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Senators accuse Trump administration of hiding a secret court ruling on spying on Americans
Ron Wyden and Adam Schiff say the administration is unlawfully withholding a FISA court ruling on search filters for intercepted data until Congress renews the Section 702 surveillance program.
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Canada's C-22 Bill Threatens to Weaken the Encryption Everyone Relies On
Bill C-22, already passed by the House of Commons, is now before the Senate. Rights groups warn it opens the door to backdoors and mass metadata retention.
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Flock CEO defends surveillance tech: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’
On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Flock founder Garrett Langley defended mass surveillance technology, insisting its crime-fighting payoff outweighs the risk of abuse.
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OpenAI engineer arrested over hidden spy device in the office
An OpenAI engineer of barely a year is accused of planting a concealed recorder in an executive conference room. The irony: the company's own AI models helped expose him.
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Tesla's 'Security Protocols' Thwarted a DHS Tracking Device
A federal warrant reviewed by 404 Media reveals that an electric car's built-in defenses kept a Homeland Security agent from planting a tracker on a suspect's vehicle.
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An Illinois college tried to cancel its Flock contract — and the cameras stayed
An Illinois college terminated its deal with Flock Safety, but the company refused to take its cameras down. It escalated to staff taping over the lenses with trash bags while unknown workers kept coming to uncover them.
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Sanders files bill to bar the federal government from using Flock
Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed banning federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers and from tapping the data those readers collect.
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock License-Plate Search Was Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
A judge in Oklahoma found that an officer violated the Fourth Amendment by running a California plate through Flock's automated reader network without a warrant. The nationwide system, she wrote, is approaching "indiscriminate mass surveillance."
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Eavesdropping on WhatsApp and Signal via Device Linking
German Customs connects police-controlled computers to suspects' accounts using the linked-devices feature — reading messages without ever breaking the encryption.
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Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Down
A researcher published a map of 300,000 Flock devices across the US, built from a leaked access path to the company's own database. Flock responded by demanding, through a contractor, that the site come down.
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A Single Flock Camera Hit Put an Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
A 23-year-old Florida woman was arrested for a triple-fatal crash on the strength of one license-plate-camera image of her car. Her vehicle didn't have so much as a dent.
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Spymarks, Not Watermarks
The author argues that hidden tracking signals embedded in images, audio and text should be called "spymarks" rather than "watermarks" — to put the privacy threat front and center.
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What Became of the Snowden Archive: Seven Years of Silence
Since 29 May 2019, no outlet anywhere has published a single document from the Snowden archive. An investigation finds the shutdown wrapped in a chain of contradictory explanations.
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Hackers Cracked Flock's Camera Software and Showed How It Tracks Cars and People
Activists took down a traffic camera made by Flock, copied its contents and extracted the encryption key. Analysis showed the device recognizes not just license plates, but people too.
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Twenty-Five Years of Mass Surveillance: Time to Take Stock
In an essay for Lawfare, Bruce Schneier and Cindy Cohn argue that the architecture of total surveillance that emerged after 9/11 long ago outgrew the fight against terrorism and has become a routine tool for the police, ICE and private companies.
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Watches That Hear Everything: Apple Ushers In the Era of “Always-Listening” Devices
Apple is adding always-listening ambient features to the new Apple Watch. Privacy experts warn that the real problem isn’t protecting users — it’s the rights of the people who happen to be nearby.
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Flock Installer Called the Police on a Journalist Who Was Filming Him
Flock Safety, whose cameras automatically capture the license plates of millions of vehicles, has found itself in an awkward spot: twice over the summer its workers called the police on people filming them in public.
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Automobile Camouflage Against Flock Cameras
Bruce Schneier flagged an unusual way to hide a car from Flock cameras — striking, but hardly practical.
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Wisconsin Police Searched a Veteran's Car in Flock More Than 100 Times After He Filmed Them at Work
A U.S. Navy veteran used his phone to record an officer at work in a parking lot — and over the following weeks his white BMW was run dozens of times through the Flock license-plate tracking system.
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Comcast Routers Learned to Spot Motion in Your Home — and to Share It
Comcast has turned its Wi-Fi routers into motion sensors, but, as Bruce Schneier points out, the terms of service hide a clause about handing that data to third parties.
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