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mustamakkara
Did a re-edit of this picture, as I was never really happy with the first version, and it fits well to #fotovorschlag 'Das kleine Schwarze' / 'the small black one'.

23.2.2025 #Nikon z50II | 75mm | f6.3 | 1/30s | ISO400

#urban #indoors #surveillance #abstract #abstraction #minimalism #geometry #bnw #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #hal #2001aspaceodyssey #movies #ai #urbanexploration #pixelfed #amateurphotography #photography #fotovorschlag
a shot of a black, round surveillance camera on the white perforated ceiling of a bank. It reminds of HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey
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alecm

I’m watching all of these broadly self-congratulatory RCS announcements in the light of the Apple TCN Case, desperately waiting for the zeitgeist to swing over to “…what do you mean my national carrier can disable E2EE for *me* ?”

It’s one of those frequent civil society moments where you are simply waiting for the “Let’s stick it to the American Capitalists!” -community to shut up & calm down long enough for other (infosec, safety, privacy) voices to be heard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UniversalProfile/comments/1l9fv93/ios_26_will_open_up_carrier_messaging_including/

www.reddit.comReddit - The heart of the internet
#apple#endToEndEncryption#homeOffice
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TechnoTenshi :verified_trans: :Fire_Lesbian:

A DHS contract reveals US airlines sold detailed domestic flight data to CBP via ARC, a broker they own, while barring disclosure of the source. Data includes names, itineraries, and financials. Civil liberties groups raise alarm over surveillance via data brokers.

wired.com/story/airlines-dont-

WIRED · Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHSBy Joseph Cox
#Privacy#Surveillance#DataBrokers
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#UniversityOfMichigan ends undercover #surveillance contracts after Guardian revelations
Outcry after report that private investigators had been trailing and recording pro-Palestinian protesters for months
The Guardian’s reporting found dozens of investigators were following #student #protesters on and off campus, and in some instances were confrontational, cursed at students, threatened them, and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · University of Michigan ends undercover surveillance contracts after Guardian revelationsBy Tom Perkins
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The Servitor

Thinking about agentic #AI one thing that comes up is loyalty. These things are worse than search histories, worse than diaries, they encode our whole thought processes.

Some sort of enforced loyalty, legal protections, or other mechanism will be a precursor for REALLY useful AI agents.

theservitor.com/ai-loyalty-who

The Servitor · AI Loyalty: Who Are These Things Working For, Anyway?If AI is "agentic", whose agent is it? Until we demand AI that serves us first, we're just feeding our secrets into someone else's machine.
#tech#blog#surveillance
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PrivacyDigest

#DHS Flew #PredatorDrones Over #LAProtests , Audio Shows.

The use of #Predator #drones highlights the extraordinary resources government agencies are putting behind #surveilling and responding to the #LosAngeles #protests which started after #ICE agents raided a #HomeDepot on Friday. President #Trump has since called up 4,000 members of the #NationalGuard, and on Monday ordered more than 700 active duty #Marines to the city too.
#surveillance #privacy

404media.co/dhs-flew-predator-

404 Media · DHS Flew Predator Drones Over LA Protests, Audio ShowsAir traffic control (ATC) audio unearthed by an aviation tracking enthusiast then reviewed by 404 Media shows two Predator drones leaving, and heading towards, Los Angeles.
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to internal CBP documents obtained by 404 Media. The data includes passenger names, their full flight itineraries, and financial details.

CBP, a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says it needs this data to support state and local police to track people of interest’s air travel across the country, in a purchase that has alarmed civil liberties experts.

The documents reveal for the first time in detail why at least one part of DHS purchased such information, and comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detailed its own purchase of the data. The documents also show for the first time that the data broker, called the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), tells government agencies not to mention where it sourced the flight data from.

“The big airlines—through a shady data broker that they own called ARC—are selling the government bulk access to Americans' sensitive information, revealing where they fly and the credit card they used,” Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement."

wired.com/story/airlines-dont-

WIRED · Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHSBy Joseph Cox
#USA#BorderControl#PoliceState
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alecm

WhatsApp joins legal action against UK demand for Apple ‘back door’

WhatsApp has not received a TCN itself, a spokesperson said. WhatsApp has previously threatened to withdraw its service from the UK if any attempt was made to undermine its encryption.

Caroline Wilson Palow, legal director at Privacy International, said WhatsApp’s intervention “demonstrates the breadth of impact of these orders, which could potentially undermine services used by billions of people.” She added: “This rising tide of dissent cannot be ignored.”

https://www.ft.com/content/e870f111-e3a4-41dc-b6fb-f749ca51fa2e

Financial Times · WhatsApp joins legal challenge against UK demand for Apple ‘back door’By Tim Bradshaw
#apple#endToEndEncryption#homeOffice
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alecm

Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row | Computer Weekly

Senior Conservative MP David Davis told Computer Weekly there was “no credible case” for the government to refuse to tell Parliament how many notices it issues each year to telecoms and internet companies.

“The government is being dishonest in its use of ‘national security’ as a smokescreen to avoid telling the public how often it has ordered tech companies to hand over data or undermine encryption,” he said.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366625724/Government-using-national-security-as-smokescreen-in-Apple-encryption-row

ComputerWeekly.com · Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption rowBy Bill Goodwin
#apple#davidDavis#endToEndEncryption
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@heidilifeldman

#USpol #TheBrownSpiderWeb

(2/n)

👉2025 is set to become #1933 and"#1984" at the same time.👈
With the real #KingMaker's (#PeterThiel) #spyware and #surveillance products (#Palantir,) 2026 is set to add a new generation ingredient to #Fascism: #PredictivePolicing, a brand new way in RL to persecute #ThoughtCrime.

@heidilifeldman

That said, I agree 100% with the excellent @guardian article:

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

At #DOGE "...#AI is...

Black and white photo of sci-fi writer George Orwell, with a quote from part 1, chapter 5: Caption: “Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten." George Orwell ("1984")
A black and white photo of the Brandenburg Gate in 1933, Nazi troups with flags in formation. Source: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.BFghoLL_MAGCKdAvA_Vp8wHaDt%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=a7a204e81661249ceab3327aa61da36ebc64e410471477e0c34cb40b4c28f299&ipo=images
"FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Army band "Pershing's Own" marches in the parade carrying U.S. President Donald Trump following his inauguration in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo" Background: the Capitol building Source;: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-veterans-2672352641/
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Strange Quark

I just set up #DNS4EU on my home router. I chose the #ad filtering option.

DNS4EU is a free, public #DNS service for #European citizens, offering an alternative to public DNS resolvers operated by #Google and other #BigTech companies.

The goal of the project is to ensure the #digitalsovereignty of the #EU by providing a #private, safe and #independent European DNS resolver. It's an initiative of the #EC, co-funded by the EU Parliament.

joindns4.eu/for-public

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