Deeplinks – Georgia Court Rules for Transparency over Private Police Foundation

Jun 272025
 

A Georgia court has decided that private non-profit Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) must comply with public records requests under the Georgia Open Records Act for some of its functions on behalf of the Atlanta Police Department. This is a major win for transparency in the state. 
 The lawsuit was brought last year by the Atlanta Community Press Collective (ACPC) and Electronic Frontier Alliance member Lucy Parsons Labs (LPL). It concerns the APF’s refusal to disclose records about its role as the leaser and manager of the site of so-called Cop City, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center at the heart of a years-long battle that pitted local social and environmental movements against the APF. We’ve previously written…

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 2025-06-27  No Responses »

jwz – Wayland screenshots

Jun 242025
 

To dip my toes into the oncoming clusterpocalypse that is Wayland, I thought I’d try something “simple”… Let’s see if there’s some way to make XScreenSaver hacks able to grab and manipulate screenshots under XWayland. Here is what I have learned so far: Words mean nothing: a “window manager” is now called a “compositor”, and a “graphical desktop environment” is now called a “shell”. Wayland is not a window system, it is a collection of hundreds or thousands of “extensions” that any given “compositor” (window manager) may or may not implement, à la carte, meaning there are actually dozens or hundreds of “Waylands”, and it’s amazing that anything works at all. There’s…

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TorrentFreak – ICANN’s DNS Blocking Report Presents Three Key Recommendations

Jun 102025
 

In 2006 alone, Russia-based AllOfMP3 reportedly banked $30 million from sales of an unauthorized music product for which the major labels received no payment.
The unlikely stage for the industry’s response to global sales of cheap, unlicensed DRM-free music, was Denmark. Under pressure from industry group IFPI, ISP Tele2 blocked AllofMP3’s domain, an event that will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary.
While never likely to threaten the site’s overall traffic, the Danish block was at once symbolic and historic. Nineteen years later, Denmark has almost 2,800 domains on its current blocklist, a figure that’s easily eclipsed by the tens of thousands of domains and subdomains blocked globally every month, largely without report or fanfare.
ICANN Publishes DNS Blocking Report
The…

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jwz – Waymo is a Cop

Jun 102025
 

Waymo Pauses Service in Downtown LA Neighborhood Where They’re Getting Lit on Fire: The fact that Waymos need to use video cameras that are constantly recording their surroundings in order to function means that police have begun to look at them as sources of surveillance footage. […] The fact is that police have begun to look at anything with a camera as a source of surveillance that they are entitled to for whatever reasons they choose. So even though driverless cars nominally have nothing to do with law enforcement, police are treating them as though they are their own roving surveillance cameras. Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously,…

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Deeplinks – San Diegans Push Back on Flock ALPR Surveillance

Jun 032025
 

Approaching San Diego’s first annual review of the city’s controversial Flock Safety contract, a local coalition is calling on the city council to roll back this dangerous and costly automated license plate reader (ALPR) program.
The TRUST Coalition—a grassroots alliance including Electronic Frontier Alliance members Tech Workers Coalition San Diego and techLEAD—has rallied to stop the unchecked spread of ALPRs in San Diego. We’ve previously covered the coalition’s fight for surveillance oversight, a local effort kicked off by a “smart streetlight” surveillance program five years ago. 
In 2024, San Diego installed hundreds of AI-assisted ALPR cameras throughout the city to document what cars are driving where and when, then making that data accessible for 30 days.
ALPRs like Flock’s…

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 2025-06-03  No Responses »