Greg LloydRE: https://mastodon.social/@wchr/116375617333864571
Trailhead of ⭐️⭐️⭐️🧵re: Citizen Lab report on Webloc ad-based mass surveillance system and its many military, intelligence, and law enforcement customers. #Webloc #citizenlab #masssurveillance
CBC CanadaEdmonton police emails, documents provide new information on Canada-first AI facial recognition bodycam pilot
Key details include a “critical fault” system outage, possible extension of pilot project and that facial recognition model was supplied by Corsight AI, a company whose technology has reportedly been used for mass surv...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-police-emails-documents-provide-new-information-on-canada-first-ai-facial-recognition-bodycam-pilot-9.7157991?cmp=rss
Key details include a “critical fault” system outage, possible extension of pilot project and that facial recognition model was supplied by Corsight AI, a company whose technology has reportedly been used for mass surv...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-police-emails-documents-provide-new-information-on-canada-first-ai-facial-recognition-bodycam-pilot-9.7157991?cmp=rss
Em 
When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:
• Official identification of every adult using social media.
• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.
• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.
• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.
• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.
• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.
• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.
• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.
• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.
• The list goes on and on.
This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.
Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.
Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.
The future depends on us.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
The horror of Age Verification is
arriving in Canada 🚨🇨🇦
Contact your federal MP and the office of the Prime Minister this week to tell them you strongly oppose the privacy-destroying and inefficient measure.
The time to push back is NOW: https://globalnews.ca/news/11797286/liberal-party-adopts-motion-social-media-ban-kids/
'Prime Minister Mark Carney said last month that the idea “merits an open and considered debate in Canada,” although he does not have a settled view on it yet and said there were good points on both sides.'
Share educational resources with them on the dangers of Age Verification: https://www.eff.org/age
We do NOT want this nightmare in Canada. Fight back for your privacy rights! ✊🔒
#AgeVerification #Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Canada #CanPoli #CndPol
k3ym𖺀Tell your Members of Congress: There can be no clean reauthorization of Section 702
via @eff
Reform Section 702
There are no excuses for any Member of Congress to support a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Anyone who votes to do so does not take your privacy seriously. Full stop. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is among the United States’ most infamous mass surveillance programs. Sold to the public as a foreign surveillance tool, it has become a backdoor for law enforcement to search through Americans’ private communications without ever obtaining a warrant. We need to act now to prevent Congress from reauthorizing 702 in a way that ignores the truth: This authority needs to change. House Speaker Mike Johnson has confirmed that “the plan is to move a clean extension of FISA… for at least 18 months.” Our demands are common sense: no renewal without real reforms. A simple extension is a betrayal of every US resident who expects their government to respect their rights and the Constitution. Your representative needs to hear from you right now, before the April 20 deadline. Contact them today. Tell them: No vote on any bills that would reauthorize Section 702 without meaningful reform.
TMRE: https://mastodon.scot/@paka/116391111433393914
Good news are starting to appear...
meartur
Teddy / Domingo (🇨🇵/🇬🇧)Congress can finally close a #masssurveillance loophole — but will they ?
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (#FISA), last reauthorized in 2024, is set to expire on April 20th.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/909229/fisa-702-reauthorization-davidson-wyden-warrant-reforms
Well, don't forget #snowden advices about #surveillance ....
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (#FISA), last reauthorized in 2024, is set to expire on April 20th.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/909229/fisa-702-reauthorization-davidson-wyden-warrant-reforms
Well, don't forget #snowden advices about #surveillance ....
PrivacyDigest👁 Selling #MassSurveillance | EFFector 38.7
Time and time again, we've seen police #surveillance suffer from 'mission creep'—technology sold as a way to prevent heinous crimes ends up enforcing traffic violations, #tracking #protestors , and more. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're diving into this troubling pattern and sharing all the latest in the fight for #privacy and #freespeech online.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/selling-mass-surveillance-effector-387
👁 Selling Mass Surveillance | EFFector 38.7
Time and time again, we've seen police surveillance suffer from 'mission creep'—technology sold as a way to prevent heinous crimes ends up enforcing traffic violations, tracking protestors, and more. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're diving into this troubling pattern and sharing all the...
Pete OrrallWow, that is terrifying. Basically, through #wifi, we have surrendered any semblance of #privacy whatsoever.
While there are valid use cases for this, it's basically unrestricted at this point. What law enforcement and first responders can use in case of legitimate threats, so can criminals for nefarious behavior.
There are a plethora of #ethical red flags here as #legislation usually trails behind new #tech by years if not decades.
This needs to concern #everyone.
