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AI is watching you: tracking, traps and surveillance.

From AI-powered trafficking scams to workplace monitoring and government scrutiny, AI is changing who can find, profile and watch you. Where's the line between safety, privacy, and surveillance?
Good video from DW
#privacy #survelliance #AI #technology

https://youtu.be/vYZ4d3biLDU?si=Uvt-SNsLWY-D9DmL

Rather than use legislation that turns the government into a surveillance state while purportedly keeping kids safe on-line, why not have parents use something like Assisted Access to do the job for their own kid(s). Then it’s tailored to each kid. Better than a one size screws all legislative approach. (Via Jason Snell at Six Colors: https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/07/make-an-iphone-into-a-dumb-phone/)
#survelliance #onlinesafety #survelliancestate
https://www.wired.com/story/this-buried-apple-feature-turns-an-iphone-into-the-perfect-kids-dumb-phone/?ref=ihnatko.com

After setting up DNS over HTTPS, got curious how DNS leak test tools, which discover your DNS resolver, such as Browser Leaks, work :blobcatthinking:

Turns out, it's quite clever setup: while you are visiting browserleaks.com website, in the background it queries a number of hostnames generated especially for you, such as 9d0pafrc5tnu.dns4.browserleaks.net, 0zfannouveb4.dns4.browserleaks.org and so on.

Because the website generates those hostnames specifically for your session, it is able to associate your external IP to the hostnames you attempt to resolve.

Now because site operators controls authoritative name servers behind those generated hostnames - specifically ns2.browserleaks.net and ns1.browserleaks.net (also with .org), from logs they can check what exact DNS resolver asked for those unique hostnames.

Simply matching a resolver DNS that attempted to resolve those unique hostnames is enough to link it to your visit of a website session - it is often going to be the resolver of your internet service or virtual private network provider, unless you've explicitly changed your resolver to something else. Still, easily visible to authoritative DNS server.

Voila! No magic, just simple, nice setup :blobcatcheer:

Just think of how many fingerprinting schemes can big techs carry out to track you across the internet with vast compute resources available to them... :blobcatheadinitshands:

#itsalwaysdns #dns #resolver #dnsleak #survelliance #tracking #privacy

“Documents show that Border Patrol or CBP has in the past had access to data from at least three private sector vendors: Rekor, Vigilant Solutions and Flock Safety.”

This is why every municipality needs to be fighting back against #police #survelliance, and not just #alpr.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd

@eff

Worth adding here that the vast majority, if not all, Linux distributions have built in storage encryption, will run very well on older hardware (even some old Chromebooks) and the entire operating system comes to the user free of cost and free of surveillance.

#privacy #security #technology #opensource #opensourcesoftware #survelliance #surveillancecapitalism #encryption

We invite you to a public discussion titled 'Liberate Ljubljana!', in which the organization Citizen D continues the campaign to problematize public video surveillance in Slovenian municipalities. The discussion will take place at our museum on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at 11 am.

More info: https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/event/javna-razprav-o-obcinskem-videonadzoru/

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #survelliance #privacy #cctv #slovenija #slovenski #citizenrights #uberwachung #maribor #kranj #celje

@PuckArks #Survelliance #police #protest https://kolektiva.social/@PuckArks/110329909133391224

#Survelliance under Surveillance

ora anche in ITA

via Tor
http://sunders.ahcbagldgzdpa74g2mh74fvk5zjzpfjbvgqin6g3mfuu66tynv2gkiid.onion/
via Firefox
https://sunders.uber.space/

The canteen at work are pushing an app called Green Apes, the aim of which is to incentivise the consumption of environmentally sustainable meal options. As an increasingly security conscious netizen, should any of the attached privacy policy info concern me? Keeping in mind I haven't logged into my Facebook account for over a year and deleted the app from my phone. #infosec #survelliance #privacy