Federal Court Just Dealt a Major Blow to Age Verification Laws
Techlore Surveillance Report: Weekly News for Your Digital Freedom
This week's Surveillance Report covers a federal court blocking Texas's age verification law, AI police cameras exposed to the internet, massive data breaches affecting millions of people, and more! Happy holidays!
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Episode Timestamps
00:00 Welcome to Surveillance Report
00:45 Judge Blocks Texas Age Verification
06:14 AI Super Pacs
10:14 Flock's Surveillance
17:52 Support Techlore!
18:34 Return to Monke Holiday Message
26:34 The Defense Bulletin
Episode Sources
Highlight: Federal Court Blocks Texas Age Verification Law
- https://www.theverge.com/news/849752/texas-app-store-accountability-act-age-verification-injunction
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/24/apple-pauses-app-store-changes-in-texas-after-court-blocks-age-assurance-law/
Story 1: AI Industry acting like big oil.
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/super-pac-aims-to-drown-out-ai-critics-in-midterms-with-100m-and-counting/ar-AA1LeEsy
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/20/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-signs-raise-act-to-regulate-ai-safety/
Story 2: AI Police Cameras Exposed to Internet—Investigators Tracked Themselves
- https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/tech/flock-safety-ai-cameras-brown-suspect-privacy
- https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/12/16/ai-bathroom-monitors-welcome-to-americas-new-surveillance-high-schools/
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/inside-uzbekistans-nationwide-license-plate-surveillance-system/
Story 3: Holiday Special on Cassettes from 404
The Defense Bulletin
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/hundreds-of-cisco-customers-are-vulnerable-to-new-chinese-hacking-campaign-researchers-say/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-25-000-forticloud-sso-devices-exposed-to-remote-attacks/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/watchguard-warns-of-new-rce-flaw-in-firebox-firewalls-exploited-in-attacks/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hpe-warns-of-maximum-severity-rce-flaw-in-oneview-software/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mongodb-warns-admins-to-patch-severe-rce-flaw-immediately/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-uefi-flaw-enables-pre-boot-attacks-on-motherboards-from-gigabyte-msi-asus-asrock/
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/tech-provider-for-nhs-england-confirms-data-breach/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-sydney-suffers-data-breach-exposing-student-and-staff-info/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/baker-university-data-breach-impacts-over-53-000-individuals/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-phoenix-data-breach-impacts-nearly-35-million-individuals/
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/us-insurance-giant-aflac-says-hackers-stole-personal-data-of-22-6-million/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nissan-says-thousands-of-customers-exposed-in-red-hat-breach/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/romanian-water-authority-hit-by-ransomware-attack-over-weekend/
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/frances-postal-and-banking-services-disrupted-by-suspected-ddos-attack/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-macsync-malware-dropper-evades-macos-gatekeeper-checks/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/webrat-malware-spread-via-fake-vulnerability-exploits-on-github/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-extensions-in-chrome-web-store-steal-user-credentials/
- https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
- https://9to5linux.com/firefox-will-ship-with-an-ai-kill-switch-to-completely-disable-all-ai-features
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/docker-hardened-images-now-open-source-and-available-for-free/
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/waterfox-pushes-back-against-mozilla-s-ai-vision-and-advocates-for-privacy-first-browsing/
- https://www.mullvad.net/en/blog/2025/12/19/announcing-gotatun-the-future-of-wireguard-at-mullvad-vpn/
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/apple-opens-up-its-app-store-to-competition-in-japan/
- https://tuta.com/blog/auto-save-drafts
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/immich-v2-4-0-command-palette-enhanced-sharing-and-improved-mobile-navigation/
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/adguard-for-mac-v2-18-supports-three-new-ai-browsers-and-macos-12-/
- https://blog.torproject.org/code-audit-network-health-tools/
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/kdenlive-25-12-0-adds-flexible-docking-system-new-layouts-and-menu-overhaul/
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/qubes-os-4-3-0-released-with-fedora-41-xen-4-19-updated-templates/
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/elementary-os-8-1is-out-with-over-1-100-fixes-linux-6-14-arm64-support-and-more/
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/postmarketos-25-12-brings-alpine-3-23-base-gnome-49-plasma-mobile-6-5-and-kernel-updates/
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/darktable-5-4-adds-new-sharpening-tool-multiple-workspace-support-and-new-tone-mapper/
- https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Parrot-OS-Switches-to-KDE-Plasma-Desktop
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