This is a crazy story of how law enforcement becomes negligently lazy in doing proper police work while utilizing Flock ALPR cameras, and very similar to a case that happened in Colorado where they accused the wrong woman of stealing…
I think California is signalling something here, and it’s your dystopian AI future inbound. The students found out their dorms held more than 330 cameras from their own newspaper, not the school that installed them. By Ben Squires San…
Most of the tech Linux media hasn’t really covered XLibre properly other than Lunduke, and he’s done a nice piece on their one year anniversary. In the time of the push to digital ID and all the tech megacorps in…
On device scanning to protect the children now, but it’s heading to on device agentic AI spying on everything and reporting violations to the government. And the UK is already prosecuting people for posting factual information that goes against the…
I don’t think people understand just how AI is going to be used, which this paragraph sums up nicely. Beyond this, they’re most likely building a very detailed profile on you as an individual based on what you research, beliefs,…
It’s interesting that they need a video of your face along with ID, which is a move for facial recognition and biometric collection. And they added the ability to verify a fact in their wallet without revealing personal data last…
This is a little background that shows beyond normal installed Flock ALPR cameras, they can put up these temporary cameras camouflaged as traffic cones. This leads to tips from feds to local law enforcement for vehicles that fit a trafficker…
I’d posit that it’s the licensing and adding exploits as Rust is not the exploit savior with many of its defects as well as being such a changing standard relying on the previous compiler… And it’s safe to say the…
The advanced cryptography methods used for privacy seem to have some bugs as implemented. ZEC was originally an interesting project for privacy, but it seems to have fallen under the control of questionable people as it has been pumped and…
(Headline article below) A good write up on the farce the government uses to avoid the 4th amendment, as well as the government not passing privacy legislation to protect smartphone users. And you can deny apps access to location, and…
It’s not clear how AI was used, but it does raise a concern as this is a very experienced developer. Rsync 3.4.3 is under scrutiny after backup regressions surfaced alongside wider debate over recent AI-assisted development work. By Bobby…
A couple things about this, and it’s that Google has all these hooks built into their apps for tracking you in order to implement a feature like this, so you can drop the Google apps and get opensource ones from…
