openrightsgroup, (edited ) to privacy
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar

⚡ Smart meter data can reveal your lifestyle habits and choices ⚡

The UK government rolled out smart meters with the pledge that they'd never share this data without the consent of users.

Then they started collecting it for 'fraud detection' to share it with credit agencies, local authorities and debt collectors.

They reduced the amount of data being collected under pressure by ORG.

BUT they're at it again ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/smart-meter-data-the-government-at-it-again/

openrightsgroup, to privacy
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar

Confiscating migrants' mobile phones deprives people of access to the Internet and support networks.

It isolates people being held by the UK State and restricts their ability to exercise legal rights in the .

This follows a previous Home Office policy to seize mobile phones and extract data onto the Project Sunshine database.

Despite the practice being ruled illegal, the government is at it again.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/05/migrants-stripped-of-smartphones-ahead-of-rwanda-flights/

LALegault, to Canada
@LALegault@newsie.social avatar

Canadians: we have stopped arming Israel but we are still purchasing from Israel (mostly #surveillance defence tech) and if you have a moment to ask the government to stop, it would help:
#Canada #cdnpoli

https://armsembargonow.ca/

aurisc4, to apple
@aurisc4@floss.social avatar

Great news from Apple - now even your pencil tracks you. Only for $129.

openrightsgroup, to privacy
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar

"The use of surveillance is being normalised in schools to such an extent that parents often have little understanding of how their children's data, images and footage is being captured and retained."

🗣️ @marianods, ORG Legal and Policy Officer.

Read more about the rise of surveillance in UK schools.

https://thelead.uk/overheard-school-toilets-dangerous-rise-surveillance-uk-classrooms

alshafei, to random
@alshafei@mastodon.social avatar

"NSO Group, which makes Pegasus spyware, keeps trying to extract information from Citizen Lab researchers."

"With the lawsuit now moving forward, NSO is trying a different tactic: demanding repeatedly that Citizen Lab hand over every single document about its Pegasus investigation."

Worth noting that former NSO Group CEO behind this spyware is already back with a heavily VC funded surveillance company called "Dream Security" -

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/06/pegasus-nso-group-israeli-spyware-citizen-lab/

KrissyKat, to Utah
@KrissyKat@hoosier.social avatar

Over 4,000 troll reports were submitted to the GOP's Utah bathroom spy site, says the state's auditor.

“I would assume the Legislature probably didn’t think through what kind of public backlash might happen,” State Auditor John Dougall said Friday.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/05/03/utah-trolled-with-4000-hoax/

simsus, to privacy German
@simsus@social.tchncs.de avatar
Natanox, to valorant
@Natanox@chaos.social avatar

So… apparently , or probably rather the "anti-cheat" system, is now taking screenshots of your desktop.

Not the game. Your desktop.

If it is Vanguard then quite a lot of games are now not just Ring 0 malware but openly admit to enact surveillance methods.

You can't make that shit up. And people still install it because apparently nerds are the only ones who still give a shit.

openrightsgroup, to privacy
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar

This week we held an online briefing about our report, 'Prevent and the Pre-Crime State: How unaccountable data sharing is harming a generation.'

Hear more about the UK Prevent programme and its dangers from Sara Chitseko (ORG), Dr Layla Aitlhadj (PreventWatch), Ilyas Nagdee (Amnesty International UK and Professor Charlotte Heath-Kelly (The University of Warwick).

Watch now 📺

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFWM72ddZGQ

glynmoody, to internet
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

Surveillance And : Eu Court Buries Online Anonymity A Little Further - https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2024/04/30/surveillance-and-hadopi-eu-court-buries-online-anonymity-a-little-further/ "access to IP addresses is no longer considered a serious interference with fundamental rights by default. As a result, the Court allows the possibility of mass of the ."

aram, to books
@aram@aoir.social avatar

🥳 After five years of dreaming, listening, writing, editing, and hustling, our book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA is finally available to the public!!!

Happy launch day to my dear friend and coauthor @jesse and thanks to the @themitpress team for all the support.

Buy it here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/the-secret-life-of-data/

jeeynet, to random French
@jeeynet@framapiaf.org avatar

Un décret vient de modifier les dispositions réglementaires relatives au fichier automatisé des empreintes digitales (FAED) afin de permettre des interconnexions avec huit autres fichiers français et européens. Il porte également à 40 ans la durée maximale de conservation des données, pour tenir compte de la prescription de 20 ans.

https://next.ink/135626/le-fichier-des-empreintes-digitales-sera-interconnecte-avec-huit-autres-fichiers/

Allez, hop, YOLO

PrivacyDigest, to privacy
@PrivacyDigest@mas.to avatar

#FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time #location data | Ars Technica

FCC finalizes $196M penalties for location-data sales revealed in 2018.
#privacy #geolocation #gps #tracking #surveillance

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/fcc-fines-big-three-carriers-196m-for-selling-users-real-time-location-data/

cltr, to France French
@cltr@jasette.facil.services avatar

Covid-19 : bilan d’une surveillance massive
Entretien avec Nicolas Mariot
🔸 Enfermement : « plus les États européens comptent de policiers par habitant, ou plus ils ont l’habitude de s’affranchir des libertés publiques, plus ils ont enfermé leur population »
https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/covid-19-bilan-dune-surveillance-massive

jotbe, to workersrights German
@jotbe@chaos.social avatar

Pluralistic: 21 Aug 2022 The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve Reaches Apogee – @pluralistic : Daily links from Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

openrightsgroup, to humanrights
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar

🚨 Prevent is a UK surveillance export 🚨

Under the pretense of safeguarding, the programme harvests and retains people's data, mostly children, even when no action is taken.

We need to stop Prevent before it becomes a global problem.

Read this new report by Rights and Security International: "The UK is helping Indonesia violate freedom of religion, risks complicity in torture and disappearances." ⬇️

https://www.rightsandsecurity.org/action/research/exporting-prevent-the-uk-governments-complicity-in-rights-violating-counter-extremism-programmes-in-indonesia

greenpete, to privacy
@greenpete@lor.sh avatar

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
Really?
Ex undercover cop, would disagree!
Video clip taken from Big Brother Watch - 'Confessions of a former undercover cop
'
#police #surveillance #privacy

Video of a bold, middle age white man sitting in a chair.

BarbChamberlain, to random
@BarbChamberlain@toot.community avatar

I cannot fully capture how creepy it is to walk past a neighbor's driveway to get to the bus stop about 20 ft past it and an externally mounted camera says "Hi. You are being recorded."

Any suggestions for a sign that I turn towards the camera as I go by? I don't want to be as unneighborly as their camera is and I don't know what possible past behavior or circumstances they're responding to but they're creating an atmosphere I don't want.

technotion, to Palestine
@technotion@urbanists.social avatar
jsrailton, to privacy
@jsrailton@mastodon.social avatar

"Citizen, leave a copy of your home keys at the police station."

Hmm, people won't like that.

How about, "home-builders have a social responsibility ...[and must give police copies of all house keys]"

Much better.

taking another stab at the encryption fight.

clarinette, to random
@clarinette@mastodon.online avatar
jsrailton, to poland
@jsrailton@mastodon.social avatar

NEW: female army officers that reported sexual harassment... were hacked with .

Official confirmations from 's AG keep shedding light on more apparent spyware abuses by past gov.

Link [in PL]: https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/zglosily-molestowanie-w-zandarmerii-wojskowej-byly-inwigilowane-pegasusem/dylyrsv

xynthia, to Wyze French
@xynthia@mastodon.tedomum.net avatar

Loi JO: des supporteurs de football en première ligne face aux algorithmes de surveillance

@france
mediapart@mediapart.social -

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/210424/loi-jo-des-supporteurs-de-football-en-premiere-ligne-face-aux-algorithmes-de-surveillance

Alors que la préfecture de police de Paris teste ce dimanche, pour la première fois, la vidéosurveillance algorithmique lors de la rencontre Paris Saint-Germain - Olympique lyonnais, certains fans de football s’inquiètent de l’impact potentiel de cette technologie sur leurs libertés.

Tutanota, to random
@Tutanota@mastodon.social avatar

With the US Senate agreeing to reauthorize #FISA there has been no better time to start using end-to-end #encryption. 🔒

We don't need more #surveillance. 🕵️

Please contact your representatives and say NO to warrantless surveillance!

👉 https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-u-s-senate-stop-risaa-the-fisa-mass-surveillance-expansion

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