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Ofcom expected American websites to fold the way companies did for GDPR. Some refused, loudly, on purpose. #FreeSpeech #4chan Full conversation in the thread 👇

This week on Hide & Speak we got into what the 4chan lawsuit was really for. Full livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcTD...

Texas is suing OpenAI to keep minors off ChatGPT. Keeping minors out means checking whether every user is an adult, and that check lands on everyone. More below. #Privacy #AgeVerification #DigitalRights

Paxton's office is using the SCOPE Act, a Texas age verification law. Every age check is one more record tying a real person to an online account. Sourced article: vp.net/l/en-US/blog...

A Massachusetts city just voted 8 to 3 to ban Flock cameras. The trigger: two officers fired for allegedly turning a plate reader network on people in their personal lives. More in the next post. #Privacy #Surveillance #Flock

Councilor Shane Burgo wrote the ban to cover mass location tracking tools, not just one vendor. Body cams and regular security cameras stay. Sources and full breakdown: vp.net/l/en-US/blog...

A foreign regulator tried to fine an American website for speech that's legal here. The answer it got was a cartoon hamster, and the reasoning behind it beats the joke. #FreeSpeech #Ofcom Full conversation in the thread 👇

We got into the whole Ofcom fight on this week's Hide & Speak. Watch the full discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcTD...

A reporter in a press vest filmed a Flock camera going up near Atlanta. The installer called police on him. Filming in public is a right, even when the subject is a surveillance company. Full conversation in the thread 👇

The double standard, laid out. Read the full breakdown: s.vp.net/Ru7XV #Flock #PressFreedom #Surveillance

A reporter in a press vest filmed a Flock camera going up near Atlanta. The installer called police on him. Filming in public is a right, even when the subject is a surveillance company. Full conversation in the thread 👇

Toledo residents showed up to push back on Flock license plate cameras, and five council members now want them gone, along with the data they collected. Update in the video, thread below. #Flock #Surveillance #Privacy

A sponsor of the resolution says the cameras don't prevent crime and invade people's privacy. The city wants to wait. Sourced article: s.vp.net/57Vh4

Russia drafted a plan for AI to find and block 95 percent of VPNs. Then its digital ministry said the current version has no such measure. More below. #InternetFreedom #Censorship #VPN

Whatever the final plan says, the money is already moving: nearly 60 billion rubles over three years for Russia's traffic filtering system. Receipts in the blog post: s.vp.net/57Vh4

A plate reader hit is supposed to tell officers to look closer. Instead, a woman in a minivan ended up at gunpoint over a stolen motorcycle alert. Full conversation in the thread 👇

This week on Hide & Speak: the gap between how hotlist hits are supposed to work and how they get used. Watch the full discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO12...

Providence, Rhode Island is moving to ban license plate reader cameras. Police there run 60 Flock cameras right now. More below. #Privacy #CivilLiberties #FlockSafety

And it reaches statewide. Rhode Island has at least 300 Flock cameras and no rules on who sees the data. All sources in the write-up: s.vp.net/f4Yqh

If a company has your email address, it can now reach you inside ChatGPT. 404 Media tested OpenAI's ad targeting with a real campaign to see how it works. More below. #Privacy #ChatGPT #Surveillance

Turning off ad personalization doesn't turn off ads. They get picked from the conversation you're having right now. Full sources at s.vp.net/tKqx0

If a camera network can find cars by their religious symbols, it can sort people by what they believe. Flock's own account ran a Star of David search on real city cameras. Full conversation in the thread 👇

This week on Hide & Speak: bumper stickers, sweatshirts, and drones over protest crowds. Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO12...

Hacking Flock: Live this Saturday @ 2pm ET Featuring GainSec on the 67 Flock camera feeds he found open to the internet, the vulnerabilities he foudn, what the leaked firmware showed, and how his research ended up in a Senate hearing. Set a reminder and watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXCE...

A city just picked its residents' privacy over a surveillance camera network. Tempe, Arizona banned automated license plate readers and ordered the stored plate data destroyed. More in the next post. #ALPR #Surveillance #Privacy

Tempe joins a growing list of cities pulling back on plate cameras. The ban still has gaps worth watching closely. Full sources at s.vp.net/f4Yqh

Florida says driver license data and document images may have been exposed in a September breach. The letters are only going out now, six weeks later. More below. #Privacy #DataBreach #Florida

Age verification laws keep asking people to upload these same IDs to private companies. If the agency that issues them can't protect them, an unnamed verification vendor deserves even less trust. Full sources at s.vp.net/2dwmt

People tell ChatGPT things they wouldn't tell their doctor. OpenAI's Project Lily pays contractors to read real prompts and rate them. Full conversation in the thread 👇

We discussed who's on the other side of the chat box, and why it matters most for the people using AI as a therapist. Watch the full conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO12...

In 2011, the FBI arrested an alleged LulzSec member who'd been hiding behind a VPN. The VPN's own logs helped put a name to him. A thread on what "no logs" really protects. #Privacy #VPN #Surveillance

Nobody needed his browsing history. A real IP and a timestamp were enough, and every conventional VPN sees both. Full sources at s.vp.net/3D7P8

In 2011, the FBI arrested an alleged LulzSec member who'd been hiding behind a VPN. The VPN's own logs helped put a name to him. A thread on what "no logs" really protects. #Privacy #VPN #Surveillance