Don't buy a #SmartTV from #LG anymore:
"LG TVs’ integrated #ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer #emotions"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/lg-tvs-integrated-ads-get-more-personal-with-tech-that-analyzes-viewer-emotions/
cannot believe it is occurring to people that #DOGE IS NOT ABOUT EFFICIENCY BUT #SURVEILLANCE. just like #creditCards #Paypal #Uber #Tesla #Doordash #Amazon #Netflix #GMail #Instagram and every fin/techbro business.
the apartheid clown’s #malware is a ruse to give techbros the power to spy on all Americans.
these are the consequences of your silence while many of your friends & relations vilified us for saying, DEFUND THE POLICE. we didn’t just mean PDs. we meant the whole police state.
How can we make this, from @frog, famous?
"My standard for consent: pretend the thing I'm consenting to is being physically done by a person.
"It'd be super weird if I bought a used car & they asked me if they could follow me around.
"It'd be super weird for a stranger to ask to follow me around writing down the things I put in my grocery cart.
"If I called a taxi, it'd be super weird if the driver asked to look through my phone contacts & copy them down."
#Privacy on the Map: How States Are Fighting Location #Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/privacy-map-how-states-are-fighting-location-surveillance
EVENT: On 5/16, we will hold a convening with Olivier Sylvain addressing threats to speech and privacy enabled by commercial #surveillance in our quickly shifting democratic landscape. RSVP to attend in-person in DC or online: https://knightcolumbia.org/events/surveillance-ascendant-democracy-in-free-fall
Our top story: Operation Lone Star has turbocharged DPS’ surveillance capabilities. Lawmakers say they want to prevent Texas from becoming a police state but have filed only modest legislation to regulate use of #AI.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
In Feb, he received a message: report to an #immigration office so the #tracking #technology could be updated. When he arrived, federal agents were waiting. They handcuffed him & put him on a vehicle bound for a detention center, where he has been ever since, acc/to an account from his wife & Jacinta González, the head of programs for the advocacy group MediaJustice…. He & his wife declined to be named for fear of harming his #legal proceedings.
After a Honduran immigrant arrived in the #UnitedStates in 2022, ofcls ordered him to use a government-issued app as part of an #immigration #surveillance program.
At least once a week, the immigrant, a former police officer in Honduras who was living in Louisiana, would take a selfie through the facial-recognition powered app to confirm his identity & location. By trading some of his #privacy, he avoided being put in a #detention center & obtained a work permit.
This Company’s #Surveillance #Tech Makes Immigrants ‘Easy Pickings’ for #Trump
#GeoGroup, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in #deportations.
#law #immigration #privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/technology/trump-immigration-tech-geo-group.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=B14BF0D7-D7B7-45ED-A647-651891F753AC
"#Betar US claims responsibility for giving names of pro-Palestinian activists, including #MahmoudKhalil, to the #Trump administration. We examine Betar’s roots, reach, and the institutions that surround it. Who’s backing this group, and why are students its latest target?"
guest: Jonah Valdez, reporter w/ The Intercept
https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/what-is-betar-us-and-why-is-it-targeting-pro-palestinian-activists
#USpol #USpolitics #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #stateRepression #StudentProtests #surveillance @palestine
Seattle cops have just activated their new 24/7 citywide AI surveillance camera network.
Cops at operations centers will be watching the video from over SIXTY HD cameras in three neighborhoods.
The cops are storing video for 30 days, or indefinably if a cop decides they want to keep it for "investigation".
Seattle residents tried to stop this dragnet, saying it will only empower Trump in our region.
https://stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/spd-cctv-cameras-are-live/
“We’ve kind of forgotten about how big a behemoth the government has become as a surveiller of its populace.”
Our top story: Unpacking the millions spent on #AI-based surveillance of the border ... and how the state's gaze has expanded well beyond the edges of our nation. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
Leaked internal data shows Meta complied with 94% of Israeli takedown requests since Oct 7, removing 90k+ posts and actioning millions more, largely targeting pro-Palestinian content globally. Israel leads global content censorship via Meta.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta
“The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance.
It harvests our data in order to sell us stuff.
We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#siliconvalley #surveillance
LA Times: A rich L.A. neighborhood donated surveillance technology to the LAPD — then drama ensued
"...The LAPD’s lack of a formal data-sharing agreement with Flock opens the door for federal authorities to potentially request information from the company about an immigrant’s whereabouts — undercutting the city’s promise not to cooperate in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, warned Tiff Guerra, an organizer with the activist group Stop LAPD Spying. ..."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-10/cheviot-hills-license-plate-readers-lapd
i read many papers regarding automation, privacy, surveillance, and i think i will share interesting ones:
"We seem to be entering a historical period in which machines are more and more resembling human workers, while human employees are treated more and more like machines"
"Karl Polanyi (1944) famously observed that treating human labor power as a “fictitious commodity”would lead to the destruction of society; the question that our generation needs to raise is what will the transformation of human workers into digital sets of aggregate scores and trajectories on managers’ dashboards ultimately lead to?"
https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/13776/9471
"The Israeli spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration, a WIRED investigation has found."
There're so many concerns with the #TrumpMusk regime. At its core are corruption, nefariousness, lawlessness, & retribution.
#Surveillance #Spyware #NationalSecurity #Corruption #Trump #Republicans #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/nso-group-the-vogel-group-lobbying-trump-administration/
