Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Smart TVs a ‘Vast System of Digital Surveillance’ That Targets Everyone, Especially Kids
October 17th, 2024Via: The Defender: The streaming television industry has morphed into a vast data-driven viewer surveillance apparatus, transforming people’s TVs into tools for monitoring, tracking and targeting, according to a new report from the nonprofit Center for Digital Democracy. The 48-page report, “How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era,” charts the evolution from […]
Anduril Industries: Bolt & Bolt-M
October 9th, 2024What percentage of the parts that comprise these systems are made in China? Update: Answer: Low Dependence on Chinese Parts: The company has reduced its spending on parts from China to just 0.2% of its total supplier budget. Via: Anduril Industries: Related: Anduril’s Roadrunner Drone Hunting Drone Gets Expanded Order From Pentagon
Flashback 2018: Google Tracks Phone Locations Without SIM Cards or Network Connections
October 8th, 2024I’ve posted hundreds of stories about mobile phone surveillance, especially as it relates to position tracking. This story is somewhere in my archives, but I was not able to find it. Thanks to Cryptogon reader B for sending this to me. How Much Info Is Google Getting from Your Phone? Fox Report Weekend February 11, […]
Google Will Track Your Location ‘Every 15 Minutes’ — ‘Even With GPS Disabled’
October 7th, 2024I went looking for an old Cryptogon post with a video in which a reporter turns off all the radios on an Android phone and travels around a city with it. A security researcher intercepted what Android sent back to Google when the device was back on the Internet. The phone perfectly tracked the reporter’s […]
Sam Altman Just Pitched The Biden Administration On A Massive Build Out Of AI Data Centers
September 29th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: While most of the news this week about Sam Altman has been centered around the nearly $10 billion in equity he could be receiving in OpenAI, another headline slipped through the cracks mid-week: OpenAI has pitched the Biden administration on a build-out of massive data centers. OpenAI has urged the Biden administration to […]
The One About Zuckerberg Supposedly Identifying as a Libertarian
September 27th, 2024Is this to somehow atone for his roll in carrying out the Covid atrocities??? How many millions are dead BECAUSE of Zuckerberg’s banning of life saving information—while promoting deadly Covid shots—on Facebook? And now… Zuckerberg the libertarian. What’s next? Jabcinda Ardern, identifying as a free speech advocate? Via: Valutainment: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shifted […]
Manufacturing the Far-Right: Who Is Shaking the Jar?
September 27th, 2024pic.twitter.com/KqElqqtdkk — cryptogon (@cryptogon) September 28, 2024 Via: Unlimited Hangout: Following the outbreak of civil unrest in the United Kingdom, the entire UK establishment blamed alleged “far-right influencers” for peddling online “disinformation,” which, it was said, “caused” riots. In response, the UK prime minister announced the government would take measures to “keep our streets safe.” […]
Anduril Industries: Ghost-X
September 25th, 2024Better make that cabin in the woods… a cave. Via: Anduril Industries:
“All New Cars Today Are Privacy Nightmares On Wheels”
September 25th, 2024This is nuts. Via: ColdFusion:
Omnipresent AI Cameras Will Ensure Good Behavior, Says Larry Ellison
September 17th, 2024In 2017, I wrote about where I thought mass surveillance was headed in the U.S.: I think the reality is that a dossier on every “citizen” is being automatically maintained. The dossier contains everything from purchases to Internet activity, audio from phone calls, to full contents of emails. Income. Library records. Travel records. etc. Additionally, […]
