Head-Flock
Hey, all! I'm sorry there hasn't been a post in the past few days. I've been relatively busy and didn't have much news to talk on recently. To give you all a little treat, I've made a short form video
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General Privacy
Anything that vaguely relates to privacy
Warrantless Surveillance
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has recently expired, as a House vote failed on Thursday. After Donald Trump appointed a rather controversial person, Bill Pulte, to be the director of National Intelligence, Democrats refused to let Section 702 continue without a significant reform.
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What Actually is Privacy in the Digital Age?
In the Digital Age, there are many different ways of being exposed to data brokers. Some of these ways include social media, streaming applications, and ALPRs. But what can we actually do about these things? Some social media platforms people find irresistible. It takes so much more effort to go
We Need Some (More) Good News
I recently talked about some good news already, but all of these terrible things happening in the world around us really takes a toll on me. I want something happy to write about. I want wins for us privacy-conscious people.
If you want to inform me about good things
Know Your Customer
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) put out a document on April 30th, 2026 that recently gained traction due to 404 Media's recent post on the matter. The document puts out a potential method of ridding the world of scam calls; they want all of your personally identifiable information
Eye Level
Meta, the company that holds Facebook, came out with the first mainstream "smart glasses" with the launch of their Wayfarer model of Ray-Ban Stories glasses released back in 2021. For the concerning low price of $224, you can get your hands on the Meta AI Glasses, renamed
Wake Word
"Ok, Google, what's the weather?" "Alexa, when is my order arriving?" "Hey Siri, open the DoorDash app." These are all words commonly said in the home. Google and Amazon are large competitors when it comes to home voice assistants. Google has the
Good News
Everything about privacy is bad news nowadays. Every single article you see today is simply doomer-based and it gets tiring hearing about it. Unfortunately, good news doesn't get likes, so it's not brought up frequently. I'm writing this post to say there is
Cold as ICE
As of May 4th, the city of Kettering, Ohio will no longer allow use of their Flock cameras for immigration enforcement. This comes months after the council meeting to install the surveillance ALPRs saying they would not be used for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) or speeding tickets.
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Odys-See-Us
PewDiePie, the former king of YouTube, just released a product he calls Odysseus. Posted on GitHub completely open-sourced, it's a self-hosted AI agent that learns from you. The whole point of it is to self-host your own AI. It allows you to chat with your