#Cobweb #Cobwebs.

#Minecraft #MinecraftMeme #MinecraftMemes #VideoGame #VideoGames #Gaming #GamingMeme #GamingMemes #Meme #Memes

They haven't read Orwell's 1984 - will they ever understand?

source: citizenlab.ca/research/analysi…

Key Findings
• #Webloc is a global #geolocation #surveillance system that monitors hundreds of millions of people based on data purchased from consumer apps and digital advertising. It was developed by Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor #Penlink.
• In collaboration with the European investigative #journalism platform #VSquare, we reveal that Hungarian domestic #intelligence has been using Webloc since at least 2022 and continues to use it as of today. Webloc customers also include the national police in El Salvador.
• U.S. customers include #ICE, the U.S. #military, #Texas Department of Public Safety, #DHS West #Virginia, #NYC district attorneys, and several #police departments in #LosAngeles, #Dallas, #Baltimore, #Tucson, #Durham and in smaller cities and counties like City of Elk Grove and Pinal County.
• Based on the responses to 96 #freedom of information requests we conclude that governments in #Europe and the U.K. are highly nontransparent about their potential use of ad-based surveillance.
• Cobwebs Technologies has links to the #spyware vendor #Quadream through Cobwebs Technologies founder Omri #Timianker, who now oversees the international operations of Penlink.
• Webloc is sold as an add-on product to the social #media and #web intelligence #system Tangles. Based on technical #analysis and other sources we show that Tangles and other products developed by #Cobwebs Technologies are used in many countries across the globe.
• We briefly investigate another Cobwebs product named #Trapdoor that appears to help trick victims into revealing information. Our analysis leads us to believe that Trapdoor can help facilitate the #deployment of #malware on devices.

#tracking #gps #mobile #monitor #usa #smartphone #app #software #internet #online #bigbrother #bigdata #orwell #dystopia #privacy #economy #politics #security #news #cybersecurity #anonymity #fail #justice #user #freedom #ethics #abuse #omg #wtf #policestate #democracy #society #maga #conspiracy #www #socialmedia #bigtech #technology #future #humanity #spy #position #map

Feeling a bit tired today. A bit slow, a touch methodical.

Chilled dew lit up the spiderwebs though, and I spotted both a birds nest fungi and an actual bird's nest! Nourishing discoveries, both.

Cheers friends.

#fungi #birdsnestfungi #mushrooms #mosstodon #moss #birdsnest #awalkaday #nature #pnw #spiderwebs #cobwebs

I recognize in the daylight what a house that I drove past yesterday in the dark has done to its hedge. It's fake #cobwebs for #AllHallowsEve .

Some of us have real cobwebs in our houses.

#Halloween

Halloween horror and entangled wildlife

"There’s been carnage in the suburbs, as Australians once again embrace a tradition of hanging plastic spider webs to celebrate Halloween.... A distressed kookaburra “gave up” on life after becoming entangled, while a world away in an outback town, a honeyeater was discovered hanging from a tree by a string of fluorescent orange web."
Ban dangerous Halloween decorations
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/tragic-discovery-in-suburban-yard-as-aussies-embrace-controversial-tradition-061400051.html

Halloween trick-or-treating - a drive-through neighbourhood:
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115460273826423305
#Halloween #plastic #cobwebs #entanglement #birds #wildlife #suburbia #traps

"The Tucson Police Department has deployed a controversial AI-powered surveillance tool that is also being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to scour social media, track locations and much more, according to documents obtained by the Arizona Mirror.

In August 2023, the Tucson Police Department signed a 28-month contract with Cobwebs Technologies for its “Tangles Open-Source Intelligence” software. The police department then sent a request to the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to get reimbursed from the state’s Border Security Fund.

In the reimbursement document, which the Electronic Frontier Foundation received in response to a public records request and provided to the Mirror, TPD requested the state reimburse it $277,500.23 for the purchase and installation of the software."

https://azmirror.com/2025/10/29/tpd-used-border-security-money-for-controversial-surveillance-software/

#USA #Arizona #Tucson #AI #Surveillance #Cobwebs #OSINT #BorderPatrol #Immigration #ICE #PoliceState

Inktober 2025 Day 30: Vacant

#art #artist #illustration #illustrator #drawing #sketch #sketchbook #creative #inktober #penandink #linework #artchallenge #ink #inktober2025 #prompts #traditionalart #pen #dailydrawing #vacant #empty #room #abandoned #cobwebs #devoid #vacancy #bare #deserted

Dilophosaurus gets cracking on those cobwebs.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #Lights #Bathroom #Cobwebs #Dinosaurs