Notices tagged with surveillance

🔔 NEXT WEEK 🔔

Hear from ORG's @sarahalsherif on how pervasive data-sharing creates a digital hostile environment.

Sign up for the 'Oversharing Migrants' Data and the Narrative of the Harm' workshop. #StandUpSpeakOut

🗓️ 15 May
🕔 5–6pm BST
💻 Online

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/suso2025

#migrants #dataprotection #surveillance #privacy #digitalhostileenvironment

Airlines Are Collecting Your Data And Selling It To ICE

#PassengerRights #TravelData #ICE #Surveillance #GovernmentOverreach

https://www.levernews.com/airlines-are-collecting-your-data-and-selling-it-to-ice/

So if you thought that surveillance based ads couldn't get any worse... Meta: Hold my beer!

#Facebook #Meta #surveillance #AI #LLM #Ads

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/mark-zuckerbergs-ai-ad-tool-sounds-like-a-social-media-nightmare/?utm_campaign=social&utm_source=threads&utm_medium=organic

beige.party/@maxleibman/114441…

#apps #SpyWare #surveillance #capitalism #memes #NO

Well, at least the Scandinavian countries have their shit togethe-

“Proposal to Allow Wiretapping of Children Under 15 Without Criminal Suspicion”

https://swedenherald.com/article/proposal-to-allow-wiretapping-of-minors-without-crime-suspicion

#sweden #surveillance #EU #humanRights

Germany's domestic intelligence service designated the far-right AfD party as an extremist group, setting off a diplomatic spat with the United States and fueling calls for the party to be banned. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/03/world/politics/germany-afd-extremist-label/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #germany #surveillance #afd

Outlook not so good 🎱

Police tech doesn’t predict crime. It predicts policing.

Based on biased data, it brings more of the same – racist policing and poverty punishment.

Read our latest blog on why crime 'predicting' police tech must be BANNED ⬇️

#SafetyNotSurveillance

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/why-predictive-policing-must-be-banned/

#policing #AI #precrime #justice #criminal #police #ukpol #ukpolitics #surveillance

#Überwachung: Deutsches IP-Catching ist geheimer als geheim | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Ueberwachung-Regierung-Ermittler-und-Provider-wollen-IP-Catching-geheim-halten-10366952.html #surveillance #Datenschutz #privacy #IPcatching

Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing

https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/

#privacy #surveillance

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AMERICAN PANOPTICON

The #Trump admin is pooling #data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.

by Ian Bogost & Charlie Warzel

If you were tasked with building a #panopticon, your design might look a lot like the #information stores of the US federal govt—a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from #citizens.

#law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/american-panopticon/682616/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxc3WqSyzCi3gasJ-au_BC9g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

And that’s only a minuscule sampling. More obscure agencies, such as the recently gutted #CFPB, keep records of corporate trade secrets, #credit reports, #mortgage info, & other sensitive #data, including lists of people who have fallen on financial hardship.

A fragile combination of decades-old laws, norms, & jungly bureaucracy has so far prevented repositories such as these from assembling into a centralized American #surveillance state.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #tech #DOGE #Musk

But that appears to be changing. Since #Trump’s 2nd inauguration, #ElonMusk & #DOGE have systematically gained #access to sensitive #data across the federal govt, & in ways people in several agencies have described…as both dangerous & disturbing. Despite DOGE’s stated mission, little efficiency seems to have been achieved. Now a new phase of Trump’s project is under way: Not only are individual agencies being breached, but the info they hold is being pooled…

#law #privacy #InfoSec #surveillance

This is a perilous moment. Rapid technological advances over the past two decades have made #DataShedding ubiquitous—whether it comes from the devices everyone carries or the platforms we use to communicate with the world. As a society, we produce unfathomable quantities of #information, & that information is easier to collect than ever before.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance

The government has tons of it, some of which is obvious—names, addresses, & census data—& much of which may surprise you. Consider, say, a limited tattoo database, created in 2014 by the National Institute of Standards & Technology, & distributed to multiple institutions for the purpose of training software systems to recognize common tattoos associated with gangs & criminal organizations.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance

That means the govt has at least some ability to map or re-create the past everyday movements of some American citizens. This is hardly even a cursory list of what is publicly known.

Advancements in #AI promise to turn this unwieldy mass of #data & metadata into something easily searchable, politically weaponizable, & maybe even profitable.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance

#DOGE is reportedly attempting to build a “master database”of #immigrant data to aid in #deportations; #NIH Dir Jay Bhattacharya has floated the possibility of an #autism registry (the admin quickly walked it back).America already has all the tech it needs to build a draconian #surveillance society—the conditions for such a dystopia have been falling into place slowly over time, waiting for the right #authoritarian to come along & use it to crack down on American #privacy & #freedom.
#Trump #law

This is the kind of thing that should be banned. It is time to realize that indiscriminate data collection and profiling is harming our society.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

#Vivaldi #Browser #Spyware #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #AI #Windows #Macos #Linux

I love it when employers install creepware #surveillance nonsense because they have zero respect for their employees, and end up publishing two million internal screenshots to the web instead, leaking their most sensitive information.

Very nice, no issues.

#cybersecurity #infosec #assholeBoss

“Employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots in real time”

https://cybernews.com/security/employee-monitoring-app-leaks-millions-screenshots/

"According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook actually built an extensive censorship and surveillance system for the Chinese state – spies, cops and military – to use against Chinese Facebook users, and FB users globally. They promise to set up caches of global FB content in China that the Chinese state can use to monitor all Facebook activity, everywhere, with the implication that they'll be able to spy on private communications, and censor content for non-Chinese users.

Despite all of this, Facebook is never given access to China. However, the Chinese state is able to use the tools Facebook built for it to attack independence movements, the free press and dissident uprisings in Hong Kong and Taiwan."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf

#SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #BigTech #Oligopolies #Surveillance #Censorship #Privacy #HumanRights

Good time to point out that, unlike #BlueSky, none of my 9 public social networking sites are providing user surveillance information to ICE or any other U.S. government agency.

There are over 200 huge sites telling the U.S. government what you are doing, and where you are doing it from.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/no-data-for-surveillance-tech/

#Mozilla #Tracking #Privacy #surveillance