I note this high level British state legal hearing is being held 'behind closed doors'.
That would be the same British state that over the years has parroted the 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' lie over the years.
#privacy #surveillance #encryption
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/apple_uk_encryption_hearing/
Regular reminder - Participating in social #protest? Have your mobile devices switched off, in airplane mode or leave them at home to avoid being caught in dragnet #surveillance.
Keep them off on - the complete journey - before and after. If you must use your mobile, be diligent in your efforts to protect your #privacy:
- Encrypt your device
- Have it pin-locked
- Disable #biometric logons
- Disable #Bluetooth
- Disable location services
US Police records obtained by The Intercept show Dataminr (a social media surveillance firm and “official partner” of X) tracked Gaza-related protests and other constitutionally protected speech.
#US #Police #Surveillance #Spying #protests #fascism #israel #policeState #politics #USpol
@palestine @israel https://theintercept.com/2025/03/17/lapd-surveillance-gaza-palestine-protests-dataminr/
You might as well throw your Echo and Alexa-powered devices in the trash like you should have done years ago.
Cory (@pluralistic) with a banger of a post:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen
And this factoid:
"Congress hasn't passed a consumer #privacy law since 1988, when the Video Privacy Protection Act banned video store clerks from disclosing which VHS cassettes you brought home."
“Guardrails” Won’t Protect #Nashville Residents From #AI-Enabled Camera Networks
This now banned dragnet surveillance tactic was used to great effect in Seattle for the most petty of reasons.... there was a protest at the Police Union building.
Little to no property damage or other harm was reported (other than the cops beating ppl of course) none the less the fucking FBI built a case entirely on dragnet phone spying tools fit for a Tom Clancy novel.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22918487/fbi-geofence-seattle-blm-protest-police-guild-attack
Isn't it curious that as the @eff and many sources reported last year that a JUST released ruling makes the cops NUMBER ONE approach to solving high profile crimes super duper illegal?
And we really think the cops didn't just take the lazy approach and use the proven tools they may still have access to do an illegal investigation?
Literally the hardest part in all of this for the cops is making up a good story about how "people of interests" get on the radar.
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to #Amazon starting on March 28
"Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a clearer view at the privacy concessions people will have to make to maximize usage of the AI voice assistant and avoid bricking functionality of already-purchased devices.
In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud. Amazon apparently sent the email to users with “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” enabled on their Echo. Starting on March 28, recordings of everything spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud."
We're talking about the company controlled by a guy who sent money to Trump, changed the Washington Post into Republican propaganda.
You sure you want him to record what you say in private?
"Starting on March 28, recordings of everything spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud."
"Privacy policies are more aptly referred to as *surveillance policies*, and that is what I suggest we call them."
—Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
In Memoriam: #MarkKlein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed #NSA Mass Spying
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying
The 200+ Sites an #ICE 3Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/
Headline: DOGE Privacy Act Requests
Me: Like many of you, I feel frustrated that the Democrats haven't done more to push back against the current administration. But when they give us an opportunity to act, we should take it. My letter goes in the mail tomorrow. Will you mail a letter too?
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Tech, AI and data-driven surveillance is creeping into every aspect of the State.
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@404mediaco has obtained a list of sites and services monitored by an ICE contractor ShadowDragon to let government analysts search and draw connections between people.
"The long list of sites and services that ShadowDragon’s SocialNet tool accesses is a reminder of just how much data is accessible and collected from and about us to provide surveillance services to the government and others."
https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/
Yep, they're sucking all these posts into a big database in the sky (as I figured). Also your geocaching.com logs. And github. And your Flickr pictures. #privacy #cybersecurity #surveillance #bigbrother
ICE surveillance contractor is scraping a lot of sites:
The UK Crime and Policing Bill will create a vast facial recognition database of over 55 million driving licences and ban face coverings at protest 
This would be the biggest biometric database ever created in the UK for policing.
With other rights groups, we're telling politicians to stop the expansion of police surveillance powers 
Read the joint briefing
Not this one!
“Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine”
by Ahmed Ibsais in @jacobinfeed@mastodon.social
“Since 2014, Amazon has been pouring billions into Israel, contributing to illegal settlement programs and the relentless surveillance of Palestinians. Israel’s dystopian end goal: to compile biometric profiles and security ratings for every resident of the West Bank.”
https://jacobin.com/2023/08/amazon-ai-israel-palestine-apartheid-surveillance
