#US as a #Surveillance State
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/us-as-a-surveillance-state.html
We have the right to be presumed innocent, not predicted guilty.
Our liberties mustn't be taken away in an unjust game of probability based on flawed police data.
Sign and share our petition to BAN crime 'predicting' police tech in the UK.
ACT NOW 
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-crime-predicting-police-tech
Crime 'prediction' police tech is how a surveillance state embeds itself into the everyday 
Without committing a crime, you can be branded a threat.
Without access to redress, you can be punished.
Without transparency, you may never know how injustice happened.
We need #SafetyNotSurveillance
'Predictive' policing systems can lead to unjust stop-and-search in an effective digital sus law.
Joint enterprise is already used to bring conspiracy charges against people who've committed no crime.
And then there's the UK's chilling Homicide Prediction Project 
Police tech 'predicts' crime by location or individual 
"Crime hotspots" targets poorer neighbourhoods, while "gang" or "gang-affiliated" are a dog whistle for young Black men and boys.
People are criminalised for where they live, who they hang out with, or for matching a biased data profile.
Algorithms that claim to 'predict' crime are only as 'objective' as the data they're fed.
With crime data reflecting decades of racist and discriminatory policing, the tech will just say to deploy resources in the same way.
It becomes a self-fulfilling feedback loop.
Bad Cops: Rinse and Repeat.
Outlook not so good 
Police tech doesn’t predict crime. It predicts policing.
Based on biased data, it brings more of the same – racist policing and poverty punishment.
Read our latest blog on why crime 'predicting' police tech must be BANNED
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/why-predictive-policing-must-be-banned/
Your VPS provider says they don’t log.
But what if they legally can’t tell you they do?
https://youtu.be/OqzMrhcMcUM
#Surveillance #Metadata #Monero
If you "have nothing to hide" only against a government (and the institutions of which, including but not limited to law enforcement) which is and as long as it remains favorable or at least indifferent to you, then you do have something to hide. Just like everyone else does.
For any value of "you".
But, as a side note, I think many people who say "I have nothing to hide" also expects society to be a well functioning democracy with an appropriate legal system and proper judicial branch in place, and not a totalitarian state being run by a group of muppets.
My two cents.
The #postal #collaboration is a significant escalation in the #Trump admin’s #immigration *crackdown*. #DHS officials [& #Musk’s #DOGE] have previously partnered with #tax, #housing & #PublicHealth authorities. But the involvement of the Postal Inspection Service, the nation’s oldest #LawEnforcement agency, means efforts to pursue #undocumented #immigrants have expanded into one of the most mundane govt activities: delivering the #mail.
#Immigration officials are seeking photographs of the outside of envelopes & packages — an Inspection Service program known as “mail covers” — & #access to the #postal investigation agency’s broad #surveillance systems, including Postal Service online account #data, package- & #mail-tracking info, #CreditCard data & #financial material & #IP addresses….
The #LawEnforcement arm of #USPS has begun cooperating w/federal #immigration ofcls to locate people suspected of being in the country illegally, acc/to 2 people familiar… & documents obtained by WaPo—dramatically broadening the scope of #Trump’s #MassDeportations campaign.
#US #Postal Inspection Service, a police & investigative force for the #mail agency, joined a #DHS task force geared toward finding, detaining & deporting #undocumented #immigrants….
WTAF?!?!?
#USPS #LawEnforcement assists #Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources & records show
The #Postal Inspection Service recently joined a federal task force to locate #undocumented #immigrants using #data from #mail & packages, acc/to people familiar w/the effort & records obtained exclusively by The Washington Post.
#law #immigration #privacy #surveillance #InfoSec #AbuseOfPower
https://wapo.st/3Sce9ut
@benzogaga33@mamot.fr1er Mai : Les conseils antirep de la coord https://www.agendamilitant.org/1er-Mai-Les-conseils-antirep-de-la-coord.html #Surveillance,répression,libertés,technopolice #Réunionpublique
#Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government #Surveillance, Police Records Show
https://www.wired.com/story/police-records-car-subscription-features-surveillance/
@blogdiva@mastodon.socialREMINDER:
the word ROBOT means SLAVE.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114420385015829907
the primary purpose of #AI is to turn techbros into a new class of slave drivers ―because with finbros, they’ve turned human trafficking into tradeable “financial instruments” with #surveillance #capitalism
credit cards, credit reports, dating apps, email, google docs, photo galleries, cloud services, online banking, online shopping, delivery apps, taxi apps, android and iOS, LLMs are APIs in this tech slavery operating system
https://www.wired.com/story/police-records-car-subscription-features-surveillance/
This WIRED article discusses how cars equipped with subscription-based features can expose drivers to increased government surveillance.
Law enforcement agencies are exploiting the data generated by these connected services, often without drivers' knowledge or consent.
@benzogaga33@mamot.frKhrys’presso du lundi 28 avril 2025 https://framablog.org/2025/04/28/khryspresso-du-lundi-28-avril-2025/ #Claviersinvités #Surveillance #Revuedeweb #Revuehebdo #Internet #webrevue #Veille #veille #GAFAM
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