WOW. During the hearing, Rep. Salahuddin said he'd continue to engage in stakeholder discussions to "strengthen the bill significantly" -- exactly what we were hoping to hear.

So it's a great time to thank him!

If you emailed him already, you can just do a reply-all and thank him for his comments about engaging in discussions to strengthen the bill significantly

Or, here's an action with a suggested script.

https://www.takeaction.network/xactions/48077

#waleg #flock #surveillance

WOW. During the hearing, Rep. Salahuddin said he'd continue to engage in stakeholder discussions to "strengthen the bill significantly" -- exactly what we were hoping to hear.

So it's a great time to thank him!

If you emailed him already, you can just do a reply-all and thank him for his comments about engaging in discussions to strengthen the bill significantly

Or, here's an action with a suggested script.

https://www.takeaction.network/xactions/48077

#waleg #flock #surveillance

#waleg update: SB 6002, the Driver Privacy Act (regulating Flock and other ALPRs) has an exec session this morning in the Civil Rights & Judiciary committee. The hearing starts at 10:30 but there are several bills before 6002 so it's hard to predict the exact timing.

https://www.tvw.org/watch/?eventID=2026021387

#flock #alpr #surveillance

#waleg update: SB 6002, the Driver Privacy Act (regulating Flock and other ALPRs) has an exec session this morning in the Civil Rights & Judiciary committee. The hearing starts at 10:30 but there are several bills before 6002 so it's hard to predict the exact timing.

https://www.tvw.org/watch/?eventID=2026021387

#flock #alpr #surveillance

anyone happen to know of any published academic work where a researcher tracked themself being surveilled? surveillance studies autoethnography?

or any qualitative research about surveillance systems like Flock or Ring?

#surveillance #SurveillanceStudies #commodon

anyone happen to know of any published academic work where a researcher tracked themself being surveilled? surveillance studies autoethnography?

or any qualitative research about surveillance systems like Flock or Ring?

#surveillance #SurveillanceStudies #commodon

#Persona, a Peter #Thiel of #Palantir fame funded provider of identity and age verification services for companies like #Discord and the entire #UK, left their code base open to the web. Of course they did.

Let’s look at what it does, shall we?

The platform performs 269 individual verification checks on user data, far beyond basic age verification.

#Surveillance: Persona’s system screens users against global watchlists, including those for #terrorism, #espionage, and politically exposed persons ( #PEPs), using facial recognition and risk scoring. Researchers confirmed that the government-facing and consumer-facing versions of Persona use the same underlying code, suggesting a unified surveillance infrastructure.

Data Retention: Personal data including government ID, phone numbers, names, faces, selfies, IP addresses, browser fingerprints, and device fingerprints—is collected and retained for up to three years.
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#Persona, a Peter #Thiel of #Palantir fame funded provider of identity and age verification services for companies like #Discord and the entire #UK, left their code base open to the web. Of course they did.

Let’s look at what it does, shall we?

The platform performs 269 individual verification checks on user data, far beyond basic age verification.

#Surveillance: Persona’s system screens users against global watchlists, including those for #terrorism, #espionage, and politically exposed persons ( #PEPs), using facial recognition and risk scoring. Researchers confirmed that the government-facing and consumer-facing versions of Persona use the same underlying code, suggesting a unified surveillance infrastructure.

Data Retention: Personal data including government ID, phone numbers, names, faces, selfies, IP addresses, browser fingerprints, and device fingerprints—is collected and retained for up to three years.
(1/2) edit hashtags, new info, typo