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🚨 If you drive in America, you’re being tracked in a giant dragnet. 🚨
Surveillance company "Flock Safety" has quietly deployed over 100,000 automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across 10,000+ US communities.
These aren't just capturing license plates, they're creating complete "vehicle fingerprints" including:
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#NoALPRs #DeFlock #Privacy #Surveillance
8/12/2026, 4 engagements
A bill for the people? We nearly forgot the government could do that 👀
The US government regularly gets around the 4th Amendment by buying data from “third-party” data brokers, to invade your privacy with no oversight.
Why this is legal? We have no idea, but Rep. Thomas Massie (KY) just introduced the Surveillance Accountability Act (with help drafting from Naomi Brockwell!) which closes this loophole.
The bill would mandate warrants for all surveillance, including a ban on invasive AI and facial recognition mass surveillance in public spaces 💪
Check it out here and let us know what you think: https://surveillanceaccountability.com
#SurveillanceAccountabilityAct #Privacy #USpol #Surveillance #USgov #USA
In the age of facial recognition and age verification, it might feel like our data is being harvested left and right, completely outside our control or consent. Yet, we still have a powerful weapon to fight back against surveillance: The power to say no.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/17/you-can-say-no/
#Privacy #DataPrivacy #Surveillance #Consent #OptOut #PrivacyGuides #Article
Privacy is intrinsically intertwined with politics. Each change in governance can have serious effects on privacy rights and privacy tools, for better or for worse. Let's examine with concrete examples how politics affect legislations that can have an immense impact on the privacy tools and features we use.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/03/the-future-of-privacy/
#privacy #politics #surveillance
2/3/2025, 4 engagements
"Tomorrow, we will look at today and lament the foolishness of the surveillance economy."
doesn't miss.
https://lithub.com/what-does-privacy-really-mean-under-surveillance-capitalism/
#privacy #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism
12/22/2024, 1 engagement
#OpenAI can never be trusted — Snowden: "There is only one reason for appointing an [NSA] Director to your board."
OpenAI is positioning themselves to be in the perfect place to implement the next generation of mass #surveillance on the internet at scale. Countless companies including giants like #Apple and of course #Microsoft are happily handing your data to OpenAI for free.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/snowden-openai-calculated-betrayal
6/18/2024, 5 engagements