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  1. While it was only a matter of time, this is still a very bad development.

    «An internet troll on the Pentagon’s payroll has made a database to track Americans based on their political affiliation. …

    The release of the evidently government-funded DSA Explorer comes amid a broader effort to label left-wing activists and organizers as domestic terrorists.

    In a lengthy disclaimer on the database website, Pounds warned that her data may not be 100 percent accurate. … “Do not rely on this material without independent verification.”»

    Source: rsn.org/001/a-hegseth-employee

    I'm just not sure a disclaimer and request to be careful is going to hold back people who are determined to make an inference that itself is bogus on its face and is likely in search of any flimsy justification.

    #fascism #surveillance #SurveillanceSociety #USElections #USPolitics #DSA #DSAExplorer #privacy #democracy #Constitution #BillOfRights

  2. Milan tram drivers ‘used WhatsApp for sexist chat about female passengers’ | Italy | The Guardian

    "Realising the images had come from CCTV, which is installed on every tram in Milan for safety purposes, she took a photo of the chat on the off-duty driver’s screen and sent it to a high-profile feminist activist who reported it to ATM."

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jun

    #SurveillanceSociety

  3. “National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.”

    #Palantir wants this to sound good somehow, like the nation will magically reunite, if we're all in the fight togther. The author of this particular point has obviously never served in any branch of the United States #military, and probably never will. However, Palatir is involved with the Isreali military, and #Isreal DOES require all young adults to serve.

    State #surveillance will ultimately lead to no one being excused from military service, even for bone spurs, unless they can afford to buy their way out, of course.

    And when did big tech start having a say in who goes to war? Is it too late to stop the fusion of Palantir and the American war machine?

    xcancel.com/PalantirTech/statu

    #surveillancecapitalism
    #surveillancestate
    #surveillancetech
    #surveillanceandhumanrights
    #surveillancesociety

  4. I have never felt better about a bicycle being my primary form of transport.

    "What the fuck, Flock?"

    It's so much worse than you may've heard. The clown show is _spectacular_. It's a five-season arc in progress of only the most upper level, purest clownery.

    Here's a very high view on The WAN Show (jump to 3:12:09 if the time stamp start doesn't work):

    youtube.com/live/Vzgimftolys?t

    Here's the original source with much more details:

    youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY

    #Flock #FuckFlock #HolyShit #surveillance #fascism #SurveillanceSociety #incompetence #RubberDucky #SecurityFail #security #HilariousIncompetence #shenanigans #clowns #ClownShow #TempestAttack #EveryAttack #AuthenticationInPlainText #EverythingThatCanBeWrongIsWrong

  5. Oh joy, now you can play hide and seek with Big Brother’s cameras 🕵️‍♂️📸! Revel in the excitement of tracking down the snitches in your neighborhood, because nothing says "freedom" quite like an ALPR scavenger hunt 🙄🚗.
    deflock.me/ #BigBrotherHideAndSeek #ALPRScavengerHunt #PrivacyConcerns #SurveillanceSociety #FreedomOrControl #HackerNews #ngated

  6. Do Meta spy on us? Eavesdrop through the mic? Meta apps (afaik) track phone behaviour whether you have a Meta app open or not. You only need to have Meta apps installed.

    #surveillancecapitalism #surveillancesociety #meta #socialmediaads

    theverge.com/news/789991/meta-

  7. Larry thinks we're all going to act like angels just because Big Brother's got a camera on us 24/7. 😂 Spoiler alert, Larry: recording or not, people are still people—cue the chaos! 📹🙈
    fortune.com/2025/09/28/larry-e #BigBrotherReality #PeopleArePeople #ChaosHumor #SurveillanceSociety #24/7Cameras #HackerNews #ngated

  8. "The point of billionaireism is to escape: to escape any mutual obligations to others, any duty to give moral consideration to your workers or your customers or the voters you're trying to hoodwink with a torrent of manipulative, dishonest media messages."
    #MammonDisease #HumanRights #SurveillanceSociety

    pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/bil

  9. Palantir: The New Deep State
    youtube.com/watch?v=DZ95Gmvg_D4

    #palantir #surveillanceSociety #PeterThiel #PrbabilityMath #Datamining #fearDrivenPolitics

    Definition of who is the bad guy... Nixon defined it as PoC Democrats and he manipulated public opinion into designating PoC Democrats with a trick. He disrupted communities and created misery that breeds drug abuse. A self enforcing system that oppresses a segment of the population in a country that prides itself as one people of law and order ...

  10. That inner voice saying, "Surely if this were real, more people would be talking about it?” is social media’s greatest success: it doesn’t silence dissent—it makes dissenters doubt themselves into silence. 🔚
    What are your thoughts? #DigitalPacification
    #SocialMediaControl #SurveillanceSociety #RadicalResurgence #NewWorldOrder
    #CageOfExpression #ResistanceInTheDigitalAge
    #TechAndTerrorism #CapitalistRealism #FoucaultAndControl #SocialMediaDoubt
    #RadicalDisruption #FightingTheSystem

  11. My return to the UK from an idyllic holiday in the #Dolomites made me feel like 1984’s Winston waking from a dream of the golden country. Multiple telescreens beaming images of war, and narrated by an emotionless @BBCNewsUK reporter, lined the embarkation tunnels at #BristolAirport.

    "Hope you had a nice holiday; now remember that war is peace and freedom is slavery."

    #WelcometoBritain #surveillancesociety #1984GeorgeOrwell

  12. The UN Cybercrime Draft Convention is a Blank Check for Surveillance Abuses.
    the 2nd post in a series highlighting the problems & flaws in the proposed convention.

    "The Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association has already sounded the alarm about the dangers of current surveillance laws, urging states … to comply with international human rights norms …"

    -- Electronic Frontier Foundation
    eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/un-c
    #surveillance #surveillancesociety

  13. #Cop busted for unauthorized use of #ClearviewAI facial recognition resigns

    Indiana cop easily hid frequent personal use of Clearview AI face scans.

    Ashley Belanger - 6/13/2024

    "Most law enforcement agencies are hesitant to discuss their Clearview AI tactics in detail, the BBC reported, so it's often unclear who has access and why. But the #MiamiPolice confirmed that 'it uses this software for every type of crime,' the BBC reported.

    "Now, at least one Indiana police department has confirmed that an officer can sneakily abuse the tech and conduct unapproved face scans with apparent ease."

    arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

    #SurveillanceSociety #Fascism #Orwell #ACAB #PoliceState

  14. The slippery slope to full-on #Fascism and #SurveillanceSociety... Any excuse can be used! And, well, a good way to kill off folks with immune system disorders and disabilities. smh

    Gov. #Hochul considering a #FaceMask ban on New York City subways, citing antisemitic acts

    By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
    Updated 7:16 PM EDT, June 13, 2024

    "Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday that she is considering a ban on face masks in the #NewYorkCity subway system due to concerns about people shielding their identities while committing antisemitic acts.

    "Hochul, a Democrat, told reporters the exact details of the policy are not clear but it would contain 'common-sense exemptions' for health, cultural or religious reasons. Many people concerned about #COVID19 and #AirPollution routinely wear masks on the subway.

    "Hochul said she was in talks with lawmakers on potentially crafting a bill.

    "At at news conference in Albany, the governor said she was moved to act after 'a group donning masks took over a subway car, scaring riders and chanting things about Hitler and wiping out Jews' on Monday night.

    "It was not clear exactly what incident she was referring to, but it could have been a conflation of different episodes related to pro-#Palestinian #demonstrations that day in #UnionSquarePark.

    [...]

    "Meanwhile video circulating on social media showed a confrontation that purportedly happened earlier in the day, when a man in Union Square — who also was not wearing a mask — was recorded shouting, 'I wish Hitler was still here. He would’ve wiped all you out.'"

    Read more:
    apnews.com/article/mask-ban-ne

    #Antifa #CovidIsntOver #Anonymous #MaskBan #Orwell

  15. The #surveillancesociety in the #LuneValley:

    My local branch of #Booths (popularly known, but erroneously, as the Waitrose of the North) has introduced a #facialrecognition system into its local branch (and for all I know, all of its branches).

    And in a classic bit of 'securitisation' we are told via a sticker on the door, this is for the staff & our safety.

    The creeping Orwell-isation of the UK continues;

    wonder if they'll be able to link that to my Booth loyalty card & credit card data?

  16. The #surveillancesociety is like a budget version of #orwell... run on excel spreadsheets & baking off when the threat of #lawyers is aired.

    That the DfE is trying to silence then is no real surprise... but its still shocking that this (rather than engagement with the views/criticisms) is the strategy adopted.

    Though not named here I have at least one good friend (and active unionist) who I'm sure also has their own excel spreadsheet & file.

    theguardian.com/education/2023

  17. "Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’"

    I would swap "principally" for "fundamentally", but Whittaker is essentially correct.

    #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillanceSociety #MeredithWhittaker

    techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/sign

  18. 🔍 Uncover the layers of "panoptic" meaning in our comprehensive exploration! From Bentham's Panopticon to modern surveillance dilemmas, discover how this concept shapes behavior, power dynamics, and more. Dive in now to decode the panoptic paradox. #PanopticInsights #panoptic #paradox #surveilance #SurveillanceSociety 🏛️👁️

    panopticpen.space/posts/unveil

  19. #BWI #airport will lessen your hassle of getting on a plane in return for your agreeing (you actually have no choice) to #facialrecognition - they scan your license into the db - "check" verify your #identity - which is BS. The claim is that they do not keep this profile, but of course they do - they profile at most airports in the US, and the data goes upstream. The #surveillancesociety has been here for a very long time folks.

  20. @matt @techit Planet Money just did a short podcast ( less than 10 min ) about police surveillance as part of its Indicator series as well

    npr.org/2020/06/12/876389237/t

    #privacy #SurveillanceSociety

  21. “These efforts are well intentioned, but #FacialRecognition bans are the wrong way to fight against modern #surveillance. Focusing on one particular identification method misconstrues the nature of the #SurveillanceSociety we’re in the process of building […]

    The problem is that we are being identified without our knowledge or #consent, and #society needs rules about when that is permissible.”

    #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism #PoliceState #Privacy #Regulation

    nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion

  22. @sean
    I had to look up what #ElfOnTheShelf actually was, but it's secretly moving an elf doll around your house and telling your kids it's monitoring their behaviour for #FatherChristmas / #Santa?

    In other words, training them to be okay with being monitored in a #surveillanceSociety and ratting people out to a supervisor?
    Also, pretending to be good when watched, for the sake of rewards, rather than because it's the decent thing to do?

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