pull over a woman he met on the set of a TV show. "I mean, I saw a shiny thing, teasing and all that," the cop said in the footage. "I knew that when I put that [into the system], I was like ‘Fuck.’"
404 Media obtained more than an hour of body camera footage that shows the investigation into Florida cop Lamar Roman, who met a woman on the set of the Apple TV show Bad Monkey, then illegally researched her using government department of motor vehicles databases, put her license plate on a police “hot list” that would notify him when she drove past an automated license plate reader camera, nearly caused a head-on collision while speeding to track her down, and illegally pulled her over after stalking her. We previously published footage from Roman’s police cruiser; the new footage shows police station interviews with Roman about why he did what he did, an anonymized police station interview with the victim about his actions, and the eventual arrest of Roman in front of his home.
The detective investigating Roman told the man “you’ll get past this bro” during his arrest, and later told the victim that he was "remorseful" and urged her not to post about the incident on social media, according to body camera footage obtained by 404 Media.
The footage also shows that the investigator told the victim that “we’ve had deputies misuse databases, we’ve told them over and over again ‘that’s not what it’s for. You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database. That’s not what it’s for.’”"
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"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.
Drawing on a network of cameras that logs the movements of drivers in more than 6,000 communities, the tool can pick out potential witnesses by how often their cars pass through a neighborhood, or surface a driver’s “associates” from the cameras they pass together. 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.
The software, originally called Nightshift and more recently renamed OS Investigate, ships with 69 prewritten prompts that officers can select, review, or edit, and then submit to the AI. Officers can also input prompts of their own.
The suggested prompts sit in a cache of more than 450 files that WIRED found on Flock’s own website, served by its login pages to anyone who loaded them. The code describes 45 tools at the AI’s disposal, giving it access to plate scans and camera metadata, arrest records, case files, dispatch logs, ballistics results, and commercial databases that contain Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives and associates."
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/
#USA #Flock #PoliceState #OSInvestigate #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection
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#Fusion #Stellarator #Tokamak #Surveillance #Enshittification #Dictionary #Google
This morning I am thinking about all of the scientific terminology related to fusion reactors I added to my personal dictionaries lately and about properly spelling "enshittification" with two t's rather than one.
Because I'm a bit of a cybersecurity wonk I often use task specific browses and accounts, some of them from fully walled off disposable one time use virtual machines, and I get to see the very weird assumptions the fiends at the monopolies make based on limited information provided to their ubiquitous surveillance systems.
While I do not need a vast array of personal spectroscopic lab equipment starting at the low, low, discount act-now price of $25,000 and going up from there, I do have a YouTube/Google account that runs to ads hawking that sort of equipment and very nice high resolution digital microscopes, which granted might be very useful kitchen accessories given that the food supply is no longer inspected or safe, but are quite out of my financial reach no matter how cool it would be to examine my salads before they send me to the ER. The people at the Googlag seem to believe I may have access to an institutional equipment budget due to the materials science reading I do and the physics videos I watch.
From time to time I reinforce their erroneous assumptions by doing price comparisons for gas spectrum analyzers and laboratory safety equipment that might be handy around the house.
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Police Are Buying $1M Spy SUVs
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Inside Flock: The Surveillance System Watching America
#news #technology #flock #surveillance #proton #privacy -
Flock's fastest-growing business is 60 mph police drones that can read license plates from the sky
Privacy groups warn that flying plate readers could expand surveillance far beyond roadside cameras
https://www.techspot.com/news/113541-flock-fastest-growing-business-60-mph-police-drones.html
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US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
#ICE #news #technology #surveillance #trumphttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters
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I’m leaving. Holy shit. I cannot believe we moved from perv glasses to perv airpods in what feels like months. This is absolutely insane.
I left macos when it was still called osx. Continuing to use closed source operating systems and corporate surveillance technology is increasingly branding you as a fascist enabler…at best.
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/17/camera-equipped-airpods-macos-26-7/
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Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365733
#HackerNews #policebrutality #privacyrights #domesticviolence #surveillance #technology #ethics
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The National Park Service Is Using #Flock. Rangers Are Pissed
https://www.404media.co/the-national-park-service-is-using-flock-rangers-are-pissed/
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#Sainsbury’s store pauses #AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation
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Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure? - People say they’ve been secretly filmed in their own home, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the coffin of personal privacy?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/aug/19/meta-glasses-privacy-surveillance #privacy #PervertGlasses #SmartGlasses #wearables #meta #surveillance -
If You Thought Pervert Glasses Were Bad, Wait Till You See Apple’s Leaked AirPods - “…the upcoming AirPods will raise huge privacy concerns once their existence becomes more publicly known. The controversy around Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses — or “pervert” glasses, as some call them — has all but ensured that camera-equipped wearables will be a cultural issue going forward.” https://futurism.com/future-society/apple-leaked-airpods-privacy #privacy #Apple #Surveillance #AirPods
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They're only banned because ICE can't control the narrative.
ICE agents can't wear Meta glasses while they work, official memo warns - Engadget
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Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/11/civic-hygiene/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363433
#HackerNews #CivicHygiene #policeState #technology #ethics #surveillance #society
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Here's more from our talk with Fatema Ahmad of the @MuslimJusticeLeague about the National Week of Action Against ALPRs ...
Watch and read the full interview plus get all our #surveillance coverage at https://binj.news/2026/08/06/the-muslim-justice-league-and-a-national-week-of-action-against-alprs-in-mass/ ...
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🏴🚨🇪🇸🔓#España #CyberSec #Surveillance | #ChatGPT empieza a registrar qué haces en tu equipo y eso es oro para los ciberdelincuentes....
https://www.redeszone.net/noticias/seguridad/chatgpt-registrar-que-haces-equipo/ -
The router as home #surveillance shared with cops whenever Comcast decides
"Comcast states: "Subject to applicable law, Comcast may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice to you in connection with any law enforcement investigation or proceeding, any dispute to which Comcast is a party, or pursuant to a court order or subpoena." "
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The holiday's built-in culture of masks and anonymity makes it a sharp symbolic backdrop for an anti-surveillance movement.
https://cybernews.com/privacy/de-flock-america-halloween-flock-surveillance-cameras/
