Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Israeli-Aligned Billionaires Seize TikTok in Battle for U.S. Narrative Control
September 23rd, 2025Via: WikiLeaks: The White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will be finalized this week. The new ownership led by Larry Ellison – the largest individual donor to the IDF – will take control of U.S. user data and the algorithm which the White House says will be “retrained”. Ellison, who made […]
Bus-Sized Uncrewed Airship Being Tested By NATO As Maritime Surveillance Platform
September 18th, 2025A Finnish hydrogen-fueled dirigible called “Kelluu” is participating in NATO's annual REPMUS exercise.The long-range reconnaissance airship covers an area up to 300 km in diameter.And the promotional video is beautiful. pic.twitter.com/TZYsZaqE4K — Roy?? (@GrandpaRoy2) September 17, 2025 Via: The War Zone: An uncrewed hydrogen-powered autonomous surveillance airship the size of a small bus has been […]
“When Did Britain Become North Korea?”
September 3rd, 2025Via: Daily Mail: Police were accused of a ‘totalitarian’ clampdown on free speech after the creator of Father Ted was arrested by armed officers over online comments about transgender activists. Fury erupted at the Metropolitan Police’s treatment of TV writer Graham Linehan, who told how he was dealt with ‘like a terrorist’, held in a […]
Gates Foundation: “Digital IDs Are an Effective Tool Against Poverty”
September 2nd, 2025Tell us another one, Bill. Via: Off-Guardian: It looks like we can add another to the growing mountain of problems that digital IDs are going to solve for all of us. We already know that digital IDs will help counter populism, and illegal immigration, and crime, and benefit fraud, and terrorism, and pandemics. But they’ll […]
Mass Vehicle Surveillance in the U.S.
September 1st, 2025Via: Benn Jordan:
Microsoft Word Will Autosave to Cloud by Default
August 27th, 2025At least there’s a built in way to change this stupid cloud autosave behavior in Word. For now, at least. Most Word users won’t know or care about the totality of what they write being copied to Microsoft’s servers. Imagine the convenience! If you use Microsoft Office, there’s a decent chance that Libre Office would […]
Burner Phones, Wiped Socials: People Trying to Avoid Being Detained When Visiting the U.S.
August 25th, 2025Don’t have too little data, because that’s also suspicious: You might think the most protective options are to completely wipe your phone before traveling, use a burner or travel without a phone. But the EFF’s Cope said that could actually raise suspicions. “People are damned if they do and damned if they don’t,” Cope said. […]
Password Protection on Mind Reading Brain Implant
August 15th, 2025Via: Nature: A brain implant can decode a person’s internal chatter — but the device works only if the user thinks of a preset password. The mind-reading device, or brain–computer interface (BCI), accurately deciphered up to 74% of imagined sentences. The system began decoding users’ internal speech — the silent dialogue in people’s minds — […]
AI-Powered Radar Can Spy on Phone Calls from 10 Feet
August 14th, 2025Add it to the list… Via: Interesting Engineering: Believe it or not, your phone’s tiniest vibrations can reveal your conversations — thanks to AI. A team of computer science researchers at Penn State has developed a startling new way to eavesdrop on phone calls remotely by decoding subtle vibrations emitted by a cellphone’s earpiece. Using […]
Huntington Beach, California: First Responder Police Drones Launch from Rooftops Around City
August 13th, 2025Via: Los Angeles Times: The Huntington Beach Police Department typically takes about five minutes to get to a crime scene or emergency situation. Drones will soon cut that time to two minutes or less. The department is expected to launch its Drone as First Responder program on Sept. 13, officials said during a news conference […]
