Jessica Scott

Iraq war veteran. USA Today Bestselling author of military romances and other things

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

Every parent wants to keep their kids safe.

But doesn't want to hand over their photos to the nanny state.

And no adult should have to scan their face just to talk to a friend.

Enormous own goal for the UK

Sure to make UK tech untouchable to the rest of the world. (Except, perhaps, to dictatorships.)

And would slosh massive power to big tech companies.

Finally, it wouldn't take much for the nudity filter to turn into a dissent filter.

Well put by @signalapp

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is wild—and likely a sign of things to come as we transition to a web that is optimized for bots more than humans. https://t.co/5sb1cFlBQO

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The White House will reportedly block states from making their own AI laws and, in exchange, it's indirectly backing a national age verification push.

So to post online you'd upload a government ID or do a face scan through the Kids Online Safety Act and the NO FAKES Act...

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

America are you ok with @Ford doing this?

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

To make sure British citizens realise what's going on, Palantir can now:

• Build and run the National Firearms Registry, tracking the addresses and medical files of 500,000 gun and explosives holders across all 43 police forces.

• Map your digital footprint by trialling police systems (like Project Nectar) that pull your texts, call logs, emails, and social media data into a single profile.

• Track your physical movements by linking live number plate trackers, CCTV locations, and mobile phone tower pings.

• Process unverified intelligence by feeding anonymous tips and police notes about who you meet into automated linking models.

• Profile police officers using data-matching tools that actively scrape the device logs, vehicle uses, and system logins of a force's own employees.

• Access direct NHS data through a £330 million contract, using admin privileges that let engineers view patient environments before the files are scrambled (pseudonymised).

This is the same Palantir used to coordinate the largest simultaneous terrorist attack in history by the IOF in Lebanon.

This is the same Palantir used by the IOF since 2014 and actively being used in Gaza.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Parents searched their kids' symptoms on Seattle Children's Hospital's website. Then they got Facebook ads for those exact symptoms. Turns out the hospital had Meta's tracking code running the whole time.

[Rep. Michael Cloud @RepMichaelCloud]

UPDATE: Language to kill the kill switch just advanced out of committee.

Our amendment to prohibit the FY27 THUD Appropriations bill from funding the kill switch mandate, advanced out of committee today. Taxpayer dollars should not fund a surveillance system that treats every law abiding American driver as a suspect. As we work to address very real problems, we cannot allow our Constitutional liberties to be shredded or create a world where every American driver becomes a node for data gathering.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

New mass surveillance system introduced in America

“If you thought flock cameras are bad, law enforcement now has a system that identifies you based on the signals coming off of every single device you have”

“It collects your Bluetooth, your Wi-Fi, your RFID signals from your phone, your smartwatch, your headphones, your car, your car's radio, absolutely everything. Then it builds what they call an electronic fingerprint, and their website gives an example of this.

So picture 70 cars drive by one of these systems. Every car has an iPhone, but not every car has the same iPhone model, same smartwatch that's on you, same headphones, same everything else. So they build a profile based on you, not just your car's license plate anymore. So that combination is unique to you.

They don't just need your license plate anymore. They don't even need a picture of your face. They just need the signals that your devices are already broadcasting. Can work in malls, subways, any public place, pretty much anywhere this can work. And then all of that information is gonna get stored on a server where it could be searched for later.”

This isn't some random theory, it's real and I researched the details

It’s called SignalTrace, its commercially available law enforcement tool. It extends beyond traditional Automatic License Plate Recognition by capturing publicly broadcast radio signals from everyday devices

Signals Captured: Bluetooth from phones, watches, headphones, car systems, Wi-Fi, RFID like tags, key fobs, luggage and other local device emissions

It creates a Electronic Fingerprint unique profile by correlating multiple device signals that travel together with a vehicle and person. This includes your specific iPhone model + smartwatch + car infotainment + headphones

This is a massive mass surveillance tool

tracking profiles without needing faces, plates, or warrants in many cases. Networks of these sensors could map movements across cities

It builds persistent tracking profiles without needing faces, plates or warrants. Networks of these sensors could map movements across cities

We have to stop this type of technology for being normalized. This is unlawful surveillance without a warrant

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

There is a new scam going on in this home inspection industry

- Large corporations are buying up all the small home inspection companies
- They don’t care about making money off inspecting homes, they want the data

Why? This is where it gets borderline criminal

Home inspections are supposed to be confidential, but what they’re doing is buying all the companies to own the data

Then they are going to sell that data to insurance companies and lenders

Now with this new information the insurance company finds out, they're going to start charging you $3,000 (or whatever) extra a year to insure that house

Here’s what I’ve found

Large corporations and private equity firms are aggressively consolidating the home inspection industry primarily by buying inspection software platforms like Spectora, HomeGauge and larger inspection companies

A home inspection report contains highly detailed property specific information like roof age and condition, electrical and plumbing issues, foundation problems, HVAC status, environmental hazards

This is extremely valuable for:

- Insurance companies (risk assessment and underwriting).
- Lenders (property valuation and loan risk).
- Home warranty providers, contractors, and data brokers

Home inspections are supposed to be confidential between the buyer, inspector, and sometimes the real estate parties.

However, many inspection software companies’ terms of service allow data aggregation and sharing

That’s the loophole they found. That’s the scam

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

Grandma knows whats up.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

The Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the "Texas two-step," letting corporations fraudulently use bankruptcy court to quarantine mass injury claims while the profitable parent company keeps operating.

Georgia-Pacific is a massive building materials manufacturer that shifted asbestos liabilities into a separate corporate entity, and then filed for "bankruptcy," which paused cancer victims' lawsuits and preserved their power and profits.

These companies are not meaningfully broke... but they use bankruptcy as a weapon against their victims. It's ridiculous. Our nation's highest court is clearly not a neutral entity if they won't even look at this obvious financial fraud doing significant harm to innocent Americans.

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

With unfettered access to someone's life, you can piece together any narrative that suits your agenda.

This is why mass surveillance is dangerous. Because you're only safe until you become someone's target.

[Free Talk Live @FreeTalkLive]

Every road you take is being written down. Your church, your doctor, your lawyer, the house you parked outside at 2am, the protest you went to once. It is all in a file with your plate on it.

This is the antithesis of a free society.

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

"Age verification lays the foundation for a fully government controlled internet."
— @mullvadnet with an amazing takedown

"If age verification is introduced, everyone will have to identify themselves either to the service/website they want to use or to a third party capable of linking them to their activity on that service/website. The correct term for age verification as it is implemented today is therefore identity verification."

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

Most people think HIPAA protects their medical privacy.
It doesn't.
It governs how your health data gets shared, not whether it does.
Once collected, your information moves through systems you'll never see, for purposes you never approved.

[Idaho Freedom Foundation @idahofreedom]

🔎📹They’re not watching the birds anymore.

Flock Cameras have landed in Idaho – popping up around the Treasure Valley, the Magic Valley, and other locations across this state.

But serious questions remain:

Who authorized them?
What data are they actually collecting?
Where is that data being shared?
How much surveillance should Idahoans tolerate?

Today, Idaho Freedom Foundation is launching an investigative look into Flock cameras and what they mean for privacy, property rights, and the freedom of Idahoans to live without being constantly tracked.

👇Help us investigate: Drop your story, photo, or location of these cameras in the comments.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[theselongwars @theselongwars_]

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

[regular guy @regularguyguns]

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech?

OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened.

Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle.

Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company.

Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk.

On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A.

OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera.

Now Flock knows the following about you:

- You live at 123 Wisteria Lane
- Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5)
- You work at ZZZ
- You go cheap on lunch
- You own at least one gun

Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed.

On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work.

All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation.

The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant.

Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.

And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.