{"podcast":{"title":"Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom","slug":"techlore-surveillance-report-1048322","podcast_index_feed_id":1048322,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/techlore-surveillance-report","website_url":"https://techlore.tech/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/waCJIN-A7ZmqYETA1T819yiZAp6CQynDAePAEsObDRA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zNGMz/NTljMDhmN2NmMTcw/MDk3ZGRhNTIxYjJi/YTBkZC5wbmc.jpg","author":"Techlore, Inc.","episode_count":356,"summary":"Weekly news for digital freedom. Surveillance Report covers privacy, security, surveillance technology, and digital rights news to keep you safer online from the latest threats. Hosted by Henry Fisher, founder of Techlore, a leading digital rights media organization for over 10 years. Each episode cuts through the noise with carefully selected stories, context, historical perspective, and analysis - empowering you to defend your rights with actionable steps. Topics include: data breaches, government and corporate surveillance, Big Tech privacy policies, encryption standards, digital rights legislation, privacy tool updates and vulnerabilities, and accountability journalism. Whether you're new to digital privacy or a seasoned expert tracking the ecosystem, Surveillance Report is the weekly news brief that keeps you informed. New episodes every Wednesday. Learn more about Techlore at techlore.tech.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T04:19:02.883935+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322"},"episode":{"title":"Meta Hid Face-Recognition Code on 50M Phones, The UK's Device-Scanning Ultimatum & A Burner Phone Ban","slug":"meta-hid-face-recognition-code-on-50m-phones-the-uk-s-device-scanning-ultimatum-a-burner-phone-ban","published_at":"2026-06-12T00:44:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/meta-hid-face-recognition-code-on-50m-phones-the-uk-s-device-scanning-ultimatum-a-burner-phone-ban","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322","url":"https://techlore.tech/meta-hid-face-recognition-code-on-50m-phones-the-uks-device-scanning-ultimatum-a-burner-phone-ban/","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/13448caa/ee68a68a.mp3","summary":"Meta quietly embedded unreleased facial-recognition code, internally called \"nametag\" onto more than 50 million phones through its Meta AI app, then deleted it the day after Wired exposed it. This week I also get into Microsoft repos weaponized a second time to push credential-stealing malware to AI users, the UK's ultimatum to scan every device (and Signal's response), the FCC's push to kill burner phones...plus the usual breaches, threats, and a stacked week of FOSS+ updates. 🗺️ The open-source answer to Google Timeline is finally here! Replay every route and light up every city you've visited on a map nobody else owns; self-host Dawarich free or grab the hosted version at https://dawarich.app/techlore/ with code TECHLORE for 20% off your first year. In this episode: Highlight: Meta's secret face-recognition code on 50M+ phones Microsoft repos weaponized a second time in weeks to push credential-stealing malware to AI users The UK's ultimatum to scan all content on all devices and Signal's one-page rebuttal Two states, two directions: Massachusetts bans precise-location-data sales (146–0); Texas forces Apple/Google age verification (SB2420) The FCC's push to kill burner phones by making telecoms collect everyone's ID Defense Bulletin, Breaches: DentaQuest, UN World Food Programme (600K Gaza households), ServiceNow, SoFi, Dashlane (20 vaults, but Argon2-encrypted), Oxford, 20K Instagram accounts via Meta's AI, French govt messaging Threats: Chrome zero-day, WhatsApp/NSO, Microsoft \"Nightmare Eclipse\" 0-days, UniFi root bug, Gogs RCE, npm + PyPI supply-chain attacks, Hola browser cryptominer, OpenAI Lockdown Mode, Apple's auto-password-changer, license-plate readers adding AirPod/phone trackers FOSS+: Tails 7.8.1, Firefox Vulkan video + free VPN going unlimited, Nextcl…","meta_description":"Meta quietly embedded unreleased facial-recognition code, internally called \"nametag\" onto more than 50 million phones through its Meta AI app, then delet…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2153,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/episodes/meta-hid-face-recognition-code-on-50m-phones-the-uk-s-device-scanning-ultimatum-a-burner-phone-ban/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/meta-hid-face-recognition-code-on-50m-phones-the-uk-s-device-scanning-ultimatum-a-burner-phone-ban.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}