A couple living in Trump Tower Chicago is suing the building's condo association and management. They claim a neighbor secretly recorded their private intimate conversation and shared the audio with staff and other residents.
This case highlights serious privacy risks in luxury buildings, where even your own home might not be as private as you think.
Full story from the Chicago Tribune: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/08/trump-tower-couple-federal-lawsuit/
Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure
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Another data scandal, this time it's LinkedIn... Send it to people that use LinkedIn on work computers...
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.
The FAA "Temporary" Drone Restriction Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE
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Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post.The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight restriction preventing private drone operators, including professional and citizen journalists,...
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#Perplexity's “Incognito” mode still shares your chats, email, and identifiers with Meta/Google. It’s surveillance with better branding.
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Different institutions frequently collect people’s private data. This episode of the series “What Everybody Knows About You” by Andrew Oram focuses on governments.
Check it out: https://lpi.org/xqlz
[Disclaimer: This post includes an image generated using AI.]
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The facial recognition infrastructure is already everywhere:
Clearview AI — billions of scraped social media photos
Flock Safety — cameras in 49 states, 6,000+ communities
Amazon Ring — facial recognition on 27M+ doorbell cameras
No public vote. No consent. No reliable system to catch errors before someone loses their freedom.
End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller
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The controversial mass surveillance of private messages in Europe is coming to an end. After the European Parliament had already rejected the indiscriminate and blanket Chat Control by US tech companies on 13 March, conservative forces attempted a democratically highly questionable maneuver yesterda
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