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If you are a citizen of the EU and are concerned about government surveillance of our private chats, photographs and documents, it is important to take action before October. This tool: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ will easily enable you to draft an email to send to your MEPs.
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
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https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/

Validating Terrain Models in Digital Twins for Trustworthy sUAS Operations
Arturo Miguel Russell Bernal, Maureen Petterson, Pedro Antonio Alarcon Granadeno, Michael Murphy, James Mason, Jane Cleland-Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16104

Validating Terrain Models in Digital Twins for Trustworthy sUAS Operations
With the increasing deployment of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) in unfamiliar and complex environments, Environmental Digital Twins (EDT) that comprise weather, airspace, and terrain data are critical for safe flight planning and for maintaining appropriate altitudes during search and surveillance operations. With the expansion of sUAS capabilities through edge and cloud computing, accurate EDT are also vital for advanced sUAS capabilities, like geolocation. However, real-world sUAS de…

Cyber security of Mega Events: A Case Study of Securing the Digital Infrastructure for MahaKumbh 2025 -- A 45 days Mega Event of 600 Million Footfalls
Rohit Negi, Amit Negi, Manish Sharma, S. Venkatesan, Prem Kumar, Sandeep K. Shukla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15660

Cyber security of Mega Events: A Case Study of Securing the Digital Infrastructure for MahaKumbh 2025 -- A 45 days Mega Event of 600 Million Footfalls
Mega events such as the Olympics, World Cup tournaments, G-20 Summit, religious events such as MahaKumbh are increasingly digitalized. From event ticketing, vendor booth or lodging reservations, sanitation, event scheduling, customer service, crime reporting, media streaming and messaging on digital display boards, surveillance, crowd control, traffic control and many other services are based on mobile and web applications, wired and wireless networking, network of Closed-Circuit Television (CC…

Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and military against protesters in Los Angeles is widely being interpreted as
a display of intimidation and state power ahead of his birthday,
when Trump will oversee a military parade in Washington, D.C. in the style of a dictator.
The president has warned that protesters in D.C. will be
“met with very heavy force.”
Democrats and civil rights groups say the president is inflaming tensions to justify further repr…

Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.

«…Новая налоговая обязанность возникает, если переводы на банковскую карту квалифицируются как доход. Например, получение неофициальной заработной платы, оплата аренды жилья, поступления за товары или услуги без статуса самозанятого, а также регулярные крупные переводы от сторонних лиц. В этих случаях Федеральная налоговая служба вправе затребовать пояснения и при необходимости доначислить налог на доходы или налог на профессиональный доход».

Ужесточение контроля за персданными и банковскими переводами. Что ещё вступает в силу?
С июля 2025 года в России вступают в силу новые законы, затрагивающие интернет, цифровые права и онлайн-услуги. Усиливается контроль за операциями с цифровым рублём, силовые структуры получат расширенный доступ к государственным инфосистемам с персональными данными. Вводи…

Every major US city has a private foundation supporting police,
with more than 250 nationwide, according to a 2021 report by research and activist groups Little Sis and Color of Change.
The foundations have been used to pay for surveillance technologies in cities like Baltimore and Los Angeles -- without being subject to public scrutiny, according to the report.
More than a year after a digital news outlet and a research group sued the Atlanta Police Foundation for alleged…

VisAug: Facilitating Speech-Rich Web Video Navigation and Engagement with Auto-Generated Visual Augmentations
Baoquan Zhao, Xiaofan Ma, Qianshi Pang, Ruomei Wang, Fan Zhou, Shujin Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03410

VisAug: Facilitating Speech-Rich Web Video Navigation and Engagement with Auto-Generated Visual Augmentations
The widespread adoption of digital technology has ushered in a new era of digital transformation across all aspects of our lives. Online learning, social, and work activities, such as distance education, videoconferencing, interviews, and talks, have led to a dramatic increase in speech-rich video content. In contrast to other video types, such as surveillance footage, which typically contain abundant visual cues, speech-rich videos convey most of their meaningful information through the audio …

Rainbow Artifacts from Electromagnetic Signal Injection Attacks on Image Sensors
Youqian Zhang, Xinyu Ji, Zhihao Wang, Qinhong Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07773

Rainbow Artifacts from Electromagnetic Signal Injection Attacks on Image Sensors
Image sensors are integral to a wide range of safety- and security-critical systems, including surveillance infrastructure, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation. These systems rely on the integrity of visual data to make decisions. In this work, we investigate a novel class of electromagnetic signal injection attacks that target the analog domain of image sensors, allowing adversaries to manipulate raw visual inputs without triggering conventional digital integrity checks. We uncover …

European countries have been growing increasingly wary of relying on Microsoft for critical government and public sector services.
Concerns about data privacy, digital sovereignty, and potential governmental surveillance have led many to question the viability of depending on an American tech giant for sensitive infrastructure.
Many worry that dependence on Microsoft could leave them vulnerable to sudden service interruptions or the risk of sensitive data being accessed without …

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft
Microsoft faces growing rejection in Europe whereas open source software sees growing adaption.

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The CASE Framework -- A New Architecture for Participatory Research and Digital Health Surveillance
We present the CASE framework, an open-source platform for adaptive, context-aware participatory research, and pandemic preparedness. CASE implements an event-driven architecture that enables dynamic survey workflows, allowing real-time adaptation based on participant responses, external data, temporal conditions, and evolving user states. The framework supports a broad range of research needs, from simple one-time questionnaires to complex longitudinal studies with advanced conditional logic. …