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US tech enabled China's surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-nepal-surveillance-technology-silicon-valley-eadac8211c5d0ca88374afecfbba00d5
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p35#a251220p35

Coalition Urges Congress to Block All Funding for ICE 'Surveillance Panopticon' | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-surveillance-technology-funding

DHS wants to do this when it comes to ICE criticism.
Some people who posted on social media about the protests and other political topics have had their phone SIM cards suspended, while others received warning phone calls and faced banking service interruptions

Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters
As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests.

Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Am I cheering on a big AI company?
“Anthropic insists that two areas remain off limits: the mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weaponry.”
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/claude-…

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
Anthropic has not agreed to the Pentagon's terms and defense officials are getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations.

After surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety
Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad,
the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial
law-enforcement technology company.
https://www.theverge.co…

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Amazon-owned Ring has canceled its proposed integration with Flock

Citizen Lab: Kenyan authorities used Cellebrite to break into phone of dissident https://therecord.media/spyware-kenya-cellebrite-activist

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.

🥳 Auto-Encrypt Localhost version 9.0.0 released
Bye bye, Windows.
• Windows is no longer supported as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people¹ and Small Technology Foundation² stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement³. Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.
Enjo…

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Surveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-nepal-sur…

Chinese surveillance based on US tech is used to silence Tibetans in Nepal
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya. This technology is now a key part of China’s push for global influence, as it provides cash-strapped governments cost-effective, if invasive, forms of policing — turning algorithms and data into a force multiplier for control. The irony at the heart of this digital authoritarianism i…

Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs).
This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert. 
FRT brings a rash of problems.
It relies on extensive surveillance and collecting images on individuals, law-abiding or otherwise.
Misidentifications can cause horrendous consequences for individuals, includ…

Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs). This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert. As many as 50 officers from the...

Fascinating illustration of the number of surveillance cameras we interact with.
https://apnews.com/photo-essay/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-tech-photo-essay-2da6d9ae5c29d973955e761fa42f7798

Photo essay shows how AP photographers captured infrared technology used in surveillance
When you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light - invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of your face, your body, your license plate lettering.

From @…: How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice…

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

The powerful tools in ICE's arsenal to track suspects -- and protesters (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ice-surveillance-immigrants-protesters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p98#a260129p98

SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

Google helped Israeli military contractor with AI, whistleblower alleges
A whistleblower complaint filed with the SEC claims that Google breached its own ethics rules to help an Israeli contractor apply AI to drone surveillance video.

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

EFF is proud to support the
“ICE Out of Our Faces Act.”
This new federal bill would ban ICE and CBP agents, and some local police working with them,
from acquiring or using biometric surveillance systems,
including face recognition technology, or information derived from such systems by another entity.
This bill would be enforceable, among other ways, by a strong private right of action.
The bill’s lead author is Senator Ed Markey.
We thank him for…

Yes to the “ICE Out of My Face Act”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. The violence is shocking. So are the intrusions on digital rights and civil liberties. For example, immigration agents are routinely scanning faces of...

How ICE agents are using facial recognition technology to bring surveillance to the streets (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ice-agent-facial-recognition-video-protest-movile-fortify-photo-rcna257331
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p91#a260206p91

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ICE wants all the federal funding , all the government data, all the surveillance technology it can get its hands on. Now it wants to track people using data it can source from technology and advertising companies. It is a malignant black hole.
ICE knocks on ad tech’s data door to see what it knows about you
https://www.<…

ICE knocks on ad tech’s data door to see what it knows about you
: Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents

“When you unlock a #phone, step into view of a #security #camera or drive past a license plate reader, beams of #infrared

Photo essay shows how AP photographers captured infrared technology used in surveillance
When you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light - invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of your face, your body, your license plate lettering.