Huawei and Chinese Surveillance
November 26 2025This quote is from House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company.
“Long before anyone had heard of Ren Zhengfei or Huawei, Wan Runnan had been...
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First Wap: A Surveillance Computer You’ve Never Heard Of
October 27 2025Mother Jones has a long article on surveillance arms manufacturers, their wares, and how they avoid export control laws:
Operating from their base in Jakarta, where permissive export laws...
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This chilling paragraph is in a comprehensive Brookings report about the use of tech to deport people from the US:
The administration has also adapted its methods of social...
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Flok License Plate Surveillance
October 9 2025The company Flok is surveilling us as we drive:
A retired veteran named Lee Schmidt wanted to know how often Norfolk, Virginia’s 176 Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader cameras were...
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Details About Chinese Surveillance and Propaganda Companies
September 22 2025Details from leaked documents:
While people often look at China’s Great Firewall as a single, all-powerful government system unique to China, the actual process of developing and maintaining it...
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Automatic License Plate Readers Are Coming to Schools
August 11 2025Fears around children is opening up a new market for automatic license place readers.
Read moreSurveilling Your Children with AirTags
August 5 2025Skechers is making a line of kid’s shoes with a hidden compartment for an AirTag.
Read moreTradecraft in the Information Age
July 12 2025Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance.
Read moreSurveillance Used by a Drug Cartel
July 3 2025Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it:
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone...
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What LLMs Know About Their Users
June 25 2025Simon Willison talks about ChatGPT’s new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM—and the company—knows about its users. It’s a big quote, but...
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