Proton Flock Camera Map(proton.me)
81 points by cdrnsf | 16 comments
Proton's interactive map of Flock Safety license plate reader cameras across the US, searchable by ZIP code, with background on the cameras and the data source.
#mass-surveillance on Hacker News
16 stories tagged mass-surveillance, newest first.
Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'(techcrunch.com)
409 points by sbulaev | 229 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that a federal judge described Flock's camera network as 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'.
Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline(theintercept.com)
134 points by bookofjoe | 59 comments
The Intercept article reporting that Flock Safety wants a detailed public map of its surveillance camera network taken offline.
25 years of mass surveillance is enough(schneier.com)
805 points by iamnothere | 288 comments
Essay by Bruce Schneier and Cindy Cohn, originally in Lawfare, arguing that post-9/11 mass surveillance has outgrown its justification and should end.
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How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt](thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
664 points by the-mitr | 224 comments
MIT Press Reader book excerpt recounting how whistleblower Mark Klein gave the EFF evidence of the NSA's secret AT&T wiretapping facility, Room 641A.
Stop Flock(stopflock.com)
872 points by cdrnsf | 234 comments
Advocacy site opposing Flock Safety license plate reader cameras, explaining their spread and the privacy and civil liberties concerns of mass surveillance.
End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance(patrick-breyer.de)
537 points by amarcheschi | 261 comments
Patrick Breyer's blog post announcing that the European Parliament voted to stop the "Chat Control" mass message-scanning proposal, dated March 2026.
We Will Not Be Divided(notdivided.org)
2524 points by BloondAndDoom | 787 comments
An open letter opposing the Department of War's threats to invoke the Defense Production Act against Anthropic and label it a supply chain risk over its AI usage red lines.
EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance(reclaimthenet.org)
517 points by fragebogen | 337 comments
Reclaim The Net article reporting that the EU Council approved a new "Chat Control" negotiating mandate criticized as enabling mass surveillance of private messages.
EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal(old.reddit.com)
343 points by nickslaughter02 | 205 comments
Reddit r/europe discussion thread about the EU Commission refusing to disclose who authored its mass surveillance (chat control) proposal.
Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died(eff.org)
1512 points by leotravis10 | 320 comments
EFF memorial post by Cindy Cohn and Corynne McSherry honoring Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who exposed NSA mass spying on internet traffic.
European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption(eureporter.co)
1553 points by robtherobber | 234 comments
EU Reporter article on a European Court of Human Rights ruling against weakening end-to-end encryption and its implications for the EU's chat control (CSAR) plans.
AI and Mass Spying(schneier.com)
347 points by hendler | 284 comments
Bruce Schneier blog essay arguing that while the internet enabled mass surveillance, AI will enable mass spying by analyzing the content of conversations at scale.
EU Parliament Civil Liberties Committee adopts position on CSAR(europarl.europa.eu)
523 points by orian | 187 comments
European Parliament press release on the Civil Liberties Committee adopting its position on the proposed regulation to combat online child sexual abuse without mass surveillance.
Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive(dawn.fi)
332 points by miohtama | 57 comments
Finnish news article reporting that Finland's parliament has taken a position against the EU CSAM regulation, criticized as mass surveillance and an encryption ban.
Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical(prism-break.org)
621 points by doener | 246 comments
PRISM Break is a directory of privacy-respecting, open-source alternatives to proprietary software, organized by platform, to help users avoid mass surveillance.