Jan Vlug
@janvlug@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Did you ever have a look at the excellent #documentation of #Purism products?

https://docs.puri.sm/

One of the products of Purism is the #Librem5. The Librem 5 is a #Linux phone that runs the #PureOS operating system.

This phone is built up from the bottom to provide #privacy and software #freedom. No #surveillance by the manufacturer, free and #opensource (#FOSS) is their standard.

I use a Librem 5 as my daily phone.

#DigitalSovereignty#DigitalAutonomy

activity timestamp 3 days ago

“On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri approved the proposed purchase of all of the assets of 23andMe by TTAM Research Institute (“TTAM”) … TTAM is a nonprofit medical research organization founded by Anne Wojcicki (Co-Founder and former CEO of 23andMe).”

– 23andMe bankruptcy notice

Well this all sounds above board…

#DNA #data#23AndMe #genetics#BigTech#peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #bankruptcy#failingUpwards
Frederik Borgesius
@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

‘Other suggestions from the tech companies included using high-powered quantum computers to “analyse past data to predict future behaviours and create diversion paths” and to automate sentencing calculations in the overstretched probation service.’

Not a ‘Black Mirror’ episode, apparently.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/01/tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary
#tech #ai #law #humanrights#privacy #surveillance #gdpr
Frederik Borgesius
@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

UK: ‘Tracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies to ministers who are gathering ideas to tackle the crisis in the UK justice system’

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/01/tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary
#tech #ai #law #humanrights#privacy #surveillance #gdpr

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Thomas Fricke (he/him)
@thomasfricke@23.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants

A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report

https://www.aol.com/news/sinaloa-cartel-hacked-phones-surveillance-211818970.html

Original report

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/25-065_t.pdf

#Surveillance is a very bad idea. No matter if by cameras or #ChatControl . The bad guys will also get access.
Kim Perales
@KimPerales@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

"Pretty sure, in fact, that the #CBP Traveler Verification System is explicitly barred from keeping pictures of US citizens?"
-A Reichlin-Melnick

🚨"ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to ID People, Leaked Emails Show.

The news highlights the Trump admin’s growing use of sophisticated tech for its mass deportation efforts & #ICE’s enforcement of its arrest quotas."

The #TrumpRegime is lawless & sadistic.
#Immigrants#Surveillance#DueProcess#Deportations#USPol
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/
Dave Rahardja
@drahardja@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Holy #surveillance hell, Batman.

Let me get this straight:

First, they feed your video, which is already stored in their cloud, into an #AI transformer to write descriptions.

Then they feed your descriptions into a pattern learning system (ML, maybe?) to figure out your patterns and habits.

All of this is stored in the cloud. So they not only have your video, but a narrative about your habits, ready to be exfiltrated, monetized, and shared with law enforcement.

#ai #enshittification#RingCamera

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/amazons_ring_ai_video_description/
Heretical_i
@heretical_i@kafeneio.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
@unusual_whales#Deloitte employees need the R&R as a reward for all the #domesticspying they do on us. #LEGOs are about right for these #fascists adult children... right in there with #CACI torture chamber operators and #Palatir cult freaks.

See: "#Surveillance and #PredictivePolicing Through #AI"

"Cities are leveraging #artificialintelligence (AI) to ensure safety and security (🤣) for their citizens while safeguarding (🤣) privacy (🤣) and fundamental human rights (🤣)."
https://www.deloitte.com/global/en/Industries/government-public/perspectives/urban-future-with-a-purpose/surveillance-and-predictive-policing-through-ai.html
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"At their heart, these technologies infringe human rights."

Last week @sianberry tabled an amendment to the UK Crime and Policing Bill that would prohibit the use and deployment of dangerous 'crime-predicting' police tech.

These systems will subject overpoliced communities to more surveillance. More discrimination. More injustice.

Sign the petition to BAN it ➡️ https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-crime-predicting-police-tech

#SafetyNotSurveillance #surveillance #precrime #predictivepolicing #police #policing #ukpolitics #ukpol

Video of Siân Berry (Green MP) speaking in the UK House of Commons about an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that "would prohibit the deployment and use of certain forms of “predictive” policing technologies, particularly those that rely on automated decision-making, profiling and artificial intelligence, to assess the likelihood that individuals or groups will commit criminal offences." "Such technologies, however cleverly sold, will always need to be built on existing, flawed police data, or data from other flawed and biased public and private sources. That means that communities that have historically been over-policed will be more likely to be identified as being “at risk” of future criminal behaviour.... At their heart they infringe human rights, including the right to privacy and the right to be presumed innocent."
Video of Siân Berry (Green MP) speaking in the UK House of Commons about an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that "would prohibit the deployment and use of certain forms of “predictive” policing technologies, particularly those that rely on automated decision-making, profiling and artificial intelligence, to assess the likelihood that individuals or groups will commit criminal offences." "Such technologies, however cleverly sold, will always need to be built on existing, flawed police data, or data from other flawed and biased public and private sources. That means that communities that have historically been over-policed will be more likely to be identified as being “at risk” of future criminal behaviour.... At their heart they infringe human rights, including the right to privacy and the right to be presumed innocent."