#bigbrother — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bigbrother, aggregated by home.social.
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🔍 Big Brother 2.0, now with 130,000 cameras! 🕵️♂️ Flock's plan: trade your privacy for "safety"—because who doesn't love living in a fishbowl? 🐟 Just imagine the nostalgia of post-9/11 #surveillance... but better! 🙄
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/flock-wants-a-closely-surveilled-world-with-no-exit #BigBrother #Flock #PrivacySafety #Fishbowl #HackerNews #ngated -
Hypervisible shared this recently. "Permawatch" from Gemini/Google. That's my name for it, it describes in one word what's happening. Being watched and recorded all the time, everywhere, in your home, and maybe other spaces you might occupy like cars, offices... He shared a Verge article but that's paywalled, so here's another article on it.
1984 was so accurate.
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From the article:
"...“The government’s increasing use of mass surveillance — whether that surveillance comes via ALPRs, financial records, or the like — coupled with predictive policing is a recipe for tyranny,” Rob Frommer, senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, told 404 Media. “We fought a revolution for the idea that we are citizens, not subjects. Yet schemes like CBP’s Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team treat all Americans as if they are potential suspects. This is not just wrong, it’s unconstitutional, and IJ will keep pushing courts and Congress to end this attack on Americans’ security.”..."
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404 Media: A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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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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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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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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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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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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#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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Immer diese Panikmache von den #Linken #Lunatics #Kommunisten #Heiden !
Diese Maßnahmen dienen ausschließlich unserem Wohle.
Wer nichts zu verbergen hat und so...
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#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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Die Regierung hat einen Werbespot für #Palantir gedreht.
"Ihr wisscht beschhait, meine Fräunde ..."
(Horst Schlämmer)
youtu.be/mBW9QCVDSjY
(In den Einstellung die automatischen Text-Übersetzungen einschalten!)
#Thiel #PeterThiel #Karp #AlexKarp #Trump #ICE #Überwachung #BigBrother #UnPlugBigTech
Honest Government Ad | Palanti... -
« Chat Control : le Parlement européen refuse de prolonger la surveillance jusqu’en 2027 »
Faisons sauter les bulles, mais restons frais pour les tentatives à venir.
https://next.ink/231260/chat-control-le-parlement-europeen-refuse-de-prolonger-la-surveillance-jusquen-2027/#ChatControl #CSAR #BigBrother #Technopolice #surveillance #RépubliquePanoptique
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[2/2] Here's the page for the play itself (closes this Sunday). Looks v interesting. Good for him, first play gets Off-Broadway.
The pretext is basically "what if you're the one building Big Brother for the government?"
#OffBroadway #play #moral #thriller #plot #points #elicit #gasps #audience #BigBrother #surveillance #state #Palantir #data #harvester #broker #privacy #laws
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Point to Wyze for their rapid response to Ring's Superbowl Ad, and its funny
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#Google Fulfilled #ICE Subpoena Demanding #StudentJournalist’s #Bank and #CreditCard Numbers
#AmandlaThomasJohnson didn’t know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena until months later. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
Jessica Washington. February 10 2026
Excerpt: "Amandla Thomas-Johnson had attended a protest targeting companies that supplied weapons to Israel at a #CornellUniversity job fair in 2024 for all of five minutes, but the action got him banned from campus. When President Donald Trump assumed office and issued a series of executive orders targeting students who protested in support of #Palestinians, Thomas-Johnson and his friend Momodou Taal went into hiding."Google informed Thomas-Johnson via a brief email in April that it had already shared his metadata with the Department of Homeland Security, as The Intercept previously reported. But the full extent of the information the agency sought — including usernames, addresses, itemized list of services, including any IP masking services, telephone or instrument numbers, subscriber numbers or identities, and credit card and bank account numbers — was not previously known.
" 'I’d already seen the subpoena request that Google and Meta had sent to Momodou [Taal], and I knew that he had gotten in touch with a lawyer and the lawyer successfully challenged that,' Thomas-Johnson said. 'I was quite surprised to see that I didn’t have that opportunity.'
"The subpoena provides no justification for why ICE is asking for this information, except that it’s required 'in connection with an investigation or inquiry relating to the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.' In the subpoena, ICE requests that Google not 'disclose the existence of this summons for indefinite period of time.'
Thomas-Johnson, who is British, believes that ICE requested that information to track and eventually detain him — but he had already fled to Geneva, Switzerland, and is now in Dakar, Senegal."The #ElectronicFrontierFoundation, which is representing Thomas-Johnson, and the #ACLU of Northern California sent a letter to Google, #Amazon, #Apple, #Discord, #Meta, #Microsoft, and #Reddit last week calling on tech companies to resist similar subpoenas in the future from #DHS without court intervention. The letter asks the companies to provide users with as much notice as possible before complying with a subpoena to give them the opportunity to fight it, and to resist gag orders that would prevent the #TechCompanies from informing targets that a subpoena was issued.
" 'Your promises to protect the privacy of users are being tested right now. As part of the federal government’s unprecedented campaign to target critics of its conduct and policies, agencies like DHS have repeatedly demanded access to the identities and information of people on your services,' the letter reads.
" 'Based on our own contact with targeted users, we are deeply concerned your companies are failing to challenge unlawful surveillance and defend user privacy and speech.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/zEa6d
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ICEOut #DefundICE #Orwellian #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #SilencingDissent #SilencingFreeSpeech #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity -
The Nolans make emotional return to stage as they reunite months after Linda's death
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Kelley Jorgensen’s time on Big Brother 27 has come to an end. She opens up about her clashes with Rachel, Vince’s betrayals, and what comes next as she joins the jury.
#BigBrother #BB27Kelly #BigBrother27 #BB27 #RalityTV CBS #ParamountPlus TV #TV News #television #Entertainment #Entertainmentnews #TelevisionNews
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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
#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent -
#BigBrother #housemate #Olivia #voices #concern that #Hallie’s #eviction was due to #transphobia.
The #Scottish #dancer referenced that “#prejudice” in the #public #vote could have led to the 18-year-old’s #exit from the #house.
Having been #nominated by her #housemates for #eviction, it was the #publicvote which sent her home.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #TV #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia
https://diva-magazine.com/2023/10/30/big-brother-hallie-eviction/
