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You ordered groceries, but the motorized cooler scanned your face geometry to feed AI datasets. Every sidewalk convenience eventually collapses into an unconsented surveillance grift.
apnews.com/article/chicago-f…
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Man builds Flock-like license plate readers to only track police cars. Cops show up to his door to interrogate him due to "privacy violations."
They seem to forget they are *public* servants. They don’t have a right to privacy. Every single thing they do while on the clock the public has a right to know about.
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Flock deployed 120,000 surveillance cameras, then trimmed data retention to seven days to appease Congress. The panopticon is already permanent; the hearing is just routine administrative theater.
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No cameras. No sensors.
Just Wi-Fi reading human movement.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that uses standard WiFi routers to detect human movement through walls—without any cameras.
By applying AI and DensePose model, the system turns WiFi signals into detailed maps of body posture in real time.
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Recommend uninstalling #Mozilla #Firefox #browser immediately and switching to a more #privacy friendly alternative. Not only do Mozilla now claim a license to your data, they removed the assurance that they do not sell it. #infosec #dfir #security
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Mozilla just changed the Firefox TOS. If you're a privacy person, might be time to move off.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is now outdated. Mozilla updated the Terms of Use to be more clear:
It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.
blog.mozilla.org/en/products/fi…
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Mozilla has just deleted the following:
“Does Firefox sell your personal data?”
“Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "
github.com/mozilla/bedrock/c…
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Kroger, in collaboration with Microsoft, $MSFT, has introduced facial recognition technology in its stores, per BBC.
This system aims to personalize shopping experiences by identifying customers and possibly tailoring prices individually.
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As law enforcement and businesses increasingly use technology to manage everything, your chances of being arrested for stuff you didn’t do are rising.
Link:
lifehacker.com/tech/how-tech…
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Telegram will now provide IP addresses and phone numbers in response to legal requests engt.co/4ezXNF6
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It’s patently absurd that Apple isn’t smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security & privacy!
Apple has no clue what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They’re selling you down the river.
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the thing about mass surveillance is that it induces a positive feedback loop: behavior revealed by mass surveillance is used as evidence that there needs to be more surveillance. with no limiting principle (fourth amendment or equiv), this quickly spirals out of control
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In India the government is close to passing laws that make end to end encryption unworkable, with the consequence that WhatsApp may leave the country. In Europe it’s worse: the EU may mandate mass scanning of conversations.
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Privacy is normal.
Living in a surveillance state in which the government demands to watch everything we do with our money at all times without obtaining a warrant is NOT normal.
Treating software developers who build privacy-preserving technology as criminals is reprehensible.
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Science of eavesdropping just leveled up!
Using just sound, researchers have found a way — "deep learning-based acoustic side-channel attack" — to determine what you're typing on your laptop with incredible 95% accuracy.
Details: thehackernews.com/2023/08/ne…
#privacy #technology
