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Books
fromScary Mommy
2 hours ago

14 Dystopian Books For Those Of Us Itching To See A Corrupt Government Crumble

Speculative novels examine surveillance, government control, augmented-reality implants, bodily autonomy, and resistance through dystopian narratives.
#nypd
fromwww.amny.com
2 days ago
Privacy technologies

Law enforcement champion access to NYCHA video surveillance ahead of City Council oversight hearing on lack of transparency | amNewYork

fromwww.amny.com
2 days ago
Privacy technologies

Law enforcement champion access to NYCHA video surveillance ahead of City Council oversight hearing on lack of transparency | amNewYork

fromThe Verge
4 hours ago

Everything is terrorism in Trump's America

The Trump administration declared war on the " terrorist organization " of "antifa" and the supposed "networks" associated with it last week. Antifa is not so much a vast national conspiracy as it is simply an abbreviation for anti-fascism - but don't point out that anti-anti-fascism looks a lot like fascism. That would make you antifa, too. The plain intent of the memo is to make Americans afraid to call fascism what it is - or worse, to say fascism is bad.
US politics
fromwww.amny.com
5 hours ago

Bronx beatdown: Four suspects sought for violently stabbing man at street corner in summer attack | amNewYork

Detectives in the Bronx need the public's help in finding four suspects, pictured in surveillance images released on Wednesday night, wanted for a Bronx gang assault back in August. NYPD Detectives in the Bronx need the public's help in finding four suspects, pictured in surveillance images released on Wednesday night, wanted for a Bronx gang assault back in August. According to police sources, the newly released footage shows four people brutally attacking and stabbing a man on a Bronx street on Aug. 19.
New York City
Miscellaneous
fromTheregister
7 hours ago

MEPs: EU must explain funding to spyware companies

EU public funds have flowed to commercial spyware companies linked to unlawful surveillance, raising governance, transparency, and accountability concerns.
fromTruthout
23 hours ago

Trump's ICE Turns Its Target to Activists, Not Just Immigrants

As President Donald Trump prepares to further unleash a rapidly expanding surveillance state against the administration's critics, recent legal struggles from activists who document and protest Trump's mass deportation campaign may be a preview of what's to come as part of a broader effort to silence dissent. Trump made headlines on September 22 with an executive order declaring "Antifa," short for anti-fascist, a domestic terrorist organization.
US politics
#live-facial-recognition
Law
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
3 days ago

EFF Urges Virgina Court of Appeals to Require Search Warrants to Access ALPR Databases

Automatic License Plate Reader data enables detailed, indiscriminate tracking of individuals and requires Fourth Amendment warrant protections to prevent privacy violations.
Film
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days ago

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another' Is a Call to Action But Which Action?

A provocative film portraying a radical collective's actions against an overreaching state, exploring activism, surveillance, and the calcification of youthful battles into modern power structures.
#digital-id
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 week ago
UK politics

Digital ID risks turning UK into 'Checkpoint Britain' | Computer Weekly

A mandatory digital ID would create mass surveillance, erode civil liberties, create a 'papers, please' society, and fail to effectively stop illegal immigration.
fromTheregister
2 weeks ago
Privacy technologies

Privacy activists warn of UK digital ID surveillance threat

A national digital ID risks enabling population-wide surveillance, mission creep, abuse, hacking, and mandatory exclusion, given government IT failures and weak privacy safeguards.
#facial-recognition
fromGothamist
5 days ago
Privacy technologies

Dolan, MSG targeted transgender woman, sexual assault accuser according to federal lawsuit

fromGothamist
5 days ago
Privacy technologies

Dolan, MSG targeted transgender woman, sexual assault accuser according to federal lawsuit

Silicon Valley
fromFortune
4 days ago

Larry Ellison once predicted 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media | Fortune

Oracle's AI infrastructure and cloud deals position the company to supervise and analyze pervasive surveillance footage and play a critical role overseeing TikTok's U.S. operations.
fromABC7 San Francisco
6 days ago

Morgan Hill woman says prowler used Wi-Fi jammer to disable home cameras, tried to enter

Unfortunately, some of those jammers they operate on the same signal as Wi-Fi signals and that's where the jamming takes place, as that jammer approaches the Wi-Fi signal it will cause interruptions to the cameras
California
Law
fromIndependent
6 days ago

Camouflaged cameras and 'intimidatory' texts - how dispute erupted over fields near popular Dublin Mountains amenity

Court ordered a tree surgeon to vacate land and pay €9,000 damages after secretly installing camouflaged cameras and sending harassing screenshots to landowner’s daughter.
World politics
fromPrivacy International
6 days ago

Blurring the Line: How Militarisation of Tech is Reshaping our Town Squares

Military priorities increasingly drive technology development, blurring lines between defense and civilian tech and enabling state and corporate control of public infrastructure.
US news
fromLos Angeles Times
6 days ago

Recognize this alleged package thief? Police are calling him 'Postal Malone'

A man resembling Post Malone allegedly stole more than five packages from an Irvine apartment complex and remains sought; he has facial and hand tattoos.
Film
fromVulture
6 days ago

One Battle After Another Ends With a Promise

One Battle After Another portrays pervasive state-sanctioned violence while centering on individuals forming protective bonds and resisting authoritarian, overpoliced America.
#microsoft
Film
fromPitchfork
1 week ago

One Battle After Another Review: A Nerve-Racking Masterpiece

The film transposes a 20th-century novel to the present, portraying violent revolutionary aftermath, surveillance, and rising authoritarianism through dark comedy and vivid imagery.
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 week ago

PSNI chief sorry over failure to delete data unlawfully seized from journalists | Computer Weekly

Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has apologised after investigations by an independent reviewer, Angus McCullough KC, revealed that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) retained copies of the data on its computer system more than six years after it should have been deleted under a court agreement. Boutcher commissioned McCullough to carry out an independent review - which is due to report this week - into allegations that the PSNI had placed journalists, lawyers and non-government organisations under unlawful surveillance.
UK news
#drones
Information security
fromWIRED
1 week ago

Security News This Week: A Dangerous Worm Is Eating Its Way Through Software Packages

Multiple serious security failures and threats emerged this week, including government data exposure, critical identity-management flaws, hypersonic missile tests, and advanced SMS-scamming techniques.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

Prosecutors rest their case in trial of man accused in attempted Trump assassination

A Secret Service agent stopped Ryan Routh's alleged attempt to shoot Donald Trump on Sept. 15, 2024.
#digital-rights
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago
Privacy professionals

Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights

fromWIRED
3 weeks ago
Privacy professionals

Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights

Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Happyend review Orwellian Japanese high-school drama is brilliantly dystopian

A futuristic Kobe high-school film blends dystopian satire, xenophobia, surveillance and adolescent rebellion into a complex, beguiling coming-of-age drama.
US news
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

Utah County Attorney Reveals Tyler Robinson's DNA Found on Murder Weapon Trigger

Tyler Robinson is charged with aggravated murder in Charlie Kirk’s death; DNA matched to the rifle trigger and the state seeks the death penalty.
Privacy technologies
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

How to Set Up and Use a Burner Phone

Use a cash-bought, frequently rotated prepaid burner phone, isolated from personal accounts, to separate identity from device and reduce location and data tracking.
Wearables
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The truth about smartwatches? Life is better without a hectoring zealot on your wrist | Zoe Williams

Many smart-home devices and wearables are widely regretted because they solve trivial problems, provide little valuable insight, and can feel intrusive or patronizing.
#ice
fromArtforum
2 weeks ago

Machinelike Tendencies

AMONG A GROWING ARRAY of government-sanctioned informational systems, motion sensors, acoustic monitors, biometric scanners, and thermal cameras work in tandem with sprawling private networks of data brokers to track social and environmental flows with forensic precision. They measure footfalls, scan license plates, log financial transactions, and inspect the movement of people alongside particulate matter. As sensing technologies increasingly oversee and overwrite the spatial production of contemporary life, proposals for "smart cities" and other data-dependent composites-proliferating since the early 2010s-obfuscate regimented environments of surveillance and control through rosy prospects of connectivity, security, and risk management, all sustained by the tenacious dystopian dream we call information.
Privacy technologies
#flock-safety
fromFuturism
4 weeks ago
Privacy technologies

AI Startup Says It Will End Crime by Blanketing the Entire United States in Ever-Watching Spy Cameras

fromFuturism
4 weeks ago
Privacy technologies

AI Startup Says It Will End Crime by Blanketing the Entire United States in Ever-Watching Spy Cameras

fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

How IBM, Dell, and Cisco helped China with the surveillance and detention of thousands

The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks.By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on U.S. technology that spies on them and predicts what they'll do.
World news
Arts
fromstupidDOPE | Est. 2008
3 weeks ago

RAE BK Transforms a Prefab House into "Faraday Cage" | stupidDOPE | Est. 2008

RAE BK's Faraday Cage transforms a prefab house into an intimate, unsettling installation of diaristic murals, animatronics, video, and scavenged objects blurring private and public.
World politics
fromBig Think
3 weeks ago

True free speech, explained in 6 minutes

Free speech is essential for holding power accountable and is currently eroding, risking democratic protections and civic oversight.
#privacy
fromCNET
3 weeks ago
Privacy technologies

No, Your iPhone Isn't Listening to You. But the Truth Is Even Worse

fromCNET
3 weeks ago
Privacy technologies

No, Your iPhone Isn't Listening to You. But the Truth Is Even Worse

fromwww.cbc.ca
3 weeks ago

Police identify woman who died after being found injured in vehicle near High Park | CBC News

Serenity Brown, 21, of Toronto, was pronounced dead in hospital, police said in a news release. Police were called to the area of Glenlake and High Park avenues shortly before 6 p.m. Friday, When officers arrived, they found Brown in the vehicle. Toronto paramedics took her to hospital, where she died from her injuries. Police have not released the cause of death. She is the city's 30th homicide victim of the year.
Canada news
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
3 weeks ago

Opinion: Flock can't be trusted not to share Berkeley's surveillance camera data with Trump and ICE

On Tuesday night, Berkeley City Council will vote on a contract with Flock Safety to operate fixed surveillance cameras throughout Berkeley. But given reports in the past month on Flock's illegal cooperation with ICE and the Trump administration, such a contract will put the Berkeley community in grave danger. The council must uphold our sanctuary city commitments and vote no on a new contract with Flock.
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

The reality for Palestinians in Jerusalem: We can't protest for Gaza or hang a flag'

Three Israeli police checkpoints frame the entrance to Damascus Gate, through which most Palestinians access the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. They enter and leave through the impressive gate of the Ottoman era, apparently oblivious to the presence of the Israelis. Since October 2023, I practically never go to Damascus Gate. I use other entry points. I feel better if I don't see the police stationed there, marking the territory, making us feel so unsafe and vulnerable.
World politics
Science
fromArtforum
1 month ago

Hive Mind

Collective intelligence in animals and cultural systems reveals emergent 'uncomputable' behaviors tied to surveillance, digital capitalism, extractivism, and invisible labor.
Environment
fromIndependent
1 month ago

David Quinn: When even bin lorries are spying on us, moral blackmail has gone too far

Waste companies are using bin-lorry cameras to photograph and notify customers who mis-sort rubbish, sending photos and polite requests to correct disposal habits.
Privacy technologies
fromFuturism
1 month ago

"I Hate This Viscerally": People Are REALLY Mad at These AI Glasses That Record Everything Constantly

A startup's smart glasses would record and transcribe every conversation without visible indicators, creating panopticon-like surveillance and severe privacy risks for everyone involved.
Privacy technologies
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Police to deploy dedicated drone team for Carnival

A dedicated BTP drone team with multi-camera, thermal imaging and laser-rangefinder capabilities will monitor Notting Hill Carnival to enhance crowd safety and incident response.
Public health
fromwww.nature.com
1 month ago

Heat and Rain Can Help Predict When Dengue Will Surge

Dengue outbreaks in the Americas follow El Niño by ~5 months, peak summer temperatures by ~3 months, and peak rainfall by ~1 month.
Gadgets
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Meet revolutionary police robo-dog with weapon-detecting AI camera hitting UK streets

Nottinghamshire Police will trial a remote-controlled robo-dog with AI weapon detection, 3D scanning, and kilometre-range control, potentially entering UK operational service in 2026.
OMG science
fromVulture
1 year ago

Relay Might Be the Next Great Corporate Espionage Thriller

A fixer uses a telecommunications relay service to anonymize contact and protect whistleblowers returning stolen corporate secrets in a tense corporate-espionage thriller.
#palantir
fromTruthout
1 month ago
Social justice

Organizers Are Demanding Palantir Drop Contracts With ICE and Israeli Military

fromTruthout
1 month ago
Social justice

Organizers Are Demanding Palantir Drop Contracts With ICE and Israeli Military

US news
fromBoston.com
1 month ago

DA: Marlborough dentist used dental wax, medical tape to hide camera in office bathroom

A Marlborough dentist was arraigned for allegedly placing a secret camera in a staff bathroom, recording victims and facing multiple criminal charges.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

US surveillance firms run a victory lap amid Trump's immigration crackdown

Private prison company executives expressed their enthusiasm over unprecedented growth opportunities in immigration detention, which has seen a financial boost from the administration's crackdown.
US politics
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month ago

Victory! Pen-Link's Police Tools Are Not Secret

The settlement ends a months-long California public records lawsuit with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office.
US politics
US politics
fromTheregister
1 month ago

China labels US as 'surveillance empire' over chip tracking

Chinese state media labeled the US as a "surveillance empire" for using tracking technology against black-market GPU shipments.
China's extensive surveillance network is noted in response to US intelligence practices.
US politics
from48 hills
1 month ago

SFPD surveillance unit's close ties to crypto billionaire - 48 hills

Concern arises from funding a police surveillance unit by tech billionaires in San Francisco.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

How Israel used Microsoft technology to spy on Palestinians podcast

Sariel had a plan to transfer large amounts of Unit 8200's data, including top-secret information, into Microsoft's cloud platform, Azure. This would enable mass surveillance on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Privacy professionals
Alternative medicine
fromNatural Health News
1 month ago

MINORITY REPORT: If you think, talk or speak the truth about the government, health or safety, or might be sent to the new MENTAL HEALTH GULAG

Increasing use of mental health laws for political repression without due process raises concerns about civil liberties and a potential police state.
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Baby turkey, five chickens stolen from Emma Prusch Farm Park

A baby turkey named Megara and five chickens were stolen from Emma Prusch Farm Park, with the thefts occurring on Sunday afternoon and night.
Pets
New York City
fromNew York Post
1 month ago

NYPD searching for thieves after 73-year-old man is attacked and robbed in Staten Island

A 73-year-old man was attacked and robbed in Staten Island by two suspects who are still at large.
UK news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Revealed: oligarchs spied on UK lawyers who ran Serious Fraud Office cases

Oligarchs under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office conducted surveillance on former prosecutors to gather information and weaken the agency's case.
Privacy professionals
fromFlowingData
1 month ago

Lowe's and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement

Popular home improvement stores are using Flock cameras to collect license plate data, raising concerns about customer safety and data sharing.
New York City
fromsilive
1 month ago

'We have cameras, and still...': Homeowner decries package thefts on Staten Island

A Staten Island resident reported a theft video showing a porch pirate stealing a package from his home.
fromwww.levernews.com
1 month ago

Airlines Are Using AI to Set Personalized, Jacked-Up Prices

Many airlines, led by Delta, are working with AI consulting companies that boast of their hyper-personalized price setting, laying the groundwork for economy-wide surveillance pricing.
Privacy technologies
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

UK's surveillance flights over Gaza raise questions on help for Israeli military

Britain conducts surveillance flights over Gaza to locate hostages held by Hamas, utilizing the RAF and US contractor Sierra Nevada Corporation.
#privacy-rights
fromPrivacy International
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

Why Privacy Matters to Workers

Surveillance in workplaces threatens workers' dignity, autonomy, and rights, affecting both remote and gig workers significantly.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Microsoft cloud used in Israeli mass surveillance of Palestinians: Report

The surveillance system, operational since 2022, was built by Unit 8200, the Israeli military's secretive intelligence branch, enabling collection of millions of daily phone calls.
Privacy professionals
Privacy professionals
fromHackernoon
2 months ago

Protocol That Leaks Your Every Move: A Guide to DNS Privacy | HackerNoon

DNS compromises online privacy due to its plaintext transmission, allowing ISPs and third parties to intercept user queries easily.
Privacy professionals
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

A million calls an hour': Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Microsoft Azure collaborates with Israel's Unit 8200 to store extensive surveillance data on Palestinian communications.
Privacy professionals
fromWIRED
2 months ago

The Kremlin's Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware

Turla, linked to Russia's FSB, utilizes state access to ISPs for advanced spyware installation, targeting foreign embassy personnel in Moscow.
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