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With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts. But before you give one, think twice about...

License plate trackers promise to root out local crime. Amid ICE crackdowns, local governments say they can't be trusted. (Faith Wardwell/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/license-plate-trackers-pushback-00670550
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p24#a251130p24

Pentagon pizza trackers

💡 Follows the obfuscation strategy of #TrackMeNot, shifting the power balance between trackers and tracked users
🆓 Free and #opensource browser extension available for #Firefox,

Cancelled my #Microsoft365 subscription. Good riddance.
(Seeing the size of the apps and all the extra trackers I had to delete justified doing it even more!)
Anyway.. hello @… (Libre Office)? Hope we'll get along.
#microsoft #microsoftOffice #libreOffice