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Straight outta... Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir Technologies:

"One of the things I like about technology is that when technology's un-regulated you can change the world without getting approval from other people. At its best, it's not subject to democratic control, and not subject to the majority, which I think is often hostile to change".

Reading The Contrarion by Max Chafkin is quite a nightmaire, especially knowing that the Swedish Police Authority and the Swedish Armed Forces are cooperating with Palantir.

#PeterThiel #Palantir #Palantirssoftware #SwedishPolice #SwedishArmedForces #Sweden #surveillancetechnologies #datadrivendecisionmaking

EFF Updates RSS Oct 7

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it

#SurveillanceTechnologies #ReproductiveJustice

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.” The new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," collected evidence of a woman’s self-managed abortion, and consulted prosecutors about possibly charging her.

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EFF Updates RSS Sep 29

EFF Urges Virgina Court of Appeals to Require Search Warrants to Access ALPR Databases

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-urges-virgina-court-appeals-require-search-warrants-access-alpr-databases

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EFF Urges Virgina Court of Appeals to Require Search Warrants to Access ALPR Databases

This post was co-authored by EFF legal intern Olivia Miller.For most Americans—driving is a part of everyday life. Practically speaking, many of us drive to work, school, play, and anywhere in between. Not only do we visit places that give insights into our personal lives, but we sometimes use...

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EFF Updates RSS Sep 18, 2025

EFF, ACLU to SFPD: Stop Illegally Sharing Data With ICE and Anti-Abortion States

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-aclu-sfpd-stop-illegally-sharing-data-ice-and-anti-abortion-states

#Street-LevelSurveillance #SurveillanceTechnologies

EFF, ACLU to SFPD: Stop Illegally Sharing Data With ICE and Anti-Abortion States

The San Francisco Police Department is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state and federal agencies. EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are calling them out for this direct violation of California law,...

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EFF Updates RSS May 30, 2025

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down

#SurveillanceTechnologies #Street-LevelSurveillance #ReproductiveJustice

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Lawmakers who support reproductive rights must recognize that abortion access and mass surveillance are incompatible. The systems built to track stolen cars and issue parking tickets have become tools to enforce the most personal and politically charged laws in the country.

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MusiqueNow

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Jan 31, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GvkFwpzDhI

#AlJazeera #FeaturedDocumentary

#ThePalestineLaboratoryE1

Uncovering how #ApartheidIsraeli profits from #surveillancetechnologies using #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories as a testing ground.

A #MustWatchVideo

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How Israel tests military tech on Palestinians | The Palestine Laboratory E1 | Featured Documentary

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EFF Updates RSS Dec 3, 2024

Amazon and Google Must Keep Their Promises on Project Nimbus

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/amazon-and-google-must-keep-their-promises-project-nimbus

#SurveillanceandHumanRights #SurveillanceTechnologies #International #Privacy

Amazon and Google Must Keep Their Promises on Project Nimbus

When a company makes a promise, the public should be able to rely on it. Today, nearly every person in the U.S. is a customer of either Amazon or Google—and many of us are customers of both technology giants. Both of these companies have made public promises that they will ensure their technologies...

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EFF Updates RSS Nov 5, 2024

AI in Criminal Justice Is the Trend Attorneys Need to Know About

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/ai-criminal-justice-trend-attorneys-need-know-about

#Street-LevelSurveillance #SurveillanceTechnologies

AI in Criminal Justice Is the Trend Attorneys Need to Know About

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into our criminal justice system is one of the most worrying developments across policing and the courts, and EFF has been tracking it for years. EFF recently contributed a chapter on AI’s use by law enforcement to the American Bar Association’s...

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DeepSec Conference ☑Oct 30, 2024

DeepSec 2024 Talk: The Tyrant’s Toolbox – Julian & Pavle B.

Social media, and our communications systems, have devoured any semblance of privacy, putting the eyes and ears of authoritarian and wannabe fascist types into the pockets of each of us; radically erasing whatev

https://blog.deepsec.net/deepsec-2024-talk-the-tyrants-toolbox-julian-pavle-b/

#Conference #AI #DataAggregationTechnologies #DeepSec2024 #Privacy #spyware #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillanceTechnologies #Talk

DeepSec 2024 Talk: The Tyrant's Toolbox - Julian & Pavle B.

The DeepSec conference features an in-depth presentation about technological tools used by dictators around the world.

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EFF Updates RSS Oct 16, 2024

Civil Rights Commission Pans Face Recognition Technology

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/civil-rights-commission-pans-face-recognition-technology

#ArtificialIntelligence&MachineLearning #Street-LevelSurveillance #SurveillanceTechnologies #FaceSurveillance #Biometrics

Civil Rights Commission Pans Face Recognition Technology

In its recent report, Civil Rights Implications of Face Recognition Technology (FRT), the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights identified serious problems with the federal government’s use of face recognition technology, and in doing so recognized EFF’s expertise on this issue. The Commission focused...

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