This app has been under development for a few months now and is ready for use.

Should be available on Google play first. IOS in the works and released soon.

If your a developer who can contribute and make it even better that is welcomed it's still very early.

The EU built a system called CounterR that essentially performs pre-crime thought surveillance. The TLDR is that an AI company, with direct input from half a dozen European police forces, built a tool that scrapes social media, forums, and other sources to assign citizens a score based on what they think as opposed to what they've actually done. The EC also has not released details of the project..

The report itself acknowledges that this sort of automated system "can trigger new fundamental rights risks that affect rights different than the protection of personal data and privacy."

The European Commission's White Paper on Al observes that Al-related processing of personal data can trigger new fundamental rights risks that affect rights different than the protection of personal data and privacy, such as the right to freedom of expression, and political freedoms - in particular when Al is used by online intermediaries to prioritise information and for content moderation.

The police were active co-developers, sitting in meetings to define the criteria and feeding real, anonymized data from their investigations to train the LLM. So now you have a feedback loop where police define the threat, the LLM learns it, and the police validate the results, with zero external oversight.

And of course, it's all shrouded in secrecy. The whole thing is confidential, the source code is proprietary so even partners can't audit it, and the ethics board is made up of the same people building the thing. There's no clear requirement to track false positives, so you could be flagged as a potential radical and never know why.

Regarding transparency of funded research, it must be noted that generally research proposals foresee Confidentiality of some results is often necessary, especially in the realm of security.

The cherry on top? The core technology, developed with public funds, was recently acquired by a private company, Logically, who can now sell this dystopian scoring system to whoever they want.

The citizens of the EU literally paid to build our own panopticon. The whole project is about normalizing the idea that the state gets to algorithmically monitor and judge your political beliefs before you ever commit a crime.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37009566

European SMEs have united to direct a strong open letter to urge ministers of EU member states to oppose Chat Control and to defend privacy and a strong European tech industry.

This morning my perimeter security alarms were tripped by two men who made entry to my property on electric scooters. They were observed talking high-resolution photos of my property, and tampering with my electrical service pole.

When confronted, the men refused to identify themselves, and stated that they didn’t even carry their wallets with them. They had ZERO identification papers that they would provide to me. They claimed to work for @gobrightspeed, however when questioned they provided ZERO documentation that they actually worked for that company. They claimed to be a subcontractor for the local power company…but got really shifty and immediately fled when I questioned this and asked for proof that they did work for the power company. They had ZERO identifying uniforms either.

Hmm, wherever have I heard of non-uniformed, alleged “subcontractors” for power companies using that fake-claim to gain access to property in North Carolina? Perhaps the Chechen “subcontractor” scandal from last year down in Moore County might ring a bell?

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Want encrypted WebRTC video calls with no downloads, no sign-ups, and no tracking?

This prototype uses PeerJS to establish a secure browser-to-browser connection. Everything is ephemeral and cleared when you refresh the page—true zero data privacy!

Check out the demo: https://p2p.positive-intentions.com/iframe.html?globals=&args=&id=demo-p2p-call--video-call&viewMode=story

NOTE: This is a close-source project and has NOT been audited or reviewed. For testing purposes only, not a replacement for your current messaging app.

Indonesia has reinstated TikTok’s local operating license after it shared data requested by the government that was linked to the nationwide protests between late August and September.

TikTok provided the requested data on “traffic escalation and TikTok Live monetization activities” during the period of Aug. 25 to Aug. 30, via an official letter dated Oct. 3, said Alexander Sabar, an official at Indonesia’s communications and digital ministry.

Government authorities temporarily stripped the social media platform of its status as a registered electronic systems operator late Friday, after it did not submit complete data as requested.

Has anyone figured out how to roll back the most recent update that removed the map from the UI?

Alternatively, can anyone suggest an a better VPN?

The Chinese finance hub has already installed almost 4,000 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras under a police crime-fighting programme. That number will increase to a total of 60,000 by 2028, according to documents submitted to the legislature.

Artificial intelligence is being used to monitor crowds and read licence plates, and that technology "will naturally be applied to people, such as tracking a criminal suspect", Hong Kong's security chief Chris Tang told lawmakers.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/post/539098

Filmed on 5/20/2025 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.

About the speakers:

Meredith Whittaker is Signal’s President and a member of the Signal Foundation Board of Directors. She has over 17 years of experience in tech, spanning industry, academia, and government. Before joining Signal as President, she was the Minderoo Research Professor at NYU, and served as the Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute which she co-founded. Her research and scholarly work helped shape global AI policy and shift the public narrative on AI to better recognize the surveillance business practices and concentration of industrial resources that modern AI requires. Prior to NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google’s Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. She also helped lead organizing at Google. She was one of the core organizers pushing back against the company’s insufficient response to concerns about AI and its harms, and was a central organizer of the Google Walkout. She has advised the White House, the FCC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations on privacy, security, artificial intelligence, internet policy, and measurement. She recently completed a term as Senior Advisor on AI to the Chair at the US Federal Trade Commission.

Stéphan-Eloïse Gras is a researcher and entrepreneur specializing in the geoeconomics of AI. An assistant professor at CNAM-Paris, she explores AI technologies through the lens of software & critical data studies. She also serves on the board of Probabl, an AI company built around the popular open-source library scikit-learn. With 15+ years in the digital sector, she has led initiatives at the intersection of innovation, research, education, and emerging markets. As CEO of Digital Africa, she oversaw a €130M initiative supporting African startups. She also co-founded Africa 4 Tech and led OpenClassrooms’ strategic expansion in Africa. Her doctoral research traced the rise of AI through a music recommendation algorithm acquired by Spotify. She teaches at CNAM, Sciences Po, NYU, and Sorbonne and is currently writing a book on the geoeconomics of AI, describing LLMs as “belief-making machines.”

Rachel Donadio, the Library’s Curator of Cultural Programs, is a Paris-based writer, journalist and critic, a contributing writer for the Atlantic, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former European Culture Correspondent and Rome Bureau Chief of the New York Times.

This event was part of Ways of Seeing, a special series exploring the connections between storytelling, creativity, and the visual world.

In a redacted acquisition document obtained by the tech news site 404 Media, the immigration agency proposes entering into a contract to buy “all-in-one” tools from a company called PenLink that will allow agents to “compile, process, and validate billions of daily location signals from hundreds of millions of mobile devices.” The document also mentions payments for services involving “face detection,” “advanced face search,” and a “dark web data feed.”

Is it possible to collect data from a large group of people but protect each individual's privacy? In this entry of my series on privacy-enhancing technologies, we'll discuss differential privacy and how it can do just that.