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TinyFish, which develops AI-powered web agents that automate complex online tasks like dynamic price surveillance, raised a $47M Series A led by ICONIQ Capital (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-agent-startup…

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.

During their latest tour stop, Massive Attack shocked fans by integrating facial recognition into the show itself. Live video feeds captured audience faces, processing them through recognition software and projecting the results as part of the visual experience. https://www.

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.

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…

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…

The UK has ramped up the use of facial recognition, AI, and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/t…

Has Britain Gone Too Far With Its Digital Controls?
British authorities have ramped up the use of facial recognition, artificial intelligence and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach.

The University of Michigan paid over $800,000 to Amerishield,
parent company to a private security company called City Shield.
It was part of a broader
👉 $3 million public‑security budget, which included ⚠️surveillance of pro‑Palestinian student activists.
The university hired plainclothes agents who 💥trailed students into cafés, harassed them, and even staged confrontations,
including faking a disability to falsely accuse them of theft.
City Shield, a p…

US Campuses Have Become the Newest Laboratories for Surveillance Technology
From Gaza to the US, military-grade surveillance tools are being deployed to monitor and punish student dissent.

CattleSense - A Multisensory Approach to Optimize Cattle Well-Being
Srijesh Pillai, M. I. Jawid Nazir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12617 https://arxiv.org/pd…

CattleSense - A Multisensory Approach to Optimize Cattle Well-Being
CattleSense is an innovative application of Internet of Things (IoT) technology for the comprehensive monitoring and management of cattle well-being. This research paper outlines the design and implementation of a sophisticated system using a Raspberry Pi Module 4B, RFID Card Reader, Electret Arduino Microphone Module, DHT11 Sensor, Arduino UNO, Neo-6M GPS Sensor, and Heartbeat Sensor. The system aims to provide real-time surveillance of the environment in which Cows are present and individual …

#Facebook is very very bad. https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/how-facebook-t…

We do need a European Sovereign Tech Fund, yes.
What we don’t need is Microsoft – a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist from the US that peddles proprietary technology and is helping Israel carry out its genocide of the Palestinian people as we speak – having anything whatsoever to do with it.
#microsoft

i’m sure U-18s will just give up on music and won’t find creative ways outside the law https://mstdn.social/@DM_Ronin/114942022100067292

ilias :thepiratebay: (@DM_Ronin@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image no more music for U-18s in UK 🙃 #OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #AgeVerification #Spotify #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Censorship #Surveillance

Millisecond-Response Tracking and Gazing System for UAVs: A Domestic Solution Based on "Phytium Cambricon"
Yuchen Zhu, Longxiang Yin, Kai Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04043

Millisecond-Response Tracking and Gazing System for UAVs: A Domestic Solution Based on "Phytium + Cambricon"
In the frontier research and application of current video surveillance technology, traditional camera systems exhibit significant limitations of response delay exceeding 200 ms in dynamic scenarios due to the insufficient deep feature extraction capability of automatic recognition algorithms and the efficiency bottleneck of computing architectures, failing to meet the real-time requirements in complex scenes. To address this issue, this study proposes a heterogeneous computing architecture base…

Full-Dimensional Beamforming for Multi-User MIMO-OFDM ISAC for Low-Altitude UAV with Zero Sensing Resource Allocation
Zhiwen Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06428 https://

Full-Dimensional Beamforming for Multi-User MIMO-OFDM ISAC for Low-Altitude UAV with Zero Sensing Resource Allocation
Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play an important role for low-altitude economy with a wide range of applications like precise agriculture, aerial delivery and surveillance. Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key technology to enable the large-scale deployment and routine usage of UAVs by providing both communication and sensing services efficiently. For UAV ISAC systems, as UAV often acts as both a communication user equipment (UE) and a sensing targe…

Development and analysis of a secured VoIP system for surveillance activities
M. Matsive Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21…

Development and analysis of a secured VoIP system for surveillance activities
Since the 1990s, the telephone has been the primary mode of communication. However, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which is a highly straightforward and affordable form of data transfer, is now becoming an important part of daily communication. VoIP is the technology that makes it possible to send speech and multimedia data packets across either a public or private IP network. However, a cyberattack known as a man-in-the-middle attack poses a serious concern in transferring data through a…

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 …

DASPack: Controlled Data Compression for Distributed Acoustic Sensing
Aleix Segui, Arantza Ugalde, Andreas Fichtner, Sergi Ventosa, Josep Ramon Morros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16390

DASPack: Controlled Data Compression for Distributed Acoustic Sensing
We present DASPack, a high-performance, open-source compression tool specifically designed for distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) data. As DAS becomes a key technology for real-time, high-density, and long-range monitoring in fields such as geophysics, infrastructure surveillance, and environmental sensing, the volume of collected data is rapidly increasing. Large-scale DAS deployments already generate hundreds of terabytes and are expected to increase in the coming years, making long-term stor…