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.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT
01:00 META ADDING SNEAKY FACIAL RECOGNITION
05:42 MICROSOFT HACKED TO PUSH MALWARE
08:38 THE UK'S SURVEILLANCE ULTIMATUM
11:40 OUR SPONSOR: DAWARICH!
13:20 GOOD & BAD NEWS IN US STATES
16:42 FCC BANNING PRIVATE NUMBERS
20:00 DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES
24:15 DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS
28:54 DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+
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