Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Whitney Webb: How the Epstein Network Is Privatizing Govt & Building the Surveillance State
August 13th, 2026Via: Chris Hedges: More: Technate, Ohio: How Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein Built The Silicon Heartland
AI Surveillance Pricing: “One of the Biggest Scams in American History”
August 6th, 2026I literally gasped watching this American bought a cheap phone, hired someone to use it in poor neighborhoods, and visit places acting like they have no money After a day, apps on that phone had cheaper prices than a normal persons phone Dynamic pricing is real and we are… pic.twitter.com/Ax5q1TwouM — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) […]
New Zealand: Biometric Payment Terminals
July 31st, 2026“like, wow”. Via: Radio New Zealand: Kiwis could soon be able to make purchases using their face or hand, without the need for a card. EFTPOS New Zealand is rolling out new Verifone Victa biometric payment terminals that will allow people to pay with their faces or palms – without cards. The new tech can […]
GDID – Microsoft’s Secret Windows Tracker That Can’t Be Turned Off
July 31st, 2026Via: Rob Braxman Tech:
How Texas Police Spent $4.5 Million on Four Chevy Tahoes
July 19th, 2026Via: The Drive: It’s hard to make a 2026 Chevy Tahoe cost more than a million dollars. Until you start packing it with military-grade public surveillance technology. Ominous Israeli surveillance tech is now being deployed on American roads. FalcoNet, brought to you by a company called Cognyte (Israel’s Palantir rival), secretly tracks people by intercepting […]
Microsoft Generates Device-Specific ID Linked to User’s Microsoft Account, Telemetry Can Report All Websites Visited to Microsoft
July 15th, 2026Via: tom’sHARDWARE: The Internet is buzzing over news that 19-year-old Estonian “hacker” Peter Stokes got nabbed by the authorities and extradited to the U.S. on digital crime charges, mostly thanks to Microsoft Windows’ built-in telemetry. The FBI seemingly subpoenaed Microsoft, which coughed up telemetry logs that contained both Stokes’ GDID (Global Device Identifier) and websites […]
Painted E-Tattoos: Working Electrodes, “Future of Wearable Biosensors”
July 14th, 2026Via: Ars Technica: Scientists at Pennsylvania State University have developed a novel conductive ink that can be painted directly onto the skin in colorful custom designs, turning into a functional electrode for biomonitoring after drying.
All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face
July 8th, 2026A friend of mine just bought a new car in New Zealand and it has this. Via: All About Cookies: Starting July 7, 2026, every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face. Glance at your phone, your kids in the back seat, or the radio […]
Happy 250th, America
July 4th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media: Related: A Country the Founders Wouldn’t Recognize as Their Creation
Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
July 1st, 2026Via: thereallo.dev: I inspected Claude Code for privacy reasons and found hidden system prompt markers based on API base URL and timezone. … Anthropic probably wants to detect API resellers, unauthorized Claude Code gateways, and model “distillation attack” pipelines. A custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL pointing at a known reseller domain is a useful signal. A hostname containing […]
