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26/07/2026

Western Australia Police ran Australia's first live facial recognition trial and scanned more than 131,000 faces in its first week. The state's privacy regulator was never consulted, and most of the scanning happened before WA's new privacy law took effect.

26/07/2026

We also recommend a privacy-focused browser, such as Brave Software. 😊

Friends don't send friends YouTube links with trackers on 'em.

Send this to everyone you know and get ahead of Google's snooping.

26/06/2026

Amazon and Walmart still list cheap Android devices that ship with BADBOX malware built into the firmware. The compromise happens at the factory, so the malware is already inside before you ever turn the device on.

17/06/2026

The UK will force every new social media user to upload ID or scan their face, in the name of child safety. It builds a national identity database that researchers say is easy to bypass and certain to leak.

15/06/2026

The report opens with the case of Jarmarus Brown, an Orange City, Florida, police officer who allegedly searched his ex-girlfriend’s license plate, along with plates belonging to her close family members, more than 100 times while on patrol. Colleagues noticed the activity and warned him to stop, but Brown allegedly kept using the easy-to-access Flock system to stalk her.

Dozens of officers have been fired, and some arrested, for abusing Flock’s AI-powered license plate reader systems used by police departments across the US.

The report details cases where officers repeatedly searched the system hundreds of times to stalk current or ex-romantic partners, according to 404 Media.

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15/06/2026

Back to the naughty corner for Flock.
Flock let internal police search records get crawled by DuckDuckGo and Bing, exposing the stated reasons officers ran license plate searches. The surveillance built to watch everyone could not keep its own audit trail off a search engine.

07/06/2026

EFF's Threat Lab confirmed that Meta has already shipped working facial recognition code inside its always-on smart glasses.

31/05/2026

Always a good idea to do independent research.

🚨 AI chatbots are pushing cryptojacking malware.

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🚨 AI chatbots are pushing cryptojacking malware.

Read → https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/ai-chatbot-recommendations-redirect.html

Attackers poisoned AI software recommendations to redirect users searching for tools like CrystalDiskInfo and HWMonitor to malicious download sites distributing ScreenConnect, rogue DLLs, and GPU mining malware.

More than 150 malicious domains were identified.

Attackers poisoned AI software recommendations to redirect users searching for tools like CrystalDiskInfo and HWMonitor to malicious download sites distributing ScreenConnect, rogue DLLs, and GPU mining malware.

More than 150 malicious domains were identified.

19/05/2026

Make these moves:
Chrome -> Brave
Google Search -> Brave Search

04/05/2026

Please, PLEASE, do not give these AI agents access to critical infrastructure or your personal files. This isn't a matter of if, but when.

The AI agent was working on a routine task when it decided “entirely on its own initiative” to fix the problem.... by deleting the database.