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ICE reportedly spent $2.8 billion on facial recognition capabilities and other new surveillance tech between 2008 and 2021.

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Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System -- It's your fault my laptop knows where I am

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Dramatic revenue growth is forecast for the next five years in biometrics and in digital identity, and the market has been particularly active over the past week in official digital ID documents and credentials.

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First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control

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Matrix? No, thanks. "Matrix is not a community-based software, it was born in Amdocs, a multinational corporation founded in Israel."

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NSFW Port forwarding for p2p how bad of an idea is it and what are mitigating strategies to maintain a secure machine

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Proctoring Apps Subject Students to Unnecessary Surveillance,

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Amazon Transparency Report Indicates Its Multiple IoT Devices Are Juicy Targets For Law Enforcement | Techdirt

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From sex life to politics: car driver data grab presents ‘privacy nightmare’, says study | Nissan

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Apple says it will refuse gov’t demands to expand photo-scanning beyond CSAM

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That Drone in the Sky Could Be Tracking Your Car (flying license plate readers)

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Ongoing DDoS attacks target Tor, I2P networks

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From Tails announcements - How long till their code is compromised?

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How to install SearX Search Engine on Ubuntu (and other Debian distributions)

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Disabling telemetry in ByteDance's VSCode fork increases data sent to its server

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Experts warn AGAINST storing passwords in Chrome after hackers target homeworkers

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President Biden Revokes Executive Branch Rules Against Spying on American Citizens

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Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records | WIRED

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Cacti monitoring tool has a big vulnerability that affects all versions - a patch version has just been released.

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(Washington State) SB 5708: Child Safety as the Cover for Expanding State Control Online [12:18]

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Lawmakers are calling on the FTC to investigate facial recognition company ID.me, for failure to disclose it uses a separate facial recognition technology tied to mass surveillance – this was the same company set to provide its services to the IRS as part of a $86 million contract…

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SimpleX blog: Wired’s Attack on Privacy

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EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners

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How Much Do I Need to Change My Face to Avoid Facial Recognition?

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Why I Made a Browser Extension to Punch Surveillance in the Face (It's free and open source)

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