Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart #vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware & Python scripts to run offline-Tom's Hardware
An engineer got curious about how his #iLifeA11 #SmartVacuum worked & #monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That’s when he noticed it was constantly sending logs & #telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't consented to.
#privacy #surveillance
#Meta #Layoffs Included Employees Who #Monitored Risks to User #Privacy
While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk #auditors with more automated systems.
#ai #artificialintelligence
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/technology/meta-layoffs-user-privacy.html
Two gang tangi convoys to be monitored by police in Hawke’s Bay
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#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #bay #be #by #convoys #gang #hawkes #in #monitored #NewZealand #NZ #police #tangi #to #two
https://www.newsbeep.com/181278/
#FTC Says #DataBrokers Unlawfully #Tracked #Protesters and US #Military Personnel
The FTC is targeting data brokers that #monitored people’s movements during #protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the #Trump administration will be far more lenient.
#privacy #security #surveillance
https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-mobilewalla-gravy-analytics-orders/
#Gay #principal #suing for #discrimination after he was #monitored for “#indoctrination” & then #fired.
According to a #discrimination #complaint, #conservative #chool board #members have waged a “#public and #coordinated” #antigay #attack.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Wisconsin #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
[VISUAL] The Overlapping #Infrastructure of Urban #Surveillance, and How to Fix It | Electronic Frontier Foundation
City residents are heavily surveilled in the U.S. Check out this graphic to learn how--from under the ground to high up in the atmosphere--people's movements and communications are tracked, traced, #monitored, and recorded.
#privacy @eff
If you could take a cross-section of the average city block, you would see the ways that the built environment of surveillance—its physical presence in, over, and under our cities—makes the various types of surveillance an entwined problem that must be combatted through entwined solutions. We decided to create a graphic to show how—from overhead to underground—these technologies and legal authorities overlap, how they disproportionately impact the lives of marginalized communities, and the tools we have at our disposal to halt or mitigate their harms.
‘Everything is better’: #Teacher shows #reality of #genderneutral #bathrooms in #schools, 'It is so much #safer, so much #cleaner.'
The #restroom has a see-through glass partition that looks out into the main hallway and private #lockable #stalls with #room for #students to hang their backpacks. The public areas are #monitored by #video to ensure the #safety of all #students.
#Women #Nonbinary #GenderNeutral #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Education #Bathrooms #Inclusion
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/gender-neutral-school-bathroom/
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