This week @404mediaco revealed that Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is providing ICE with access to Flock surveillance data. This should raise alarms in Asheville because city records show that Asheville police are sharing data with that state agency, potentially exposing residents and visitors to ICE tracking.

According to a spreadsheet (begrudgingly) provided by the City of Asheville in response to Sunshine Request last September, APD is sharing search and "hotlist" data with over 1,300 agencies, including Florida's FWC and others known to provide ICE with warrantless access to Flock. Flock data includes the license plate, brand, color, and even bumper stickers of every vehicle photographed. According to the Flock transparency portal, APD's relatively small camera network generated 357,227 vehicle records in the last 30 days alone.

The City of Asheville must publicly release Flock audit logs to show with whom, and for what purpose, surveillance data collected in our community is being shared. Furthermore, in response to the clearly demonstrated threat posed to Asheville residents, the city should cancel its Flock contract immediately.

To learn more about Flock and other surveillance technologies being deployed against our community, please join us on Saturday, April 11th at 3pm for a presentation by Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure. More information can be found at https://firestorm.coop/events/3520-you-are-being-watched-an-introduction-to-police-surveillance-in-buncombe-county.html.

#DeFlock #AntiSurveillance #AbolishICE (- L)

A lot of the specific security measures discussed here are overkill for personal use, but cultivating the sort of security mindset that's behind those measures will help keep any of us safer in an increasingly dangerous political environment -- especially in the US.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-organize-safely-in-the-age-of-surveillance/

#security #antisurveillance #organizing

📝 New article: Nofuture-Memguard-PQ – Your Answer to ChatControl

Nofuture-Memguard-PQ: self-hostable, ephemeral, post-quantum encryption to defeat ChatControl surveillance. Reclaim your privacy on mainstream platforms.

🔗 https://www.virebent.art/blog/nofuture.html

#chatcontrol #antisurveillance #selfhostedencryption

Our Faception pattern in action to trick #facialrecognition

Which face is the real one or do I really have 3 faces? 😵‍💫

Tested with the Iphone (S8) camera App and also with the Yolo Algorithm.

https://urban-privacy.com/de/collections/faception-reloaded/products/faception-sweat-black

#dazzle #trickai #antisurveillance #facerecognition #surveillance #antiai #digitaleselbstbestimmung #privacyfirst #privacymatters #privacy #faception #urbanprivacy

Telegram isn’t a privacy app.
Default chats aren’t end-to-end encrypted, messages sit on Telegram’s servers, and “Secret Chats” aren’t default.

Great for groups — not for private conversations.

#privacy #infosec #security #decentralization #FOSS #FediPrivacy #Transparency #DigitalRights #AntiSurveillance #CivilLiberties