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Saturday, 10/10 @ 2pm ET we're talking to Brian Hofer of Secure Justice about passing local surveillance ordinances to prevent ALPR technology in your community. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQqv...

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Flock Cameras Are Coming Down. Here's How to Keep Them Down. | Hide & Speak

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 3h

Does a judge sign off before the search? That's the question to bring when your city debates camera rules. The full version walks through the ruling and both sets of rules: www.youtube.com/watch?v=exu7...

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Judge Rules Flock Search Unconstitutional. Hawley Bill Skips Warrants

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 3h

A day earlier, Sen. Josh Hawley announced the Stop Flock Abuse Act: 10 day deletion and written approval from inside the agency. No warrant requirement. Missouri's executive order leaves it out too. Sourced article: s.vp.net/Auvui

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 3h

A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that one warrantless Flock license plate lookup broke the Fourth Amendment. The search returned 50+ records of a driver's movements over a month. She threw the evidence out. More in the next post. #Privacy #Flock #FourthAmendment

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 21h

This Saturday's Brian Hofer of Secure Justice is joining us live to discuss a more permanent solution than a cancelled contract - local surveillance ordinances: bsky.app/profile/vpne...

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 21h

Read the episode breakdown and share it with the people fighting a contract in your town: s.vp.net/MdS5J #Flock #ALPR #Privacy

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 21h

This week on Hide & Speak: why the companies behind these cameras can't dismiss their critics anymore, and what a couple of years of local organizing has added up to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kppt...

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More ALPR Mission Creep with Rin Alajaji from EFF | Hide & Speak

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 21h

Opposition to license plate readers now crosses party and ideological lines. Texas and Florida both made moves four days apart, and about three localities a day cut ties with Flock during August. Public pushback works. Keep showing up. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 22h

Towns are ending Flock contracts after residents showed up and asked questions. Next: a rule that stops the next contract. @brianhofer.bsky.social of @securejustice.bsky.social joins us Saturday at 2pm ET. Mark the calendar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQqv... #ALPR #Surveillance #Flock #HideAndSpeak

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Flock Cameras Are Coming Down. Here's How to Keep Them Down. | Hide & Speak

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The longer cut covers what did get agreed: scanning of publicly accessible content, and a temporary regime that runs until 2028. Watch the full version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRwI...

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Chat Control 2.0: EU Parliament Blocks Permanent Chat Scanning, For Now

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The talks were closed, so this comes from Patrick Breyer. He says governments wanted providers scanning chats by default and agencies ordering scans with no court. If you're in the EU, contact your representative. Receipts in the blog post: s.vp.net/nytnK

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

EU governments tried to make scanning of private messages permanent on Sept 29. Parliament's negotiators blocked it, saying scans must stay limited to people actually linked to abuse. Governments are expected back in November. Details below. #ChatControl #Privacy

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The full episode in writing, if you'd rather read it or pass it along: s.vp.net/MdS5J #Flock #ALPR #StudentPrivacy

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Buford City Schools serves about 6,000 students. More than half of its police department's Flock searches were about school residency. We got into it on this week's Hide & Speak with Rin Alajaji from @eff.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kppt...

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More ALPR Mission Creep with Rin Alajaji from EFF | Hide & Speak

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Police for a Georgia public school district ran about 375 Flock searches logged as "residency" or "verification." A kid's seat in a public school shouldn't depend on where a camera saw the family car. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NIST found demographic gaps in most algorithms it tested, with the highest false positives in police-style searches for Black women. And real police photos are worse than lab photos. The full breakdown and source list: s.vp.net/EIqL8

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At least 14 people in the U.S. are publicly known to have been wrongfully arrested after police trusted a bad facial recognition match. Most are Black. One spent six months in jail over a state she'd never visited. More below. #FacialRecognition #CivilLiberties #Surveillance

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Rin from @eff.org breaks down some of the super important reasons listed for Flock searches. Like "idk" and "lol" 🤦‍♂️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbug...

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Agencies Typed "lol" and "idk" to Justify Flock Camera Searches

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The full version covers the $1 insurance fee that paid for these cameras and the state run network that stayed on through the freeze. Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqG4...

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Texas Froze Flock Camera Funding. Flock Waived the Bill To Keep Them On.

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

El Paso voted to tear down all 150 of its cameras. Other cities took Flock's deal. The pause runs past the Nov. 3 election. If you live in Texas, your council decides this. Ask who pays in month four. Receipts in the blog post: s.vp.net/ASTNs

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Texas stopped paying for Flock license plate cameras. Flock's answer: keep the cameras, skip the bill for 90 days. Dallas keeps 300+ it was about to remove. Details in the next post. #Flock #ALPR #Texas

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

vp.net runs WireGuard in hardware enclaves that our own admins can't access, and you can verify it yourself with attestation. Other VPNs ask you to trust them. vp.net is the only VPN that lets you verify your privacy. Don't Trust. Verify.

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's never a good sign when a VPN has to "be forced" to stop collecting data on their users 🤦‍♂️ www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

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How a TechRadar investigation pushed Surfshark to overhaul its data collection

Surfshark has officially stopped logging users' malware data.

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The episode write-up, for anyone who wants the conversation in text and something to send to a city council member: s.vp.net/MdS5J #Flock #ALPR #Privacy

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rcently on Hide & Speak, we got into how Flock searches get justified, and what it means when the audit trail is a joke to the people filling it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kppt...

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More ALPR Mission Creep with Rin Alajaji from EFF | Hide & Speak

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A database of everywhere your car has been for months. The reasons agencies gave for searching it include "lol," "idk," and "F this new search engine." Oversight that runs on the honor system doesn't protect anyone. Featuring Rin from @eff.org Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Privacy Roundtable Open Mic Today at 2pm ET. Anyone can grab a seat on the Hide & Speak panel and talk privacy, surveillance, VPN bans, Flock & more! #HideAndSpeak #privacy #surveillance www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO12...

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LIVE | Privacy Roundtable Open Mic Discussion. Anyone Can Join! | Hide & Speak

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Read the episode write-up here: s.vp.net/5KGGn Presented by vp.net - the only VPN you don't have to trust, because it can't spy on you.

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Take an inventory of modern life. Movement generates location records. Communication runs through cloud providers. Websites need registrars and hosting. Now lawful content needs ID. How free are you when participating means asking permission? #DigitalFreedom #Surveillance Full conversation below 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Plymouth residents told the council they trusted their police chief. They didn't trust Flock. More than a dozen Minnesota towns and counties have now paused or ended it. Watch the full version on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwiE...

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Plymouth, Minnesota Shuts Off 16 Flock Cameras After Wrongful Stop

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Police say a plate reported stolen in California went into the national crime database with numbers missing. Flock flagged Feder's car twice. On September 22, Plymouth's council voted to stop using its 16 cameras. Sourced article: s.vp.net/prWp9

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Joel Feder did nothing wrong. Four squad cars still boxed him in outside a Kohl's in Plymouth, Minnesota, because a Flock camera matched his plate to a bad record. His city just voted to turn the cameras off. Details below. #Privacy #Surveillance #Flock

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Written version of the episode here. #HideAndSpeak s.vp.net/5KGGn

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cutting off someone's ability to take card payments is a quiet way to punish them. No court, no explanation. This clip: a merchant account pulled, and a refusal to care. Customers can still pay by wire, check, Bitcoin or Monero. #Debanking #FinancialFreedom Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This Saturday, October 3 at 2pm ET, Hide & Speak is hosting an open mic privacy round table. No guest, no script. Anyone who wants a seat on the panel gets one (until it's full). Set a reminder and join us live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO12... #HideAndSpeak #privacy #surveillance #freespeech

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LIVE | Privacy Roundtable Open Mic Discussion. Anyone Can Join! | Hide & Speak

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

vp.net runs its privacy-critical operations inside Intel SGX enclaves, in memory we can't read, even with root access to the server. And you can verify it. vp.net - the only VPN you don't have to trust, because it can't spy on you.

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No-logs polices are usually a promise written by a lawyer. Promises bend under court orders, acquisitions, and bad days at the office. We built our vp.net so there's nothing to bend, because your privacy shouldn't depend on anyone's good behavior, ours included. More below.

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watch the full version, including how 87 million profiles ended up in political ad targeting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxH...

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Facebook Misled New Mexico 43.9M Times. Fine Could Top $219 Billion

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A big group of states signed away their Cambridge Analytica claims in an August settlement with Meta. New Mexico said no. A judge sets the penalty October 1st. Full sources and breakdown: s.vp.net/TxBmx

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New Mexico took Facebook to a jury and won. 43.9 million violations of the state's consumer protection law, including misleading claims about your ability to control your own data. More below. #Privacy #CambridgeAnalytica #Meta

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Written breakdown of the episode here. #HideAndSpeak s.vp.net/5KGGn

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Knowledge should move freely. This week's clip puts that into practice: an off-grid mini data center running only open source AI, feeding a free research engine open to the public, with all the work kept open source in return. #OpenSource #OpenSourceAI Full conversation in the thread 👇

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bmail @bmail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every email service caught lying about privacy said the same thing first: trust us. bmail publishes a cryptographic fingerprint of our live code & you can verify it matches our public repo. Don't trust us. Verity it yourself. Get your encrypted inbox for free at bmail.ag #bmail #DontTrustVerify

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As more sites demand ID, those scans pile up somewhere. Krebs on Security found 153M driver's license scans for sale, one belonging to an FBI assistant director. Pick the age check that shares the least. Sources and full breakdown: s.vp.net/N0zLr

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The FBI confirmed a breach Friday after ShinyHunters claimed personnel files on nearly every agent: home addresses, Social Security numbers, emergency contacts. If the FBI can't protect that, think about who's holding your ID. Thread below. #Privacy #DataBreach #AgeVerification

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