🎙️Our conversation on @wtop with @kashhill @nytimes on her article abt cars spying on drivers. Take a listen and find out how you can see if your car is watching you https://t.co/tETUF6CKd0
— Anne Kramer (@AnneKramerNews) March 11, 2024
Category: Surveillance State
1984
This is a jaw dropper. We were just joined @WTOP by @kashhill from @nytimes abt how your car could be spying on you and causing your insurance rates to jump up. You may not even know it's happening. https://t.co/BRwJ1x9l7v
— Anne Kramer (@AnneKramerNews) March 11, 2024
Ruh roh
Senators Josh Hawley and Mike Lee showed visible concern during a Senate hearing upon learning that the FBI can track the metadata of individuals involved in the January 6th events.
Adding to the intrigue, Special Counsel Jack Smith is said to possess both the metadata and…
— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) December 13, 2023
Yeah, that worked out so well for us after 9/11
Great piece by @lukewgoldstein on the national security task force inside Israel that is throwing Palestinian students and peace activists in maximum-security prisons for social media activity, including merely *looking* at certain posts.https://t.co/c2TNJJu4F2
— David Dayen (@ddayen) December 12, 2023
Right on
Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a near total ban on buying and selling of location data drawn from consumers’ mobile devices in the state, in what would be a first-in-the-nation effort to rein in a billion-dollar industry.https://t.co/cRyCl6xQr8
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) July 10, 2023
Scary
. NEW: NYPD's aggressive campaign to collect "digital fingerprints" from prisoner's cellphones. “Let me be 100% crystal clear — this is a mandate from Chief LiPetri’s office and it must and WILL be done."-precinct commander.https://t.co/WdJVr0SDEZ
— Graham Rayman (@graham_rayman) July 9, 2023
About that balloon
Via Talking Points Memo, a rational explanation:
After a lot of heated speculation and a bunch of scrambled jet fighters over Canada and the far North of the United States we’re finally getting a credible explanation of the Chinese balloon saga. According to a new report from The Washington Post the United States is now examining the possibility that the People’s Liberation Army simply lost control of the balloon intended to surveil Guam. The US was monitoring the balloon since it went aloft from Hainan Island along China’s south coast. It was tracking along a path to Guam but then seemed to veer north until reaching Alaska.
Here’s the key passage from the Post …
U.S. monitors watched as the balloon settled into a flight path that would appear to have taken it over the U.S. territory of Guam. But somewhere along that easterly route, the craft took an unexpected northern turn, according to several U.S. officials, who said that analysts are now examining the possibility that China didn’t intend to penetrate the American heartland with their airborne surveillance device.
The balloon floated over Alaska’s Aleutian Islands thousands of miles away from Guam, then drifted over Canada, where it encountered strong winds that appear to have pushed the balloon south into the continental United States, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive intelligence. A U.S. fighter jet shot the balloon down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, a week after it crossed over Alaska.
Just looking
BREAKING: A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days, and the U.S. government has discussed shooting it out of the sky, officials tell @NBCNews. https://t.co/L9A3NMbIVz
— NBC News World (@NBCNewsWorld) February 2, 2023
Freedom
SCOOPLET: Dallas Police Dept has a contract for training to use Cellebrite, a mobile-phone data extraction technology that helps police break into confiscated phones and has been criticized for being sold to repressive regimes. Uncovered in a public document by @FrancescaDnunz. pic.twitter.com/UzyQH6wJRN
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) January 17, 2023
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman
Especially when extremist men have decided it’s open season on women.
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