EFF’s Policy Position on ALPR Surveillance: Eliminate It and Reduce Its Harms
Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) build a searchable map of everywhere a driver goes, fed into databases that police, ICE, and private vendors can query…
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Pluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026)
Today’s links Surveillance vs guillotines: Someone’s gonna fleece these rubes, why not me? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DeCSS; Warhol Worm;…
“AI-Powered” Surveillance Networks are Worse Than You Know
And I bade my comrades cast lots among them, which of them should have the hardihood with me to lift the stake and grind it…
State Department Wants Palantir’s Advice on Free Speech and “Countering Digital Surveillance”
Founded by Trump ally and right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, Palantir has attacked the press and works in the digital surveillance space.
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Pluralistic: The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026)
Today’s links The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing: Since 1850, San Francisco’s Chamber of Commerce has been pissing in our mouths and calling it…
San Francisco: Don’t Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing
The concept of “surveillance pricing” is just one part of a much larger problem and business model: corporations maximizing their profits by invading our privacy….
“We Want Texans to Know Their Rights”: Q&A with Mayday Health on the Impact of Surveillance on Abortion Care
Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down…
Jessica Burbank on the Rise of Flock Safety and America’s Surveillance State
As Americans are told to accept an ever-expanding web of cameras, drones, and AI-powered policing in the name of public safety, few journalists have followed…
Russia Weaponizes Civilian Tanker in Baltic Sea, Surveillance Images Show
Heavy machine guns have been mounted aboard a tanker that supplies energy to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, according to surveillance photos obtained by reporters.
We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off…