If you hate Tesla, and honestly, who doesn't, (often hated a good deal) Microsoft has decided to partner with Elon Musk.

"Microsoft’s Partnership With Elon Musk’s Grok AI Isn’t a Feature—It’s a Liability "

gizmodo.com/microsofts-partner…

#tesla #Musk #coup #subvetsion #surveillance

Microsoft’s Partnership With Elon Musk’s Grok AI Isn’t a Feature—It’s a Liability

After Holocaust denial and claims of white genocide, I don't think Grok is the AI model you want to associate with right now.

^{James Pero (Gizmodo)}

#AI #therapy is a #surveillance machine in a police state.
Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.

theverge.com/policy/665685/ai-…

// And it wasn't great before AI either. mozillafoundation.org/en/priva…

@protonprivacy and @threemaapp: We offer super safe #privacy made in #Switzerland! 🇨🇭🏔️

Switzerland: Let's ban #anonymity online and introduce #dataretention by decree without parliament.

heise.de/en/news/Switzerland-p…

#digitalrights #surveillance #masssurveillance

Switzerland plans to ban anonymity and data retention by decree

A draft ordinance in Switzerland stipulates that users of all major platforms must provide a copy of their ID or driver's license or a telephone number.

^{Stefan Krempl (heise online)}

#Browser #Extensions can be dangerous

source: bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…

If you have no idea about #cybersecurity and don't want to have one, then make sure you only install extensions that have been tested by #Mozilla.

Recommended Extensions - Extensions that carry this badge are carefully selected and meet rigorous standards in #security, functionality and user experience.

source: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/a…

#internet #web #www #software #addOn #check #test #news #danger #warning #risk #hack #hacker #surveillance

youtube.com/watch?v=dGd-ay-ykx…

#EU to ban anonymous #crypto accounts with #privacy coins by 2027.

@monero
@moneromining
@EUCommission
@bitcoin
@technology
@privacy

#europe #monero #technology #surveillance #bitcoin #nft

The European Commission's "ProtectEU" strategy aims to address internal security threats but threatens digital rights by promoting #surveillance measures like #encryption backdoors and increased data retention.

It also seeks to strengthen agencies like Europol and Frontex, despite their abusive histories.

Thanks to #EDRi for their ongoing efforts to protect Europeans’ digital rights.

@edri

edri.org/our-work/protecteu-se…

#ProtectEU #EU #DigitalRights #Privacy #Surveillance #Tech

‘ProtectEU’ security strategy - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

The European Commission presented an internal security strategy that would undermine digital rights and even increase security threats.

^{European Digital Rights (EDRi)}

So if you thought that surveillance based ads couldn't get any worse... Meta: Hold my beer!

#Facebook #Meta #surveillance #AI #LLM #Ads

techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/mark…

Mark Zuckerberg's AI ad tool sounds like a social media nightmare | TechCrunch

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his vision for a black-box, end-to-end AI advertising product during a fireside at Stripe's Sessions conference.

^{Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)}

Favourite Post of the Decade

beige.party/@maxleibman/114441…

#apps #SpyWare #surveillance #capitalism #memes #NO

Well, at least the Scandinavian countries have their shit togethe-

“Proposal to Allow Wiretapping of Children Under 15 Without Criminal Suspicion”

swedenherald.com/article/propo…

#sweden #surveillance #EU #humanRights

Proposal to Allow Wiretapping of Children Under 15 Without Criminal Suspicion

The police should be able to wiretap children under 15 years old – even without concrete suspicion of a crime, believe the Tidö parties

^{TT (Sweden Herald)}

Massive increase in #Telegram responding to #law enforcement court orders in the #UK since their CEO was arrested.

source: cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog…

#surveillance #communication #news #bigbrother #orwell #politics #police #messenger

WTAF?!?!?

#GiftArticle

#USPS #LawEnforcement assists #Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources & records show

The #Postal Inspection Service recently joined a federal task force to locate #undocumented #immigrants using #data from #mail & packages, acc/to people familiar w/the effort & records obtained exclusively by The Washington Post.

#law #immigration #privacy #surveillance #InfoSec #AbuseOfPower
wapo.st/3Sce9ut

#Microsoft rolled out #BigBrother for #Windows11: Retrace your steps with #Recall

Source: support.microsoft.com/en-us/wi…

Your #timeline in Recall is broken up into segments, which are the blocks of time that #snapshots of your screen are taken while you were using your #PC.

#windows #screenshot #surveillance #privacy #news #software

This is a perilous moment. Rapid technological advances over the past two decades have made #DataShedding ubiquitous—whether it comes from the devices everyone carries or the platforms we use to communicate with the world. As a society, we produce unfathomable quantities of #information, & that information is easier to collect than ever before.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance

The government has tons of it, some of which is obvious—names, addresses, & census data—& much of which may surprise you. Consider, say, a limited tattoo database, created in 2014 by the National Institute of Standards & Technology, & distributed to multiple institutions for the purpose of training software systems to recognize common tattoos associated with gangs & criminal organizations.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance

That means the govt has at least some ability to map or re-create the past everyday movements of some American citizens. This is hardly even a cursory list of what is publicly known.

Advancements in #AI promise to turn this unwieldy mass of #data & metadata into something easily searchable, politically weaponizable, & maybe even profitable.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance

But that appears to be changing. Since #Trump’s 2nd inauguration, #ElonMusk & #DOGE have systematically gained #access to sensitive #data across the federal govt, & in ways people in several agencies have described…as both dangerous & disturbing. Despite DOGE’s stated mission, little efficiency seems to have been achieved. Now a new phase of Trump’s project is under way: Not only are individual agencies being breached, but the info they hold is being pooled…

#law #privacy #InfoSec #surveillance

And that’s only a minuscule sampling. More obscure agencies, such as the recently gutted #CFPB, keep records of corporate trade secrets, #credit reports, #mortgage info, & other sensitive #data, including lists of people who have fallen on financial hardship.

A fragile combination of decades-old laws, norms, & jungly bureaucracy has so far prevented repositories such as these from assembling into a centralized American #surveillance state.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #tech #DOGE #Musk

#GiftArticle

AMERICAN PANOPTICON

The #Trump admin is pooling #data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.

by Ian Bogost & Charlie Warzel

If you were tasked with building a #panopticon, your design might look a lot like the #information stores of the US federal govt—a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from #citizens.

#law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

American Panopticon

The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.

^{Ian Bogost (The Atlantic)}

A border patrol helicopter was seen circling Capitol Hill yesterday. Theories range from scare tactic, planning for future raids or even active stingray snooping.

So if you have a stingray detector in the flight path maybe check your logs.

🚁 flightradar24.com/data/aircraf…

📸bsky.app/profile/victoriascott…

@eff

#Seattle #cbp #capitolhill #pnw #ice #surveillance #eff #immigration #stingray

I love it when employers install creepware #surveillance nonsense because they have zero respect for their employees, and end up publishing 21 million internal screenshots to the web instead, leaking their most sensitive information.

Very nice, no issues.

#cybersecurity #infosec #assholeBoss

“Employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots in real time”

cybernews.com/security/employe…

Like to #play alone? #Ubisoft is still watching you!

source: noyb.eu/en/play-alone-ubisoft-…

Among other things, the company collects data about when you start a #game, for how long you play it and when you close it. Even after the complainant explicitly asked why he is forced to be #online, Ubisoft failed to disclose why this is going on. Under Article 6(1) #GDPR, there seems to be no valid legal basis to randomly collect such user data.

#gamer #problem #internet #computer #bigbrother #surveillance #user #law #privacy #news

Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you!

Ubisoft forces people to connect to the internet before they can play a single player game

^noyb.eu

"According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook actually built an extensive censorship and surveillance system for the Chinese state – spies, cops and military – to use against Chinese Facebook users, and FB users globally. They promise to set up caches of global FB content in China that the Chinese state can use to monitor all Facebook activity, everywhere, with the implication that they'll be able to spy on private communications, and censor content for non-Chinese users.

Despite all of this, Facebook is never given access to China. However, the Chinese state is able to use the tools Facebook built for it to attack independence movements, the free press and dissident uprisings in Hong Kong and Taiwan."

pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuc…

#SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #BigTech #Oligopolies #Surveillance #Censorship #Privacy #HumanRights

The federal government is repurposing data collected for public services into a massive surveillance system, enabled by inter-agency sharing and private partnerships.

And Trump is signing executive orders to remove legal barriers to get the job done

theconversation.com/from-help-…
#USPolitics #surveillance #Musk #Trump

From help to harm: How the government is quietly repurposing everyone’s data for surveillance

Under the guise of efficiency and fraud prevention, the federal government is breaking down data silos to collect and aggregate information on virtually everyone in the US.

^{The Conversation}