Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
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 […]
Discord Will Require a Face Scan or ID for Full Access Next Month
February 9th, 2026Via: The Verge: Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults. Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t […]
New York Budget Bill Proposes Mandatory File-Scanning Tech and In-Person Sales for 3D Printers
February 8th, 2026Via: Reclaim the Net: New York’s latest budget proposal would place new obligations on manufacturers of 3D printers and other digital fabrication equipment, tying the operation of these tools to mandatory software controls. The 2026–2027 executive budget bill, S.9005/A.10005, directs that devices sold in the state include “blocking technology” capable of scanning every design file […]
In Conversation with Andrew Bridgen: Digital ID, Excess Deaths & Political Silence
January 26th, 2026Via: Digby Furneaux:
China to Launch 200,000 Satellites for ‘Mega-Constellation’
January 20th, 2026Via: Daily Mail: China has applied to launch almost 200,000 satellites into space, sparking concerns that the nation seeks to build a ‘mega-constellation’. On December 29, a newly formed body called the Institute of Radio Spectrum Utilisation and Technological Innovation filed applications for two satellite constellations. Each of these enormous collections of spacecraft, dubbed CTC-1 […]
Britain: Digital ID Cards Won’t Be Compulsory
January 14th, 2026Mmm hmm. Via: Daily Mail: Labour was forced into another humiliating U-turn on Tuesday night after abandoning its plans for mandatory digital IDs for workers. Keir Starmer had vowed to crack down on illegal immigration by making digital identification compulsory to verify a person’s right to work in the UK. But he has been forced […]
Britain: Ministers Planning to Issue Digital ID to Newborns
January 4th, 2026Then add the digital wallet (to use the central bank digital currency) and it’s GAME OVER. Via: Daily Mail: Newborns could be allocated digital IDs in a ‘sinister’ expansion of the controversial policy. Ministers have privately raised the prospect of issuing the new technology to children at birth, along with the ‘red book’ of health […]
Irish Government to Push for European Union to Ban Anonymous Social Media Accounts
December 30th, 2025Via: Breitbart: The left-wing Irish government has vowed to push for the European Union to prohibit the use of anonymous social media accounts in what may set the ground for another battle over free speech with the Trump administration in the United States. Ireland will take over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the […]
