Ring Scraps Flock Partnership Following Uproar Over Super Bowl AI Commercial
There is still “reason to distrust” the company, one security expert said, warning it has backtracked on plans before.
The Surveillance State Just Bought a Super Bowl Ad
Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.
Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
Ring’s AI-powered network is likely to be used in its partnerships with law enforcement and agencies like ICE.
Israeli ‘Predator’ Smartphone Spyware Exposed
It’s just the latest example of an Israeli-linked spyware specialist acting with no consideration for the law - although one wouldn’t know that from Amnesty’s probe.
How the U.S. Security State Expanded, Even After Snowden Revelations
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
How Israeli-Linked Operatives and Firms Are Embedded in U.S. Cyber Systems
By: Joshua Scheer The Substack report, “Former Israeli Spies Now Overseeing US Government Cybersecurity” by Nate Bear (¡Do Not Panic!), is well worth reading. It uncovers that a firm with…
A Vast Camera System Now Feeds Information to Police on Drivers Across the US
By Tyler Walicek, Truthout The United States public has been treated to round after round of revelations disclosing that our actions — public and private, digital and physical, criminalized and…
Always Watching: How ICE’s Plan To Monitor Social Media 24/7 Threatens Privacy and Civic Participation
ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration enforcement.
DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks
It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.
Mass Opposition To Flock Surveillance Grows in Denver
Outrage in Denver as Mayor sidesteps council to renew controversial flock surveillance contract.
Glenn Greenwald: Trump’s Alarming Domestic Terrorism Memo (w/ Ken Klippenstein)
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
Are Israel’s Gaza Aid Sites Collecting Biometric Data For Assassinations? (w/ Col. Anthony Aguilar)
By Chris Hedges / The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
Glenn Greenwald: Minnesota Shooting Exploited to Impose AI Mass Surveillance Tool
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
Medicaid Is Giving ICE Access to Data of 79M Enrollees, Including Ethnicity
Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for Medicaid, but DHS says the data will aid their immigration crackdown.
Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State
It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.