NightFire
@nightfire55.bsky.social
The host of the Big Brother's earpiece. Every week we explore the dark side of digital surveillance.
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Let us not forget this has all happened before. The Trump administration is torturing humans.
Let us not forget this has all happened before. The Trump administration is torturing humans.
December 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Let us not forget this has all happened before. The Trump administration is torturing humans.
Let us not forget this has all happened before. The Trump administration is torturing humans.
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Are we great yet?
Are we great yet?
Detained on the Way to Work
YouTube video by NowThis Impact
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December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Are we great yet?
Are we great yet?
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around 70,000 users who may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of the breach.
hackers love this. why are we doing this?
around 70,000 users who may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of the breach.
hackers love this. why are we doing this?
Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn
Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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around 70,000 users who may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of the breach.
hackers love this. why are we doing this?
around 70,000 users who may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of the breach.
hackers love this. why are we doing this?
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I apologize in advance for part of the audio
I apologize in advance for part of the audio
Seeing Everything: ALPR, AI, and the New Age of Government Surveillance
In this episode of Big Brother’s Earpiece, we pull back the curtain on two of the most potent surveillance tools in use today. FLOCK’s cloud‑native Automatic License‑Plate Recognition (ALPR) captures ...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I apologize in advance for part of the audio
I apologize in advance for part of the audio
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Really look at these photos they go from heartbreak to stunning awe
Really look at these photos they go from heartbreak to stunning awe
Associated Press 100 Photos of 2025: AP photos that defined the year
In over 200 locations globally, photojournalists with The Associated Press are trusted eyewitnesses to the world’s news, and have won 36 of AP’s 59 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Really look at these photos they go from heartbreak to stunning awe
Really look at these photos they go from heartbreak to stunning awe
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Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
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EFF is working to stop surveillance by:
💬 Fighting for encrypted communication
📸 Exposing the surveillance machine
🔔 Kicking big brother out of your home
Learn more—Take Back CTRL today: takebackctrl.org/stop-survei...
💬 Fighting for encrypted communication
📸 Exposing the surveillance machine
🔔 Kicking big brother out of your home
Learn more—Take Back CTRL today: takebackctrl.org/stop-survei...
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
EFF is working to stop surveillance by:
💬 Fighting for encrypted communication
📸 Exposing the surveillance machine
🔔 Kicking big brother out of your home
Learn more—Take Back CTRL today: takebackctrl.org/stop-survei...
💬 Fighting for encrypted communication
📸 Exposing the surveillance machine
🔔 Kicking big brother out of your home
Learn more—Take Back CTRL today: takebackctrl.org/stop-survei...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Yay a win for privacy just 1000 more fights to go
Police can’t spy on the private electricity data of thousands of people with zero suspicion. Not in Sacramento. Not anywhere. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in
For more than a decade, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District coordinated with police to sift through the granular smart meter data of residents without suspicion to find evidence of cannabis
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November 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Yay a win for privacy just 1000 more fights to go
#weaintbuyingit
Run a local web server for home movies
Run a local web server for home movies
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#weaintbuyingit
Run a local web server for home movies
Run a local web server for home movies
People are currently having fun with seemingly broken Grok. tweets that read “Elon would dominate as the ultimate throat goat … innovating biohacks via Neuralink edges him further into throat goat legend, redefining depths and rhythms where others merely graze"
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Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
People are currently having fun with seemingly broken Grok. tweets that read “Elon would dominate as the ultimate throat goat … innovating biohacks via Neuralink edges him further into throat goat legend, redefining depths and rhythms where others merely graze"
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I knew this was coming
It's no secret that 2025 has given Americans plenty to protest about. But as news cameras showed protesters filling streets of cities across the country, cops were watching those streets through different lenses: Flock Safety license plate readers that tracked every car. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national
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November 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I knew this was coming
This is a slippery slope into AI generation blackmail and revenge porn.
An AI chatbot roleplay and image generator platform left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social media. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full scoop by @samleecole.bsky.social
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Full scoop by @samleecole.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is a slippery slope into AI generation blackmail and revenge porn.
If you’re one of the millions of people who were signed up for Amazon Prime without your permission, you may want to check your email inbox. The company has started providing automatic refunds from a $2.5 billion settlement it reached with the FTC
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I got 6.49 🙄 #fuckamazon
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I got 6.49 🙄 #fuckamazon
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If you’re one of the millions of people who were signed up for Amazon Prime without your permission, you may want to check your email inbox. The company has started providing automatic refunds from a $2.5 billion settlement it reached with the FTC
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I got 6.49 🙄 #fuckamazon
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I got 6.49 🙄 #fuckamazon
“secret desire” was to generate images of underage girls: “17-year-old, high school junior, perfect intricate detail innocent face,”
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Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“secret desire” was to generate images of underage girls: “17-year-old, high school junior, perfect intricate detail innocent face,”
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I bet you the rest of my life span they will use this for ICE
I bet you the rest of my life span they will use this for ICE
Amazon is Adding Your Face to its Database
YouTube video by Proton
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November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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I bet you the rest of my life span they will use this for ICE
I bet you the rest of my life span they will use this for ICE
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They can learn we must not push them away. We must teach then that most democrats have their best interest at heart.
They can learn we must not push them away. We must teach then that most democrats have their best interest at heart.
🔥 Trump Supporters BURN MAGA Hats as They DENOUNCE the Movement and REJECT Trump
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November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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They can learn we must not push them away. We must teach then that most democrats have their best interest at heart.
They can learn we must not push them away. We must teach then that most democrats have their best interest at heart.
Electe me president I'll give Luigi mangione a pardon then force health care company’s to become non profit again.
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Electe me president I'll give Luigi mangione a pardon then force health care company’s to become non profit again.
Add someone's phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they're on the service, and often their profile picture and name, too.
Repeat that same trick a few billion times with every possible phone number, it turns out
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It's why i don't use meta products
Repeat that same trick a few billion times with every possible phone number, it turns out
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It's why i don't use meta products
A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Add someone's phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they're on the service, and often their profile picture and name, too.
Repeat that same trick a few billion times with every possible phone number, it turns out
www.wired.com/story/a-simp...
It's why i don't use meta products
Repeat that same trick a few billion times with every possible phone number, it turns out
www.wired.com/story/a-simp...
It's why i don't use meta products
A little good news today
NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
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Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government
The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A little good news today
When was the last time you rebooted your devices?
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Why You Need To Reboot More Often
YouTube video by Naomi Brockwell TV
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November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
When was the last time you rebooted your devices?
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The material notes that the capabilities allow for predicting where a car may travel in the future, and also can collect face scans for facial recognition.
-1984-
The material notes that the capabilities allow for predicting where a car may travel in the future, and also can collect face scans for facial recognition.
-1984-
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The material notes that the capabilities allow for predicting where a car may travel in the future, and also can collect face scans for facial recognition.
-1984-
The material notes that the capabilities allow for predicting where a car may travel in the future, and also can collect face scans for facial recognition.
-1984-
AI hate videos
The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. And the Facebook algorithm is rewarding creators for it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
AI hate videos
Peter Thiel is the current largest threat to privacy. Follow me to fight against government surveillance.
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Follow me as we explore these types of issues.
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Peter Thiel is the current largest threat to privacy. Follow me to fight against government surveillance.
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Follow me as we explore these types of issues.
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Follow me as we explore these types of issues.
This is bad tell your lawmakers no to government surveillance
Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And that battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual
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November 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is bad tell your lawmakers no to government surveillance