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The State of Anti-Surveillance Design https://www.404media.co/the-state-of-anti-surveillance-design/

From #RobertReich @rbreich@instagram.com and @inequalitymedia@instagram.com @…
The #AI #surveillance

Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/02/trump-ice-military-occupations-surveillance-state-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p59#a260202p59

New York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10 states are considering similar bills (Tim Balk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregio

N.Y. Law Could Set Stage for A.I. Regulation’s Next ‘Big Battleground’
The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.

One Extraordinary Photo: AP photographer uses infrared technology as surveillance tool | AP News https://apnews.com/article/2025-invisible-infrared-surveillance-technology-extraordinary-photo

One Extraordinary Photo: AP photographer uses infrared technology as surveillance tool
The aim was to show how powerful surveillance technology such as face recognition appears when used on individuals controlled by state agencies.

You know, in most countries, "panopticon" is a label you need to defend your proposal for surveillance against, not gleefully adopt yourself. Not so on Normal Island. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25780001.shabana-mahmood-p…

As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities,
big tech companies have been making themselves indispensable to the increasingly tyrannical state.
Among them is Amazon subsidiary Ring,
the company behind those AI doorbell cameras that have exploded in popularity over the last few years.
Back in October, Ring announced that its devices would soon be looped into a network of Flock AI surveillance cameras.
That network, an inv…

Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.

DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter https://www.404media.co/dhs-says-critical-ice-surveillance-footage-from-abuse-case-was-actually-never-recorded-do…

I loathe these supposed representatives of the people in @… who claim to work for the people while building the dystopian surveillance state we’ve been repeatedly warned about in literature. Clearly, politicians should read more books and fewer speeches since they are ignorant enough to keep coming up with these things.

Reading this below on the 36th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and by extension the symbolic end of the GDR, the place I grew up in... with neighbors and parents of classmates belonging to the Stasi (east German secret police), the fear my own parents might be disappeared — years later seeing the thickness of the files of surveillance materials the state/stasi had collected on my family... remembering early autumn 1989, joining friends protesting in the streets every Monday after …

😰 Miami Is Testing a Self-Driving Police Car That Can Launch Drones
https://www.thedrive.com/news/miami-is-testing-a-self-driving-police-car-that-can-launch-drones

Miami Is Testing a Self-Driving Police Car That Can Launch Drones
Meet the new surveillance state trooper!

Georgia DFCS claims neglect, and also won't let a family see most of their case file.
https://reason.com/2026/01/16/she-let-her-6-year-old-ride-to-the-park-alone-georgia-called-it-neglect/

Atlanta mom let her son ride to the park alone. Georgia called it neglect.
Despite a new state law protecting childhood independence, child welfare officials accused these Atlanta parents of neglect—and put their family under surveillance.