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texas is trying to make selling sex toys safely and privately online a criminal offense. this is worth paying attention to: www.404media.co/texas-sex-to...

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new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb... #digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database. 🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

NEW: Dataminr, an official X partner, is helping the LAPD surveil protests against the Israeli war on Gaza across both in LA and across the United States. This includes tipping the department off about protests that are still in the planning stages. theintercept.com/2025/03/17/l...

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

For educators interested in teaching about gang databases and other forms of surveillance, I want to (re)share three youth-produced, short documentaries from the Young People's Race, Power, and Technology Project. The first film, "Targeted," examines the Chicago Police Department's gang database.

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End stage of technology and carceral logics.

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New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 16 days ago • 149 comments

Seattle Times and the AP partnered to investigate school surveillance, & reporters “inadvertently received access to almost 3,500 sensitive, unredacted student documents through a records request. The documents were stored without a password or firewall, and anyone with the link could read them.”

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Office of @raskin.house.gov provided a letter template to officially request your federal personal data from DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

submitted 16 days ago • 81 comments

The fact that they specifically highlight the ability to identify people through public mugshots as a useful benefit is so additionally twisted to me.

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Giga book store in Detroit, MI. Four stories packed to the absolute brim yet pretty easy to navigate. I'm an dumb e-reader accelerationist but enjoy it for the historical appeal I guess.

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wow–the Museum of All Things by @may.as is an incredibly cool project, works exactly how you'd hope a 3D museum built out of Wikipedia articles would not that it stopped me from doing, uh, this

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Sharing a course on creative research practice and communications focused on addressing state surveillance! This April in NYC. Please consider sharing or registering :+) More info or registration: www.abronsartscenter.org/education/gr...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

i built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

THE @mta.info IS VIOLATING THE PRIVACY OF ITS CITIZENS, our students! #surveillancestate #mta #nyc #privacy

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The student metro card has been replaced by OMNY cards this academic year and the system has been flagging children for fraud if the cards aren't used near their home address or school. These kids risk loss of their free rides over this, a metric which did not exist before the introduction of OMNY.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

I give you all permission to register your cars in Florida if you'd like

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"nvidia share needs access to your laptop's GPS location" no the fuck it doesn't. that GPU is in here to blast polygons and nothing else

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that text messages between iphones and android phones are unencrypted. This makes it pretty easy for just about anybody to view the contents of those conversations. Consider using matrix or really anything else that has end-to-end encryption (E2EE) at the very least.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

You can batch import your Instagram (IG) content into Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to IG! I understand many folks (like myself) feel they can't ditch IG just yet but it's a very useful feature and move in that direction. More info on how to do so at this page: pixey.org/site/kb/import

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Flowers for the feed this V-day courtesy of the "Staten Island Beautification Squad" who started securing bouquets to speed cameras last month, blocking their view of the street.

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NEW PAPER: "Rethinking Youth Privacy" (soon in Virginia L Rev) @uvalaw.bsky.social w/ amazing coauthor @daniellecitron.bsky.social, identifies the pathologies of the "parental control model": parents have almost total control over kids' privacy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: @lawyerscomm.bsky.social and partners have sued Meta for racially discriminatory advertising practices and for algorithmically sorting for-profit college ads to Black users disproportionately act.lawyerscommittee.org/ercvsmeta/

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In Toledo, “living in subsidized housing now means being watched outside your home day and night by an officer you can’t see or speak to, thanks to the city’s contract with Fusus, a company whose controversial technology enables cops to access live streams from private camera networks”

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

Been working on a blog post all afternoon and just realized, crushingly, that it works just as well in meme form

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

is a bit crushed to learn Anthology Editions will shut down July 1. they are still publishing #othernetworks but instead of a print run of 4000, they'll print 1000 with extremely limited promo/marketing...thems are the breaks, I guess and I know there are much worse things in the world right now 1/3

submitted 45 days ago • 11 comments

On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/a...

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Lovely to see Sara Gomez's De Cierta Manera ranked so highly here. One of the most sensible docu-fictions I've seen that gives so much depth and insight into the post-revolutionary period in Cuba. Still insanely relevant in describing leftists movements (and interior tensions) today.

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“…Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots.”

submitted 48 days ago • 28 comments

Interesting choice to openly put a ban on something you have actively been engaging with this entire time but ok..

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

#Surveillance studies scholars have been arguing for years that a major reason to oppose mass collection and storage of private #data is that even if you can trust those in control of that data now, you can't guarantee that in the future. It can happen here. It is happening in the USA right now.

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