#surveillance state

[odinsblog]

🗣️ This is for all new internet connected cars

A new study has found that your car likely knows more about you than your mom. That is disconcerting, but what’s even more so is what is being done with your information. It’s all about the Benjamins. Our private information is being collected and sold.

The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit that studies internet and privacy issues, studied 25 car manufacturers. And it found every manufacturer sold in America poses a greater risk to your privacy than any device, app or social media platform.

Our cars are rolling computers, many of which are connected to the internet collecting information about how you drive and where. New cars also have microphones and sensors that give you safety features like automatic braking and drowsy driver detection. Those systems are also providing information. Got GPS or satellite radio? Then your car likely knows your habits, musical and political preferences.

Did you download your car’s app which gives you access to even more features? Well that also gives your car access to your phone and all the information on it.

The study found that of the 25 car brands, 84% say they sell your personal data.

And what they collect is astounding.

One example the study sites is KIA’s privacy policy. It indicates the company collects information about your sexual activity. I initially didn’t believe it until I pulled KIA’s privacy policy and read it. And it’s right there in black and white. It says it collects information about your “ethnicity, religious, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, sex life, or political opinions.

And it says it can keep your info for “as long as is necessary for the legitimate business purpose set out in this privacy notice.”

Translation: Nissan can keep your information as long as they want to. And more than half of the manufacturers (56%) say they will share your information with law enforcement if asked.

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#politics #data mining #smart cars #spyware #privacy rights #surveillance state #new ​cars #big brother #nissan #kia #connected cars #consumer alert #panopticon

[decolonize-the-left]

This week alone saw Atlanta-area raids by law enforcement that took a woman out of her house with no shirt, left a naked photo of another woman on display after ransacking a room and dragged a man by his hair – while arresting none of them.

The pre-dawn raids on three houses on Thursday were the third Swat-style operation in residential areas of Atlanta and nearby unincorporated DeKalb county tied to a movement that began in 2021 – and the first in which the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) played a prominent role.

The fight against Cop City has attracted national and global headlines, especially after police shot and killed one environmental protester at a campsite in a public park – the first such incident of its kind in US history. At least one of the search warrants for Thursday’s raid seen by the Guardian authorized the FBI to confiscate dozens of items from the raided homes – including laptops, cellphones, “Defend the Atlanta Forest” stickers and posters and personal journals. The operation came after weeks of Atlanta officials promoting a campaign to catch activists linked to arson against construction and police equipment, all the while activists have been committing more acts of sabotage, alternating with nonviolent, civil disobedience.

COINTELPRO 2.0. if you don't know what that is:

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#cop city #weelaunee forest #police brutality #politics #abolish police #acab #police state #surveillance state #history repeating itself #red scare #capitalism #fbi #leftist #biden #colonization #fascism #human rights #civil rights

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Government of Ontario’s self-described “welfare fraud” tipline is collecting information about the “spouses” and “children” of social assistance recipients anonymous accused of breaking the rules, something community advocates describe as an invasion of privacy.

Run by Ontario’s Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services, the tipline collects anonymous tips about individuals accused of taking “unfair advantage of social assistance programs.”

“If you suspect welfare fraud in Ontario, let us know,” the tipline website states. “We take reports of fraud very seriously. Please provide as much information as you can about the person you’re reporting.”

In addition to requesting a social assistance recipient’s name, address and other personal information, the attached form also asks informants to record the names of the recipient’s “spouse(s)” and “children.” [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #Ontario #surveillance state #surveillance #classism

[a-kind-of-medicine]

every time u steal from a large corporation a small business gets its wings

#shoplifting #shoplifting memes #dark academia #dark academia memes #evil memes #dark humor #capitalism #capitalism memes #walmart memes #surveillance state #data capitalism #lgbtq memes #lgbt memes #wlw memes #lesbian memes #trans memes #transgender memes #fyp #196 #/r/196 #shitpost

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #nyc #subwayoracle #nypd #new york city #acab #fuck police #fuck cops #fuck the police #fuck the cops #eric adams #surveillance state

[agapi-kalyptei]

(source - gizmodo)

#spying on citizens #privacy #police state #surveillance state #we allow privacy until you're a criminal! #and you're a criminal if you disagree with the government #you cannot have democracy if rich have any power #not queued

[r0semultiverse]

I’m so glad google glass never became a real thing. I used to be young and ignorant, excited about those kind of technological advancements. Now I can’t help but wonder how much built in spyware and surveillance bull shit is on every piece of tech that gets advertised. I can’t help but to think how every advancement will only serve to make everyone’s lives that much worse.

#google glass #google #tech hell #tech #surveillance state #informatics #computer science #mine #OP

[cyberianpunks]

Surveillance Capitalism

#art #retrofuture #collage #design #black and white #glitch #monochrome #fortune telling #surveillance state #free palestine

[anarchotahdigism]

Yet more efforts to make masking illegal All the more reason that everyone should be masking. It's harder to ban what is considered normal, but if "normal" is eugenics and police oppression, then it's quite easy to ban anything that mildly hinders those things.

#wear a mask #covid #genocide #death to terf island #death to the monarcy #death to the crown #acab #surveillance state #anticapitailsm #antifascism #UK politics #chuck deserves cancer #anticapitalism #eugenics #ableism

[creature-wizard]

Many people have no idea how easy it is to dox themselves with a short video. Be very, very careful what you share online. Stalkers and anyone with malicious intent can find you with much less information than most realize.

#psa #safety #internet safety #privacy #surveillance state #surveillance #posting this because the op of the other one is kind of a chud #Youtube

[odinsblog]

IN THE FALL OF 2020, GIG WORKERS IN VENEZUELA POSTED A SERIES OF images to online forums where they gathered to talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes captured from low angles—including some you really wouldn’t want shared on the Internet.

In one particularly revealing shot, a young woman in a lavender T-shirt sits on the toilet, her shorts pulled down to mid-thigh.

The images were not taken by a person, but by development versions of iRobot’s Roomba J7 series robot vacuum. They were then sent to Scale AI, a startup that contracts workers around the world to label audio, photo, and video data used to train artificial intelligence.

They were the sorts of scenes that internet-connected devices regularly capture and send back to the cloud—though usually with stricter storage and access controls. Yet earlier this year, MIT Technology Review obtained 15 screenshots of these private photos, which had been posted to closed social media groups.

The photos vary in type and in sensitivity. The most intimate image we saw was the series of video stills featuring the young woman on the toilet, her face blocked in the lead image but unobscured in the grainy scroll of shots below. In another image, a boy who appears to be eight or nine years old, and whose face is clearly visible, is sprawled on his stomach across a hallway floor. A triangular flop of hair spills across his forehead as he stares, with apparent amusement, at the object recording him from just below eye level.

iRobot—the world’s largest vendor of robotic vacuums, which Amazon recently acquired for $1.7 billion in a pending deal—confirmed that these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020.

Ultimately, though, this set of images represents something bigger than any one individual company’s actions. They speak to the widespread, and growing, practice of sharing potentially sensitive data to train algorithms, as well as the surprising, globe-spanning journey that a single image can take—in this case, from homes in North America, Europe, and Asia to the servers of Massachusetts-based iRobot, from there to San Francisco–based Scale AI, and finally to Scale’s contracted data workers around the world (including, in this instance, Venezuelan gig workers who posted the images to private groups on Facebook, Discord, and elsewhere).

Together, the images reveal a whole data supply chain—and new points where personal information could leak out—that few consumers are even aware of.

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#politics #james baussmann #scale ai #irobot #amazon #roomba #privacy rights #colin angle #privacy #data mining #surveillance state #mass surveillance #surveillance industry #1st amendment #first amendment #1st amendment rights #first amendment rights #ai #artificial intelligence #iot #internet of things

[sing-you-fools]

ACTUALLY. THIS-

IS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE HORRIFYING THAN A PAYWALL HELLLLLLLLLLLL FUCKIN NO

#kill it with fire #it gets more and more horrifying the more i think of it #i just wanted to read about lord of the rings #late stage capitalism #cw caps #id in alt text #this world is a dystopian hellscape #surveillance state #sing-you-fools

[autolenaphilia]

I totally get the disgust response to child sex abuse, it is vile, but it's scary how such an effective "override all rational thought " button it is. And right-wing authoritarians push it all the time to get through their vile bullshit, as i talked about before.

And US politicians are going to use that button to basically make the internet a worse place and erode privacy, especially for queer people.

The Earn It act for example effectively bans end-to-end encryption (i.e actually effective encryption) because governments can't check the information for child sex abuse material. And well, that's the point of end-to-end encryption, it means that third-parties like governments can't spy on your communications. It's probably going to be used to commit crimes like transmitting CSAM, but you can say that for all sorts of privacy. Giving governments the ability to spy on all communication is not a good thing, even if it may stop some CSAM from being spread. You can justify removing all privacy that way. People's harddrives being private and not being scanned by the government means you can hide CSAM there, for example. The list goes on.

And the ACLU has pointed out that the law will disproportionality impact queer people.

This is especially true when the right-wing openly considers any exposure to children about the existence of trans people to be child sex abuse, and will legislate accordingly.

The KOSA act is cut from the same cloth as Earn It. And the legislators behind it are openly boasting that it will be used to punish trans people.

The surveillance state has been justified with cries of "we need it to stop terrorism", and now it's going to be justified with cries of "we need it to stop the pedos."

#my writings #pedohysteria #surveillance state #stop kosa #earn it act

[news4dzhozhar]

#facial recognition #facial recognition software #boycott israel #boycott google #google software is being used to help target and kill Palestinians #google #apartheid #save palestine #ethnic cleansing #israel is an apartheid state #seek truth #free palestine 🇵🇸 #genocide #illegal occupation #israel is committing genocide #israeli war crimes #project nimbus #google photos #israeli hit list #israeli war criminals #israel is a terrorist state #surveillance state #mass surveillance #even AI is racist with facial recognition systems being notoriously unrealiable for people with darker skin tones #no tech for apartheid #human rights violations #conflict sensitive human rights due diligence #seems like that can be bypassed if the money is good enough #dystopian nightmare

[heavenlyyshecomes]

The IDF uses extensive facial recognition with a growing network of cameras and mobile phones to document every Palestinian in the West Bank. Starting in 2019, Israeli soldiers used the Blue Wolf app to capture Palestinian faces, which were then compared to a massive database of images dubbed the “Facebook for Palestinians.” Soldiers were told to compete by taking the most photos of Palestinians and the most prolific would win prizes. The system is most extreme in the city of Hebron, where facial recognition and numerous cameras are used to monitor Palestinians, including at times in their homes, instead of the extreme Jewish settlers living there, who routinely express genocidal threats against the Palestinians. The IDF claimed that the program was designed to “improve the quality of life for the Palestinian population.” […] Blue Wolf was a smaller version of the Wolf Pack database, which contained the personal details of virtually every Palestinian in the West Bank, including educational status, photos, security level, and family history. Soldiers in the West Bank were instructed in 2022 to enter the details and photos of at least fifty Palestinians into the Blue Wolf system every shift and were not allowed to end their shift until they did so. There was no security rationale for these actions. This is a similar set-up to what China does against the Uighurs in its Xinjiang province, using surveillance and technology to both track and intimidate the residents, though Beijing receives far more international condemnation than the Jewish state.

—Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

#antony loewenstein #the palestine laboratory #palestine #Israel #surveillance state #tech #words #2024 reads #mine #dear god..

[artificial-illustrator]

Biblically Accurate Server Room

#my art #ai #biblically accurate angel #neural network #dear future ai #game servers #bitcoin #datamining #panopticon #surveillance state #amazon #guillotines don’t work in space #google #artist on tumblr #cabinet man #supernatural #eyeball #cosmic horror #horror art #blue eyes #programming #IT #maintenance