Category: Surveillance
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How to Clean Up Your Social Media Before a Job Interview
When preparing for a job interview, polishing your resume and practicing answers are important but cleaning up your social media is just as critical. Today, many employers look beyond your CV. They check your online presence to get a sense of who you are outside of the interview. Your Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, or LinkedIn can…
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Meet the Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Over 50% of Flight Data to ICE
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Delta, United, and American Airlines have probably sold your itinerary, credit card info, and your movements to Homeland Security and ICE. Major U.S. airlines are acting as data brokers, selling your data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 404 Media acquired a contract that indicated an airline-owned data…
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How Public Personal Info Helped the Minnesota Shooter Target His Victims
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On June 14, 2025, Minnesota witnessed a harrowing act of political violence when Vance Luther Boelter, a 57-year-old former gubernatorial appointee, fatally shot State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. Boelter, disguised as a police officer, carried out these attacks at the victims’ homes…
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Localhost Tracking: The New Privacy Battleground That Could Cost Meta Billions
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Researchers have discovered another ethically concerning abuse of user privacy from Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Messenger and WhatsApp). The same technology appears to have been used by Russian search paltform Yandex too. Tracking users has been a critical part of Meta’s business model for years (and almost any ad-support platform) – for…
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Threat Detection Theatrics: Aaron Cohen’s AI Surveillance “Tool” and Domestic Spy Machines
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Update – September 2025 Aaron Cohen had another Fox News appearance a few days ago, echoing the same claims – America’s first AI-first threat detection system (excluding the entire existing industry; SocialNet, Flock Safety, Clearview AI, Veritone, Dataminr First Alert etc.). This time, the messaging leveraged the recent Minneapolis School Shooting to try and sell…
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Meta Begins Training AI on EU User Data Through GDPR Loophole
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Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) has begun roll out of its AI features in the EU. Meta says this will improve tools like Meta AI and Imagine, as well as future integrations across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads. Watchdogs are on the defensive, with NOYB sending a cease and desist and widespread criticism…
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Another 2 Billion Discord Messages Scraped: What This Means for Your Digital Footprint
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In a story by 404media that reads like a textbook example of modern surveillance creep, researchers recently scraped and published over 2 billion Discord messages – sourced from more than 620 public servers. This comes about a month after the last claim of a massive Discord scraping job. The dataset, created under the guise of…
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How Hackers Use Your Social Media for Social Engineering Attacks
Social media connects billions of people – both friends & family… and hackers & scammers. Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to perform “social engineering” attacks, where they manipulate human trust to steal information or money. In this article, we’ll explore real-world examples of how these attacks play out on each…
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Flock Safety: Eroding Your Privacy & Keeping You Safe with Surveillance
In an age where technology increasingly permeates our daily lives, the rise of sophisticated surveillance systems raises critical questions about the balance between public safety and individual privacy. One company at the forefront of this debate is Flock Safety, a major player in automated license plate recognition (LPR) technology. This blog post delves into the…