No warrant. No probable cause. Just a text from a friend. A Charlotte officer ran a plate through Flock and handed back an undercover detective's movements in seconds. Thread below. #ALPR #Surveillance #Privacy

A credit report inquiry from a Texas utility gets read as proof someone moved to Texas. It isn't. This week we got into using that gap on purpose, so the people hunting a private citizen burn their retainer in the wrong state. #privacy #opsec #surveillance Full conversation in the thread 👇

Sharon Polsky MAPP, President of Privacy & Access Council of Canada, joins us Saturday at 4pm ET to discuss age verification & social media laws and their impact on privacy and internet freedom in Canada and globally. Set a reminder here so you don't miss it 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQlb...

The Road to Digital Hell: Age Checks & Social Media Bans with Sharon Polsky | Hide & Speak

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Recently on Hide & Speak: a phone company read out a full month of someone's calls to a stranger at a payphone. No password, no proof, just a confident voice claiming to be the account holder. Your metadata has always been one polite request away. Full conversation in the thread 👇 #surveillance

S.737, the SCREEN Act, hits the Senate Commerce Committee tomorrow morning. No content threshold. One piece of adult material means every user verifies their age. Reddit, Discord, Bluesky, Netflix all in scope, per EFF. More in the thread. #privacy #ageverification #digitalrights

Georgia has now arrested at least 20 officials for misusing the Flock license plate network. The most recent ran 60+ searches in three weeks using an account he was not supposed to still have. Thread below. #privacy #surveillance #ALPR #Flock #FlockSafety

The 1am medical search. The job search from a work laptop. The lawyer search through hotel Wi-Fi. A traditional VPN sites between you and every destination and could see both ends. A sealed enclave cannot. With vp.net, your search is your business. #VPN #vpnet #ZeroKnowledge #DontTrustVerify

Privacy Game Show: Live at 4pm ET today on Hide & Speak We are testing their knowledge of privacy trivia, laws, quotes & more, live on stream today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRY... Meet the contestants below.

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Want to test your privacy knowledge live tomorrow at 4pm ET? Let me in know in the comments or send me a message ASAP while there are spots available! #privacy #HideAndSpeak

Mike German @rethinkintel.bsky.social discusses his time as an FBI agent, going undercover in white supremacist organizations. #FBI #undercover #hategroups #whitesupremacists

Verona, Wisconsin cancelled its Flock contract in November. Two months on the cameras were still running, so the city put black plastic bags over them. Numbers in the next post. #ALPR #surveillance #privacy

This Saturday, 8/1 @ 4pm Hide & Speak is doing a special Privacy Game Show and we have a couple spots open! If you would like to test your privacy knowledge live against @TheDesertLynx, @cialoneCodes & ExStaticJ this Saturday, comment or send me a message!

2,984,191 signatures. Fourth most signed petition in UK e-petition history. This week the government scrapped its national digital ID, with opposition running across party lines. More in the thread. #privacy #digitalID #surveillance

"Get The Flock Out" - an Anti-ALPR Song from Hide & Speak www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkRt... #GetTheFlockOut #Flock #FlockSafety #ALPR #FlockCameras

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Saturday, Aug 1 @ 4pm ET on Hide & Speak: a Privacy Game Show! Joel Valenzuela, Christopher Cialone & ExStaticJ face off to test their privacy knowledge live! Want to play? Comment below! Drop this on your calendar: www.youtube.com/live/QNRYGq9... #Surveillance #DigitalPrivacy #HideAndSpeak

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Your own state representatives can't walk into a state fusion center to see what it's doing. 80+ of these exist nationwide, sharing your data with private contractors nobody vetted, with almost no oversight. Full conversation in the thread 👇

Your bank sends your address to the credit bureaus within 24 hours. That block of data has fewer legal protections than the credit report it sits on, and it ends up in a product ICE queries without a warrant. More in the next post. #privacy #surveillance #databrokers

A leaked ICE tool inventory includes a database of 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills. You cannot opt out of a record your insurer filed for you. That is the part worth sitting with. #Surveillance #Privacy #DataBrokers #ICE #DHS

In 2002, FBI undercover agent Mike German ( @rethinkintel.bsky.social ), discovered colleagues had run an illegal wiretap and altered records on a terrorism case and reported it. The FBI retaliated, effectively destroying his career. Full conversation in the thread 👇

Flock's CEO told ABC7 the cameras only take a still picture of a car. Flock's own blog promised every existing reader would stream live video over a free update. Thread below. #ALPR #surveillance #FlockSafety #Flock

Every Saturday in August we're handing the mic to people actually fighting this stuff. Saturdays at 4pm Eastern. Hit subscribe so you don't miss anything: www.youtube.com/@vpnet_offic... #privacy #surveillance #ageverification #flock #HideAndSpeak #podcast

Join us in Marietta, Georgia on August 18 with Benn Jordan and Dr. Jon Padfield as we discuss the rise of mass surveillance in our communities such as Flock, Axon, and many others. Free admission. Free refreshments. 6pm-10pm Reserve your seat at: www.eventbrite.com/e/1994595611...

"Flock Public Affairs Manager Ian Leslie said during the meeting that Flock would be & has been willing to take long, hard look at those who use its cameras incorrectly or outside the scope of purview." "the council then voted to terminate the contract" 🤣 www.southtexasnews.com/san_patricio...

Aransas Pass council votes to terminate Flock camera agreement

A hot-button topic took center stage at the most recent Aransas Pass city council meeting, and the Aransas Pass council eventually voted to terminate an existing agreement due to public

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In Japan, phones keep the camera shutter sound on by design. You can't turn it off. If someone's photographing near you, you hear it. It exists because covert photography got common enough to need hardware-level answers. Feat. @snubs.bsky.social Full conversation in the thread 👇 #privacy #Japan

People used Flock's own audit logs to expose officers abusing license plate readers. Flock's response: strip the officer names out of the public logs. Accountability was working, so they made it harder. More below. #FlockSafety #FlockCamera #ALPR #surveillance

Our Hero of the Week: Terry Albury. In 2017 he leaked the Bureau's classified internal rule books to The Intercept and served 4 years in federal prison for it. Terry was nominated by another hero: @rethinkintel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bEK... Full conversation in the thread 👇

Hero of the Week: Terry Albury, FBI Whistleblower Who Leaked the FBI's Secret Rules

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Texas can now make every app store verify your age before an under-18 user downloads anything, and the Supreme Court let it take effect. Your ID becomes the price of using a phone. This is a privacy fight, not a kids-safety story. More below. #privacy #surveillance #digitalrights

A friend in law enforcement had Flock access. No two-factor. One password shared across the whole group. Then there's the officer who used Flock cameras to track his ex-girlfriend's location hundreds of times before getting caught. Featuring @snubs.bsky.social Full conversation in the thread 👇

Encryption fights were never the public against privacy. It was a small group in power that wanted to spy on everyone, isolated even inside their own government. #CryptoWars #Cryptography #NSA #Surveillance Full conversation in the thread 👇

In two months, LAPD's cameras flagged cars as stolen 161 times. Every one was wrong. The next day, LAPD walked away from Flock. Verifiable accountability beats trust-us surveillance every time. More below. #FlockSafety #FlockCameras #DeFlock