Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
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 […]
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:
