Raphael Albert
The European Union's privacy laws are ill equipped to deal with the pervert glasses of Meta & Co.
First, because you need to know that you've been recorded and who did the recording to file a complaint. You usually won't.
Second, because you can only file a complaint after your privacy has been violated. That's too late.
Third, because proceedings usually take years. That's too long.
A ban is the only way to protect our privacy!
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#SmartGlasses #PervertGlasses #Meta #Privacy #DataProtection
⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)
#Alabama country boy vs #AI #surveillance and #privacy defilement
Jacob Rockwell at a #Pensacola, #Florida #CityCouncil meeting
👏 👏 👏
(Jacob's actually from Escambia County, which is the far Western tip of Florida, so basically Alabama)
Miguel Afonso Caetano
"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."
PrivacyDigest
#Ads and #tracking infiltrated #TVs. Now they're coming for #monitors.
Ads and tracking have turned TVs into #privacy nightmares. Both are so widespread among smart TVs that I’ve written a guide for avoiding them. One recommendation in that guide is to use a computer monitor. But in recent years, monitors have become more capable of pushing ads and tracking users.
Without more straightforward approaches from vendors, such as easily comprehensible privacy policies and avoiding inappropriate ads, monitors are dangerously encroaching into smart-TV-like territory.
LG lost some trust after a recent report that some of its monitors installed McAfee pop-up ads onto connected computers. Since at least 2024, some of these displays installed an app, LG Monitor App Installer, onto connected computers under the cover of driver updates installed through #WindowsUpdate.
#security #windows #smarttv
Frankie ✅
US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate and more
#tech #technology #news #technews #security #privacy #china #usa #hack
Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad
🦄Big Tech has repeatedly followed a familiar playbook: rush new technologies to market, normalise potentially harmful practices, and then fight regulation and slow-roll enforcement when policymakers try to catch up. Meta’s smart glasses should be seen in this context.
(See the video for parts of my intervention on Norwegian national TV and radio last Friday (english subtitles)) 1/
#privacy
aburtch
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117152333189494887
Oh please no…
After getting money out of politics the next biggest thing we need in this country is incredibly strict #privacy laws.
Kuketz-Blog 🛡
Uber soll in den Niederlanden 824,99 Mio. Euro zahlen. Die Datenschutzaufsicht wirft dem Konzern vor, Fahrer zwischen 2018 und 2022 automatisiert gesperrt oder deaktiviert zu haben, ohne sie ausreichend über die Logik zu informieren und ohne echte menschliche Überprüfung.
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Martin 2.0 :verified_breze:
A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server
For two weeks, a client from China's state-run academic network queried our Mastodon instance for who follows whom. Not content — relationships. No project description exists anywhere. Here is what we found, and how to check your own instance.
Wokebloke for Democracy
I like this. A positive use for Flock cameras: assume Flock cameras mean a high crime rate area and you are a part of it.
https://www.gadgetreview.com/flock-cameras-are-affecting-the-housing-market-homebuyers-are-checking-surveillance-maps-then-canceling
#Flock #Surveillance #Data #Privacy
Jon Snow
Motorola’s GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027
#GrapheneOS #Motorola #privacy #smartphone #technology #android #software
jd 🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺🚀 & 👍🇺🇦🇵🇸+🇮🇷🇨🇺
Pope Leo XIV tweets:
'The world does not need an artificial intelligence that diminishes humanity; rather, it needs human intelligence enlightened by wisdom, political authority guided by conscience and technological innovation directed by charity. Only then will artificial intelligence become not a rival to humanity but a servant of the common good.
Sound legislation should encourage scientific and technological creativity while safeguarding fundamental human rights and freedoms. It should protect users from exploitation, preserve personal privacy, ensure transparency in the use of emerging technologies and guarantee that they strengthen democratic institutions.'
– https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/events/event.dir.html/content/vaticanevents/en/2026/8/21/meeting-icln.html
#PopeLeoXIV #Pope #Christianity #AI #Privacy #Internet #humanity
Akshay
“Microsoft has reportedly shared the names of Dutch civil servants…with the U.S. House of Representatives…
The civil servants involved are working on implementing the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European law that forces online platforms to take stricter action against illegal content, online child sex abuse, and disinformation.”
—> To enable retaliation, EU leaders please wake up
https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/microsoft-accused-leaking-dutch-civil-servants-names-us-government
#Microsoft #USPol #EUPol #Digital #Privacy #Infosec #Nederland #EU #Geopolitics
Club de TéléMatique :verified:
Linux fan develops tools to get rid of win11 ads: https://betanews.com/2024/05/06/linux-fan-develops-a-fricking-amazing-tool-to-remove-all-ads-from-windows-11/ #privacy #security
PixelUnion
A sanctioned ICC judge lost access to Amazon, Apple ID, iCloud, PayPal, Google, even her Alexa stopped responding. 🚨
One executive order, and your entire digital life can vanish if it lives on US-controlled servers.
Move your data to European, open-source infrastructure.
AI6YR Ben
Geez, this keeps happening.
WSB TV Florida: Affidavit: Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times
AI6YR Ben
Wired: Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
"...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.
...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...."
AI6YR Ben
Yay, your ISP is monitoring whether or not you're home based on Wi-Fi signals. That info won't leak, no siree! We can't abuse that in ANY way....
"...WiFi Motion can monitor activity in your home and send you notifications, similar to a standalone motion sensor. It works by detecting disruptions in the Wi-Fi signal between the Xfinity gateway and any Wi-Fi-connected device, giving you some insight into what’s happening in your home without buying additional hardware...."
https://www.theverge.com/news/981381/comcast-xfinity-shield-wifi-motion-sensing
Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET
That grim outlook led me to do some research. Did you know about #ComputerVisionDazzle or "CV dazzle" in short? Well, I didn't, but maybe, in these times, this is something worth looking into. It's not exactly new (dating back over ten years to 2010) and is used ever since to avoid #FacialRecognition:
#DazedDigital #AdamHarvey #privacy #digitalPrivacy #anonymity #digitalAnonymity #TheDazzleClub #DavidNoever #GaitRecognition #MichelleTylicki
Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET
#FacialRecognition is almost anywhere in the U.S. now—and #privacy implications are devastating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExvV2mbXc7A
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ExvV2mbXc7A
https://piped.video/watch?v=ExvV2mbXc7A
#uspol #politics #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2026 #Project2025 #MassDeportations #MassDeportations2026 #MAGA #AntiICEProtests #ICEWatch #ICERaid #ClearViewAI #AI #artificialIntelligence #noAI #PeterThiel #SecondThought #BiometricData #MobileFortify #RingCamera #AgeVerification #PersonaIdentities #FlockAI
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