An illustration of a television with an eye in the middle.
Is your TV watching you? Spoiler: it probably is.
The streaming era has created endless quality content, but companies have turned to surveillance capitalism to make this profitable.
Let's examine how the black mirror became the all-seeing billboard.
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AI requires standard digital privacy transparency, due to regulatory environment of US, transparency isnt enforced, online. Need Commonwealth rules for the internet.
Recently, a French scientist's phone was searched at the airport and officials denied him entry because he had criticisms of Trump's policies about research on his phone. US officials called them “hateful and conspiratorial messages.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We just updated atlasofsurveillance.org with more than 200 new law enforcement agencies that maintain registries of private surveillance cameras. Search to see what tech your local cops are using.
@lloyddavis.bsky.social hi, Mark Lizar here saying hi
Two Members of Privacy Watchdog, Summarily Fired by Trump, File Lawsuit www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...
This casts Nick Clegg’s efforts a few months ago in a dark light…
This London UK Bus Stop gives a good idea of the UK sentiment towards Mr. Musk.
USA Infrastructure & Security is becoming more and more fragile. Time for Transparency.
The Investigatory Powers Act could prohibit companies from revealing that the UK government has ordered them to remove encryption. “That raises the real risk of false reliance on a safety feature that isn’t there,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @bloomberg.com.
The court’s decision “would be front-and-center in any argument that Congress needs to impose a warrant requirement for these backdoor searches,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @theintercept.com. “That tends to be the kind of thing that Congress takes note of.”
Digital Transparency to Validate Consent
Just Posted on the rapacious Linked in, so i can also share here. A surveillance Commons.
