• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OzkkNb2cpo

    Arrested for misplacing a document at a council meeting, after arranging a petition for the resignation of the mayor.

    She couldn't sue the city council officials because they have qualified immunity, and they had made sufficient probable cause to arrest her (that she had perhaps stolen her document).

    “Backdoor censorship."

    The police in that city arrested her and then released her a day later, dropping the charges. Ie she wasn't taken to trial. But she as the defendent has been trying to have the court to take it to trial so she can prove she had been wronged through law/police.

    She's trying to say that the qualified immunity does not fit this case.

    It's a ‘what if’ case. What if we allow city councils and authorities to do this.

    Institute of Justice is working on it. Is IoJ the new ACLU?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH3VYCh7z5o

    Is good faith enough?

    Some people were killed at home, and the police requested anyone (among 1b search users) who had searched that address.

    There is little about a person that isn't revealed by reviewing a 1-month search history, including things they tell no one because they're private (and sometimes they would otherwise not even address).

    The majority recognized people have a constitutional right to privacy in their internet search querries, and that these impact speech rights.

    Before the Amendments were written, there was a ‘general warrant’ where a judge gave police a general warrant to go around, knock on random doors and say ‘we have a warrant’ and barge in. Since the Amendment, police need a specific warrant where they say who or what they are looking for.

    EFF disappointed with the results of the case.

    Go to your search results for the month and look through them, and see if you would like strangers/authorities to have that info. Now consider that of your family members.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpU9LdxO9aE

    The court took the trial on the road and it was hosted at a highschool. It's much easier to go see.

    The argument police/city used was “We didn't need a warrant because we were just flying a drone over your property.” They also used “an anonymous tip by a neighbor" for an impetus. Their argument was that the drone was not touching the ground.

    The town council is using tax dollars and “don't even seem to care” if this case is taken to the Supreme court and the costs associated?

    Another what if case. Every town council will buy a drone and regularly fly it over every property all the time and look for things.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lietcrJy1MU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7W296G2ik

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rnzQ6A2Nv8

    Said to be to combat planned obsolesence and companies selling cars that they know won't last. The bill also has things to do with right to repair.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJcsXRhArA8

    What about TV? Phones? Junk food? Exercise?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MnGgsOKjqs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hHOFZUCC5E

    Can't take drone images ‘for surveilance’. Originally journalists had sued to be able to and won, but on appeal this. It's legal only up to 8 feet off the ground and you can't use ‘ampificaiton’ (zoom).

    ‘And nothing in the No-Fly provisions has anything to do with speech or expression. These are flight restrictions, not speech restrictions.’

    #Drones #Privacy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQfloQlSmFg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MirpRkmruOg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mFzFaGE-c

    First in US. Seattle PD can't knowingly lie, saying it undermines public trust in police (not outweighed, said mayor). We might also say in society in general, since police will lie to one friend saying his friend said he did things and thereby pressure him into ratting on his friend. People have falsely confessed to murder because they were lied to and browbeaten in this way. The can still lie for felonies but not minor property crimes.

    Seattle PD can't make a false statement to press or in any way that ‘shocks the conscience’ so we don't know what that means yet.

    Category: Law
    Posted: Nov 04, 2023

  • Category: Politics
    Posted: May 15, 2023

  • Juice jacking. If you use a cable that has 4 wires (which are fairly standard, the kind you can use to connect your phone to your computer), obviously data can be transferred through them, including malware. So use a power outlet and your wall charger for your phone. Technically speaking, you can use a 2-wire cable (only transmits power) even with a unit set up to send malware.

     
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    Posted: Apr 12, 2023

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    Posted: Dec 31, 2022

  • Days after US Congress made headlines for being set to ban TikTok on government devices.

     
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    Posted: Dec 24, 2022

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    Posted: Dec 08, 2022

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    Posted: Nov 24, 2022

  • FRED, Central Bank digital currency, biggest holder of mortgages, Citi, BNU Mellon, US Bank, Wells, etc. France, Switzerland, Singapore cross-border CBDC.

    BIS is a private institution overseeing government things. Control over purchases, no cash, government can freeze accounts like Canadian Truckers participation and support. Events can also be faked while backdroors are pushed through. One digital identity mapped across all bank accounts, KYC. Carbon scores, social credit.

     
    Category: Economics
    Posted: Nov 17, 2022

  • Control data collection on millions of users, and control information algo if they so chose.

    Category: Technology
    Posted: Nov 17, 2022

  • Category: Health
    Posted: Nov 16, 2022

  • And smart glasses.

      
    Category: Law
    Posted: Nov 15, 2022

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    Posted: Aug 10, 2022
  • Rustdesk an 'opensource' (not really) Teamviewer / Anydesk alternative

    It has closed source parts in the software though, so some have already started to say it's not really.

     
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Jul 27, 2022

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    Posted: Jul 15, 2022
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    Posted: Jul 05, 2022
  • Tesla banned from some places in China

    Upcoming CCP meeting and they're banned from the island for 2 months. When Xi visits some places, they're also banned. Government locations (like military) Teslas can't enter. Government workers (some?) aren't permitted to drive in Teslas.

    Reason: National Security
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Jun 25, 2022
  • Bye bye, DuckDuckGo


    'Overall' versus 'ultimately' in language hints.

    Currently, Brave is moving to the best search engine (?and browser?), but quantity is the solution in any marketplace.
     
    Category: Technology
    Posted: May 24, 2022

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    Posted: Apr 20, 2022

  • 200k cameras in Moscow can identify protesters. Also in Ukraine to identify people killed in the war to tell their families.

    There's no control over false positives.

     
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Apr 07, 2022
  • In Brazil, they amended the constitution to guarantee data protection as a fundamental right

    The guys on Techlore said they didn't seen anything like that possibly happening in the States for decades. The only thing they could see was if they expanded the Fourth Amendment to include digital property.

     
    Category: Law
    Posted: Mar 01, 2022
  • Feds are buying data about people from a company that gets it from several apps

    If you are an app developer, and you sell your app data to some company, it can be used this way.

    Some of these apps are for things like gay dating (Bro) and religious prayer and study (Muslim Pro, an app that notifies people 5 times per day it's time for them to pray) (Full Quran, an audio book of the Quran), as well as one where people upload their faces and do virtual makeup on it (Perfect365).

     
    Category: Politics
    Posted: Feb 21, 2022

  • EFF

     
    Category: Human and Civil Rights
    Posted: Feb 19, 2022

  • ... reportedly, for the past 2 years during the Pandemic.

     
    Category: Human and Civil Rights
    Posted: Feb 19, 2022
  • "Phone numbers suck" - Techlore guy

    "They're hard to get compared to something like email. They're expensive. Most people only get one. And these issues just make them a very unique datapoint. A phone number is one of the most invasive data points used against us by companies."

    A new thing is eSIMs. A real phone number, not a virtual number like VOIP.

    No outbound calls though.

     
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Dec 18, 2021

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    Posted: Dec 06, 2021
  • Israeli Blue Wolf

    WP reported this.

    It's facial recog system trained on a huge database of images acquired by Israeli army soldiers on smartphones, to target people for detension.
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Nov 08, 2021
  • Palestinian activists hacked with Pegasus

    "It's a strong feeling to have your privacy violated," said one man. "Even the simplest of things. My wife couldn't sleep for three days after finding out, being extremely worried. Our privacy was violated as a family. Our children, their pictures. Our conversations with family and friends."

    Pegasus is sold to govts around the world by NSO (Israeli company), under license from Israel's MOD.

    Pegasus is supposed to be blocked from use on Israeli and Palestinian phones.

    NSO commented "We cannot confirm or deny the identity of our government customers. ... NSO Group does not operate the products itself. The company licenses approved government agencies to do so."

    Last month, 3 days after the investigation into suspected phone hacking began, Israel designated all 6 organizations as terror groups, accusing them of funneling money to the PLF and other things.

    Then the Israeli army gave itself the power to shut down offices, confiscate money, and make arrests.

    Last week, the US blacklisted NSO.

     
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Nov 08, 2021
  • SKorea govt provided 170m facial images of national and international travelers without consent

    We're talking about the face photos they take during the immigration process.

    They gave it to a private sector company to develop an AI screening tool.

     
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Nov 02, 2021
  • Data collected on 50m Moscow drivers for sale for $800

    From a hacker.

    Full names, dates of birth, phone numbers, vehicle ID numbers, licence plate numbers, and car brand model and registration date.

    It's confirmed legit.
     
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Nov 02, 2021
  • FBI commanded Signal to give them account info

    Here's the account they wanted more info about, and Signal's (represented by the ACLU) response.

    Note that just because this appears like Signal is secure, it doesn't for sure mean it's not a smokescreen.






    Category: Human and Civil Rights
    Posted: Oct 30, 2021
  • Moscow uses facial recognition for payments on the metro

    Ostensibly they are using it to give passengers the option to pay that way. Their face is tied to their credit card in this optional system, and they can pay for their trips that way.

    15k people volunteered to test the system before it was made public this week.

    To do facepay, you have to stop in front of the camera for a second before entering the train gates.

    Moscow has over 200k facial recognition cameras.They were used earlier this year in the arrests of demonstrators at opposition protests.

     
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Oct 17, 2021
  • Amazon introduces a spy device on wheels for people's homes

    ... called Astro. It's Alexa on wheels. It's designed to look small and cute.

    It can play movies, do video calls.

     
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Sep 28, 2021
  • Rayban changes leading design into 'waycreepers'?

    It's been reported Rayban has licensed or partnered or something with fb to put camera's in their most iconic line.

    So now are we going to be looking for this design to spot people creeping on public locations?

    The last time a large glasses-camera attempt was made was a few years ago. It was Google Glass. What ended it was when a wearer (you might imagine that people interested in buying these products correlate somewhat with people who don't respect the public privacy of others) was punched for wearing them somewhere. Whether for the pr or whatever that might follow this, the project was turned down or off. Will we see the same thing here, to end the current movement towards spying on all public life?

    Category: Economics
    Posted: Sep 24, 2021
  • Protonmail logged IP of French activist upon order by Swiss authorities

    ... his alleged crime was truancy. He was a member of Youth for Climate Action in Paris, and they were using Protonmail to schedule and organize an event where they would skip school to go and protest, reported Mental Outlaw on YT. The youths were going to protest governments and corporations they believed were causing climate change.

    Have you ever skipped school?

    Protonmail does not have any userside/clientside encryption. Tor or mixnet would have put something between the user and Protonmail.

    Mental Outlaw pointed out that although Protonmail may not comply with a request from an outside state (France, US, whoever), they could just go through Switzerland.

    Protonmail updated it's privacy policy to more accurately reflect what they do.

     
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Sep 12, 2021
  • US collected biometric records on 5m Afghanis

    ... and now those people are at risk due to this very thing, according to some like Margaret Hu, who calls it a lesson in the life-and-death consequences of data collection.

    The US left this data behind, along with iris scans and names.

    Consortium News commented that the US is going after Assange in part because (they allege) Assange endangered lives by revealing names of informants (when he was actually redacting them).


    The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy  
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Sep 03, 2021
  • New China data privacy law

    ... goes into effect Nov. 1.

    It targets digital companies. Collecting a lot of random info on users in order to 'provide a better service' seems it'll be not as available to businesses. The restrictions in the bill target businesses and don't really apply to the CCP.

    Under the law, companies are required to only collect the minimal amount of data for a service, and must obtain consent for collecting sensitive info (like biometrics), offer easy opt-out options, and if they want to transfer data overseas they have to get govt approval first.

    Does this put China ahead of the West in internet privacy?

     
    Category: Law
    Posted: Aug 20, 2021
  • Apple to put software on iPhones that will scan all photos user-side

    ... unlike things Microsoft and Dropbox currently do, which is scan images people upload to their cloud storage, Apple has said they are going to actually scan users phones themselves. They cited 'harm against children' as their auspice.

    Commenters have pointed out that in addition to just being privacy-invading and certain to lead to governments around the world monitoring journalists, dissidents, and everyone else, it means there will be unknown people in a room somewhere reviewing any photos they take of their children being bathed in a sink, etc.

    Commenters say it marks a change in direction for Apple, who had built a (somewhat dubious but somewhat popular) rep as going against attempts to invade their customer's privacy.

    Category: Human and Civil Rights
    Posted: Aug 06, 2021
  • Audacity turns bad

    ... according to everyone in the privacy forums and bloggers, because it updated it's policies to tell users it would be collecting unknown data from them and using it in unknown ways.

    Audacity was bought by Muse Group (which owns Musescore and Ultimate Guitar). The new owners pledged to keep it 'free and opensource' but it seems they might have found another way to monetize their investment here).

    One of the things people were most excited to point out about the new policy for Audacity was they added a 'only use if over age 13' type line, because under GDPR 'The age threshold for obtaining parental consent is established by each EU Member State and can be between 13 and 16 years.'

    Many people just said they wouldn't use it anymore and deleted it from their machines. Other options offered by the community were to fork or use a previous version, or to limit port access.


     
    Category: Technology
    Posted: Jul 11, 2021

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