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Skechers debuts kids' shoes with hidden AirTag slot for Find My tracking 👟📍

AirTag fits under insole—kids won’t feel it, per Skechers 🧒
Useful in crowds, but alerts may reveal tracking ⚠️

Apple notes AirTags aren't for tracking people, but parent use may be justified 👨‍👩‍👧

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Fixing the #privacy mess we live in on an individual basis but also politically (where ever still possible) and all other means is crucial right now to be able to organise as #workingPeople before hell breaks loose even more. Here some points to be aware of:

1. #Bluetooth and #WiFi based #locationtracking in all populated areas with beacon technology in for example ad signs, smart devices and even other peoples phones and so on. For some devices it will get rally hard in the future to find alternatives without Bluetooth, things people depend on like hearing aids as well.
Do not bring devices with wireless capabilities preferably anywhere important.
2. You technically can be tracked everywhere with all the #cameras that often also have IR or even thermal sensors filming public ground, shops, streets, number plate #surveillance and so one. This is not just done trough facial recognition but also by fingerprinting your body by measuring your proportions and evaluating your walking style, making it extremely difficult to avoid tracking even with baggy clothes and masks.
3. Paying with cash is getting harder in many places we have to keep up the cash culture otherwise this freedom gets taken from us. The payment systems are a huge surveillance aparatus that tells so much about your activates even if you just use cash from atm's. Be aware of cash tracking as well.
4. All your internet traffic is analysed even if you use technologies like #Tor, so think about when you use an uplink, who pays for the uplink, with what traffic you have on that uplink and when you do not have any traffic going on your personal uplinks, because this is all analysed. Even your power consumption in many nations gets analysed in real time with #smartmeter. This helps a lot to determine daily routines for example.

Those are just a couple of points that we cant solve with individual privacy apostrophes, so please spread the message.
#Workingclass #ClassStruggle #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #Cash

TechCrunch: The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos . “This week, OpenAI released its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, both of which can uniquely ‘reason’ through uploaded images. … These image-analyzing capabilities, paired with the models’ ability to search the web, make for a potent location-finding tool. Users on X quickly discovered that o3, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/21/techcrunch-the-latest-viral-chatgpt-trend-is-doing-reverse-location-search-from-photos/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · TechCrunch: The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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404 Media: Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional. “A judge in Nevada has ruled that ‘tower dumps’—the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers—is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops could, this one time, still use the evidence they obtained through this unconstitutional search.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/404-media-judge-rules-blanket-search-of-cell-tower-data-unconstitutional/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · 404 Media: Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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Techdirt: Whoops: T-Mobile Reveals Names, Real-Time Locations Of Customers’ Kids. “T-Mobile sells a GPS service called SyncUP that lets parents monitor the locations of their children (one of several similar apps like Life360), then turns around and monetizes these vast troves of data. Except that 404 Media was the first to report that an apparent bug with T-Mobile’s service resulted in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/19/whoops-t-mobile-reveals-names-real-time-locations-of-customers-kids-techdirt/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Whoops: T-Mobile Reveals Names, Real-Time Locations Of Customers’ Kids (Techdirt) | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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