Some really crazy cases in here
- cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times
- cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason
- cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired
Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people
www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
Last week, researchers identified code in Meta AI's smart glasses app that could convert faces into unique biometric signatures to identify strangers in public. Just as quietly as they embedded this code, the app’s 6/5 update appears to have quietly removed them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Again the Cops and now DHS/ICE are both the democrat existential threats Ben Franklin warned us about 👇
‘Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their main crypto ventures, while the investors they've wooed have taken a $2.3 billion hit, a Reuters examination found.’ www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Just days after a damning WIRED report exposed that Meta had quietly embedded facial recognition technology (FRT) code into millions of phones, the tech giant has quietly acquiesced in demands to
Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
Electronic Frontier Foundation
With AB 1856, California lawmakers could have dramatically narrowed the harmful age-bracketing regime set to go into effect next year. Instead, the bill extends those requirements to browsers and websites. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Laws restricting social media access based on age are spreading across the globe—from Australia and the UK to Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and the EU. These policies create serious risks for privacy, free expression, and access to information. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their main crypto ventures, while the investors they've wooed have taken a ...
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Organizations can enhance privacy and security on their devices by installing Privacy Badger, EFF’s free, open source browser extension that automatically blocks trackers. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Twitter ‘X’ refugee thank you 'Elon' 🙄
An EFF analysis reveals a troubling pattern of mission creep with ALPRs. Without a warrant requirement, law enforcement agencies are shifting from using the technology for specific criminal investigations to using these surveillance networks for minor personal whims. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the
After public outrage, California lawmakers are moving closer to exempting open-source operating systems from the sweeping age-bracketing regime mandated by last year’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB
In an era of pervasive online surveillance, organizations have an important role to play in protecting their communities’ privacy. Schools, libraries, and other organizations can make private
An EFF analysis of millions of searches of Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) data by police has uncovered a troubling pattern: in the absence of a warrant requirement to search ALPR
