A couple of stories came across my feed.
First, school busses have cameras that are being added to the nationwide surveillance network. I’m sure other electronic SIGINT will be added to them as well.
One in seven homes has some sort of camera that’s being used to spy on your community. Even if you don’t have one, your neighbor likely does. Or your kid’s school bus.
Since it’s private companies doing it, you have no Constitutional protections from the intrusion. It’s time to harden your digital signature to the greatest extent possible. Merely refusing to have any of this hardware is no longer good enough.
4 Comments
Boneman · July 1, 2026 at 6:19 am
It’s absolutely nuts. Lee County has collected a fortune in traffic fines from the school bus and school zone cameras. Many of these have been issued erroneously.
It needs to be stopped and I agree, it’s becoming almost impossible to have any privacy anywhere… nor sadly any expectation of it.
I wonder if Priests carry a cellphone these days? And if they do, are they carrying them into the confessional?
It’s not paranoia if they really ARE out to get you.
And it sure seems like they are.
HImself · July 1, 2026 at 6:56 am
It’s a shame we need cameras on school busses. But they’re needed now due to rotten kids, and moron drivers that don’t think they have to stop when the bus is loading and unloading.
Far as your home cameras, with Ring, you can opt out. With all these services, that steams me up the most – all this intrusive crap is opt out, rather than opt in.
The supreme court ruled that the fuzz still need a warrant to use these. We’ll see how that goes.
“You have no privacy. Get used to it” – Scott McNealy
Divemedic · July 1, 2026 at 7:46 am
If your privacy depends on an “opt out” where Amazon pinky swears they never spy on you, is that realistic?
Joe Blow · July 1, 2026 at 7:33 am
The Police Surveillance State is always sold ‘for your safety’ and ‘for the children’. Cast any doubt, watch what the brit’s do on social media here w/ their censorship law ‘to protect children from pr0n’.