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#surveillance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #surveillance, aggregated by home.social.
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An Israeli tech firm named Discover-Tech ran a massive spy operation through online ads. Two research groups named Citizen Lab and Confiant said this on Oct 15, 2026. They said Discover-Tech used malicious ads to track targets and help hack their devices. The ads often looked like normal products like phones or earbuds. They reached over 120,000 websites and 75,000 apps. Just loading an ad on a website let the spying happen. Some ads would be used to help plant spyware from Candiru on users devices. Candiru is a spyware company blacklisted by US government in 2021. The firm sent at least 10 million ads per day. A cofounder of Confiant named Jerome Dangu said it very likely touched hundreds of millions of people. The ads appeared in sensitive networks. This includes Pentagon, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the International Criminal Court. And it was shown to people in UN, NATO, European Commission, and more than a dozen national governments. The ads also appeared in networks of chip firms like Nvidia, Sandisk, Broadcom, and Micron. Some regions were hit harder. Dangu said: "You go to almost any site in Palestine — any site — you find a Discover-Tech ad. It gives them a very complete visibility on the digital activities of an entire country." A powerful Candiru spyware delivered through these ads compromised 45 Windows devices at Al Jazeera between 2024 and 2025. Al Jazeera condemned the attacks and said those responsible must be held accountable. Google kicked Discover-Tech off its ad platforms for violating policies. IAB Europe suspended its status. Comcast removed it from its platform. Yandex didnt comment. The firm Discover-Tech didnt return messages. Neither did Candiru.
#Israel #HumanRights #MiddleEast #Surveillance #ZionistViolenceMonitor
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/117614297513925972
"… Cisco is Off the Hook for Aiding and Abetting Horrific Human Rights Abuses
The Supreme Court’s ending of the plaintiffs’ case against Cisco is hugely disappointing given that the case has been going on since 2011 and the Ninth Circuit in 2023 allowed the case to move forward in an excellent and well-reasoned opinion. …"
Cc @mmasnick
#Cisco #AlienTortStatute #CorporateAccountability #HumanRights #FalunGong #SupremeCourt #AidingAndAbetting #TVPA #Surveillance #China
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Lizenz zum Einbruch: #Bundestag ( @bundestag ) winkt umkämpfte #Geheimdienstreform durch | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Lizenz-zum-Einbruch-Bundestag-winkt-umkaempfte-Geheimdienstreform-durch-11524886.html #SecretService #BND #Geheimdienst #BfV #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIagent #AIagents #Datenschutz #privacy #Überwachung #surveillance @bnd #Bundesnachrichtendienst #Verfassungsschutz
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Uber says US drivers' license data stolen in data breach
https://www.reuters.com/business/uber-says-us-drivers-license-data-stolen-data-breach-2026-11-13/
#Uber #FireworksAI #AI #hacking #security #cybersecurity #privacy #surveillance #technology
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🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC
“Join Lauren Wu, Nora Schmitt, and S․T․O․P․ on Nov 19th to learn about reproductive privacy and how to protect your data from corporate and state surveillance!
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Following your data when using Apps. Things you should know.
#Canada #cdnpoli #Surveillance
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"New Report Highlights Growing Partnership Between Surveillance Tech and ICE
DHS doesn't just buy surveillance tech, but also helps create it through a billion-dollar research incubator.
A new report has outlined the massive expansionin Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s use of surveillance technologies and partnerships with technology companies during President Donald Trump’s second term.
The report, released this week by Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Surveillance Resistance Lab, explains that billions of dollars of taxpayer funds have been diverted for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contracts with surveillance and technology companies. DHS runs both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
'A key sector of tech funded by venture capital has positioned itself as visioning and directing the war machine and asserts that AI is vital to US national security and the economy,' the report states. This has facilitated increasingly close ties between 'tech oligarchs' and the government, as seen in the case of Peter Thiel – co-founder of Palantir – and Elon Musk, among others."
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Applications like Mobile Fortify, used by ICE and CBP agents to take pictures of people they arrest and check their identity against an AI-based database, have received scrutiny recently due to their high rate of error, as well as their use against legal observers. But DHS has admitted that MobileFortify is just one of many, and that it uses more than 10 AI-based facial recognition tools."
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#Palantir #fascists #surveillance
"Alex Karp Says Palantir Is 'Progressive' Now, Months After Fascist Manifesto
Karp, who gave $1 million to MAGA Inc. in 2024, said after the midterms that he’s been a Democrat his 'whole life.'
As Democrats prepare for their sweeping campaign to investigate corporate abuses during the upcoming Congress, Palantir CEO Alex Karp claimed this week that he and his company — a massive Trump administration collaborator — are actually 'progressive' now.
Karp, who gave $1 million to MAGA Inc. in 2024 and another million for Donald Trump’s inauguration, told *Politico* Playbook on Wednesday that he’s always been a Democrat.
Far from being progressive, Karp and his company have helped to accelerate the Trump administration’s descent into fascism while wooing Trump in order to gain favor with the government.
Just in April, Palantir landed in hot water for posting a far right, 22-point manifesto that it said was a summary of Karp’s 2025 book, *The Technological Republic*. Critics described the X post as technofascist, as it espoused a pro-war, pro-policing ideology, lamented the post-Holocaust 'neutering' of Nazi Germany and Japan, and said that cultures that have 'produced vital advances' are superior to those that are 'dysfunctional and regressive.'
The tech CEO has been on the record many times branding himself and Palantir as undertaking a far right effort, with Karp calling his company 'anti-woke' and praising the Trump administration’s anti-immigration measures.
But in the Politico interview, Karp claimed that he was happy that Trump acknowledged that 'we kinda went too far' on immigration — a misrepresentation of Trump’s words earlier this week. Karp used the word 'progressive' eight times to describe his political philosophy, despite the fact that progressivism is typically known for being antiwar, pro-immigrant, and opposed to tech companies like Palantir.
On top of Karp’s contributions to Trump, Palantir was recently revealed to have donated $10 million to Trump’s East Wing ballroom project. In exchange for these gifts, the Trump administration has helped to propel Palantir to being one of the top recipients of federal contracts, embedding its AI systems in the military and recruiting the company to mine Americans’ data to help monitor and build cases against people targeted by Trump’s deportation campaign."
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Records reviewed by KPBS/Voice of San Diego show SDPD Internal Affairs queried Flock ALPR data in August 2025 for the personal vehicles of an officer under investigation and of a domestic violence victim tied to the case.
SDPD says its policy permits it. Privacy Advisory Board vice chair Ted Womack Jr. said it "sounds like a violation of the use policy." No audit has ruled either way.
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"Three UK police forces led by Cambridgeshire Constabulary have awarded Palantir a £10.1 million contract after London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a separate deal with the Metropolitan Police.
The five-year agreement covers Bedfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, and Hertfordshire Constabulary, despite warnings from campaigners and politicians about dependence on the supplier.
A contract award notice says the east of England police forces expect the Palantir platform to provide "an enterprise-wide data integration and analytics capability, enabling the secure ingestion, linking, and analysis of data from multiple systems and sources across the policing environment." The contract runs until October 2031, with the estimated value covering all three forces.
News of the award coincided with revelations that former Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has worked as a paid adviser to Palantir since September 2025."
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« Three UK police forces led by Cambridgeshire Constabulary have awarded Palantir a £10.1 million contract after London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a separate deal with the Metropolitan Police.” #surveillance #police #uk
#palantir https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/11/13/palantir-adds-three-uk-police-forces-to-its-beat-with-101m-deal/5309699 -
Against Bias: How Computing Cultures Manufacture Disengagement
Norma Tamaria Möllers
(MIT Press, 2026)
"A rare look into the making of algorithmic surveillance—and how algorithmic harm happens.
How do computer scientists negotiate the thorny political issues their work is involved in—such as state violence, racial profiling, or the deskilling of labor—when they make surveillance technology? Examining how disciplinary conventions and larger social forces shape how computer scientists think, Against Bias by Norma Möllers diagnoses a deeply rooted culture of disengagement in computer science, one that discourages computer scientists from speaking and thinking politically about their work, or considering how their technologies aid larger systems of oppression or human destruction.
The author explores how and why, sometimes despite the best intentions, questions of justice, ethics, and democracy can disappear from the process of making algorithmic technologies, and what that has to do with the disciplinary cultures in which computer scientists are embedded. Speaking to broader debates on AI and social justice, this book makes the case for an “impure” computer science that doesn’t pretend to be neutral but teaches its students (how) to do no harm."
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6240/Against-BiasHow-Computing-Cultures-Manufacture
#OpenAccess #Algorithms #AlgorithmicBias #Surveillance #ComputerScience
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Community wisdom ask: I have a masquerade with a bunch of #privacy researchers and activists tomorrow. I am thinking of giving anti #surveillance #facialrecognition makeup a try. Has anyone DIY'd it with standard items from a makeup bag, or is a theatrical/halloween paint kit necessary?
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Unfortunately the rest is behind a paywall.
#Surveillance #Penlink #Webloc #AdvertisingPrivacy Concerns Over Ad Tech Giving Police Greater Power to Track Phones
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-police-phone-tracking-advertising-tech/
> Penlink’s Webloc tool provides police with “billions of location data points” which can show the movements of people on a near real-time basis.
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Weekly #US #Influenza #Surveillance #Report: Key Updates for Week 44, ending November 7, 2026 (CDC, summary): #H1N1pdm09 is predominant strain so far, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/11/weekly-us-influenza-surveillance-report_01817953621.html
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This is what lying with a straight face looks like because anyone who listens to this drivel is presumed stupid and can be taken for a ride.
“To enforce a wealth tax, you’re going to need surveillance. Because I’m going to need to know what is the bench in your house in New Orleans worth."
"Ignoring the fact that invasive surveillance of our personal lives is yesterday’s news, this kind of cognitive dissonance isn’t surprising if you follow Palantir, a company that has long denied the characterization that it’s a surveillance firm."
Futurism: Palantir CEO, With a Straight Face, Warns That Wealth Tax Will Cause Mass Surveillance https://futurism.com/future-society/palantir-ceo-warns-mass-surveillance @Futurism #Palantir #billionaires #surveillance
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#Privacy Concerns Over #AdTech Giving #Police Greater Power to Track Phones
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-police-phone-tracking-advertising-tech/
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Ex-Met Police chief is paid adviser for Palantir | TBIJ
Not great. Another former senior public official on Palantir's payroll. Former Met Commissioner Cressida Dick, former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, former Tory defence minister Leo Docherty.
At what point does the revolving door between government and the surveillance industry become a revolving entrance?
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New.
"GeoVision is a Taiwanese surveillance and access-control company."
"We have seen malicious activity across ten accounts and 13 organizations (all across various industries). All malicious activity stemmed from GeoStartupAgentService.exe; across many endpoints, the activity was run under the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account. A search on Shodan for impacted endpoints' external IPs indicated publicly exposed GeoVision devices or management interfaces."
Huntress Threat Advisory: GeoVision Camera Software Exploited to Drop XMRig https://www.huntress.com/blog/geovision-camera-software-xmrig-cryptominer @huntress #infosec #threatresearch #surveillance
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My county voted against a Civilian Oversight Board re digital surveillance (e.g. #FLOCK).
My Commissioner supports oversight and has scheduled a town hall meeting to discuss & strategize.
💬 "The technology we use should serve the people, not spy on them in the dark."
RSVP:
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The Dollar at the Turnstile
A paper dollar has no customer-service department. It can pass from one hand to another without a login, a risk score, or a frozen account. I have been reading a transcript excerpt of Simon Dixon’s keynote at Muslim Bitcoin Summit London 2026. The summit’s schedule lists his address, “How Bitcoin Combats the Military, Financial and Technical Industrial Complex,” at 12:20 on October 10, 2026. A full recording is available on the summit’s YouTube channel. When I quote Dixon here, I […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/11/13/the-dollar-at-the-turnstile/
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#Palantir adds three UK police forces to its beat with £10.1M deal - https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/11/13/palantir-adds-three-uk-police-forces-to-its-beat-with-101m-deal/5309699 shortsighted and stupid #surveillance #privacy
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I need to procedurally generate 265 videos which represent #SessionReplay for each of the #web pages that were #audited for my #website #surveillance #research paper.
#ClaudeCode wanted to spend 74 days rendering the videos in #Blender - I said no, instead I suggested using #playwright / #VLC to record the existing replays from the interactive 3d web app created to explore the #data...
Time to generate 265 videos... 3h Hanff 1 : ClaudeCode 0
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Das passt ja heute wie die Faust aufs auge: Sogar Big Five Verlage außer Gefecht wegen Msoft outage. Spannender Artikel by the way: Ngwenyama, O., Klein, S., & Rowe, F. (2026). Platform capture of scientific knowledge production: publishers’ dominance, generative AI and Subsumption of academic labor. European Journal of Information Systems, 35(5), 942–965. https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2026.2642660 #datatracking #surveillance #platformisation
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US university students tell surveillance cameras to Flock off
By Sanya MansoorThe privacy issues over the company’s surveillance cameras have caused protests in schools all over the country
#Technology #Surveillance #USuniversities #Privacy #Studentpolitics #ProtestUS #Highereducation #Education #Students #USnews #TheGuardian #SanyaMansoor
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#CBC investigation into the data that popular apps collect - and sell.
"a Marketplace investigation shows the cost of this convenience is your privacy – and the data you’re sharing goes far beyond what you might realize."
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@Informassue/116884366323860593
Petit rappel, comme ça, l'air de rien, pour les larmes de crocodiles...
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Germany's transport minister wants nationwide "phone speed cameras": AI cameras filming into cars to catch drivers holding a phone
until now, police could only take pictures on concrete suspicion, like speeding. with these, every driver is filmed first and checked after
film everyone, then sort out who did something wrong. sound familiar?
#privacy #surveillance #germany
https://netzpolitik.org/2026/handy-blitzer-verkehrsminister-moechte-in-alle-autos-filmen/
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🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC
“BREAKING: S․T․O․P․, Ban The Scan Coalition Applaud Mamdani Endorsement of City Council Bill Banning Facial Rec․ In Public Accommodations
﹫mayor․nyc․gov ⌗BanTheScan ⌗FacialRecognition
stopspying․org/content-input/stop-b…”https://bsky.app/profile/stopspyingny.bsky.social/post/3mzlgstihfk27
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Europe’s Broken Promise: From Open Camps to High-Tech Prisons
Greek Islands – In 2015, the Greek island of Lesvos was the epicenter o…
#Europe #EU #AI #asylum-seekers #Biometrics #centaur #chios #Dataprotection #eu-turkeydeal #greece #Greek #greekislands #GreekMinistryofMigrationandAsylum #HYPERION #karatepe #Kos #leros #lesvos #mavrorvounicamp #Migrants #ministryofmigration #moriacamp #panopticon #peopleonthemove #Refugees #samos #Surveillance #vastria
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Frontex : vers un modèle de surveillance de masse des citoyens
Sous couvert de lutte contre les passeurs, la Commission européenne veut doter Frontex d’un centre de surveillance des réseaux sociaux et lui permettre d’obtenir des plateformes qu’elles suppriment en priorité les contenus qu’elle signale. Associations, exilés, citoyens qui documentent les refoulements : tous risquent de voir leurs publications effacées, voire assimilées à de l’aide au passage clandestin.
Les associations dénoncent la criminalisation de l’activisme qui va découler de cette réforme. Le risque principal réside dans la définition floue de ce qui constitue un « contenu illicite » ou une « menace pour la sécurité aux frontières. » Or, les associations utilisent massivement les réseaux sociaux pour coordonner des actions d’aide, signaler des embarcations en détresse, ou dénoncer des refoulements illégaux (pushbacks). Elles craignent alors que ces publications d’alerte ou d’entraide ne soient assimilées par les algorithmes ou les agents de Frontex à de la « complicité de passage clandestin » ou à de la facilitation de flux migratoires. Il en va de même pour les citoyens qui documentent des violences policières ou des refoulements à une frontière et en publient la vidéo : celle-ci pourrait être signalée et supprimée sous prétexte qu’il compromet la « sécurité frontalière » ou qu’il sert de guide pour les passages.
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"The Department of Homeland Security says it’s not detaining Americans.
In written statements, it has said that “allegations that ICE is arresting and deporting U.S. citizens is FALSE.”
It has said that “when individuals are briefly questioned under ‘reasonable suspicion’ and are found to be U.S. citizens, they are immediately released.” And it has said that “U.S. citizen agitators are only held while they actively remain a safety threat to our officers and the public.”
But ProPublica has identified more than 500 citizens detained since President Donald Trump returned to office.
They are not just numbers.
Among them is an elderly car wash owner whom agents repeatedly knocked to the ground as they detained several of his workers. A 6-year-old whose mother says still has nightmares after agents pointed guns at him and his siblings. A high school senior who was detained after she tried to stop officers from questioning her autistic younger brother. A dad who was held for several days and missed his daughter’s third birthday.
Over the past year, several of these people shared the lingering effects of what happened to them with ProPublica."
https://projects.propublica.org/us-citizens-detained-immigration-photo-essay/
#USA #Trump #MAGA #ICE #BorderPatrol #DHS #PoliceState #Immigration #Surveillance #CivilLiberties
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⚖️ Indonesian police chief says illegal wiretapping targeted not only president but many others
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indonesian-police-chief-says-illegal-wiretapping-targeted-not-only-president-many-others #Surveillance #Labor #Socialism
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[Article] Frontex : vers un modèle de surveillance de masse des citoyens
Sous couvert de lutte contre les passeurs, la Commission européenne veut doter Frontex d’un centre de surveillance des réseaux sociaux et lui permettre d’obtenir des plateformes qu’elles suppriment en priorité les contenus…
https://www.blast-info.fr/articles/2026/frontex-vers-un-modele-de-surveillance-de-masse-des-citoyens-SNrlYI7YRjOTtmy9VdLe7A #censure #commission-europeenne #migrations #reseaux-sociaux #surveillance -
"This is something AI turns out to be extremely good at. Businesses can program chatbots to automatically segment their customers and employees based on #surveillance data and then perform a series of automated experiments to find the highest prices and lowest wages they'll accept"
#economics #work
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Top Intelligence Democrat Says GOP Should Renew Spy Program Before Democrats Take Over
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It's that time again, time to #memetheEU!
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{European Region} #Surveillance in #humans and #animals in 2026 for #WNV (ECDC, summary): #Italy was the most affected country in 2026, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/11/european-region-surveillance-in-humans.html
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I'm afraid that #LG will soon own much more than the glass… 🤔
And even more, people fall for this because it’s so “convenient”. 😔
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/11/12/apple-home-collection-orders/
#Security #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #Privacy #PrivacyMatters #Accessories #Apple #AppleHome #HomeView
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#Measles resurgence in #Italy: analysis of temporal patterns of viral transmission, #surveillance #performance, and #vaccination coverage at national and regional levels, October 2023 to March 2025, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/11/measles-resurgence-in-italy-analysis-of.html
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State Actor SilentAir Exploits Telcos to Intercept Taiwanese Calls
Meet SilentAir, a stealthy state-level actor that's been secretly intercepting calls from Taiwanese subscribers, including politicians and government VIPs, using hijacked equipment from mobile operators across Asia. This highly sophisticated threat actor has been quietly lurking in the shadows since early 2025, with interception…
#StateSponsored #Silentair #Telecommunications #Taiwan #Surveillance
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#Boston, MA residents concerned about #overpolicing, #surveillance, and/or entanglements with federal law enforcement, please call on Boston City Council and Mayor Wu to end funding for #BRIC.
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"India has exempted an Israeli phone-hacking company from New Delhi’s own rules, allowing it to sell phone-extraction products and surveillance technology to government agencies and sparking concerns and criticism from rights groups and activists."
#BoycottIsrael #Surveillance #Privacy #India #News #HumanRights #Corruption
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Defend Dissent: How UK Laws, Universities and Tech Curb Our Rights
Various matters of concern to rights in the UK
November 2026
Freedom of Expression in UK Universities
This is the latest in our reports on the human rights situation in the UK. There are many worries about a steady deterioration in these rights with successive governments tightening or restricting controls on assembly and the right to protest, the adoption of Palantir technologies in defence and the NHS (with reports that the firm is seeking access to patient records in GP practices) and threats to privacy with facial recognition being steadily applied.
In an overview of its recent report on freedom of expression in UK universities Amnesty UK concludes that many are adopting restrictive measures that unduly limit students’ and academics’ rights to organise, assemble and express political views, particularly in support of the human rights of Palestinians
Since October 2023, institutions have implemented responses that include prior authorisation for meetings and events, compelled no-protest undertakings, the use of civil injections, and disciplinary action. These measures are at odds with international human rights law and have a chilling effect on freedom of expression. Some appear to have been implemented in a discriminatory way. The cases featured in this report spotlight some of the most prestigious UK universities among others. They send a clear message to all students and academics that they could face sanctions if the speak out on Palestine or participate in protests.
This report makes recommendations to universities and others who have the power to reverse the trends seen on campus, and reassert the role of universities as places of open enquiry and learning. The report finds that external pressures from the Department for Education and Office for Students, along with shared security planning through networks such as Universities UK and the Association of University Chief Security Officers, have contributed to the suppression of freedom of expression since 2023.
Amnesty UK has launched a student-led Defend Dissent Campaign alongside the report to push universities to adopt the Defend Dissent Charter, which aims to protest peaceful protest and open enquiry on campus.
A joint investigation by Liberty Investigates and Al Jazeera has revealed that 13 British universities have discussed how to handle pro-Palestinian campus protests with the UK’s largest weapons manufacturer, including ramping up security at events and coordinating responses to criticism, among them the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham, Southampton, Birmingham, Strathclyde, Cranfield, Lancashire, Sheffield Hallam and Cardiff. Those which are considered ‘strategic partners’ by BAE Systems collectively receive up to £15 million a year from the company under long-term funding agreements.
Terrorism Arrests/Palestine Action
Recently released Home Office statistics show record numbers of terrorism related arrests in the year to June 2026. The total number of such arrests was 3,867 up from 234 in the previous year. The increase can be attributed to the proscription of Palestine Action and the large numbers of people who publicly declared their support for the group in the wake of that decision. 94% of all terrorism arrests that year were linked to this. At the date of reporting, only 704 results had resulted in a charge, including 634 linked to Palestine Action (Source: UK Human Rights Blog.)
This repression has been forcibly demonstrated by the recent refusal of entry to the UK of Swedish academic Andreas Malm, whose presence the Home Office considers ‘may not be conducive to the public good’. Malm, an environmental campaigner, supporter of Palestine (but not a member of Palestine Action) and a regular visitor to academic conferences in the UK, was due to share a talk with Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action. He says his entry ban is ‘scandalous’ and the UK Government should reconsider it.
The author Sally Rooney is now unable to enter the UK because of the threat of arrest, following her pledge to use proceeds from her works to support Palestine Action, while her publisher Faber could face criminal charges if it passes on to her proceeds from sales.
Palestine Action has received permission from the High Court to appeal once again against its ban, but only on the grounds of whether the Home Secretary applied her policy directly, not on human rights grounds. The intervention by Amnesty and Liberty was heard on 4th and 5th November.
Rights of Residence
The Home Office has now lifted the deportation order on Tony Hall, the second-generation Windrush immigrant whose prison sentence ended 25 years ago but who has been unable to start his new life with a deportation order hanging over him. He was deported to Barbados but was refused entry as he had lived in Britain since he was 12. He could neither work, get benefits, rent, nor access full NHS treatment and was living in limbo and on his family as a result.
Privacy
A recent Liberty poll found that 48% of people oppose scanning the faces of people walking in high streets and towns when there is no suspected imminent threat, while 41% supported it and 11% were unsure as to its use. The Met have confirmed that fixed live facial recognition will be put in place in December in the newly pedestrianised Oxford Street. The Government’s commitment to introduce a legal framework through the Police Reform Bill is not expected until the New Year.
(Proposed) Business, Human Rights and Environment Act
Major British supermarkets, including M&S, ASDA and Sainsbury’s, have now joined a campaign calling on the Government to introduce mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence for businesses in both their domestic and supply chains. Campaign concerns include the use of forced labour, working conditions and pollution, and it would require retailers to identify and prevent environmental and human rights harms. Currently many business standards are voluntary and the Modern Slavery Act 2015 is seen as significantly limited, The campaign is supported by the British Retail Consortium, the Ethical Trading Initiative and the Corporate Justice Coalition as well as trade unions, businesses and campaign groups. Its aim is ‘to transform corporate culture for the better’ and level the playing field for victims of abuses.
Palantir
Country-wide demonstrations against the use of Palantir in the NHS may be having some effect. The Financial Times reported in October that more than 20 NHS trusts have stopped using Palantir’s waiting list tools, and at least 16 NHS bodies have formally stated through Freedom of Information responses that they do not use Palantir’s Federated Data Platform at all. It is not clear whether these are new decisions or whether the Government may still renew the contract.
Demonstration in Southampton against Palantir. Photo: Salisbury Amnesty
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Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt spoke in Israel. He said the organization works with leading AI labs to suppress antisemitism. According to Greenblatt, the ADL has partnered with major tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet (Google), Meta, and X. They test models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Muse, and Grok. The organization uses these results to identify bias and push developers to improve their systems. Greenblatt called it an excellent collaboration with Silicon Valley. He said the ADL is actively helping these firms develop strategies to tackle antisemitism right in the source code. The Quds News Network reported this and added that Israel has an influence budget exceeding $1 billion since October 2023. The report says Israel increasingly targets AI algorithms to steer international discourse.
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IMO one of the reasons Western democracies unconditionally support war criminal democracy Israel: they also want to be like Israel: militarised, apartheid and ethno-nationalist, police and surveillance states.
https://www.nordkurier.de/politik/was-baden-wuerttembergs-polizei-von-israel-lernen-kann-4996491
#EU #Israel #PoliceState #surveillance #Democracy #WesternDemocracy
