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  1. 🔍 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! 🙄
    newyorker.com/culture/infinite #BigBrother #Flock #PrivacySafety #Fishbowl #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🔍 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! 🙄
    newyorker.com/culture/infinite #BigBrother #Flock #PrivacySafety #Fishbowl #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 🔍 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! 🙄
    newyorker.com/culture/infinite #BigBrother #Flock #PrivacySafety #Fishbowl #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🔍 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! 🙄
    newyorker.com/culture/infinite #BigBrother #Flock #PrivacySafety #Fishbowl #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🔍 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! 🙄
    newyorker.com/culture/infinite #BigBrother #Flock #PrivacySafety #Fishbowl #HackerNews #ngated

  6. 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.

    #surveillance #google #gemini #AI #bigbrother

    techjournal.org/gemini-find-hu

  7. 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.”..."

    #bigbrother #surveillance #privacy #alpr

  8. 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.

    404media.co/a-secretive-dhs-pr

    #bigbrother #surveillance #privacy

  9. 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

    bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaig

    #DemocracyNOW #UK #BigBrother

  10. 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

    bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaig

    #DemocracyNOW #UK #BigBrother

  11. 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

    bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaig

    #DemocracyNOW #UK #BigBrother

  12. 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

    bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaig

    #DemocracyNOW #UK #BigBrother

  13. 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

    bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaig

    #DemocracyNOW #UK #BigBrother

  14. #notebookcheck:
    "
    LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
    "
    ".. 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 .."

    notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs

    7.9.2026

    #BigBrother #Cybersecurity #Datenschutz #DSGVO #Ethernet #Internet #LG #LuckyGoldstar #SmartTV #TV #Überwachung

  15. #notebookcheck:
    "
    LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
    "
    ".. 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 .."

    notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs

    7.9.2026

    #BigBrother #Cybersecurity #Datenschutz #DSGVO #Ethernet #Internet #LG #LuckyGoldstar #SmartTV #TV #Überwachung

  16. 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."

  17. 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."

  18. 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."

  19. 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."

  20. Posting again for others. My #Facebook account was suspended today. They wanted me to submit a photo ID, but my hubby, who also had his account suspended, told me that didn't change anything. This is #Fascism and #FaceSurveillance at it's highest form. If you're still on FB and get suspended, download your archive and maybe make an announcement on #Instagram (mine was still working).

    #BigBrother #ZuckSucks #SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #TechBros #SurveillanceState

  21. 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...

  22. #Bipartisan even! #DoublePlusUngood!

    Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be #Anonymous Online

    The bipartisan push to remove #anonymity from the #Internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented #MassSurveillance and #censorship.

    Taylor Lorenz
    March 5 2026, 12:20 p.m.

    "In August 2024, the Biden administration hosted hundreds of influencers at the White House for the first-ever Creator Economy Conference. Neera Tanden, a senior Biden adviser, took to the stage and bemoaned anonymity online. The influencers alongside her agreed, pushing the idea that anonymous speech on the internet is harmful, and regulation is needed to force the use of real names on social media. The audience whispered excitedly as those on stage spoke about how proposed laws like the #kidsonlinesafetyact or #KOSA, could unmask every troll.

    "This narrative of online safety, particularly in relation to children, has become central to the bipartisan effort to #censor and #deanonymize the internet for everyone. Today, a package of a dozen 'child online safety' bills is moving forward in the House of Representatives with bipartisan support. The laws, framed as a way to crack down on harmful content and make the internet safer, would force social media companies to enact invasive identity verification measures in order to keep children from accessing online spaces.

    "The problem is that there’s no way to reliably verify someone’s age without verifying who they are. A platform cannot magically discern that a user is 16 without collecting identifying information, whether through government documents such as a passport, payment information like a credit card, or other identity-disclosing data. Whether that data is stored by the platform itself or outsourced to a vendor, the result is always the same: A user’s offline identity is forever linked with their online behavior.

    "Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society. #Whistleblowers exposing #corporate wrongdoing could be tracked and fired, #GovernmentEmployees speaking out about illegal behavior or bad policies could face prosecution, and #activists #OrganizingProtests could be identified and surveilled before ever setting foot on the street.

    "Already, the U.S. government is flooding social media platforms with subpoenas seeking to unmask hundreds of anonymously run #AntiICE social media accounts. These laws would make it all the more easier for the government to target and prosecute those who dissent.
    Vulnerable members of society will suffer most. #TransPeople under attack from the government could be identified and outed without their consent.

    "Undocumented #immigrants could be cut off from the ability to communicate and connect with advocates. Young people seeking #abortions in states with restrictive laws might no longer have the ability to access information safely and anonymously.

    "Not only will a de-anonymized internet be valuable to the government as it seeks to tighten control, it will also make it easier for any #corporation or bad actor to intimidate, #blackmail, or exploit people by leveraging their own data against them."

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2026/03/05/ko

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/al8if

    #USPol #Orwellian #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #Corporatocracy #CharacteristicsOfFascism #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou

  23. 🚨 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:
    theintercept.com/2026/02/12/fb

    Archived version:
    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

  24. "Today, predictive surveillance is embedded into America’s roadways. Mass surveillance techniques are also used in a range of other countries, from authoritarian governments such as China to, increasingly, democracies in the U.K. and Europe in the name of national security and public safety."

    #BorderPatrol #CBP #SurveillanceState #Orwellian #BigBrother #ThoughtCrime #Disappeared #MurderPatrol #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  25. Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel

    By Byron Tau, November 20, 2025

    Excerpt: "The Border Patrol has for years hidden details of its license plate reader program, trying to keep any mention of the program out of court documents and police reports, former officials say, even going so far as to propose dropping charges rather than risk revealing any details about the placement and use of their covert license plate readers. Readers are often disguised along highways in traffic safety equipment like drums and barrels.

    "The Border Patrol has defined its own criteria for which drivers’ behavior should be deemed suspicious or tied to drug or human trafficking, stopping people for anything from driving on backcountry roads, being in a rental car or making short trips to the border region. The agency’s network of cameras now extends along the southern border in Texas, Arizona and California, and also monitors drivers traveling near the U.S.-Canada border.

    "And it reaches far into the interior, impacting residents of big metropolitan areas and people driving to and from large cities such as Chicago and Detroit, as well as from Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Houston to and from the Mexican border region. In one example, AP found the agency has placed at least four cameras in the greater Phoenix area over the years, one of which was more than 120 miles (193 kilometers) from the Mexican frontier, beyond the agency’s usual jurisdiction of 100 miles (161 kilometers) from a land or sea border. The AP also identified several camera locations in metropolitan Detroit, as well as one placed near the Michigan-Indiana border to capture traffic headed towards Chicago or Gary, Indiana, or other nearby destinations."

    apnews.com/article/immigration

    #BorderPatrol #CBP #SurveillanceState #Orwellian #BigBrother #ThoughtCrime #Disappeared #MurderPatrol #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  26. 🚨 Alert! Big Brother is at it again: #Palantir, the mystical oracle of Silicon Valley, is on a mission to map every sneeze and hiccup you've ever had for the government. 🤖🔍 But don't worry, it's not like privacy was ever a thing, right? 😂 #TotallyNotCreepy
    techdirt.com/2025/09/11/how-pa #BigBrother #PrivacyConcerns #DataSurveillance #TechEthics #SiliconValley #HackerNews #ngated

  27. 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:
    slate.com/business/2025/02/mas
    #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent

  28. Schon wieder?

    "Brandenburgs Innenminister .. Stübgen (#CDU) will wieder #Autokennzeichen auf Vorrat speichern. .. Entwurf für .. neues #Polizeigesetz, den wir .. veröffentlichen, lässt Spielraum für .. Form .. #Überwachung. .. grüne Koalitionspartner will sich .. wehren." "Landgericht Frankfurt/Oder erklärte .. Kennzeichenspeicherung im August 2022 .. für illegal."

    netzpolitik.org/2023/neues-pol

    #BigBrother #GläsernerBürger #Datensammelwut #Missbrauch #Verfassung #Vorratsdatenspeicherung

    18.2.2023