#surveillance — Public Fediverse posts
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LG smart TVs were found logging and uploading data even in standby, with tests also detecting microphone recording while offline. 📺
The investigation found Wi-Fi scanning, location data collection, and ACR tracking what users watch. 🔒That’s why you should never connect a smart TV to the internet. 🚫
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus
#TechNews #LG #SmartTV #TV #Television #Privacy #Surveillance #DataPrivacy #Security #IoT #Technology #SmartHome #Home #Cybersecurity #DigitalPrivacy #ConsumerTech #WiFi
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LG smart TVs were found logging and uploading data even in standby, with tests also detecting microphone recording while offline. 📺
The investigation found Wi-Fi scanning, location data collection, and ACR tracking what users watch. 🔒That’s why you should never connect a smart TV to the internet. 🚫
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus
#TechNews #LG #SmartTV #TV #Television #Privacy #Surveillance #DataPrivacy #Security #IoT #Technology #SmartHome #Home #Cybersecurity #DigitalPrivacy #ConsumerTech #WiFi
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LG smart TVs were found logging and uploading data even in standby, with tests also detecting microphone recording while offline. 📺
The investigation found Wi-Fi scanning, location data collection, and ACR tracking what users watch. 🔒That’s why you should never connect a smart TV to the internet. 🚫
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus
#TechNews #LG #SmartTV #TV #Television #Privacy #Surveillance #DataPrivacy #Security #IoT #Technology #SmartHome #Home #Cybersecurity #DigitalPrivacy #ConsumerTech #WiFi
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LG smart TVs were found logging and uploading data even in standby, with tests also detecting microphone recording while offline. 📺
The investigation found Wi-Fi scanning, location data collection, and ACR tracking what users watch. 🔒That’s why you should never connect a smart TV to the internet. 🚫
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus
#TechNews #LG #SmartTV #TV #Television #Privacy #Surveillance #DataPrivacy #Security #IoT #Technology #SmartHome #Home #Cybersecurity #DigitalPrivacy #ConsumerTech #WiFi
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Apple’s new Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 add four opt-in audio intelligence features using microphone data. 🎙️
WIRED examines how on-device processing, Secure Exclave, and Private Cloud Compute handle that audio. 🔒#TechNews #Apple #AppleWatch #Privacy #Security #AudioAI #AI #Surveillance #Technology #Smartwatch #DigitalPrivacy #Cybersecurity #DataProtection
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Apple’s new Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 add four opt-in audio intelligence features using microphone data. 🎙️
WIRED examines how on-device processing, Secure Exclave, and Private Cloud Compute handle that audio. 🔒#TechNews #Apple #AppleWatch #Privacy #Security #AudioAI #AI #Surveillance #Technology #Smartwatch #DigitalPrivacy #Cybersecurity #DataProtection
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Apple’s new Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 add four opt-in audio intelligence features using microphone data. 🎙️
WIRED examines how on-device processing, Secure Exclave, and Private Cloud Compute handle that audio. 🔒#TechNews #Apple #AppleWatch #Privacy #Security #AudioAI #AI #Surveillance #Technology #Smartwatch #DigitalPrivacy #Cybersecurity #DataProtection
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Apple’s new Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 add four opt-in audio intelligence features using microphone data. 🎙️
WIRED examines how on-device processing, Secure Exclave, and Private Cloud Compute handle that audio. 🔒#TechNews #Apple #AppleWatch #Privacy #Security #AudioAI #AI #Surveillance #Technology #Smartwatch #DigitalPrivacy #Cybersecurity #DataProtection
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Apple’s new Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 add four opt-in audio intelligence features using microphone data. 🎙️
WIRED examines how on-device processing, Secure Exclave, and Private Cloud Compute handle that audio. 🔒#TechNews #Apple #AppleWatch #Privacy #Security #AudioAI #AI #Surveillance #Technology #Smartwatch #DigitalPrivacy #Cybersecurity #DataProtection
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🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC
“State Senator Sabrina Cervantes cited our 2024 research report 'Deportation Data Centers' to request an audit of California's five fusion centers․ These federally funded intelligence hubs raise many privacy concerns ove…”
https://bsky.app/profile/stopspyingny.bsky.social/post/3mvpz2geszk2z
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🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC
“State Senator Sabrina Cervantes cited our 2024 research report 'Deportation Data Centers' to request an audit of California's five fusion centers․ These federally funded intelligence hubs raise many privacy concerns ove…”
https://bsky.app/profile/stopspyingny.bsky.social/post/3mvpz2geszk2z
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🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC
“State Senator Sabrina Cervantes cited our 2024 research report 'Deportation Data Centers' to request an audit of California's five fusion centers․ These federally funded intelligence hubs raise many privacy concerns ove…”
https://bsky.app/profile/stopspyingny.bsky.social/post/3mvpz2geszk2z
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🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC
“State Senator Sabrina Cervantes cited our 2024 research report 'Deportation Data Centers' to request an audit of California's five fusion centers․ These federally funded intelligence hubs raise many privacy concerns ove…”
https://bsky.app/profile/stopspyingny.bsky.social/post/3mvpz2geszk2z
🤖 via RSS feed. May not reflect our views.
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🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC
“State Senator Sabrina Cervantes cited our 2024 research report 'Deportation Data Centers' to request an audit of California's five fusion centers․ These federally funded intelligence hubs raise many privacy concerns ove…”
https://bsky.app/profile/stopspyingny.bsky.social/post/3mvpz2geszk2z
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Iranian-American analyst Lisa Daftari reveals threats and stalking after exposing the regime
As an Iranian-American political analyst who has dedicated my career to exposing the regime in Tehran, I know…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #cyberspying #Dissidents #Iran #Opinion #protests #surveillance
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I wrote an article about Flock cameras for a German outlet only about two months ago, if that. The number of stories I've seen just since then about cops illegally using automated license plate reader (ALPR) data has really made my head spin. Flock has tried to pass these incidents off as rarities, but if cops have access, there's just no way they aren't going to use it.
This is just the latest:
"Civil rights advocacy organizations LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) now want answers from the NYPD on why a credible third-party website shows that the department searched the Flock camera database 1,710 times between 2023 and 2025 without a publicly known contract with manufacturing surveillance company Flock Safety."
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I wrote an article about Flock cameras for a German outlet only about two months ago, if that. The number of stories I've seen just since then about cops illegally using automated license plate reader (ALPR) data has really made my head spin. Flock has tried to pass these incidents off as rarities, but if cops have access, there's just no way they aren't going to use it.
This is just the latest:
"Civil rights advocacy organizations LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) now want answers from the NYPD on why a credible third-party website shows that the department searched the Flock camera database 1,710 times between 2023 and 2025 without a publicly known contract with manufacturing surveillance company Flock Safety."
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I wrote an article about Flock cameras for a German outlet only about two months ago, if that. The number of stories I've seen just since then about cops illegally using automated license plate reader (ALPR) data has really made my head spin. Flock has tried to pass these incidents off as rarities, but if cops have access, there's just no way they aren't going to use it.
This is just the latest:
"Civil rights advocacy organizations LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) now want answers from the NYPD on why a credible third-party website shows that the department searched the Flock camera database 1,710 times between 2023 and 2025 without a publicly known contract with manufacturing surveillance company Flock Safety."
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I wrote an article about Flock cameras for a German outlet only about two months ago, if that. The number of stories I've seen just since then about cops illegally using automated license plate reader (ALPR) data has really made my head spin. Flock has tried to pass these incidents off as rarities, but if cops have access, there's just no way they aren't going to use it.
This is just the latest:
"Civil rights advocacy organizations LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) now want answers from the NYPD on why a credible third-party website shows that the department searched the Flock camera database 1,710 times between 2023 and 2025 without a publicly known contract with manufacturing surveillance company Flock Safety."
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I wrote an article about Flock cameras for a German outlet only about two months ago, if that. The number of stories I've seen just since then about cops illegally using automated license plate reader (ALPR) data has really made my head spin. Flock has tried to pass these incidents off as rarities, but if cops have access, there's just no way they aren't going to use it.
This is just the latest:
"Civil rights advocacy organizations LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) now want answers from the NYPD on why a credible third-party website shows that the department searched the Flock camera database 1,710 times between 2023 and 2025 without a publicly known contract with manufacturing surveillance company Flock Safety."
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@kauer
Maheswaran was asked to provide any written material to support his plentiful statements about what he communicated to de Kauwe, his surveillance operative, on the compliance issues of use of surveillance devices specifically covert listening devices. -
@kauer
Maheswaran was asked to provide any written material to support his plentiful statements about what he communicated to de Kauwe, his surveillance operative, on the compliance issues of use of surveillance devices specifically covert listening devices. -
@kauer
Maheswaran was asked to provide any written material to support his plentiful statements about what he communicated to de Kauwe, his surveillance operative, on the compliance issues of use of surveillance devices specifically covert listening devices. -
@kauer
Maheswaran was asked to provide any written material to support his plentiful statements about what he communicated to de Kauwe, his surveillance operative, on the compliance issues of use of surveillance devices specifically covert listening devices. -
@kauer
Maheswaran was asked to provide any written material to support his plentiful statements about what he communicated to de Kauwe, his surveillance operative, on the compliance issues of use of surveillance devices specifically covert listening devices. -
Sounds like Maheswaran went lawyer shopping for the particular advice he wanted. Purpose: so he had others to drop in & take the heat if any came his way. A kind of off-sourcing of responsibility… to other lawyers! Seems like this is part of his general modus operandi: set up fall guys. 🍂🍁🍂
Followed by much evidence on material obtained through use of covert listening devices in somewhat flakey & shakey circumstances. Clear that Maheswaran was in it up to his neck… although he presents himself, in lengthy, glib & convoluted (ie rehearsed) answers as very very concerned to be “in compliance with” the Surveillance Devices Act… followed by SMIRK. 😏 How cute is he?🤔
#ICACRadio #surveillance #adviceShoping #covertListeningDevices
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Sounds like Maheswaran went lawyer shopping for the particular advice he wanted. Purpose: so he had others to drop in & take the heat if any came his way. A kind of off-sourcing of responsibility… to other lawyers! Seems like this is part of his general modus operandi: set up fall guys. 🍂🍁🍂
Followed by much evidence on material obtained through use of covert listening devices in somewhat flakey & shakey circumstances. Clear that Maheswaran was in it up to his neck… although he presents himself, in lengthy, glib & convoluted (ie rehearsed) answers as very very concerned to be “in compliance with” the Surveillance Devices Act… followed by SMIRK. 😏 How cute is he?🤔
#ICACRadio #surveillance #adviceShoping #covertListeningDevices
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Sounds like Maheswaran went lawyer shopping for the particular advice he wanted. Purpose: so he had others to drop in & take the heat if any came his way. A kind of off-sourcing of responsibility… to other lawyers! Seems like this is part of his general modus operandi: set up fall guys. 🍂🍁🍂
Followed by much evidence on material obtained through use of covert listening devices in somewhat flakey & shakey circumstances. Clear that Maheswaran was in it up to his neck… although he presents himself, in lengthy, glib & convoluted (ie rehearsed) answers as very very concerned to be “in compliance with” the Surveillance Devices Act… followed by SMIRK. 😏 How cute is he?🤔
#ICACRadio #surveillance #adviceShoping #covertListeningDevices
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Sounds like Maheswaran went lawyer shopping for the particular advice he wanted. Purpose: so he had others to drop in & take the heat if any came his way. A kind of off-sourcing of responsibility… to other lawyers! Seems like this is part of his general modus operandi: set up fall guys. 🍂🍁🍂
Followed by much evidence on material obtained through use of covert listening devices in somewhat flakey & shakey circumstances. Clear that Maheswaran was in it up to his neck… although he presents himself, in lengthy, glib & convoluted (ie rehearsed) answers as very very concerned to be “in compliance with” the Surveillance Devices Act… followed by SMIRK. 😏 How cute is he?🤔
#ICACRadio #surveillance #adviceShoping #covertListeningDevices
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Sounds like Maheswaran went lawyer shopping for the particular advice he wanted. Purpose: so he had others to drop in & take the heat if any came his way. A kind of off-sourcing of responsibility… to other lawyers! Seems like this is part of his general modus operandi: set up fall guys. 🍂🍁🍂
Followed by much evidence on material obtained through use of covert listening devices in somewhat flakey & shakey circumstances. Clear that Maheswaran was in it up to his neck… although he presents himself, in lengthy, glib & convoluted (ie rehearsed) answers as very very concerned to be “in compliance with” the Surveillance Devices Act… followed by SMIRK. 😏 How cute is he?🤔
#ICACRadio #surveillance #adviceShoping #covertListeningDevices
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Flock CEO’s Home Marked ‘Public Toilet’ As Company Faces Scrutiny Over Privacy & False Arrests
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is facing widespread pushback as reports continue to surface about misuse while his cameras invade 49 states with mass surveillance.
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Flock CEO’s Home Marked ‘Public Toilet’ As Company Faces Scrutiny Over Privacy & False Arrests
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is facing widespread pushback as reports continue to surface about misuse while his cameras invade 49 states with mass surveillance.
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Flock CEO’s Home Marked ‘Public Toilet’ As Company Faces Scrutiny Over Privacy & False Arrests
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is facing widespread pushback as reports continue to surface about misuse while his cameras invade 49 states with mass surveillance.
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Flock CEO’s Home Marked ‘Public Toilet’ As Company Faces Scrutiny Over Privacy & False Arrests
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is facing widespread pushback as reports continue to surface about misuse while his cameras invade 49 states with mass surveillance.
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Flock CEO’s Home Marked ‘Public Toilet’ As Company Faces Scrutiny Over Privacy & False Arrests
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is facing widespread pushback as reports continue to surface about misuse while his cameras invade 49 states with mass surveillance.
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"Then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were having would make for a good column and offered to put together research for me to write about. It even flagged a message from my editor about having a column ready for Monday.
Not only had I not asked it to do that sort of thing, I never gave it permission to read my messages. In fact, I remember explicitly choosing not to let it have access to my messages, calendar, and other personal information.
Stranger still was what happened when I asked Muse how it knew. It told me it didn’t have access to my message history at all. Instead, it said the Muse app on my Mac was simply passing along the text of incoming notification banners.
“When a notification pops up on your paired Mac, the text of that notification gets relayed to me—basically what you’d see in the banner itself,” Muse told me.
It went even further. “I can’t open your Messages app, scroll threads, or read history. It’s the incoming notification stream only, not access to your texts.”
Except that wasn’t true.
I did a little digging. Muse does sync your messages from the local Messages database and uploads that information as a data source. On my device, it had been activated and synced to row 187,462 of my Messages database. I’m not sure how many messages that equates to, but it’s obviously more than whatever Muse told me about what it was doing.
Which, honestly, is the point. I never gave it permission to do that. And, more importantly, I never would do so on purpose."
#AI #Meta #Muse #AIAgents #AgenticAI #DataProtection #Privacy #Surveillance
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"Then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were having would make for a good column and offered to put together research for me to write about. It even flagged a message from my editor about having a column ready for Monday.
Not only had I not asked it to do that sort of thing, I never gave it permission to read my messages. In fact, I remember explicitly choosing not to let it have access to my messages, calendar, and other personal information.
Stranger still was what happened when I asked Muse how it knew. It told me it didn’t have access to my message history at all. Instead, it said the Muse app on my Mac was simply passing along the text of incoming notification banners.
“When a notification pops up on your paired Mac, the text of that notification gets relayed to me—basically what you’d see in the banner itself,” Muse told me.
It went even further. “I can’t open your Messages app, scroll threads, or read history. It’s the incoming notification stream only, not access to your texts.”
Except that wasn’t true.
I did a little digging. Muse does sync your messages from the local Messages database and uploads that information as a data source. On my device, it had been activated and synced to row 187,462 of my Messages database. I’m not sure how many messages that equates to, but it’s obviously more than whatever Muse told me about what it was doing.
Which, honestly, is the point. I never gave it permission to do that. And, more importantly, I never would do so on purpose."
#AI #Meta #Muse #AIAgents #AgenticAI #DataProtection #Privacy #Surveillance
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"Then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were having would make for a good column and offered to put together research for me to write about. It even flagged a message from my editor about having a column ready for Monday.
Not only had I not asked it to do that sort of thing, I never gave it permission to read my messages. In fact, I remember explicitly choosing not to let it have access to my messages, calendar, and other personal information.
Stranger still was what happened when I asked Muse how it knew. It told me it didn’t have access to my message history at all. Instead, it said the Muse app on my Mac was simply passing along the text of incoming notification banners.
“When a notification pops up on your paired Mac, the text of that notification gets relayed to me—basically what you’d see in the banner itself,” Muse told me.
It went even further. “I can’t open your Messages app, scroll threads, or read history. It’s the incoming notification stream only, not access to your texts.”
Except that wasn’t true.
I did a little digging. Muse does sync your messages from the local Messages database and uploads that information as a data source. On my device, it had been activated and synced to row 187,462 of my Messages database. I’m not sure how many messages that equates to, but it’s obviously more than whatever Muse told me about what it was doing.
Which, honestly, is the point. I never gave it permission to do that. And, more importantly, I never would do so on purpose."
#AI #Meta #Muse #AIAgents #AgenticAI #DataProtection #Privacy #Surveillance
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"Then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were having would make for a good column and offered to put together research for me to write about. It even flagged a message from my editor about having a column ready for Monday.
Not only had I not asked it to do that sort of thing, I never gave it permission to read my messages. In fact, I remember explicitly choosing not to let it have access to my messages, calendar, and other personal information.
Stranger still was what happened when I asked Muse how it knew. It told me it didn’t have access to my message history at all. Instead, it said the Muse app on my Mac was simply passing along the text of incoming notification banners.
“When a notification pops up on your paired Mac, the text of that notification gets relayed to me—basically what you’d see in the banner itself,” Muse told me.
It went even further. “I can’t open your Messages app, scroll threads, or read history. It’s the incoming notification stream only, not access to your texts.”
Except that wasn’t true.
I did a little digging. Muse does sync your messages from the local Messages database and uploads that information as a data source. On my device, it had been activated and synced to row 187,462 of my Messages database. I’m not sure how many messages that equates to, but it’s obviously more than whatever Muse told me about what it was doing.
Which, honestly, is the point. I never gave it permission to do that. And, more importantly, I never would do so on purpose."
#AI #Meta #Muse #AIAgents #AgenticAI #DataProtection #Privacy #Surveillance
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"Then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were having would make for a good column and offered to put together research for me to write about. It even flagged a message from my editor about having a column ready for Monday.
Not only had I not asked it to do that sort of thing, I never gave it permission to read my messages. In fact, I remember explicitly choosing not to let it have access to my messages, calendar, and other personal information.
Stranger still was what happened when I asked Muse how it knew. It told me it didn’t have access to my message history at all. Instead, it said the Muse app on my Mac was simply passing along the text of incoming notification banners.
“When a notification pops up on your paired Mac, the text of that notification gets relayed to me—basically what you’d see in the banner itself,” Muse told me.
It went even further. “I can’t open your Messages app, scroll threads, or read history. It’s the incoming notification stream only, not access to your texts.”
Except that wasn’t true.
I did a little digging. Muse does sync your messages from the local Messages database and uploads that information as a data source. On my device, it had been activated and synced to row 187,462 of my Messages database. I’m not sure how many messages that equates to, but it’s obviously more than whatever Muse told me about what it was doing.
Which, honestly, is the point. I never gave it permission to do that. And, more importantly, I never would do so on purpose."
#AI #Meta #Muse #AIAgents #AgenticAI #DataProtection #Privacy #Surveillance
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"Here’s me with the #pinkhairdatawhistleblower (second left) and the then deputy leader of the Labour party at the Labour conference in 2018. He’s the guy standing up making an impassioned point in front of the screen saying: “The Cambridge Analytica Files: data, scandal and democracy.”
Fast forward eight years and Tom Watson is the data scandal. If you want to know what a rogue agent looks like: it’s Lord Watson of Palantir. Watson stepped down as an MP and, as is routine in Britain, he was “elevated” to the Lords, the equivalent of the Senate if Senators didn’t bother to stand for election and were simply gifted a paid sinecure for life by their mate, the President. America’s dystopian future is Britain’s actual present day.
Watson is now Baron Tom Watson of Wyre Forest, a lifetime position in which he gets a daily allowance, subsidised bars, his pick of any number of directorships and the opportunity to play an active and important role in the UK legislature. And, as of last week, he’s also Palantir’s latest hire. Step forward: UK Senior Vice President at Palantir Technologies.
This was my reaction on the announcement. I was genuinely gobsmacked by the news. How could someone go from Silicon Valley-data-surveillance-technologies-are-a-threat-to-democracy to pass-me-my-pay-cheque-please?
Watson wasn’t someone I just sat on a few panels next to. I’d considered him an essential ally during those years. He actually “got” the story. And - appeared to - understand the ramifications."
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-real-ai-rogue-agent-lord
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"Here’s me with the #pinkhairdatawhistleblower (second left) and the then deputy leader of the Labour party at the Labour conference in 2018. He’s the guy standing up making an impassioned point in front of the screen saying: “The Cambridge Analytica Files: data, scandal and democracy.”
Fast forward eight years and Tom Watson is the data scandal. If you want to know what a rogue agent looks like: it’s Lord Watson of Palantir. Watson stepped down as an MP and, as is routine in Britain, he was “elevated” to the Lords, the equivalent of the Senate if Senators didn’t bother to stand for election and were simply gifted a paid sinecure for life by their mate, the President. America’s dystopian future is Britain’s actual present day.
Watson is now Baron Tom Watson of Wyre Forest, a lifetime position in which he gets a daily allowance, subsidised bars, his pick of any number of directorships and the opportunity to play an active and important role in the UK legislature. And, as of last week, he’s also Palantir’s latest hire. Step forward: UK Senior Vice President at Palantir Technologies.
This was my reaction on the announcement. I was genuinely gobsmacked by the news. How could someone go from Silicon Valley-data-surveillance-technologies-are-a-threat-to-democracy to pass-me-my-pay-cheque-please?
Watson wasn’t someone I just sat on a few panels next to. I’d considered him an essential ally during those years. He actually “got” the story. And - appeared to - understand the ramifications."
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-real-ai-rogue-agent-lord
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"Here’s me with the #pinkhairdatawhistleblower (second left) and the then deputy leader of the Labour party at the Labour conference in 2018. He’s the guy standing up making an impassioned point in front of the screen saying: “The Cambridge Analytica Files: data, scandal and democracy.”
Fast forward eight years and Tom Watson is the data scandal. If you want to know what a rogue agent looks like: it’s Lord Watson of Palantir. Watson stepped down as an MP and, as is routine in Britain, he was “elevated” to the Lords, the equivalent of the Senate if Senators didn’t bother to stand for election and were simply gifted a paid sinecure for life by their mate, the President. America’s dystopian future is Britain’s actual present day.
Watson is now Baron Tom Watson of Wyre Forest, a lifetime position in which he gets a daily allowance, subsidised bars, his pick of any number of directorships and the opportunity to play an active and important role in the UK legislature. And, as of last week, he’s also Palantir’s latest hire. Step forward: UK Senior Vice President at Palantir Technologies.
This was my reaction on the announcement. I was genuinely gobsmacked by the news. How could someone go from Silicon Valley-data-surveillance-technologies-are-a-threat-to-democracy to pass-me-my-pay-cheque-please?
Watson wasn’t someone I just sat on a few panels next to. I’d considered him an essential ally during those years. He actually “got” the story. And - appeared to - understand the ramifications."
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-real-ai-rogue-agent-lord
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"Here’s me with the #pinkhairdatawhistleblower (second left) and the then deputy leader of the Labour party at the Labour conference in 2018. He’s the guy standing up making an impassioned point in front of the screen saying: “The Cambridge Analytica Files: data, scandal and democracy.”
Fast forward eight years and Tom Watson is the data scandal. If you want to know what a rogue agent looks like: it’s Lord Watson of Palantir. Watson stepped down as an MP and, as is routine in Britain, he was “elevated” to the Lords, the equivalent of the Senate if Senators didn’t bother to stand for election and were simply gifted a paid sinecure for life by their mate, the President. America’s dystopian future is Britain’s actual present day.
Watson is now Baron Tom Watson of Wyre Forest, a lifetime position in which he gets a daily allowance, subsidised bars, his pick of any number of directorships and the opportunity to play an active and important role in the UK legislature. And, as of last week, he’s also Palantir’s latest hire. Step forward: UK Senior Vice President at Palantir Technologies.
This was my reaction on the announcement. I was genuinely gobsmacked by the news. How could someone go from Silicon Valley-data-surveillance-technologies-are-a-threat-to-democracy to pass-me-my-pay-cheque-please?
Watson wasn’t someone I just sat on a few panels next to. I’d considered him an essential ally during those years. He actually “got” the story. And - appeared to - understand the ramifications."
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-real-ai-rogue-agent-lord
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"Here’s me with the #pinkhairdatawhistleblower (second left) and the then deputy leader of the Labour party at the Labour conference in 2018. He’s the guy standing up making an impassioned point in front of the screen saying: “The Cambridge Analytica Files: data, scandal and democracy.”
Fast forward eight years and Tom Watson is the data scandal. If you want to know what a rogue agent looks like: it’s Lord Watson of Palantir. Watson stepped down as an MP and, as is routine in Britain, he was “elevated” to the Lords, the equivalent of the Senate if Senators didn’t bother to stand for election and were simply gifted a paid sinecure for life by their mate, the President. America’s dystopian future is Britain’s actual present day.
Watson is now Baron Tom Watson of Wyre Forest, a lifetime position in which he gets a daily allowance, subsidised bars, his pick of any number of directorships and the opportunity to play an active and important role in the UK legislature. And, as of last week, he’s also Palantir’s latest hire. Step forward: UK Senior Vice President at Palantir Technologies.
This was my reaction on the announcement. I was genuinely gobsmacked by the news. How could someone go from Silicon Valley-data-surveillance-technologies-are-a-threat-to-democracy to pass-me-my-pay-cheque-please?
Watson wasn’t someone I just sat on a few panels next to. I’d considered him an essential ally during those years. He actually “got” the story. And - appeared to - understand the ramifications."
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-real-ai-rogue-agent-lord
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"Matt Geouge is building a device that blocks vehicles from spying on their drivers, because in 2018 his fiancée noticed grey Toyota Tacomas were following her.
Geouge had started a smalltime diesel operation in his mother’s garage in Hendersonville, North Carolina, his senior year of high school. As emissions systems on diesel trucks grew more constraining throughout the early 2000s, Geouge started writing “delete” software tunes that let trucks disobey the systems and regain their horsepower.
That got farmers’ and truckers’ rigs out of the emissions handicap, or “limp” mode. It also snowballed into a multi-million-dollar business and earned widespread renown for Geouge, at least in Ford aftermarket circles.
But Geouge’s work also landed him in the federal government’s crosshairs because deleting runs afoul of federal emissions laws.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hit Geouge with a $4 million civil penalty in 2018, court documents say.
That was about when the grey SUVs started following Caroline Jackson, Geouge’s fiancée, the couple told Cowboy State Daily in separate interviews Friday.
No one believed Jackson for three months, she said.
She climbed the Blue Ridge Parkway until cellphone service vanished. She drove to rock quarries and deep into the Cherokee Indian reservation.
Even when she could ditch the tails, they always found her again, Jackson said.
Along for the ride, her 7-year-old son thought they were going on an “adventure.”"
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"Matt Geouge is building a device that blocks vehicles from spying on their drivers, because in 2018 his fiancée noticed grey Toyota Tacomas were following her.
Geouge had started a smalltime diesel operation in his mother’s garage in Hendersonville, North Carolina, his senior year of high school. As emissions systems on diesel trucks grew more constraining throughout the early 2000s, Geouge started writing “delete” software tunes that let trucks disobey the systems and regain their horsepower.
That got farmers’ and truckers’ rigs out of the emissions handicap, or “limp” mode. It also snowballed into a multi-million-dollar business and earned widespread renown for Geouge, at least in Ford aftermarket circles.
But Geouge’s work also landed him in the federal government’s crosshairs because deleting runs afoul of federal emissions laws.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hit Geouge with a $4 million civil penalty in 2018, court documents say.
That was about when the grey SUVs started following Caroline Jackson, Geouge’s fiancée, the couple told Cowboy State Daily in separate interviews Friday.
No one believed Jackson for three months, she said.
She climbed the Blue Ridge Parkway until cellphone service vanished. She drove to rock quarries and deep into the Cherokee Indian reservation.
Even when she could ditch the tails, they always found her again, Jackson said.
Along for the ride, her 7-year-old son thought they were going on an “adventure.”"
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"Matt Geouge is building a device that blocks vehicles from spying on their drivers, because in 2018 his fiancée noticed grey Toyota Tacomas were following her.
Geouge had started a smalltime diesel operation in his mother’s garage in Hendersonville, North Carolina, his senior year of high school. As emissions systems on diesel trucks grew more constraining throughout the early 2000s, Geouge started writing “delete” software tunes that let trucks disobey the systems and regain their horsepower.
That got farmers’ and truckers’ rigs out of the emissions handicap, or “limp” mode. It also snowballed into a multi-million-dollar business and earned widespread renown for Geouge, at least in Ford aftermarket circles.
But Geouge’s work also landed him in the federal government’s crosshairs because deleting runs afoul of federal emissions laws.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hit Geouge with a $4 million civil penalty in 2018, court documents say.
That was about when the grey SUVs started following Caroline Jackson, Geouge’s fiancée, the couple told Cowboy State Daily in separate interviews Friday.
No one believed Jackson for three months, she said.
She climbed the Blue Ridge Parkway until cellphone service vanished. She drove to rock quarries and deep into the Cherokee Indian reservation.
Even when she could ditch the tails, they always found her again, Jackson said.
Along for the ride, her 7-year-old son thought they were going on an “adventure.”"
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"Matt Geouge is building a device that blocks vehicles from spying on their drivers, because in 2018 his fiancée noticed grey Toyota Tacomas were following her.
Geouge had started a smalltime diesel operation in his mother’s garage in Hendersonville, North Carolina, his senior year of high school. As emissions systems on diesel trucks grew more constraining throughout the early 2000s, Geouge started writing “delete” software tunes that let trucks disobey the systems and regain their horsepower.
That got farmers’ and truckers’ rigs out of the emissions handicap, or “limp” mode. It also snowballed into a multi-million-dollar business and earned widespread renown for Geouge, at least in Ford aftermarket circles.
But Geouge’s work also landed him in the federal government’s crosshairs because deleting runs afoul of federal emissions laws.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hit Geouge with a $4 million civil penalty in 2018, court documents say.
That was about when the grey SUVs started following Caroline Jackson, Geouge’s fiancée, the couple told Cowboy State Daily in separate interviews Friday.
No one believed Jackson for three months, she said.
She climbed the Blue Ridge Parkway until cellphone service vanished. She drove to rock quarries and deep into the Cherokee Indian reservation.
Even when she could ditch the tails, they always found her again, Jackson said.
Along for the ride, her 7-year-old son thought they were going on an “adventure.”"
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"Matt Geouge is building a device that blocks vehicles from spying on their drivers, because in 2018 his fiancée noticed grey Toyota Tacomas were following her.
Geouge had started a smalltime diesel operation in his mother’s garage in Hendersonville, North Carolina, his senior year of high school. As emissions systems on diesel trucks grew more constraining throughout the early 2000s, Geouge started writing “delete” software tunes that let trucks disobey the systems and regain their horsepower.
That got farmers’ and truckers’ rigs out of the emissions handicap, or “limp” mode. It also snowballed into a multi-million-dollar business and earned widespread renown for Geouge, at least in Ford aftermarket circles.
But Geouge’s work also landed him in the federal government’s crosshairs because deleting runs afoul of federal emissions laws.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hit Geouge with a $4 million civil penalty in 2018, court documents say.
That was about when the grey SUVs started following Caroline Jackson, Geouge’s fiancée, the couple told Cowboy State Daily in separate interviews Friday.
No one believed Jackson for three months, she said.
She climbed the Blue Ridge Parkway until cellphone service vanished. She drove to rock quarries and deep into the Cherokee Indian reservation.
Even when she could ditch the tails, they always found her again, Jackson said.
Along for the ride, her 7-year-old son thought they were going on an “adventure.”"