Techlore Surveillance Report

School Surveillance May Be FORCED in Mississippi - SR118

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Jan 23, 2023
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INSIGHT

Warrantless Money‑Transfer Surveillance

  • A little-known program gives hundreds of US agencies access to 150M+ international money transfer records without warrants.
  • Hosts criticize the program's expansion and lack of oversight, including filters by ethnicity-associated name categories.
INSIGHT

EU Parliament Sought Facial‑Recognition CCTV

  • The European Parliament secretly tendered CCTV with facial recognition despite public opposition, installing then removing Hikvision thermal cameras.
  • This underscores institutional hypocrisy and concerns about vendor backdoors like Hikvision's.
INSIGHT

Browser Security And Censorship Tools Advance

  • Firefox added GPU sandboxing on Windows to isolate GPU processes and improve security, with full rollout planned by version 112.
  • Brave integrated Snowflake to help censored users reach Tor without separate setup, lowering barriers to support network access.
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