Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
You Already Know Surveillance on Android Is a Nightmare…
March 12th, 2026But it’s not that bad. It’s worse. Via: Sal Tech:
Meet The Ellisons: Zionists, Technocrats, Moguls
March 11th, 2026Via: Corbett Report:
Mexico Mandates Biometric SIM Registration for All Phone Numbers
March 4th, 2026Via: Reclaim the Net: By July 1, 2026, every active cell phone number in the country must be biometrically linked to a named, government-credentialed individual or face suspension. That’s around 127 million numbers, each one tethered to an identity the Mexican government can look up by name. The mobile registration law took effect January 9, […]
Motorola Announces a Partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
March 1st, 2026This is mildly good news. It would be excellent news if baseband firmware is also going to be open source, but I doubt that will happen. Via: Motorola: Motorola, a Lenovo Company, announced the addition of new consumer and enterprise solutions to its portfolio today at Mobile World Congress. The company unveiled a partnership with […]
Anthropic Refusing to Let U.S. Government Use AI for Mass Domestic Surveillance and Fully Autonomous Weapons
February 27th, 2026Via: Anthropic: The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label […]
Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums
February 22nd, 2026Via: Popular Science: A software engineer’s earnest effort to steer his new DJI robot vacuum with a video game controller inadvertently granted him a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes. While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI’s remote […]
Discord’s Disturbing Ties to Global Surveillance
February 16th, 2026Via: Gamers Nexus:
Google Saving Video From Nest Cameras Even When Users Don’t Have Subscriptions
February 14th, 2026Via: Glenn Greenwald: Those concerns escalated just a few days later in the context of the Tucson disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of long-time TODAY Show host Savannah Guthrie. At the home where she lives, Nancy Guthrie used Google’s Nest camera for security, a product similar to Amazon’s Ring. Guthrie, however, did not pay Google […]
Individuals Can Be Identified And Tracked By Wi-Fi Signals
February 11th, 2026Via: PC World: As if you didn’t have enough to worry about when it comes to surveillance, researchers have discovered a new way to identify and track people using Wi-Fi signals—and I’m not talking about anything relating to your electronic devices. This tech can identify a specific, individual person, and track them in a physical […]
Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
February 11th, 2026After using Notepad on Windows for about thirty years, I uninstalled it on Windows 11 because it could interact with Copilot. Even though I uninstalled Copilot, the fact that Notepad had any hook at all to it was creepy and ridiculous. I now use Notepad3, which is great. Via: TechSpot: One of the first-party Microsoft […]
