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.
8 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.
Steve · July 1, 2026 at 1:47 pm
“It needs to be stopped…”
Sales of black spray paint are on the rise. But just a coincidence, right?!
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’.
Stealth Spaniel · July 1, 2026 at 7:55 pm
More and more, it seems like we need to start living like The Amish.Or Orthodox Jews. No smart phones, off grid lights, water, and use to wood for heating and cooking. Use a buggy or walk or bicycle to where you need to be. The Amish sometimes do have bank accounts, with limited money in them. Otherwise, those folks are strictly a cash only lifestyle, and their lives are off the well regulated pathway. It is like they live among us but……they are very invisible.
Stefan v. · July 1, 2026 at 11:57 pm
Don’t forget the concept of parallel construction. In the panopticon, you may have been noticed for unwelcome tendencies to thinking for yourself, exercising sound judgement, and a lack of moral hypocrisy, but sometime somewhere you committed a heinous crime according to some fabricated rule, and that’s what you’ll be collared for. Oh, and the opt-out….nope, not possible. Even the hardware is compromised, and there will be so many nested clauses in the user agreements and privacy policies that makes any action incriminating, even slavish obedience.
Beaner49 · July 2, 2026 at 7:23 am
Here’s an interesting little tidbit
https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/
We don’t need no stinking GPS
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