Apple To Resist India Order To Preload State-Run App As Political Outcry Builds
Apple does not plan to comply with India’s mandate to preload its smartphones with a state-owned cyber safety app that cannot be disabled. According to Reuters, the order “sparked surveillance concerns and a political uproar” after it was revealed on Monday. From the report: In the wake of the criticism, India’s tel … ⌘ Read more

‘Big Brother cannot watch us’: Indian government phone app plan sparks outrage
New Delhi wants a government app installed on all of the country’s mobile phones, but opposition MPs and privacy advocates have voiced concerns about surveillance. ⌘ Read more

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers To Build Its Surveillance AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Flock, the automatic license plate reader and AI-powered camera company, uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning algorithms, with training material telling workers how to review and categorize footage including images people and vehicles in the United States, according to material … ⌘ Read more

Shark attack highlights need for remote first aid kits, drone surveillance
A makeshift tourniquet may have made the difference between a shark attack on the NSW Mid North Coast this week claiming one life not two. The attack has put a spotlight on how fatalities may be prevented. ⌘ Read more

ChatControl ou la vie privée Schrödinger : privée mais totalement ouverte à la surveillance
ChatControl, vous n’en vouliez pas ? Eh bien vous l’aurez quand même ! En effet, ce 26 novembre, les 27 pays de l’Union européenne ont adopté – fort discrètement – une position commune sur leur projet de règlement contre les abus sexuels sur les mineurs en ligne. Cependant et comme le rappelait un récent billet, sous ce […] ⌘ Read more

Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento
A California judge has shut down a decade-long surveillance program in which Sacramento’s utility provider shared granular smart-meter data on 650,000 residents with police to hunt for cannabis grows. The EFF reports: The Sacramento County Superior Court ruled that the surveillance program run by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) … ⌘ Read more

ACLU and EFF Sue a City Blanketed With Flock Surveillance Cameras
An anonymous reader shares a report: Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the city of San Jose, California over its deployment of Flock’s license plate-reading surveillance cameras, claiming that the city’s nearly 500 cameras create a pervasive database of residents movements in a s … ⌘ Read more

Password to Louvre video surveillance system was ‘Louvre’, according to employee
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The Louvre’s Video Surveillance Password Was ‘Louvre’
A bungled October 18 heist that saw $102 million of crown jewels stolen from the Louvre in broad daylight has exposed years of lax security at the national art museum. From trivial passwords like ‘LOUVRE’ to decades-old, unsupported systems and easy rooftop access, the job was made surprisingly easy. PC Gamer reports: As Rogue cofounder and former Polygon arch-jester Cass … ⌘ Read more

The surveillance state is here—and it’s bleak
Lisa Needham,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: I wonder how many Americans realize that dictator Trump is spending hundreds of millions of dollars of your tax dollars to pay the costs of putting the National Guard and his ICE Gestapo in American cities to harass and detain thousands of men, women, and children. The stories coming out of this military takeover of American civilian society get more horrific day by day. Only a thug … ⌘ Read more

ICE contract could bring controversial surveillance tech to American streets
Ja’han Jones,    -  MSBNC

_Stephan: Dictator Trump has now authorized ICE to take the next step in its Gestapo tactics. Trump has authorized ICE to use a spyware programn called Pegasus on the phones of people who oppose him. You won’t know it has happened to your phone, but ICE will then have access to everything on your phone, and everthing your phone is connected to. IC … ⌘ Read more

ICE Is Mounting a Mass Surveillance Campaign on American Citizens
Autumn Billings ,  Assistant Editor  -  reason

_Stephan: In every country ruled by an authoritarian dictator, one of the hallmarks of such societies is the surveillance of the citizenry, to control any resistance to the leader’s authority. Well, now that reality has come to the United States. I’m not sure how I will get to my daughter’s wedding. I have been warned not to fly or go through any g … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net That sounds horrible. 😅 I wouldn’t want to own such a car. (My plan is not to buy a new car after my current one finally broke down entirely.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First time I heard about eCall. I don’t think I like this. 🫤 Feels like another attempt at going for complete surveillance. Yes, yes, it’s about “security”/“safety” … it always is.

I’m recomming my customers switch to Linux rather that Upgrade to Windows 11
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Surveillance Secrets
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Could AI-powered surveillance cameras keep your home safe?
Amazon’s latest 4K cameras with ‘Retinal Vision’ come with AI features that will cost you $200 per year. ⌘ Read more

Face-off: What Kmart’s illegal surveillance means for shoppers
If you’re one of the 8 million or so Australians who shop at Kmart every year, chances are you were being watched. ⌘ Read more

It frustrates me that people who refuse to deal with Google, Apple or Microsoft for reasons of privacy or freedom are seen as the weird ones. The level of tracking, surveillance, advertising, hedonism, and societal fear being imposed on us is not normal. Those who reject the modern digital dystopia are not being radical or extreme; they’re trying to return to what should be normal.

EU is proposing a new mass surveillance law and is asking the public for feedback news ⌘ Read more

When does tracking become stalking? Tell your kids. There’s one key warning sign
For better or worse, young people live in a world of surveillance. The best we can do as parents is to make sure they know how to identify shifts in behaviour. ⌘ Read more

A threat model for opposing authoritarianism
A decade ago, I published a book on privacy “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance.” In the book, and since then, in articles and speeches, I have been dispensing advice to people on how to protect their privacy. But my advice did not envision the moment we are in – where the government would collaborate with a tech CEO to strip-mine all of our data from government databases and use i … ⌘ Read more

EM1103B Board Integrates 0.5 TOPS NPU and 8MP ISP with RV1103B SoC
The EM1103B is a compact single-board computer built around the Rockchip RV1103B SoC. Designed for vision-based AIoT tasks, it targets applications like smart cameras, doorbells, and battery-powered surveillance devices, combining processing, AI acceleration, and imaging features in a small footprint. As the name suggests, the board is powered by the Rockchip RV1103B, similar to the […] ⌘ Read more

I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car
Article URL: [https://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rural-virginia-then-asked-police-to-send-me-their-public-surveillance-footage-of-my-car-heres-what-i-learned/](https://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rural-virginia-then-asked-police-to-send-me-their-public-surveillance-footage-of-my-car-heres-wha … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] MoneroTop - Spasm-powered XMR forum

Most Monero-related discussions happen on slave tech platforms, which are vulnerable to censorship and surveillance. It’s time to embrace freedom tech. You can now sign messages with your private keys and submit them to different networks at MoneroTop forum, which is powered by Spasm - the future of social media.

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Pokemon Go, the Surveillance Game Financed by the CIA, now Owned by Saudi Arabia
Pokemon Go has been 3D mapping your homes for years, and now it is owned by the Wife-Beating, Jeff Bezos Hacking, Journalist Murdering Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. ⌘ Read more

[ANN] MT #343: Marketing Monero to Save Souls from Technological Totalitarianism w/ Monero Master

In this episode Douglas Tuman interviews Sean Bradford about Monero, Christianity, and privacy-focused marketing initiatives. Sean Bradford, who recently emerged in the Monero community, discusses his various projects including the Monero Masters podcast and surveillance resistance campaign.

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Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292820

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ESP32-S3 IR Thermal Imaging Camera Module with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Connectivity
Waveshare recently launched the ESP32-S3 IR Thermal Imaging Camera Module which is a wireless infrared thermal imaging device based on the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 chip. Designed with a compact form factor of 29 × 29mm, this module is intended for applications such as thermal monitoring, security surveillance, and industrial diagnostics.   The product page does not mention […] ⌘ Read more

ASRock Industrial Updates iEP-6010E Series with Super Mode for NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Nano
ASRock Industrial has upgraded the iEP-6010E Series and Developer Kit with Super Mode for NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano, improving AI inference and efficiency. Optimized with NVIDIA JetPack 6.2 SDK, the system supports real-time processing for automation, surveillance, robotics, and smart infrastructure. According to the company, Super Mode enables the … ⌘ Read more

‘Most dangerous technology ever’: Protesters urge AI pause
Google this week quietly revised its artificial intelligence ethics, no longer ruling out military or surveillance use. ⌘ Read more

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Man accused of stealing ambulance in Annandale appears in court
A Manassas man is behind bars after he reportedly stole an ambulance from a hospital while in custody. The suspect Rickey Lowe made his first court appearance Monday. Lowe was seen on surveillance video in a hospital gown amid the reported heist, and his IV is still attached. FOX 5’s Tisha Lewis reports from Fairfax. ⌘ Read more

Jeffrey Paul: Apple OSes Are Insecure By Design To Aid Surveillance: https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveillance/

En matière d’internet, la France n’est plus si loin de la Corée du Nord…
Parfois, un pays sombre rapidement dans la dictature : une révolution violente, quelques hommes autoritaires, déterminés et sans scrupules, et voilà le peuple sous un joug tyrannique. Et parfois, les dérives sont progressives, lentes, insidieuses et il faut plusieurs années pour parvenir à créer un enfer où chaque geste est surveillé, chaque opinion contrôlée et chaque […] ⌘ Read more

Murray’s 100 million bees are finally on the move after an ‘anxious’ week stuck in a varroa mite surveillance zone
After playing a crucial role in pollinating Victorian almond orchards and a week caught in a varroa mite surveillance zone, Queensland’s Murray Arkadieff and his 1,000 beehives are finally heading home. ⌘ Read more

Queensland beehives allowed across the border from NSW amid varroa mite concerns
Queensland beekeepers are cleared to bring their hives back home but face 12 months of increased surveillance to ensure their bees are varroa mite free. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @mckinley@twtxt.net I believe the resurgence in availability of municipal WiFi is largely driven by the surveillance capabilities it offers. Every person who has WiFi enabled on their phone can be tracked throughout the city as their phones ping various base stations; a lot of folks aren’t aware of just how much information can be slurped out of a phone that isn’t locked down just from its WiFi pings. I know this happens in Toronto, and I was familiar with a startup in Massachusetts that based its business model on this very concept. I can only assume it’s widespread in the US if not throughout the Western world.

Et une petite surveillance des GSM pour faire bonne mesure
En Janvier dernier, Dupond-Moretti faisait l’article de son projet de loi de programmation pour son ministère. Arrivé au mois de mai, le projet a été présenté au gouvernement et si ce dernier l’a accueilli avec un sourire quasi-libidineux, il en va de façon sensible différente du reste de la magistrature pourtant directement concernée… Pourtant, cette […] ⌘ Read more

Le gouvernement qui se cache de son peuple, demande des drones pour surveiller le peuple https://lien.sus.fr/c9IbI

Surveillance biométrique, insécurité et JO 2024 : ça va très bien se passer.
Alors que le pays tout entier semble cristallisé sur des questions de retraite, la vie parlementaire continue son train-train législatif dont les rails passent consciencieusement sur nos libertés : dans un vote qui n’a déclenché aucune inquiétude de la part des journalistes et des chroniqueurs habituels, les députés viennent d’autoriser l’utilisation de la vidéosurveillance algorithm … ⌘ Read more

L’Etat va utiliser l’excuse de la fraude aux allocations pour surveiller vos voyages aériens
Fini de rire ! L’Exécutif a pris des décisions, il est formel, et ça ne va plus se passer tout seul : Gabriel Attal, le blanc-bec en charge de ce qui reste de budget à la France, a annoncé la future mise en œuvre d’un grand plan de “lutte contre la fraude sociale”, parce que ça suffit […] ⌘ Read more

https://www.laquadrature.net/biometrie-jo/ Loi J.O. : Argumentaires - refusons la surveillance biométrique

2024 devient 1984 : des médias de propagande et un corps médical sous surveillance
L’année 2023 vient à peine de commencer que, déjà, de multiples signes s’accumulent dans la presse de grand chemin qui montrent que jamais la liberté d’expression n’aura été autant attaquée. C’est, sans surprise, le deux-poids deux-mesures déjà évoqué dans un précédent article qui permet aux journalistes de s’époumoner en outrages courroucés lorsqu’un des leurs est […] ⌘ Read more

The Circle
Some years ago, I started reading the novel “The Circle” by Dave Eggers. I never finished reading it, but today I watched the movie. It has an important message about privacy, transparency and surveillance and shows that there’s a thin line in-between those. I can definitely recommend watching it, although I sometimes wasn’t impressed by the acting. ⌘ Read more

Google’s ‘fast track to surveillance’ sparks backlash from European consumer groups over ‘deceptive’ practices
The Regional consumer organisation BEUC accused Google of using ‘deceptive design, unclear language, misleading choices and missing information’ for extensive data collection. ⌘ Read more

US ‘smart city’ tech highlights contrasts with China over privacy and control
American communities try to balance the benefits of new technology with the threats of a surveillance state. ⌘ Read more

Australia-China relations: Canberra to set up Pacific defence school as Beijing seeks rival regional meeting
Canberra also plans to double funding for aerial surveillance in the Pacific region to recoup US$150 million lost each year to illegal fishing, a government minister said. ⌘ Read more

Chinese satellites evade US surveillance probe, then stare back, according to report
The close encounter in orbit prompts experts to call for new rules and norms for the use of outer space. ⌘ Read more

G20 to raise US$1.5 billion for global pandemic fund, host Indonesia says
The money will finance efforts such as surveillance, research, and better access to vaccination for lower-to-middle income countries, health officials said. About US$1.1 billion has been pledged so far. ⌘ Read more