You Might Be #Spied On, These #Chrome #Extensions Collected Your #Data Without Warning

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2025/07/you-might-be-spied-on-these-chrome.html

Phone companies failed to warn #senators about surveillance, Wyden says -
POLITICO

Government #surveillance of lawmakers, though legal, raises concerns that members of #Congress cannot effectively legislate when they are being #spied on

Sen. Wyden (D-Ore.) revealed in a new letter to Senate colleagues that #ATT , #Verizon & #TMobile failed to create systems for notifying senators about gov surveillance on Senate-issued devices — despite a requirement to do so.
#privacy

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/21/congress/exclusive-phone-companies-failed-to-warn-senators-about-surveillance-wyden-says-00361400

I expect a rush on #mobilephone #faradaycages from individuals not wanting to be #spied on.

#USPol #resist

How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being #Spied On (Including Me)

This #privacy reporter and her husband bought a #Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since.
#privacy #tracking #gm

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/technology/general-motors-spying-driver-data-consent.html

#Facebook #Spied on #Snapchat, #Amazon and #YouTube, Unsealed Doc Show | Observer

How Meta Competed Against Snapchat and YouTube: Unsealed Documents

Meta used a #spyware to access user activities on rival platforms, including Snapchat and YouTube, according to newly unsealed documents from a class action suit
#privacy #surveillance

https://observer.com/2024/03/meta-facebook-compete-snapchat-class-action-document/

#US Marshals #Spied on #Abortion #Protesters Using #Dataminr

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/

#December 11, 1843
#OTD Jacob #Schneck, Indiana #Physician, #Naturalist, & #Botanist, is born.

Jacob's passion was #Plants & he spent his #SpareTime #Botanizing. He labeled all his #Specimens with his #Impeccable #Handwriting.

He #Spied a unique #Species of #RedOak & told the Botanist Nathaniel Lord #Britton. Britton named the oak in Jacob's honor - Quercus Schneckii, also known as the Schneck #Oak.

Jacob died at 63, tending his patients to the end - despite his own #Pneumonia.

#Botany

#letsroll

⚃ ⚂ ⚂ ⚅ ⚃→#pacemaker
⚄ ⚄ ⚃ ⚂ ⚁→#spied
⚀ ⚃ ⚃ ⚃ ⚃→#cacti
⚁ ⚃ ⚁ ⚅ ⚂→#dropout
⚂ ⚂ ⚅ ⚀ ⚄→#heading
⚄ ⚃ ⚂ ⚄ ⚁→#silk

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