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Texas Democrats are tearing up “permission slips” they signed in order to leave the chamber,
joining state representative Nicole Collier ahead of Wednesday’s vote on the controversial Texas congressional redistricting maps.
The slips are part of new surveillance protocols set by Texas Republicans in the house chamber,
🆘 stating that Democrats would “be granted written permission to leave only after agreeing to be released into the custody of a designated [Texas department o…

This is a spectacular way to get folks to see the impact of the #surveillance state. Great job #MassiveAttack!
#privacy

Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment
Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.

Yes, I use #Monero, almost daily!
But today, I decided to spin up a fresh wallet, feel free to support me, or spoil me a bit for my birthday this Friday, August, 22.
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Unlike the hype coins, surveillance “crypto,” scams, government-controlled money, Monero is built on real privacy, r…

https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
“Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built …

How Silicon Valley enabled China's digital police state
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known. Firms including IBM, Dell, and Cisco sold billions in technology to Chinese police and government agencies, despite repeated warnings that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities. Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a b…

Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers are trapped in a digital cage,
barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes
by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.
Most of this technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide -- the United States.
⚠️ Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state,…

How Silicon Valley enabled China's digital police state
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known. Firms including IBM, Dell, and Cisco sold billions in technology to Chinese police and government agencies, despite repeated warnings that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities. Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a b…

Investigation: IBM, Dell, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's vast digital surveillance state (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surve…

Here is some useful and wise advice for living in the 21st-century surveillance-state epoch: https://aphyr.com/posts/395-geoblocking-multiple-localities-with-nginx

Black People Knew This Would Happen (Alain Stephens/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/08/chicago-ice-blitz-black-surveillance-state-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p2#a251009p2

Deformed #SkyPenis over #Memphis

Wyden secures data privacy deal to shield Oregonians from out-of-state abortion, immigration surveillance (Tim Gordon/KGW-TV)
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/state/wyden-secures-data-privacy-deal-shield-oregonians-out-of-state-abortion-immigration-surveillance/283-aa03cae2-4dc1-427a-8159-086bdf267118
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p19#a250726p19

#Drumpf era #CDC has stopped monitoring for several factors it once tracked for foodborne illness outbreaks. As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is ordered to only monitori for two pathogens instead of the previous eight.
Currently only two

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses
A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago

Finally read #Cyberlibertarianism by David Golumbia and tbh I'm a little underwhelmed.
Seems like he thinks there's no legitimate criticism of the state and current democratic systems from a leftist point of view? Mass surveillance is fine since it's signed off by governments and if you think there's something wrong with that you must be rightwing and cyberliber…

You know it's dire when even Euronews isn't towing the EU pro-surveillance party line. What's sold to you as the only way to stop something vile will be used to stop something you like when the opposite party to your preference gets into power (which they will, eventually!)
https:…

Real Time FPGA Based CNNs for Detection, Classification, and Tracking in Autonomous Systems: State of the Art Designs and Optimizations
Safa Mohammed Sali, Mahmoud Meribout, Ashiyana Abdul Majeed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04153

Real Time FPGA Based CNNs for Detection, Classification, and Tracking in Autonomous Systems: State of the Art Designs and Optimizations
This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent advances in deploying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for object detection, classification, and tracking on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). With the increasing demand for real-time computer vision applications in domains such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, and surveillance, FPGAs have emerged as a powerful alternative to GPUs and ASICs due to their reconfigurability, low power consumption, and deterministic latency. We critica…

Made me smile (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/business/china-chongqing-protest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE8.LOI-.nxBWn_BPfxeP&smid=url-share

A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China’s Surveillance State
Before fleeing China, an activist in Chongqing staged an elaborate one-man demonstration against the Communist Party that doubled as performance art.

Larry Ellison (Oracle-Chef und Trump-Freund) träumt von der totalen Überwachung: Bürger „werden sich benehmen“, weil jeder Schritt gefilmt, analysiert, gemeldet wird. Klingt mehr nach Orwells #1984 als nach Fortschritt. Mehr Kameras bedeuten nicht mehr Gerechtigkeit, sondern mehr Machtkonzentration. Autor Christiaan Hetzner zieht Parallelen zu Chinas Sozialkreditsystem. | Fortune

Your regular reminder that marginal income & capital gains tax rates are too low
-- and this poses an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy
https://bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3lzu3j77n622p

Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.' https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/

A look at China's Ministry of State Security, which has been reshaped by Xi Jinping to be the primary driver of cyber espionage campaigns like Salt Typhoon (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

What Salt Typhoon Shows About the Cyber Power of China’s Spy Agency
Fears of U.S. surveillance drove Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to elevate the agency and put it at the center of his cyber ambitions.

Dual-Function Radar-Communication Beamforming with Outage Probability Metric
Hossein Maleki, Carles Diaz-Vilor, Ali Pezeshki, Vahid Tarokh, Hamid Jafarkhani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04144

Dual-Function Radar-Communication Beamforming with Outage Probability Metric
The integrated design of communication and sensing may offer a potential solution to address spectrum congestion. In this work, we develop a beamforming method for a dual-function radar-communication system, where the transmit signal is used for both radar surveillance and communication with multiple downlink users, despite imperfect channel state information (CSI). We focus on two scenarios of interest: radar-centric and communication-centric. In the radar-centric scenario, the primary goal is…

Explain and Monitor Deep Learning Models for Computer Vision using Obz AI
Neo Christopher Chung, Jakub Binda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18188 https://arxiv…

Explain and Monitor Deep Learning Models for Computer Vision using Obz AI
Deep learning has transformed computer vision (CV), achieving outstanding performance in classification, segmentation, and related tasks. Such AI-based CV systems are becoming prevalent, with applications spanning from medical imaging to surveillance. State of the art models such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) are often regarded as ``black boxes,'' offering limited transparency into their decision-making processes. Despite a recent advancement in explaina…

Every US tech company should sever ties with Europe and focus on LATAM/APAC for expansion. Europe isn't worth the ever-increasing amount of trouble associated with doing business here. Would also give European companies some breathing room to co-innovate the Progressive Utopian Surveillance State hand-in-hand with the EU.

Reproduction Number and Spatial Connectivity Structure Estimation via Graph Sparsity-Promoting Penalized Functional
Etienne Lasalle, Barbara Pascal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20034

Reproduction Number and Spatial Connectivity Structure Estimation via Graph Sparsity-Promoting Penalized Functional
During an epidemic outbreak, decision makers crucially need accurate and robust tools to monitor the pathogen propagation. The effective reproduction number, defined as the expected number of secondary infections stemming from one contaminated individual, is a state-of-the-art indicator quantifying the epidemic intensity. Numerous estimators have been developed to precisely track the reproduction number temporal evolution. Yet, COVID-19 pandemic surveillance raised unprecedented challenges due …