#bigbrother — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bigbrother, aggregated by home.social.
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Save Free Speech
- Over 60,000 people #arrested for #communication offences over 5 years
Groundbreaking new report, Britain’s free #speech problem:
How growing #restrictions stifle speech #online and offline reveals the bleak state of free speech in #Britain today
It investigates how a patchwork of poor #legislation, a “postcode lottery” of policing, and a relentless stream of new restrictions are slowly limiting Britons’ #FreeSpeech
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/save-free-speech/?mc_cid=95cf618df5#report
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#notebookcheck:
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LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
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".. TVs actively scanning the local area network for unrelated hardware, including phones and smartwatches .."".. disconnected .. from Ethernet, the set continued saving voice input .. uploaded the stored files once network access was restored .."
7.9.2026
#BigBrother #Cybersecurity #Datenschutz #DSGVO #Ethernet #Internet #LG #LuckyGoldstar #SmartTV #TV #Überwachung
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Jay Mohr said in an interview about #BigBrother:
"I told my wife, I could never be on #BigBrother. 90 days, no television, no phone."She said "You already did it, it's called rehab."
Jay Mohr was great on #SaturdayNightLive.
I also enjoyed reading his book "Gasping for Airtime." -
Jay Mohr said in an interview about #BigBrother:
"I told my wife, I could never be on #BigBrother. 90 days, no television, no phone."She said "You already did it, it's called rehab."
Jay Mohr was great on #SaturdayNightLive.
I also enjoyed reading his book "Gasping for Airtime." -
Jay Mohr said in an interview about #BigBrother:
"I told my wife, I could never be on #BigBrother. 90 days, no television, no phone."She said "You already did it, it's called rehab."
Jay Mohr was great on #SaturdayNightLive.
I also enjoyed reading his book "Gasping for Airtime." -
Jay Mohr said in an interview about #BigBrother:
"I told my wife, I could never be on #BigBrother. 90 days, no television, no phone."She said "You already did it, it's called rehab."
Jay Mohr was great on #SaturdayNightLive.
I also enjoyed reading his book "Gasping for Airtime." -
Voilà la direction depuisenviron 2012, imposée aux diverses populations des États occidentaux malgré les contestations.
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https://www.europesays.com/at/376799/ Gedeon Burkhard aus München zieht bei „Promi Big Brother“ 2026 ein #100137924 #100151112 #AlarmFürCobra11 #AlexanderBrandtner #AT #Austria #BigBrother #BurkhardEnde #ChrisRitter #Entertainment #GedeonBurkhard #Joyn #KommissarRex #München #Österreich #PromiBigBrother #Sat1 #Serien #Series #Streaming #Unterhaltung
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#republica:
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Das Geschäft mit unseren Daten mit Ingo Dachwitz
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"„Zeig mir, wo du warst, und ich finde heraus, wer du bist.” .. „Data Broker Files" .. zum unkontrollierten Handel mit Nutzer*innen-Daten."
mit Markus Beckedahlhttps://re-publica.com/de/news/das-geschaeft-mit-unseren-daten-mit-ingo-dachwitz
mp3: https://audio.podigee-cdn.net/2584874-m-4661b6dce85a2c3e719032e4e34ed756.mp3
#ADINT #App #Bewegungsprofil #BigBrother #BR #BRData #Cybersecurity #DataBroker #DataBrokerFiles #Datenhandel #Datenschutz #Location #LocationData #Podcast #Standort #Standortdaten #Tracking #Überwachung #WerbeID
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#republica:
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Das Geschäft mit unseren Daten mit Ingo Dachwitz
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"„Zeig mir, wo du warst, und ich finde heraus, wer du bist.” .. „Data Broker Files" .. zum unkontrollierten Handel mit Nutzer*innen-Daten."
mit Markus Beckedahlhttps://re-publica.com/de/news/das-geschaeft-mit-unseren-daten-mit-ingo-dachwitz
mp3: https://audio.podigee-cdn.net/2584874-m-4661b6dce85a2c3e719032e4e34ed756.mp3
#ADINT #App #Bewegungsprofil #BigBrother #BR #BRData #Cybersecurity #DataBroker #DataBrokerFiles #Datenhandel #Datenschutz #Location #LocationData #Podcast #Standort #Standortdaten #Tracking #Überwachung #WerbeID
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#republica:
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Das Geschäft mit unseren Daten mit Ingo Dachwitz
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"„Zeig mir, wo du warst, und ich finde heraus, wer du bist.” .. „Data Broker Files" .. zum unkontrollierten Handel mit Nutzer*innen-Daten."
mit Markus Beckedahlhttps://re-publica.com/de/news/das-geschaeft-mit-unseren-daten-mit-ingo-dachwitz
mp3: https://audio.podigee-cdn.net/2584874-m-4661b6dce85a2c3e719032e4e34ed756.mp3
#ADINT #App #Bewegungsprofil #BigBrother #BR #BRData #Cybersecurity #DataBroker #DataBrokerFiles #Datenhandel #Datenschutz #Location #LocationData #Podcast #Standort #Standortdaten #Tracking #Überwachung #WerbeID
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#republica:
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Das Geschäft mit unseren Daten mit Ingo Dachwitz
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"„Zeig mir, wo du warst, und ich finde heraus, wer du bist.” .. „Data Broker Files" .. zum unkontrollierten Handel mit Nutzer*innen-Daten."
mit Markus Beckedahlhttps://re-publica.com/de/news/das-geschaeft-mit-unseren-daten-mit-ingo-dachwitz
mp3: https://audio.podigee-cdn.net/2584874-m-4661b6dce85a2c3e719032e4e34ed756.mp3
#ADINT #App #Bewegungsprofil #BigBrother #BR #BRData #Cybersecurity #DataBroker #DataBrokerFiles #Datenhandel #Datenschutz #Location #LocationData #Podcast #Standort #Standortdaten #Tracking #Überwachung #WerbeID
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#republica:
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Das Geschäft mit unseren Daten mit Ingo Dachwitz
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"„Zeig mir, wo du warst, und ich finde heraus, wer du bist.” .. „Data Broker Files" .. zum unkontrollierten Handel mit Nutzer*innen-Daten."
mit Markus Beckedahlhttps://re-publica.com/de/news/das-geschaeft-mit-unseren-daten-mit-ingo-dachwitz
mp3: https://audio.podigee-cdn.net/2584874-m-4661b6dce85a2c3e719032e4e34ed756.mp3
#ADINT #App #Bewegungsprofil #BigBrother #BR #BRData #Cybersecurity #DataBroker #DataBrokerFiles #Datenhandel #Datenschutz #Location #LocationData #Podcast #Standort #Standortdaten #Tracking #Überwachung #WerbeID
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https://www.europesays.com/at/376289/ Gedeon Burkhard: Von „Kommissar Rex“ zu „Promi Big Brother“ #AlexanderBrandtner #AT #Austria #BigBrother #Entertainment #GedeonBurkhard #KommissarRex #Österreich #PromiBigBrother #Unterhaltung
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Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
"...I'm just an average man with an average life
I work from nine to five, hey hell, I pay the price
All I want is to be left alone, in my average home
But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone?I always feel like somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy (oh-oh, oh)
I always feel like somebody's watching me
Tell me, is it just a dream?..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY&list=RD7YvAYIJSSZY&start_radio=1
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Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
"...I'm just an average man with an average life
I work from nine to five, hey hell, I pay the price
All I want is to be left alone, in my average home
But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone?I always feel like somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy (oh-oh, oh)
I always feel like somebody's watching me
Tell me, is it just a dream?..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY&list=RD7YvAYIJSSZY&start_radio=1
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Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
"...I'm just an average man with an average life
I work from nine to five, hey hell, I pay the price
All I want is to be left alone, in my average home
But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone?I always feel like somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy (oh-oh, oh)
I always feel like somebody's watching me
Tell me, is it just a dream?..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY&list=RD7YvAYIJSSZY&start_radio=1
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Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
"...I'm just an average man with an average life
I work from nine to five, hey hell, I pay the price
All I want is to be left alone, in my average home
But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone?I always feel like somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy (oh-oh, oh)
I always feel like somebody's watching me
Tell me, is it just a dream?..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY&list=RD7YvAYIJSSZY&start_radio=1
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Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
"...I'm just an average man with an average life
I work from nine to five, hey hell, I pay the price
All I want is to be left alone, in my average home
But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone?I always feel like somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy (oh-oh, oh)
I always feel like somebody's watching me
Tell me, is it just a dream?..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY&list=RD7YvAYIJSSZY&start_radio=1
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"....They're part of the NYPD's massive AI surveillance platform: the Domain Awareness System (DAS). "Every police officer in the city can access it on their phones and pull up a profile of basically anyone walking around," she says.
The platform connects more than 80,000 cameras with drones, social media data, even systems that follow cars when you drive to another state. Dahl says it can unveil who I've seen and everywhere I've been in the last week. My whole life: tracked...."
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"....They're part of the NYPD's massive AI surveillance platform: the Domain Awareness System (DAS). "Every police officer in the city can access it on their phones and pull up a profile of basically anyone walking around," she says.
The platform connects more than 80,000 cameras with drones, social media data, even systems that follow cars when you drive to another state. Dahl says it can unveil who I've seen and everywhere I've been in the last week. My whole life: tracked...."
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"....They're part of the NYPD's massive AI surveillance platform: the Domain Awareness System (DAS). "Every police officer in the city can access it on their phones and pull up a profile of basically anyone walking around," she says.
The platform connects more than 80,000 cameras with drones, social media data, even systems that follow cars when you drive to another state. Dahl says it can unveil who I've seen and everywhere I've been in the last week. My whole life: tracked...."
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"....They're part of the NYPD's massive AI surveillance platform: the Domain Awareness System (DAS). "Every police officer in the city can access it on their phones and pull up a profile of basically anyone walking around," she says.
The platform connects more than 80,000 cameras with drones, social media data, even systems that follow cars when you drive to another state. Dahl says it can unveil who I've seen and everywhere I've been in the last week. My whole life: tracked...."
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"....They're part of the NYPD's massive AI surveillance platform: the Domain Awareness System (DAS). "Every police officer in the city can access it on their phones and pull up a profile of basically anyone walking around," she says.
The platform connects more than 80,000 cameras with drones, social media data, even systems that follow cars when you drive to another state. Dahl says it can unveil who I've seen and everywhere I've been in the last week. My whole life: tracked...."
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Big Brother interview with LaTrice ‘Lala’ Verrett on icons and Rome
LaTrice “Lala” Verrett may not have always understood everything that was going on inside the Big Brother house,…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #BigBrother #BigBrother28 #CBS #RealityDerby #realityTV
https://www.europesays.com/italy/45329/ -
Flock Donations to Local Politicians’ Groups Skyrocket as Protests Against AI Cameras Mount https://theintercept.com/2026/09/04/flock-camera-surveillance-protest-donations/ #uspoli #surveillance #Flock #police #RacialProfiling #PrivacyRights #CivilRights #BigBrother #TrumpRegime #facism
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Flock Donations to Local Politicians’ Groups Skyrocket as Protests Against AI Cameras Mount https://theintercept.com/2026/09/04/flock-camera-surveillance-protest-donations/ #uspoli #surveillance #Flock #police #RacialProfiling #PrivacyRights #CivilRights #BigBrother #TrumpRegime #facism
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Flock Donations to Local Politicians’ Groups Skyrocket as Protests Against AI Cameras Mount https://theintercept.com/2026/09/04/flock-camera-surveillance-protest-donations/ #uspoli #surveillance #Flock #police #RacialProfiling #PrivacyRights #CivilRights #BigBrother #TrumpRegime #facism
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Flock Donations to Local Politicians’ Groups Skyrocket as Protests Against AI Cameras Mount https://theintercept.com/2026/09/04/flock-camera-surveillance-protest-donations/ #uspoli #surveillance #Flock #police #RacialProfiling #PrivacyRights #CivilRights #BigBrother #TrumpRegime #facism
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Flock Donations to Local Politicians’ Groups Skyrocket as Protests Against AI Cameras Mount https://theintercept.com/2026/09/04/flock-camera-surveillance-protest-donations/ #uspoli #surveillance #Flock #police #RacialProfiling #PrivacyRights #CivilRights #BigBrother #TrumpRegime #facism
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🚨 BREAKING: Hackers discover how to set up their own season of "Big Brother" using ID verification feeds. 📸 Who needs privacy when you can have 24/7 reality TV, right? 🙄 Maybe next, they'll stream our thoughts for an encore performance. 🎭
http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/ #BreakingNews #RealityTV #PrivacyConcerns #HackerNews #BigBrother #HackerNews #ngated -
Lawmakers sneakily added a $1 fee to your car insurance, and voilà, now you’re funding a surveillance state of Flock cameras. 🎥💸 Because who doesn’t love subsidizing Big Brother while barely noticing? 🙄 #PrivacyIsOverrated
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/ #Lawmakers #FlockCameras #SurveillanceState #CarInsurance #BigBrother #PrivacyConcerns #HackerNews #ngated -
#Netzpolitik:
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„Verfassungsrechtlich ist das nicht tragbar“
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"Thüringen .. Polizeigesetz.. Expert*innen .. m. .. Entwurf auseinandergesetzt. .. m. dem Grundgesetz n. vereinbar."5.8.2026
#BigBrother #Biometrie #Daten #Datenschutz #Gesichtersuchmaschine #Grundgesetz #Grundrechte #InformationelleSelbstbestimmung #Kennzeichenscanner #Massenüberwachung #Polizei #Polizeigesetz #Thüringen #Überwachung #Verfassung #Verhaltenserkennung #Verhaltensscanner #Videoüberwachung
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Dans une pèriode où l’édition indépendante traverse une crise profonde, cette publication rappelle aussi le rôle irremplaçable de maisons comme Agone : les derniers maillons d’une lignée d’éditeurs indépendants, militants et exigeants, qui continuent de faire vivre des œuvres essentielles sans céder aux logiques du marché.
#GeorgeOrwell #1984 #RaoulPeck #Agone #BigBrother #Novlangue #ÉditionIndépendante #CinémaEngagé #CineMutins
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James Gunn Says ‘Big Brother 28’s Rick Devens Was Set For ‘Man Of Tomorrow’ Cameo But “Had To Cancel” Due To CBS Competition
#News #BigBrother #JamesGunn #ManofTomorrow #RealityTV #Supermanhttps://deadline.com/2026/07/james-gunn-big-brother-28-rick-devens-superman-cameo-1236997635/
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Banijay & All3Media Complete Merger, Creating $8BN Production-Distribution Giant
#News #All3Media #Banijay #BigBrother #JaneTurton #MarcoBassetti #PeakyBlinders #TheTraitorshttps://deadline.com/2026/07/banijay-all3media-merger-approved-complete-1236978267/
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‘Big Brother’ Season 28 Cast Revealed: ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Alum, Rocket Scientist, MMA Fighter and More
#TV #TVNews #BigBrother #Cbs #RealityTV #RuPaulsDragRacehttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/big-brother-season-28-cast/
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What is #Palantir? And why is this corporation so dangerous?
The company conducts #MassSurveillance in the service of #StateViolence, from #ICE’s #deportation machine to the #genocide in #Gaza.
By Kenny Morris, Feb 11, 2026"#PeterThiel is a central co-founder of Palantir. He is a #billionaire venture #capitalist, conservative libertarian, and an early investor in Facebook who made much of his money from founding PayPal. According to Theil, 'I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
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How can we stop Palantir?
"#AFSC has joined a collective of #ImmigrantRights groups, #PalestineSolidarity organizations, #EnvironmentalJustice advocates, #LaborUnions, and many others working to hold Palantir accountable and stop its expansion into our lives. You can join us by finding or organizing a local group to pressure our universities, hospitals, and other institutions to cut all ties to Palantir.
"Visit our #PurgePalantir campaign page to:
- Contact the leadership of hospitals, universities, and other corporations using Palantir to urge them to #divest from the company.
- Find a map of Palantir offices, some of its corporate clients, and elected officials who have received money from Palantir. Use it to find where the company is in your community and plan an action to challenge it.
- Are you a health care worker? You can join organized nurses and doctors across the U.S. pushing the surveillance company out of our hospitals [and the #NHS in the #UK]."Learn more about the company and join the growing campaign to stand up to Palantir."
https://afsc.org/palantir-explainer
#USPol #WorldPol #UKPol #ICE #ICESucks #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #PalantirTechnology #GazaGenocide #AITools #WarMachines #Spying #SpyMachines #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #PayYourTaxes #TaxTheWarMachines
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From 2024: #Palantir allegedly enables #Israel's #AITargeting in #Gaza, raising concerns over #WarCrimes
How #USIntelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s #KillingMachine in Gaza
by James Bamford, 12 Apr 2024
"... One of #Unit8200’s newest and most important organizations is the Data Science and #ArtificialIntelligence Center, which, according to a spokesman, was responsible for developing the #AI systems that 'transformed the entire concept of targets in the #IDF.' Back in 2021, the Israeli military described its 11-day war on Gaza as the world’s first '#AIWar.' Israel’s ongoing invasion of Gaza offers a more recent—and devastating—example."
#USPol #WorldPol #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #PalantirTechnology #GazaGenocide #AITools #WarMachines #Spying #SpyMachines #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #PayYourTaxes #TaxTheWarMachines
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#Palantir Pays Zero Federal #IncomeTax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to #Trump Tax Law
by Matthew Gardner, February 17, 2026
"The CEO of Palantir, the tech company known for equipping #ICE with #AITools that hack into people’s phones, recently said he runs 'the first company to be completely #AntiWoke.' This week, we learned that a key part of being anti-woke is, apparently, not paying taxes.
"In its recent earnings call summarizing fiscal year 2025, a Palantir exec crowed that the company’s explosive growth and profitability for the year was 'one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance.' But the company neglected to mention one weird trick that also fueled its 2025 growth: this is the third straight year that a profitable Palantir has avoided paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings.
"Palantir’s annual financial report, released this week, shows the company enjoyed $1.5 billion of U.S. income and paid exactly zero federal income tax. At the 21 percent federal income tax rate profitable companies theoretically pay, Palantir should have paid $330 million.
"While the company used a variety of tax breaks to achieve this, the most obvious is the new tax break enacted by Congress at the behest of President Trump last summer. The 'One #BigBeautifulBill' allows companies to (retroactively) immediately deduct their research expenses, rather than writing them off gradually over time in line with the income generated from that research. Palantir reduced its taxes by over $400 million using this provision.
"U.S. #taxpayers are paying multiple times for the services provided by Palantir, which the Trump administration finds so valuable. First, we pay the bill for the government contracts signed with the company, for example, the deal signed in April for Palantir to provide ICE with a system to track immigrants. Then we pay again with subsidies provided through the tax code, including the $400 million for the 'research' the company has done to create these innovations in government surveillance.
"It’s not news that helping the Trump administration with its policy goals can be enormously profitable. But it’s important to recognize that Palantir’s recent success has been helped substantially by a far more pedestrian tool: handouts from American taxpayers."
Source:
https://itep.org/palantir-pays-zero-tax-trump-tax-law-ice/#USPol #WorldPol #WarMachines #Spying #SpyMachines #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #PayYourTaxes #TaxTheWarMachines #AbolishPalantir #NoWar #TaxTheRich #TaxCorporations #BigUglyBill #TrumpSucks
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🚨 We all knew this would be coming... Don't like polluters? TOUGH SHIT! You're under arrest!!!
#FBI #Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a #ClimateActivist — Then Showed Up at His Door
The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into #ExtinctionRebellionNYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of #activist groups.
Jacqueline Sweet, February 12 2026
Excerpt: "Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, at least one of whom works on counterterrorism, went to the home of a former member of a #ClimateActivism group for questioning last week, potentially signaling a new escalation in the Trump administration’s promise to criminalize #nonprofits and #ActivistGroups as #DomesticTerrorists.
"Two FBI agents, one from New York’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, told a former member of Extinction Rebellion NYC they wanted to ask him about the group at his home upstate on Friday, an attorney for the group told The Intercept. The visit followed a prior attempt to reach him at his old address.
"The FBI’s apparent probe of Extinction Rebellion NYC comes as the Justice Department ramps up its surveillance of activists protesting immigration enforcement and the Trump administration creates secret lists of domestic enemies under Trump’s National Security Presidential #Memorandum7, or #NSPM7." 'I believe this to be a significant escalation of the criminal legal system against #XR and find it very troubling,' said Ron Kuby, the Extinction Rebellion attorney. 'This is usually the way we find out an actual investigation is underway and is often followed by other visits and other actions.'
"The former Extinction Rebellion member, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear for his safety, said that the visit came after a phone call in January from a special agent that he assumed was a scam.
" 'I was skeptical the phone call was really from the FBI, but after I declined to speak with the agent, she said that she was standing outside my door,' he said. She was actually at the activist’s former address, which he said made him additionally dubious. But last week, when the agents showed up at his current address, he said he saw the agent’s business card through his door."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/12/fbi-counterterror-extinction-rebellion/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/4Nq3X#USPol #ExtinctionRebellion #CriminalizingDissent #AntiProtestLaws #EPAFail #Polluters #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism #Oligarchy #EnvironmentalActivists #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #NoMiningWithoutConsent #ResistFascism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Orwellian #ThoughtCrime #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #SilencingDissent #SilencingFreeSpeech #CorporationsAreTheRealTerrorists
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När jag skickar ett vykort nu för tiden så känner jag att det är mycket mer privat (och skyddat från Big Brother) än om jag skickar ett meddelande via Internet.
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So, I am seeing some patterns... Cutting #USDA funding, support for #LocalFood and #LocalFarms, #SNAPCuts, #UnaffordableHealthCare, etc. #HungerGames. Plain and simple. Cull the population. This is #LifeOrDeath for many Americans. And #NationalGuard / #ICE / #DHS bullshit is just the establishment of a national police force ( #CapitolPolice ) to #SilenceDissent. #DoublePlusUngood! Pay attention folks!
#USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #authoritarianism #ClimateCrisis #NineteenEightyFour #BigBrother #CatchingFire #SilencingDissent #Resistance #LandBack #TakeBackThePlanet
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RE: https://mementomori.social/@levi/115334697961474628
2. Streetcomplete and #Openstreetmaps
On the topic of #geolocation , there's another FOSS project that relies on community submissions to build a privacy preserving map
let's face it, Google Maps is the most solid, polished and convenient maps app out there, it offers detailed business listings, phone numbers, open hours, photos and reviews, Streetview (which OSM lacks), live traffic, routing algorithms with turn by turn navigation.. Etc.
But as it's the case with proprietary software, convenience comes at a cost, a cost that no one can afford, loss of privacy.
Most people fail to recognize how sensitive location data is, how it's used against them and how it can be abused in the future.
if I ask.. where were you on February 9, 2012, at 3 o'clock? you have no clue, you can't even remember what you had for dinner last night! me too :-) our brains can't recall events with time and location with such great precision, if you can.. you must be Charles Xavier from X-Men :-P
But you know who can remember? Google. the Ad company profiles individuals by tracking queries, routes, and interactions, it records your movements by a feature called location history which is turned on by default, even when you don't use the app, your movements are still logged, heck.. even if you turn off location history altogether, Google keeps on tracking you.. this should tell you how much valuable location data is for E-Corp, where you work or study, what you're planning to buy, where you go for entrainment.. etc. all used to create a profile so that the surveillance machine can target you with ads..
The brightside is that we don't have to use a surveillance tool like Google Maps, OrganicMaps is a free and open source software that respects your privacy, does not collect or transmit your location, search history, or usage data and it encourages you to use it offline by letting you know that you have to download maps for your area.
Organic Maps uses OpenStreeMaps which is also free software, but as I mentioned it's not as rich as Google Maps in terms of data. :-(
Which brings us to Streetcomplete, a FOSS android app designed to make contributing to OpenStreetMap easy. It's really like a real life game and I find it fun, It uses a simple question and answer interface to gather missing OpenStreeMaps details like: surface types of paths, opening hours of shops, speed limits.. etc
Submitted data will appear on OpenStreeMaps, so all users of apps like @organicmaps and @CoMaps can benefit from :-)
If you're interested in volunteering to help us make a #freedom map so we don't live our lives under the constant surveillance of #bigbrother Google, check out the following links:
- https://streetcomplete.app/
- https://www.openstreetmap.org
- https://organicmaps.app
- https://www.comaps.app/
#opensource #geolocation #linux #programming #coding #technology #geoip #software #gis #openstreetmap #tech #github #iot #data #security #opensourceprojects #geotagging #locationdata #mapdata #opendata #fdroid #neostumbler #location #surveillance #privacy #street #streetcomplete #google -
The Nolans make emotional return to stage as they reunite months after Linda's death
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Ohio House bill HB 427 would allow utility companies to remotely control their customers' thermostats and water heaters. Programs would be voluntary.
#utilityprograms
#thermostats
#bigbrother heatershttps://www.wowt.com/2025/09/06/proposed-bill-would-give-utility-companies-control-customer-thermostats/ -
Trump Fires IRS Chief for Not Providing Confidential Taxpayer Data
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The War on #Masks Has Taken on a New Meaning
This time, the masks have nothing to do with #COVID19.
By Henry Grabar
Feb 05, 20254:57 PM"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'
"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'
"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.
"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from #DisabilityRights advocates, #CriminalJustice reformers, #HealthCareWorkers, and #CivilLiberties groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.
"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. #NorthCarolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again #BanPublicFaceCoverings, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten #StudentProtesters with #felonies. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to #unmask #protesters this year.
"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era #HealthDirectives and make it easier to arrest #demonstrators at the same time.
"In #Ohio and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the #KuKluxKlan, but had been ignored or suspended during the #pandemic and the #GeorgeFloydProtests. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of #Gaza as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '#KKK tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.
"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to #Philadelphia banning #SkiMasks in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson by a #MaskedAssassin, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: #NoFaceNoCase.
"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.
"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. #PoliceReformers observed that #MaskBans have often been used for pretextual #policing and racial profiling against #BlackAmericans. (#AtlantaGeorgia tabled a mask ban for that reason.)
"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of #FacialRecognition, streaming video, and #doxing. Last year, the anonymous #ProIsrael website the #CanaryMission posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.
"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be
'targets' for their alleged involvement in #DEI initiatives at work."Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"
Source:
https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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Het is deze week Fun Week in 'Big Brother', maar zo veel 'fun' hebben sommige bewoners niet. Het thema is op dit moment Halloween en dat zorgt voor een hoop gegil op de livestream.
https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/entertainment/artikel/5438421/big-brother-bewoners-halloween-gillen