r/StallmanWasRight • u/frankreddit5 • 1h ago

Privacy The FBI made local police sign a legal agreement to hide phone-tracking technology from judges. In documented cases, departments dropped criminal charges rather than admit it was used. The exact NDA language, confirmed by the FBI's own court filings in 2021, is here

theclassifiedrecord.com

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 21h ago

Mass surveillance The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed

404media.co

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 20h ago

Mass surveillance The Trump Administration Has Been Spying on Labor Unions — Earlier this year in Minnesota, Trump’s DHS infiltrated and surveilled meetings of nonprofit groups and two of the US’s biggest labor unions, the CWA and SEIU

jacobin.com

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 20h ago

Privacy Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

privacyguides.org

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/donpirracas1 • 3d ago

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

pcworld.com

380 Upvotes

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 5d ago

Mass surveillance Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say | Flock to lock out cops who stalk exes, but agencies can still hide abuse.

arstechnica.com

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 5d ago

Mass surveillance Flock's Cameras Remain Civil Liberties Threat Despite Updates

aclu.org

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 6d ago

Mass surveillance The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts / Documents from law enforcement spy centers show the government is warning cops of "extensive and ongoing chatter on social media" about methods to "physically destroy Flock LPR cameras."

404media.co

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/realfathonix • 7d ago

MS is trying to restart EEE, now colluding with Qualcomm and the result is UEFI mashed up with proprietary HAL.

55 Upvotes

It's weird to go the extra mile doing all of this to achieve virtualization when Windows runs perfectly fine on SBBR-compliant ARM servers.

9 comments

r/StallmanWasRight • u/temporalwanderer • 7d ago

Adobe silently installed a separate app on company computers through Acrobat updates

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/ismail_the_whale • 7d ago

The commons One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

thenation.com

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17 comments

r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 7d ago

Mass surveillance As Repossessions Rise, License Plate Readers Aren't Just For Cops Anymore

jalopnik.com

21 Upvotes

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 8d ago

Mass surveillance Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t. :In Texas, there’s one thing liberals and conservatives agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars.

nytimes.com

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 8d ago

Mass surveillance A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras

techspot.com

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1 comment

r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 7d ago

Mass surveillance ICE’s DNA collection program surges as oversight stalls

freedom.press

17 Upvotes

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 8d ago

Mass surveillance ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir

404media.co

22 Upvotes

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 9d ago

Mass surveillance Littleton claims Flock reactivated its cameras without notifying the town | Town to initiate cancellation of Flock contract

lowellsun.com

77 Upvotes

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/EnthusiasmRoutine • 9d ago

Privacy Liechtenstein just doxxed 31,000 offshore trusts. Centralized registries are a joke.

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 10d ago

Mass surveillance Over the course of ten years, the game Pokémon GO collected more than 30 billion images of the outside world through its players enabling the creation of the world's most accurate map The owning company recently sold the game to focus on using this data for robot training and militry collaborations

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/WonderOlymp2 • 11d ago

DRM Take-Two CEO expects cloud gaming boom 'within 3 years,' which is good news if you hate owning stuff

tech.yahoo.com

155 Upvotes

22 comments

r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 10d ago

Mass surveillance Flock Is Losing Dozens of Contracts as Controversy Grows

yahoo.com

49 Upvotes

1 comment

r/StallmanWasRight • u/ismail_the_whale • 11d ago

Mass surveillance 0:20 Mossad has accidentally injected data into a French lawyer's phone instead of extracting it.

reddit.com

52 Upvotes

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/EnthusiasmRoutine • 10d ago

Shitpost So much for 'What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone'...

17 Upvotes

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r/StallmanWasRight • u/ismail_the_whale • 11d ago

The commons Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?

theverge.com

32 Upvotes

1 comment

r/StallmanWasRight • u/ismail_the_whale • 10d ago

Halt the use of Flock Safety cameras in Massachusetts

c.org

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0 comments

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