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...
Read moreSurveillance in the US
June 20 2025Good article from 404 Media on the cozy surveillance relationship between local Oregon police and ICE:
In the email thread, crime analysts from several local police departments and the...
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Self-Driving Car Video Footage
June 19 2025Two articles crossed my path recently. First, a discussion of all the video Waymo has from outside its cars: in this case related to the LA protests. Second, a...
Read moreParagon Spyware Used to Spy on European Journalists
June 13 2025Paragon is an Israeli spyware company, increasingly in the news (now that NSO Group seems to be waning). “Graphite” is the name of its product. Citizen Lab caught...
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