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The mass collection and storage of license plate data is “by definition indiscriminate surveillance,” EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told the Provincetown (MA) Independent. “You have these license plate readers tracking somebody throughout their day.” https://provincetownindependent.org/local-journalism-project/2026/03/18/advocates-warn-drivers-of-indiscriminate-surveillance/

Advocates Warn Drivers of ‘Indiscriminate Surveillance’ - The Provincetown Independent

HYANNIS — Every car that drives through the intersection of Main Street and Barnstable Road in Hyannis has its license plate read, logged, and stored in a database that is […]

The Provincetown Independent

Torikh 9h ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2d ago

Face recognition is "a dangerous, error-prone, discriminatory technology,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told GV Wire, and it's “especially inappropriate as a means to screen members of the public seeking to participate in democratic self-government.” https://gvwire.com/2026/03/17/first-amendment-advocates-oppose-fresno-councils-facial-recognition-idea/

First Amendment Advocates Oppose Fresno Council's Facial Recognition Idea

First Amendment groups oppose Fresno City Council proposal to ban sex offenders from City Hall using facial recognition to identify them.

GV Wire

Torikh 9h ago

Human Brain Enthusiast 2d ago

The kids are alright

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Megan Fox 2d ago

Verminsteel isn't in the Summer Sale, because I'm developing it right now, but it's a game where you're a bird with a broadsword who kicks thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun, so if you think that's cool maybe wishlist, RT and tell your friends? https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/

#indiegame #gamedev #gamenews

Torikh 9h ago

Anirvan Chatterjee 1d ago

"The problem was never how many things you own. The problem is that owning means something it never used to. Everything you buy is the beginning of a relationship you'll be maintaining until one of you dies or gets discontinued."

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

Terry Godier

Torikh 9h ago

HeavenlyPossum 2d ago

A firm in Ohio denied a woman her request to work from home during a high-risk pregnancy and, as a result, she gave birth prematurely and her baby died.

Capitalists hate work-from-home, even though study after study has shown that workers are just, if not more so, productive at home than in an office.

This is because work-from-home threatens something worth more to the capital class than productivity and even an individual firm’s profits.

Work-from-home threatens the capitalist ur-myth that economic activity *must* take place in centralized locations under the supervision and surveillance of managers, bosses, and capitalist owners.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-firm-must-pay-225-million-mom-whose-baby-died-was-denied-work-hom-rcna264321

Ohio firm must pay $22.5 million to mom whose baby died after she was denied work-from-home

An Ohio-based company that initially balked at granting a mom's request to work from home during a high-risk pregnancy has been found liable for the newborn's death and ordered on Wednesday to pay $22.5 million in damages

NBC News

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1d ago

We cannot let companies push face recognition into our glasses, and as a user, you should make your voice clear that this is not something you want. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/think-twice-buying-or-using-metas-ray-bans

Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans

Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But over the past year, products like Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses and Oakley’s Meta Glasses have gone from a curious niche...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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josh's harp 1d ago

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

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