The Nexus of Privacy

The time is right: Organizing against the surveillance-industrial complex in the ATmosphere and the fediverses thenexusofprivacy.net/the-time-is-... If we organize, we can have a big impact in the linked fights against different aspects of the surveillance-industrial complex

3 ways to fight election disinformation and rumors 1. THINK before you engage or share 2. SHARE accurate information about the election 3. EDUCATE yourself — and people you know The post goes into detail on each, with examples, infographics, videos, and links thenexusofprivacy.net/election-dis...

3 ways to fight election disinformation and rumors 1. THINK before you engage or share 2. SHARE accurate information about the election 3. EDUCATE yourself — and people you know The post goes into detail on each, with examples, infographics, videos, and links thenexusofprivacy.net/election-dis...

Meta's since restored some access, but it's still bad -- and they just did a bunch of dirty tricks against Lula in Brazil. As censorship ramps up, the ATmosphere could well play a key role in the midterms and potential coup attempt Check out @voting-rights.news' feeds at bsky.app/profile/voti...

Local and international companies are warning about #BillC22: -Up to 6 months of mandatory metadata retention -It could force weakened #encryption or interception tools! -"Core provider" is undefined, and secret ministerial orders could hit non-core firms too progresschamber.org/resources/co...

Comments are still open for the NIST framework for evaluation of AI systems: nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/...

Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....

So, fun fact: ever since 1994, and Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" campaign stunt, Congress has had a SERIOUS problem with subject-matter expertise and institutional memory. It's why Congress has such a deep and complicated relationship with lobbyists. 1/

“If Mark Zuckerberg is talking he is lying to” is the only safe assumption. If you are using Muse I am afraid you are getting suckered yet again, this time with personal consequences instead of just societal ones.

Thinking about the US midterms and how feeds could play a part? Join the @graze.social team + community TOMORROW, Tue Sept 29 at 2pm PT for an open call on building election-ready feeds and the product changes we're making to support you. Everyone is welcome! 🗳

From lantern laws to Black Codes to COINTELPRO to today: facial recognition turns the border into "a network of surveillance that digitizes colonial logic and sorts bodies into categories of belonging and threat along racial lines," argue Tsion Gurmu, Nekessa Opoti and Fatima Mohamed.

Next Tuesday, a permanent decision on Chat Control 2.0 could be made. 😡 If passed, this means your private chats WILL be SCANNED. 🚨 PLEASE TAKE ACTION Contact your MEPs 👉 fightchatcontrol.eu?level=nation... At Tuta we say NO to #ChatControl and will continue to fight for your right to privacy. ❤️🔐

🚨🚨🚨 Patrick Breyer schlägt jetzt Alarm bzgl. der CK 2.0 am Dienstag (29. September). Schreibt und ruft eure Abgeordneten an via fightchatcontrol.eu Patrick Breyer now raises alarm regarding cc 2.0. Mail and call your MEP's via fightchatcontrol.eu Sources for Screenshots: bsky.app/profile/echo...

“My plate is already visible in public.” True. But being seen once and having an observation stored for later searching are different things. ALPR records can include plate, date, time and camera location. https://dfmd.org/bsky1 #Privacy

Peter Thiel hat die perfekte Comic-Bösewicht-Origin-Story: Aufgewachsen in extrem rechter deutscher Community im Apartheid-Namibia. Vater arbeitete für Unternehmen, dass Schwarze Minenarbeiter brutal ausbeutete, um Uran für Südafrikas Atombombenprogramm zu liefern. Opa: frühes NSDAP- und SA-Mitglied

BIG & BREAKING: The Fairfax County, Virginia School Board voted UNANIMOUSLY to prohibit the installation, purchase, or use of ALPR mass surveillance cameras on school property. The ban applies to ALL license plate readers made by any manufacturer. #VALeg

Sigh. Why are accounts here sharing Trump's propaganda image from Trump's propaganda video? DON'T AMPLIFY PROPAGANDA!!!! Yes @theatlantic.com I'm talking to you -- and also everybody else sharing The Atlantic's article or anything else with a still from the video DON'T AMPLIFY PROPAGANDA!!!!!

About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.

“The outrage is reaching beyond Flock now to other license plate reader companies... There are lots of alternatives waiting to fill Flock’s shoes. And they’re already deployed by the hundreds of thousands.” -STOP Research Director Eleni Manis Read more: www.thefreelancenews.org/home/what-ar...

A big win for a broad coalition, a bad day for big grocery chains and Big Tech! Seattle is the first city in the country to band surveillance pricing for groceries, and it's the first surveillance pricing ban to include a private right of action. thenexusofprivacy.net/a-big-win-fo...

A big win for a broad coalition, a bad day for big grocery chains and Big Tech! Seattle is the first city in the country to band surveillance pricing for groceries, and it's the first surveillance pricing ban to include a private right of action. thenexusofprivacy.net/a-big-win-fo...

And that's it! The Seattle Fair Pricing and Transparency Ordinance passes 7-2, and surveillance pricing is now banned in Seattle!!!!!!

A golden opportunity in Seattle: the City Council votes today on the surveillance pricing ban With all the headlines about AI risks and harms, and the need for regulation, it's a chance to do something concrete to protect Seattle consumers and workers nexusofprivacy.net/a-golden-opp...

Thanks for sharing, Senator and for your work on this issue. Link to the piece here: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...

Tell Seattle City Council to ban surveillance pricing — and reject all amendments that add loopholes, weaken... https://wa-privacy.net/tell-seattle-city-council-to-ban-surveillance-pricing-and-reject-all-amendments-that-add-loopholes-weaken-enforcement-and-carve-in-surveillance-technologies/

"It might seem like Flock cameras & backlash to them sprung up overnight but it’s really the product of years of organizing led by racial justice, immigrant rights & civil liberties organizations" - @evangreer.bsky.social via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...

"Everyone should study the movement against Flock. Take notes. These ordinary people from all walks of life are teaching us how to seize back control of our future." 🫠 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o... #Flock #DeFlock #Axon #Surveillance #AxonAxoff #fyp #trending #ALPR #AI

To understand how AI auditing actually works, & why we need 3rd party (fully independent) auditors, not just 2nd party (contractors) or 1st party (internal teams), please read the 2022 paper Who Audits the Auditors? I coauthored w/ @rajiinio.bsky.social & @poetofcode.bsky.social www.ajl.org/auditors

⚠️ "Right now, police across all levels of government, from small-town sheriffs to massive federal agencies, are adopting AI at a staggering rate and using it to build the kind of efficient, centralized surveillance-state apparatus that Yuval warned about." #surveillance #flock #axon #alpr #rtcc

👀 As the article highlights, the bill doesn't actually ban Flock or other ALPRs. And it almost certainly has no chance to get through Congress this year. Still, viewing politicians as weathervanes, an interesting data point on where the wind is blowing these days!

#NationalVoterRegistrationDay: 5 things to do after making sure you're registered thenexusofprivacy.net/national-vot... I'll be writing more about election protection over the next few months, focusing on online organizing and fighting disinfo ... but this is a really good place to start!

New opportunity to work with ORG 🚀 We're looking for an independent consultant or small consultancy to produce a report for organisations to reduce their dependence on large technology infrastructure providers and towards a collaborative open source model. Closing date: 30 September. Apply now ⬇️

"Even as state & local governments decide to rein in their #surveillance capabilities, uncertainty remains about what #Flock can & will do with data that has already been collected. Each jurisdiction’s contract is different, but many of them let #Flock retain data long after it’s been collected."

I really want people to think more like organizers. I'm seeing endless debate, and more than a little conspiracy theorizing, about the motivations behind the big companies' warnings about the danger of AI. And almost no discussion about how we seize this moment to demand the policies we want.

It's the Seattle City Council committee hearing on surveillance pricing! Streaming live at seattle.gov/council/meet...

BREAKING: AI insiders warn that without industry-friendly regulation humanity is doomed, doomed, DOOMED!!!!!!!! It's so transparent. And yet so many media outlets are more than happy to go along with it ...

My latest on surveillance tech in Portland: what we know about Flock & ALPR use by police here No Flock: PPB does not use Flock equipment & does not have a contract w Flock. Yes ALPRs: PPB currently uses Motorola ALPRs & has used ALPRs for 10+ yrs Also: get details on PPB's new ALPR rules & more

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A new version of ChatGPT is about to drop. Academics like @alexhanna.bsky.social and Emily Bender have been pointing out for literal years that these scare tactics about how powerful and scary AI is actually work as marketing. At this point, being this gullible is a choice.

to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees.