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Claude Code found 17,342 of my daughter's photos on a server in Hangzhou. she's 16. she had her Hidden album locked with Face ID and thought nobody could see it. an app she downloaded from the App Store has been sending every photo on her phone to China for 10 months. i checked her two friends' phones the same night. same app. same server.
her phone was lagging so i connected it to my MacBook. Claude Code flagged an app called "GlowCam - Beauty Filter" with 4.2 million downloads. it was uploading her entire photo library every 6 hours between 1am and 5am while she was sleeping.
→ app → "GlowCam - Beauty Filter" (4.2M downloads, 4.7 stars)
→ server → 112.17.***.63
→ location → Hangzhou, China
→ total files uploaded → 17,342
→ active since → January 2026
→ permissions → camera, photos, microphone, location
every photo she ever took. every screenshot. every image anyone ever sent her. everything from her Hidden album that she locked with Face ID thinking it was safe. Face ID only stops a person who picks up the phone. an app with Full Access to Photos opens the Hidden album like any other folder. there's no green dot for that.
two of her friends were at our house that evening. i asked them to let me check their phones. both had GlowCam installed.
→ my daughter's iPhone 16 Pro Max → 17,342 files uploaded to Hangzhou
→ her friend's iPhone 15 → 9,740 files uploaded to the same server
→ her friend's iPhone 15 → 6,210 files uploaded since April
3 phones on my kitchen table all sending photos to the same folder in China.
i asked Claude Code to trace where the files went. it found photos from all 3 phones on a site that sells stolen photo libraries sorted by age and location.
→ www.le***dumpcc → their city listed, folders tagged "16-19"
→ tme/ph***vault_cn (41,000+ subscribers) → folder link shared 2 weeks ago
→ buyer access → $8 per library
someone paid $8 per library. 3 libraries from 3 teenage girls. Apple approved the app that made it possible.
then Claude Code scanned every other app on all 3 phones and found 2 more doing the same thing.
→ "PhotoRoom — Background Eraser" → uploading to a server in Jakarta
→ "FaceTune Lite — Selfie Editor" → uploading to a server in Mumbai
what Claude Code did on all 3 phones:
→ killed every upload process and purged all caches
→ revoked Full Access from every photo app
→ switched everything to "Limited Access"
→ filed DMCA takedowns on the site and the telegram channel
→ turned on Advanced Data Protection for iCloud on all 3 accounts
the site took the photos down in 72 hours. the telegram channel is still up.
i called both their parents that night. i told all 3 girls the apps were slowing their phones and i deleted them. none of them know what i actually found.
if your kid has a beauty filter or photo editor on their phone right now there's a real chance it's doing exactly this. check Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos and count how many apps have "Full Access." every single one can read the Hidden album, the Recently Deleted folder, and every photo your kid has ever taken.
my daughter had 11 apps with Full Access. she needed 2.
the prompt is in the first reply. run it on every phone in your house tonight. takes 3 minutes. save it and send it to every parent you know.
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AT&T to send out $5K checks as part of $177M data breach settlement – how to find out you’re impacted
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AI-driven disinformation is running rampant on social media before US midterms, experts warn.
Social media companies including Meta have pulled back on efforts to protect voters from election-meddling lies.
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'Get the Flock out': Americans respond to AI cameras in bipartisan backlash
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Personal Data Foundation retweeted
Texas says your TV takes a picture of your screen twice a second. That's probably why your phone keeps showing you ads for stuff you only ever watched on the TV.
The state sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over it last December. The tech is called automatic content recognition, or ACR. Every half second, the TV grabs whatever is on the screen, turns it into a fingerprint, and matches it against a giant library of shows and commercials. It doesn't care where the picture comes from. Cable, your PS5, the laptop you plugged in over HDMI to show your parents vacation photos all get read the same way.
Getting that onto your phone is the clever part, and it runs through your Wi-Fi.
Your TV and your phone share the same internet connection, so to an ad company they look like they live in the same house, because they do. The New York Times dug into one of these companies, Samba TV, back in 2018. Its software was on 13.5 million smart TVs, and the company said 90% of owners opted in during setup. Advertisers could pay to follow a commercial you saw on TV with an ad on every other device in your home.
So you watch a travel show about Lisbon on Sunday night, and by Monday morning Instagram is showing you flights to Portugal. Your TV saw the show, and your router told the ad company whose phone to send it to.
The guy who posted this dump had to break into his own TV just to see any of it. The firmware on his 2025 Samsung was encrypted, so he copied the files straight off the running TV onto his Mac. Inside, it looks like a laptop. There's a web browser engine, an app loader built on Microsoft's .NET, a section for DRM, and a long list of background services that check in every time the TV boots. You bought a computer you'd need hacking skills to look inside.
Samsung settled with Texas in February. It didn't admit to anything and still says its TVs don't spy on people. The deal means Texans get a clear consent screen before ACR turns on, and it only covers Texas.
Before the settlement, a Texas court said there was good reason to believe that reading Samsung's privacy disclosures took more than 200 clicks across four or more menus. Samsung got out of the case without paying a single dollar.
WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
Personal Data Foundation retweeted
We are all being watched in ways we never imagined, including vehicle tracking, facial recognition technology and data mining. What does all this digital surveillance mean for the right to privacy? to.pbs.org/4dryNSs
A federal judge ruled this week that a Tulsa, Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock Safety to search for her license plate without a warrant.
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RFK Jr has unveiled an expansive plan for the US government to collect citizens’ private health data so it can be searched and analyzed by AI.
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"Flock’s own newly announced guardrails are nothing more than a crisis PR stunt, still granting officers plenty of power to misreport how they are using the database.” - William Owen, STOP Communications Director youtube.com/watch?v=2Ks0WRGc…
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AOC: AI systems want us to be dependent and outsource our cognition to a machine, and they want us to increasingly rely on AI systems so that they can sell intelligence back to us.
AI needs two things. It needs capital-intensive resources. But it also needs an uneducated population that cannot think, that is not educated, that relies on it so that they can sell cognition back to us.
Personal Data Foundation retweeted
🚨 Boston has disabled all Flock cameras after learning the data was available to law enforcement nationwide.
Personal Data Foundation retweeted
Reinvention Blueprint No. 3: To Unmake the Surveillance State, Rethink the Privacy Act by Hannah Bloch-Wehba
A proposal to fix a privacy law by closing its loopholes, redefining key terms, and creating an independent privacy watchdog in Congress.
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As America turns on Flock cameras that track their movements at every turn, Trump throws his support behind them.
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Personal Data Foundation retweeted
This is insane. If you signed up for a free event or even bought some 250th merch, your data was probably harvested by Trump's campaign.
Our investigation found that Trump's Freedom 250 secretly harvested Americans' personal data to track them and try to influence the upcoming midterms, using America's 250th birthday as cover.
We're getting federal watchdogs and the committee that oversees the election process involved to get the full extent of what happened and hold those responsible accountable.
