Sumana Harihareswara6d ago

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its

via @mediapathic who says
"The TLDR for non-tech people here is: every white house website is spying on visitors in a new and exciting way that leaves no auditable trail. Which is also wildly illegal for a .gov.

Oh and for Valley folks: it all goes through PostHog so maybe tell PostHog to fuck off into the sun?"

and quotes from the post:

“Either DOJ lied to a federal judge, or the studio is building a replacement for the country’s voter registration site without telling the agencies whose work it would replace. There is no third option....
Vote.gov belongs to the Election Assistance Commission, and the studio built a copy. Passports belong to the State Department, and the studio is building a replacement this week. Login . gov belonged to GSA, and the studio’s guy runs it now.”

and quotes Jay Edidin saying "so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying"

from https://bsky.app/profile/mediapathic.bsky.social/post/3mmyc55euis26

#cybersecurity #privacy #USpol #18F #USDS #DOGE #spyware #SurveillanceTech

I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House

There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

The Drey Dossier
Show threadvirkonMay 25
@EUCommission that is at least a tiny bit, but not nearly enough. Close #Taxhavens , kick out #SurveillanceTech, abandon the #AIDatacenter #bullshit and we'll have plenty to do useful stuff for people who would like to live together in the #EU
Hacker NewsMay 23

The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers

https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-fbi-license-plate-reader-real-time-access/

#HackerNews #FBI #LicensePlateReaders #RealTimeAccess #PrivacyConcerns #SurveillanceTech

The FBI Wants ‘Near Real-Time’ Access to US License Plate Readers

Plus: Google publishes a live exploit for an unpatched flaw, the feds arrest two men accused of creating thousands of nonconsensual deepfake nudes, and more.

WIRED
Mental privacy matters.May 19

Data labelling and data harvesting are closely linked and has a detrimental impact on our mental and physical privacy.

#privacy #mentalprivacy #physicalprivacy #dataprivacy #dataharvesting #technology #surveillancetech #authoritarian

S.v. N.SönmezMay 11

Palantir ve diğer veri analizi firmaları, beklenenden çok daha geniş izleme kabiliyetleri sunuyor. Bu durum, mahremiyet ve şeffaflık konularında önemli tartışmalara yol açıyor. Yeni regülasyonlar ve etik kılavuzlar şekillendirilmeli.

🚩 #VeriGizliliği #Mahremiyet #Teknoloji #SurveillanceTech #DataAnalytics

SudoApr 27

I'm🏠

Your home blueprint is being sold to data brokers.

Smart vacuums use LiDAR to create millimeter-accurate 3D models of your living space. That floorplan? It could end up in a subpoena, a breach, or a broker's database.

Ep 23 of Impractical Privacy breaks it down: ImpracticalPrivacy.com

#DataBrokers #IoT #PrivacyRights #SmartHome #ImpracticalPrivacy #Privacy #DigitalRights #Surveillance #SurveillanceTech

Show threadAJ SadauskasApr 11
@kali @mf_analysis It's more than that.

Palantir is basically an enabling tool for the authoritarian right's agenda.

It takes the mountains of data generated through surveillance capitalism, and sells it as a product for intelligence, law enforcement, and defence agencies.

If weaponises creepy tracking codes and location tracking apps, making it part of the government surveillance apparatus.

So all the ways enshittified tech companies track you become all the ways the government tracks you.

It says to authoritarian governments: We'll sell you a mass surveillance apparatus for a fee that makes the Stasi and KGB look like the EFF by comparison.

That data is being used right now to identify the people that ICE will snatch off the street.

These European bankers know all of this.

And they're saying: 'Yes, we will put our capital into this scheme as long as it makes us a profit.'

#Surveillance #SurveillanceTech #capitalism  #business #uspol #politics #finance #banking
Hacker NewsApr 8

US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

https://www.cnet.com/home/security/when-flock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversial-surveillance-technology/

#HackerNews #USCities #FlockSafety #SurveillanceTech #PrivacyConcerns #TechPolicy

When Flock Cameras Appear: Everything You Need to Know About This Surveillance Tech

Flock Safety is setting up cameras and drones across the country. I spoke to cities and privacy advocates fighting back against the AI surveillance, including Flock and others like it.

CNET
cass-Aby-andraMar 20

"A French aircraft carrier was tracked in real time via a sailor’s Strava activity, exposing a persistent operational security flaw.

Le Monde revealed that France’s aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle was tracked in real time through an officer’s activity on the Strava app. A sailor unknowingly shared running data from the ship, exposing its location in the Mediterranean. The French sailor’s public Strava profile, set as “public,” revealed the near real-time location of the aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean, near Cyprus and Turkey."

This is not an isolated incident. In 2018, Strava’s global heatmap revealed the locations and patrol routes of military bases in places like Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, simply because soldiers were recording their runs.

More recently, Strava data has exposed the movements of security teams protecting world leaders, including routes that revealed private residences and travel patterns.

There have even been cases where activity data from naval bases was used to infer submarine patrol schedules, based on when personnel suddenly stopped logging workouts.

https://securityaffairs.com/189696/intelligence/french-aircraft-carrier-charles-de-gaulle-tracked-via-strava-activity-in-opsec-failure.html

#GlobalPol #ww3 #Iran #France #israel #US #tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #OpSec

French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure

A French aircraft carrier was tracked in real time via a sailor’s Strava activity, exposing a persistent operational security flaw.

Security Affairs
LarsMar 17

Keer op keer komt Meta in het nieuws met zaken die het daglicht eigenlijk niet kunnen verdragen. Het is mij een raadsel waarom toch zoveel mensen gebruik blijven maken van de Meta producten 🤷‍♂️

#Meta #MetaIsEvil #SurveillanceTech