#surveillance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #surveillance, aggregated by home.social.
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"The system is now vastly more complex. Aside from the ubiquitous cameras, it is not possible to move around a city on any form of transport or pay for anything without the apps, and they always know who and where you are. In Yangzhou’s Geyuan 个园, a lovely traditional courtyard garden of rock and bamboo, you need to watch a video advertisement and scan your face to get toilet paper. Once only: the dispenser remembers who you are and won’t give you seconds. Some parts of Beijing look like a spoof science fiction film about a surveillance state: we visited a friend in a part of Haidian District where there are a lot of government buildings and housing compounds. There are horizontal bars above the street every 50 meters, each bar holding more than a dozen different cameras—we counted them. Our friend pointed out the different types: that one reads license plates, this one is for facial recognition of pedestrians, this one scans the faces of people inside cars, that one is used for gait recognition, who knows what that odd-looking one does? His apartment complex gate no longer had security guards: During the pandemic they were replaced with face-scanners that admit only registered residents.
The ever present surveillance must be one factor behind the remarkable improvement in public manners everywhere we went in China. Very little spitting, no jostling to get off planes, people seem to respect personal space much more than they used to. But it’s not just the cameras and facial recognition software. One friend in his fifties in Beijing said that the pandemic had changed everyone, but also that his parents’ generation were mostly dead or housebound—“they all had really rough manners because of the way China was when they were young.” WeChat and the other apps also mean there’s far less need for physical queues, and no point in jostling to get ahead if you are in one."
https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/postcard/app-life-china
#China #Surveillance #Privacy #Algorithms #Automation #PoliceState
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"Brevard County deputy sheriff Michael Fultz resigned from the force after an internal investigation detailed extreme cases of alleged sexual misconduct, racism, and abuse, including Fultz’s use of Flock to stalk his ex-girlfriend. News6 in Florida first reported the story, and 404 Media has uncovered additional details about the former deputy’s use of Flock after obtaining a copy of the investigation.
Hired in 2024, Brevard County named Fultz its Deputy of the Year in 2025. The day of the ceremony Fultz’s ex-girlfriend sent a letter of complaint to the sheriff’s office with a long list of complaints about his behavior. The letter was enough to prompt the sheriffs to investigate Fultz which is when they discovered he’d used Flock to stalk her.
The 43-page investigation found Fultz had posed for pictures as Adolf Hitler, freely used racial slurs in texts, masturbated on camera in his police vehicle, took pictures of his ex-girlfriend with his service weapon in her mouth during sex, repeatedly broke the law to generate clout online for his motorcycle themed Instagram and TikTok accounts, and used Flock to stalk his ex-girlfriend."
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I skimmed most GC announcements because it's hot and I'm tired and just want to sleep, but this looks nuts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2mPncDhnWk
#games #gaming #videogames #militsioner #pc #computers #tech #technology #surveillance
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@wendythedruid Lots of uses there for the @ublockorigin filter:
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Questo articolo è oro per capire il vero senso del "patteggiamento" di Meta
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A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend
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«Simon Weckert creates Digital Camouflage to avoid AI surveillance:
Designer Simon Weckert has created a colourful camouflage shirt that cannot be detected using AI video systems.»This is the most beautiful ugly design, which also benefits you but for how long?
👕 https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/25/digital-camouflage-shirt-ai-video-surveillance-simon-weckert/
#design #avoidai #aivideo #ugly #berlin #ai #design #detection #privacy #digital #camouflage #digitalcamouflage #germany #surveillance
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Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media's Reporting on #Abortion Case
In an August call with #Ohio law enforcement and government officials, Flock’s CEO Garrett Langley repeatedly lied about his #surveillance technology’s role in #tracking a woman who had self-administered an abortion, the context around the tracking of the woman, and 404 Media’s coverage of that watershed incident. Langley claimed that the story is “entirely false,” despite court records, police reports, and 404 Media’s other reporting documenting the case in detail.
#alpr #privacy #securityhttps://www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-is-lying-to-cops-about-404-medias-reporting-on-abortion-case/
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Imma need me one of these…Designer Creates World's Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras - the irony is the designer used #AI to create a pattern that confounds and confuses AI #Surveillance systems. https://futurism.com/future-society/hideous-shirt-hide-artist-ai-surveillance-camera
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US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate
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Computerworld: UK says ‘no’ to backdoors, but the government isn’t listening https://www.computerworld.com/article/4214958/uk-says-no-to-backdoors-but-the-government-isnt-listening.html @jonnyevans #privacy #Apple #surveillance
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CDT: “The British Public Reject State Access to Private Online Conversations”
According to recent polling, the British public have deep reservations about their government’s access to their private conversations.
https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-08-06-CDT-SS-UK-encryption-polling-brief-final.pdf
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Ok all those of us hating AI surveillance,👁️ 📷 how about we turn the tables and start tracking government officials via Flock and other surveillance cameras?
There must be a way to do this....
Hello, Techies ?👋
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‘Darth Vader’ comes out in favor of Flock cameras at San Diego city council meeting
Flock sells surveillance as safety, but even a Sith Lord can see through the marketing. -
Surveillance cameras are in Canada now...
youtube.com/watch?v=5ojU...
#deflock #cdnpoli #surveillance #privacy
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A global pattern is emerging beneath the headlines.
Britain is building digital identity and data-sharing infrastructure. America is extending state power into grid software and private cyber operations. Europe is enforcing machine-readable AI rules. Australia is building age-assurance systems. Brazil is testing AI safeguards.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/global-special-the-state-is-becoming
#DigitalID #AIAct #CyberSecurity #Privacy #Surveillance #DigitalRights #TechPolicy #OSINT #Government #AI
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Shadowy attempts to break our right to privacy are completely rejected:
⚫️ Only 12% believe the government should be able to issue secret orders to gain access to private data.
⚫️ 87% believe there should be a legal obligation to tell people if their private conversations have been accessed.
#encryption #e2ee #privacy #cybersecurity #apple #surveillance #ukpolitics #ukpol
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Encryption keeps us safe and secure online.
A backdoor is only possible by breaking encryption. And then anybody can abuse that cybersecurity weakness.
The government's last attempt to force Apple to build a backdoor into our accounts failed.
We'll fight the latest order.
Find out more ⬇️
#encryption #e2ee #privacy #cybersecurity #apple #surveillance #ukpolitics #ukpol
