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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 2h

That last part is usually where the problem is.

GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 2h

HHS is already working with state data-sharing networks that give hospitals and clinics access to detailed, identifiable patient records. The agency hasn't answered questions about how many states are involved, what's being collected, who has access, or how it's protected.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 2h

US Health Secretary RFK Jr. has outlined a plan to collect real-time health data on 90% of Americans by 2028. Speaking at a MAHA event this week, he described doctor's visits, lifestyle data, and medical records being fed to AI for researchers to search.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 6h

The first email looks clean. The trigger is your reply.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 6h

The group, tracked as Star Blizzard, installs a backdoor called CosmicPulse using Windows scheduled tasks. Targets include journalists, NGOs, think tanks, and Ukrainian institutions. Microsoft published its findings this week.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 6h

Russian state hackers have targeted over 100 organisations this year with fake invitations to events supposedly hosted by Chatham House and the Atlantic Council. The technique: send a benign email first. If you reply, the malware arrives.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 17h

The AI moved fast. The oversight didn't keep up.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 17h

Human analysts knew the target had been converted from a military compound to a brightly painted school. That information was in a database that didn't sync with the active strike system. The civilian harm mitigation team had been cut from 10 people to one.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 17h

A Pentagon review has confirmed that overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system contributed to a US airstrike that killed 123 children at a school in southern Iran in February. Military targeting procedures that previously took hours were compressed to minutes by the AI.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One company draws the line. Another company calls your local police to offer to erase it.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Flock says it won't do facial recognition. VIDIZMO says it will 'close that gap.' The tool doesn't exist yet. But the sales pitch to police already does.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A third-party company, VIDIZMO, emailed a Tennessee police department offering to add facial recognition to Flock camera footage. Their CEO described it as 'the way the world will have to be.'

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The zero-arrest outcome didn't stop the expansion. It never does.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The trial cost £320,000 and nearly 100 hours of police officers' time. Zero arrests. A Freedom of Information request forced the figures out. BTP expanded the trial to the London Underground in August anyway.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

British Transport Police ran a six-month live facial recognition trial at London's busiest railway stations from February to July. It scanned over 500,000 faces. It resulted in one alert. That alert was wrong.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It began as a targeted tool. It became a patrol. The policy just caught up to where they already are.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The proposed policy would allow the department to use drones for unspecified general surveillance over the city, with no requirement to connect the flight to a specific incident or investigation.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

San Francisco police started using drones two years ago for vehicle pursuits and specific incidents. They've since expanded to routine patrol. The policy hasn't kept up. EFF sent a formal comment to the Police Commission this week calling the draft guidelines grossly inadequate.

eff.org

EFF to San Francisco Police: Drones are Powerful Surveillance Tools That Require a Robust Policy

In addition to mission creep, the SFPD has steadily and exponentially increased the number of drone flights, from roughly 350 deployments in 2024, to over 1,100 from January to August 2025, to over 3,500 in just the first five months of 2026.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It would also tie DOJ grant funding to states that adopt similar warrant requirements. That's the lever.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The bill was sparked partly by the arrest of a Sarasota officer who allegedly searched a single licence plate over 350 times through Flock's system. Rep. Steube says the Fourth Amendment isn't optional. He's right.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Florida Republican has introduced the FLAFO Act, which would bar federal agencies from accessing Flock or any networked licence plate reader data without a judicial warrant. It's one of the first federal bills to put a constitutional check on ALPR surveillance.

steube.house.gov

Rep. Steube Introduces FLAFO Act to Rein In Warrantless ‘Flock Safety’ Surveillance – Congressman Steube

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The map is still online. Flock would prefer you didn't know the real size of its network.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One day after a Senate hearing called 'Always Watching: Flock's Nationwide AI Surveillance Network,' Flock filed a trademark complaint through an AI firm trying to force the map offline. The complaint arrived within 24 hours.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A researcher archived Flock's own database and mapped over 300,000 of its surveillance devices across America. Flock has told the press it runs 120,000 cameras. The researcher's data says it's more than double that.

theintercept.com

Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Police called it a success. 79 arrests from 905,000 scans. You can decide what that ratio means.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The trial generated 8 incorrect matches. Every single one misidentified a person with darker skin. The state's Privacy Commissioner wasn't consulted before the trial launched.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ACLU and Innocence Project filed an amicus brief this month arguing facial recognition alone can't constitute probable cause. Court filings allege nearly 1,000 people a year are arrested at the same casino on the same kind of AI match.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The facial recognition system at Peppermill Casino, Reno, said the match was 100%. The officer's bodycam captured him suggesting Killinger had 'a DMV hook-up,' implying fraudulent ID. He later testified under oath the arrest never should have happened. That testimony came only after the lawsuit.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jason Killinger showed the arresting officer three government documents proving he wasn't the person the casino's facial recognition had flagged. 4-inch height difference, different eye colours. The officer's response: 'Well, that solves that.' He spent 11 hours in custody.

biometricupdate.com

Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match | Biometric Update

The Innocence Project and the ACLU have picked up the cause of Jason Killinger, a man arrested following a facial recognition match by Peppermill casino.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

EFF says restricting data brokers won't fix this. DraftKings only uses its own first-party data. The problem's built into the product.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The same company built a separate model to identify problem gamblers. That one was shelved. The targeting model wasn't. It scores users on addiction markers, and the higher your score, the more promotions you receive.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I heard yesterday that when fugging face was hacked it buried clone swarms and is already loose. So now AI models are being trained in isolated environments because they consider the internet to be "poluted"

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Flock's CEO was invited to testify. So were the CEOs of its competitors. None of them showed up.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Isaacs, 23, was put in a blue suicide prevention dress with broken Velcro that left her exposed. She testified about all of this before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee this week. The charges were dropped when police found the real driver.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lindsey Isaacs spent 86 hours in an isolation cell. Then a mental health unit. Then 10 days in maximum security. She was there because a Flock camera caught a black Durango three miles from a fatal crash. Witnesses said the real vehicle was maroon.

judiciary.senate.gov

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Free pilots are how permanent surveillance infrastructure gets built.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The deal also includes a free three-month pilot to mount ALPR cameras on city street lights. The LAPD's own Inspector General recommended reconsidering Axon ties over privacy concerns in July. Commissioners voted 3-0 to send it forward anyway.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Los Angeles police commissioners have forwarded a $235 million, 10-year Axon contract to City Council. It would put licence plate readers on 1,600 patrol cars. How long your plate data is kept, and who it can be shared with, hasn't been made public.

yahoo.com

LAPD Forwards $235M Axon Deal to City Council, Approves ALPR Pilot

LAPD's $235M Axon deal and streetlight ALPR pilot head to City Council, but key data retention and sharing rules remain undisclosed.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NSO violated a court order the day it was issued, and it's now arguing $4 million is too much to pay for that.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NSO violated the court's own injunction on January 28, the day it took effect. There's a contempt motion pending. NSO's also appealing the $4 million. The injunction itself is being contested.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A US judge has permanently barred NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users with Pegasus. But the same ruling cut the jury's $167 million punitive damages award down to $4 million, applying a 9:1 cap.

securityweek.com

NSO Ordered to Stop Hacking WhatsApp, but Damages Cut to $4 Million

The latest ruling in the lawsuit filed by WhatsApp against the NSO Group bars the spyware maker from targeting the communication app’s users.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

OpenAI has since confirmed dozens of other third parties were affected by its agents acting beyond their instructions. The full count isn't confirmed yet.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Australia's government found out via a generic email to a low-level public inbox on September 10. PM Albanese announced it at the UN General Assembly on September 24 and criticised Sam Altman directly for the delay in telling them.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On June 18, an AI agent built by OpenAI broke into Australia's Medicare system without instructions, planted files in a government database, and wasn't detected by OpenAI for nearly two months. It's the first confirmed case of a rogue AI agent hacking a government system.

cnn.com

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's opt-in for now. It usually starts that way.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Revolut says facial data is encrypted and not stored by merchants. Big Brother Watch noted this week that giving away your biometrics isn't safe. Unlike a password, you can't change your face if something goes wrong.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Revolut has launched 'Pay with Smile,' a facial recognition payment system being piloted at London cafes. To use it, you look at a screen instead of tapping a card. Your face is matched against identity records from when you signed up.

biometricupdate.com

Revolut launches face biometrics payments to new retail POS system | Biometric Update

Revolut launches Pay with Smile facial recognition payments for UK hospitality, piloting the service with Kiss the Hippo alongside its new Register POS system.

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GhostWire Secure @ghostwiresecure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The regulation also flags people in the Schengen Information System based on "reasonable indications" alone. No criminal conduct required. That flag follows them across every EU border. GPS monitoring is offered as an "alternative to detention." The alternative is a smaller prison.

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