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Six Years On: George Floyd, his legacy and the future of racial equity

The Bounce Black Team

Six years after the murder of George Floyd, the world is still reeling from the promises and limits of what followed.

His death catalysed a global uprising against anti-Black racism, policing violence, and structural inequality. Organisations, institutions, and governments issued statements of solidarity, pledged reforms, and, in some cases, implemented new frameworks for racial equity.

Yet for many communities and advocates, the question remains: what has actually changed beneath the surface?

While visibility increased, the deeper systems that sustain racial injustice — surveillance, state and extrajudicial violence, institutional neglect, and the criminalisation of dissent — have in many contexts adapted rather than dissolved.

The result is a shifting landscape where racial equity is increasingly discussed, but not consistently protected. Likewise, racism is increasingly feared as an accusation, but not frowned upon as a culture.

The evolving landscape of racial justice

In the aftermath of 2020, racial equity work has become more visible, but also more contested and, in some spaces, actively constrained.

Equity practitioners, activists, whistleblowers, and human rights defenders report growing forms of retaliation that are often subtle, bureaucratic, and difficult to challenge.

One of the most concerning developments in this period is the rise of transnational repression, where individuals face intimidation, surveillance, legal pressure, or detention across borders, often linked to their advocacy, identity, or perceived political stance.

Alongside this, there has been increasing attention to the phenomenon of organised harassment: coordinated patterns of intimidation, discrediting, digital targeting, workplace retaliation, and social isolation that can operate across institutions and jurisdictions. While often difficult to evidence in traditional legal frameworks, its impact on wellbeing, civic participation, and democratic engagement is profound and lasting.

These dynamics raise urgent questions about the safety of those who speak out for justice, and whether current human rights protections are keeping pace with contemporary forms of harm.

A live case study: concerns about the detention of Dr Tamara Dixon

Recent concerns have been raised regarding the reported detention of Dr Tamara Dixon, an African American academic and former university professor.

Writing every step of the way about her experiences, Dr Tamara’s latest updates include that she is currently being held in an immigration detention setting in Luxembourg, where she is seeking asylum from severe transnational repression. Yet her efforts have been met with hostility and further covert harm in addition to restricted access to legal counsel and a limited ability to communicate due to confiscation of her personal devices.

With only one hour per day of permitted access to the computer facilities at the detention centre, without much clarity as to what’s next for her, Dr Tamara’s case is emblematic of broader concerns around due process, access to legal representation, and the treatment of individuals who may be vulnerable within detention systems.

It also highlights how quickly individuals can become isolated from support networks and advocacy channels, particularly when communication is restricted.

For human rights observers, such cases underscore the importance of independent monitoring, legal access, and safeguards against administrative or institutional overreach.

Importantly, and unfortunately, this case is not isolated or exceptional. Instead, it’s part of a wider pattern being flagged by activists and civil society organisations about how dissenting or visible individuals can become exposed to compounded vulnerabilities, especially when intersecting with race, gender, migration status, and advocacy work.

Organised harassment as a human rights issue

Organised harassment is increasingly being recognised by advocates as a serious but under-acknowledged threat to human rights and democratic participation. This type of repression and retaliation does not always appear in ways that are easily legible to formal institutions.

Instead, it thrives on weaponised conditioning cues to signal surveillance and intimidation in public without widespread detection. The campaign of psychological warfare and total assault on character, life and property can also extend to hidden reputational harm, career sabotage and other forms of financial and emotional abuse designed to destabilise and destroy victims.

Its effects are cumulative: social isolation, reputational damage, economic harm, and in some cases, deterrence from civic or advocacy engagement altogether.

For individuals working in racial justice, gender equity, and human rights, these patterns can operate as a form of structural silencing, thereby reducing participation not through direct censorship, but through sustained pressure and attrition.

A personal dimension: lived experience within Bounce Black

At Bounce Black, these conversations are not abstract.

Our Founder has, for the past four years, experienced sustained organised harassment and transnational repression while continuing to lead racial equity-focused work, community programmes, and trauma-informed advocacy initiatives.

This lived reality underscores how advocacy itself can become a site of vulnerability, and how those working to challenge systems of inequity are often simultaneously navigating personal exposure to harm.

This is not unique.

It reflects a broader pattern experienced by many Black women leaders, community organisers, and equity practitioners who operate at the intersection of public visibility and structural resistance.

Where do we go from here?

If George Floyd’s legacy is to extend beyond symbolic remembrance, it must include a serious reckoning with how power adapts, and how harm evolves.

This means:

• Expanding human rights frameworks to recognise modern forms of repression and organised harassment
• Strengthening protections for activists, academics, and whistleblowers across borders
• Ensuring access to legal representation and communication for those in detention settings
• Supporting independent investigation and accountability mechanisms
• Investing in the wellbeing and safety of those doing racial equity work
• Listening seriously to lived experiences, even when they fall outside conventional institutional categories

Racial equity cannot exist without safety for those who speak about it. And that is everybody’s business!

A call to action

Six years on, the challenge is not only remembrance, but responsibility.

We are calling on human rights organisations, policymakers, academic institutions, and civil society actors to take coordinated action in:

• Recognising transnational repression and organised harassment as urgent human rights concerns
• Supporting individuals and communities reporting these harms
• Demanding transparency and accountability in detention and immigration systems
• Protecting the civic space required for racial justice work to continue

The legacy of George Floyd demands more than reflection. It demands infrastructure (legal, social, and political) that protects life, dignity, and truth-telling.

Without that, equity remains an aspiration rather than a reality.

And to quote a wise Black woman…

Ain’t nobody got time for that!

Six Years On: George Floyd, his legacy and the future of racial equity

The Bounce Black Team

Six years after the murder of George Floyd, the world is still reeling from the promises and limits of what followed.

His death catalysed a global uprising against anti-Black racism, policing violence, and structural inequality. Organisations, institutions, and governments issued statements of solidarity, pledged reforms, and, in some cases, implemented new frameworks for racial equity.

Yet for many communities and advocates, the question remains: what has actually changed beneath the surface?

While visibility increased, the deeper systems that sustain racial injustice — surveillance, state and extrajudicial violence, institutional neglect, and the criminalisation of dissent — have in many contexts adapted rather than dissolved.

The result is a shifting landscape where racial equity is increasingly discussed, but not consistently protected. Likewise, racism is increasingly feared as an accusation, but not frowned upon as a culture.

The evolving landscape of racial justice

In the aftermath of 2020, racial equity work has become more visible, but also more contested and, in some spaces, actively constrained.

Equity practitioners, activists, whistleblowers, and human rights defenders report growing forms of retaliation that are often subtle, bureaucratic, and difficult to challenge.

One of the most concerning developments in this period is the rise of transnational repression, where individuals face intimidation, surveillance, legal pressure, or detention across borders, often linked to their advocacy, identity, or perceived political stance.

Alongside this, there has been increasing attention to the phenomenon of organised harassment: coordinated patterns of intimidation, discrediting, digital targeting, workplace retaliation, and social isolation that can operate across institutions and jurisdictions. While often difficult to evidence in traditional legal frameworks, its impact on wellbeing, civic participation, and democratic engagement is profound and lasting.

These dynamics raise urgent questions about the safety of those who speak out for justice, and whether current human rights protections are keeping pace with contemporary forms of harm.

A live case study: concerns about the detention of Dr Tamara Dixon

Recent concerns have been raised regarding the reported detention of Dr Tamara Dixon, an African American academic and former university professor.

Writing every step of the way about her experiences, Dr Tamara’s latest updates include that she is currently being held in an immigration detention setting in Luxembourg, where she is seeking asylum from severe transnational repression. Yet her efforts have been met with hostility and further covert harm in addition to restricted access to legal counsel and a limited ability to communicate due to confiscation of her personal devices.

With only one hour per day of permitted access to the computer facilities at the detention centre, without much clarity as to what’s next for her, Dr Tamara’s case is emblematic of broader concerns around due process, access to legal representation, and the treatment of individuals who may be vulnerable within detention systems.

It also highlights how quickly individuals can become isolated from support networks and advocacy channels, particularly when communication is restricted.

For human rights observers, such cases underscore the importance of independent monitoring, legal access, and safeguards against administrative or institutional overreach.

Importantly, and unfortunately, this case is not isolated or exceptional. Instead, it’s part of a wider pattern being flagged by activists and civil society organisations about how dissenting or visible individuals can become exposed to compounded vulnerabilities, especially when intersecting with race, gender, migration status, and advocacy work.

Organised harassment as a human rights issue

Organised harassment is increasingly being recognised by advocates as a serious but under-acknowledged threat to human rights and democratic participation. This type of repression and retaliation does not always appear in ways that are easily legible to formal institutions.

Instead, it thrives on weaponised conditioning cues to signal surveillance and intimidation in public without widespread detection. The campaign of psychological warfare and total assault on character, life and property can also extend to hidden reputational harm, career sabotage and other forms of financial and emotional abuse designed to destabilise and destroy victims.

Its effects are cumulative: social isolation, reputational damage, economic harm, and in some cases, deterrence from civic or advocacy engagement altogether.

For individuals working in racial justice, gender equity, and human rights, these patterns can operate as a form of structural silencing, thereby reducing participation not through direct censorship, but through sustained pressure and attrition.

A personal dimension: lived experience within Bounce Black

At Bounce Black, these conversations are not abstract.

Our Founder has, for the past four years, experienced sustained organised harassment and transnational repression while continuing to lead racial equity-focused work, community programmes, and trauma-informed advocacy initiatives.

This lived reality underscores how advocacy itself can become a site of vulnerability, and how those working to challenge systems of inequity are often simultaneously navigating personal exposure to harm.

This is not unique.

It reflects a broader pattern experienced by many Black women leaders, community organisers, and equity practitioners who operate at the intersection of public visibility and structural resistance.

Where do we go from here?

If George Floyd’s legacy is to extend beyond symbolic remembrance, it must include a serious reckoning with how power adapts, and how harm evolves.

This means:

• Expanding human rights frameworks to recognise modern forms of repression and organised harassment
• Strengthening protections for activists, academics, and whistleblowers across borders
• Ensuring access to legal representation and communication for those in detention settings
• Supporting independent investigation and accountability mechanisms
• Investing in the wellbeing and safety of those doing racial equity work
• Listening seriously to lived experiences, even when they fall outside conventional institutional categories

Racial equity cannot exist without safety for those who speak about it. And that is everybody’s business!

A call to action

Six years on, the challenge is not only remembrance, but responsibility.

We are calling on human rights organisations, policymakers, academic institutions, and civil society actors to take coordinated action in:

• Recognising transnational repression and organised harassment as urgent human rights concerns
• Supporting individuals and communities reporting these harms
• Demanding transparency and accountability in detention and immigration systems
• Protecting the civic space required for racial justice work to continue

The legacy of George Floyd demands more than reflection. It demands infrastructure (legal, social, and political) that protects life, dignity, and truth-telling.

Without that, equity remains an aspiration rather than a reality.

And to quote a wise Black woman…

Ain’t nobody got time for that!

Six Years On: George Floyd, his legacy and the future of racial equity

The Bounce Black Team

Six years after the murder of George Floyd, the world is still reeling from the promises and limits of what followed.

His death catalysed a global uprising against anti-Black racism, policing violence, and structural inequality. Organisations, institutions, and governments issued statements of solidarity, pledged reforms, and, in some cases, implemented new frameworks for racial equity.

Yet for many communities and advocates, the question remains: what has actually changed beneath the surface?

While visibility increased, the deeper systems that sustain racial injustice — surveillance, state and extrajudicial violence, institutional neglect, and the criminalisation of dissent — have in many contexts adapted rather than dissolved.

The result is a shifting landscape where racial equity is increasingly discussed, but not consistently protected. Likewise, racism is increasingly feared as an accusation, but not frowned upon as a culture.

The evolving landscape of racial justice

In the aftermath of 2020, racial equity work has become more visible, but also more contested and, in some spaces, actively constrained.

Equity practitioners, activists, whistleblowers, and human rights defenders report growing forms of retaliation that are often subtle, bureaucratic, and difficult to challenge.

One of the most concerning developments in this period is the rise of transnational repression, where individuals face intimidation, surveillance, legal pressure, or detention across borders, often linked to their advocacy, identity, or perceived political stance.

Alongside this, there has been increasing attention to the phenomenon of organised harassment: coordinated patterns of intimidation, discrediting, digital targeting, workplace retaliation, and social isolation that can operate across institutions and jurisdictions. While often difficult to evidence in traditional legal frameworks, its impact on wellbeing, civic participation, and democratic engagement is profound and lasting.

These dynamics raise urgent questions about the safety of those who speak out for justice, and whether current human rights protections are keeping pace with contemporary forms of harm.

A live case study: concerns about the detention of Dr Tamara Dixon

Recent concerns have been raised regarding the reported detention of Dr Tamara Dixon, an African American academic and former university professor.

Writing every step of the way about her experiences, Dr Tamara’s latest updates include that she is currently being held in an immigration detention setting in Luxembourg, where she is seeking asylum from severe transnational repression. Yet her efforts have been met with hostility and further covert harm in addition to restricted access to legal counsel and a limited ability to communicate due to confiscation of her personal devices.

With only one hour per day of permitted access to the computer facilities at the detention centre, without much clarity as to what’s next for her, Dr Tamara’s case is emblematic of broader concerns around due process, access to legal representation, and the treatment of individuals who may be vulnerable within detention systems.

It also highlights how quickly individuals can become isolated from support networks and advocacy channels, particularly when communication is restricted.

For human rights observers, such cases underscore the importance of independent monitoring, legal access, and safeguards against administrative or institutional overreach.

Importantly, and unfortunately, this case is not isolated or exceptional. Instead, it’s part of a wider pattern being flagged by activists and civil society organisations about how dissenting or visible individuals can become exposed to compounded vulnerabilities, especially when intersecting with race, gender, migration status, and advocacy work.

Organised harassment as a human rights issue

Organised harassment is increasingly being recognised by advocates as a serious but under-acknowledged threat to human rights and democratic participation. This type of repression and retaliation does not always appear in ways that are easily legible to formal institutions.

Instead, it thrives on weaponised conditioning cues to signal surveillance and intimidation in public without widespread detection. The campaign of psychological warfare and total assault on character, life and property can also extend to hidden reputational harm, career sabotage and other forms of financial and emotional abuse designed to destabilise and destroy victims.

Its effects are cumulative: social isolation, reputational damage, economic harm, and in some cases, deterrence from civic or advocacy engagement altogether.

For individuals working in racial justice, gender equity, and human rights, these patterns can operate as a form of structural silencing, thereby reducing participation not through direct censorship, but through sustained pressure and attrition.

A personal dimension: lived experience within Bounce Black

At Bounce Black, these conversations are not abstract.

Our Founder has, for the past four years, experienced sustained organised harassment and transnational repression while continuing to lead racial equity-focused work, community programmes, and trauma-informed advocacy initiatives.

This lived reality underscores how advocacy itself can become a site of vulnerability, and how those working to challenge systems of inequity are often simultaneously navigating personal exposure to harm.

This is not unique.

It reflects a broader pattern experienced by many Black women leaders, community organisers, and equity practitioners who operate at the intersection of public visibility and structural resistance.

Where do we go from here?

If George Floyd’s legacy is to extend beyond symbolic remembrance, it must include a serious reckoning with how power adapts, and how harm evolves.

This means:

• Expanding human rights frameworks to recognise modern forms of repression and organised harassment
• Strengthening protections for activists, academics, and whistleblowers across borders
• Ensuring access to legal representation and communication for those in detention settings
• Supporting independent investigation and accountability mechanisms
• Investing in the wellbeing and safety of those doing racial equity work
• Listening seriously to lived experiences, even when they fall outside conventional institutional categories

Racial equity cannot exist without safety for those who speak about it. And that is everybody’s business!

A call to action

Six years on, the challenge is not only remembrance, but responsibility.

We are calling on human rights organisations, policymakers, academic institutions, and civil society actors to take coordinated action in:

• Recognising transnational repression and organised harassment as urgent human rights concerns
• Supporting individuals and communities reporting these harms
• Demanding transparency and accountability in detention and immigration systems
• Protecting the civic space required for racial justice work to continue

The legacy of George Floyd demands more than reflection. It demands infrastructure (legal, social, and political) that protects life, dignity, and truth-telling.

Without that, equity remains an aspiration rather than a reality.

And to quote a wise Black woman…

Ain’t nobody got time for that!

Six Years On: George Floyd, his legacy and the future of racial equity

The Bounce Black Team

Six years after the murder of George Floyd, the world is still reeling from the promises and limits of what followed.

His death catalysed a global uprising against anti-Black racism, policing violence, and structural inequality. Organisations, institutions, and governments issued statements of solidarity, pledged reforms, and, in some cases, implemented new frameworks for racial equity.

Yet for many communities and advocates, the question remains: what has actually changed beneath the surface?

While visibility increased, the deeper systems that sustain racial injustice — surveillance, state and extrajudicial violence, institutional neglect, and the criminalisation of dissent — have in many contexts adapted rather than dissolved.

The result is a shifting landscape where racial equity is increasingly discussed, but not consistently protected. Likewise, racism is increasingly feared as an accusation, but not frowned upon as a culture.

The evolving landscape of racial justice

In the aftermath of 2020, racial equity work has become more visible, but also more contested and, in some spaces, actively constrained.

Equity practitioners, activists, whistleblowers, and human rights defenders report growing forms of retaliation that are often subtle, bureaucratic, and difficult to challenge.

One of the most concerning developments in this period is the rise of transnational repression, where individuals face intimidation, surveillance, legal pressure, or detention across borders, often linked to their advocacy, identity, or perceived political stance.

Alongside this, there has been increasing attention to the phenomenon of organised harassment: coordinated patterns of intimidation, discrediting, digital targeting, workplace retaliation, and social isolation that can operate across institutions and jurisdictions. While often difficult to evidence in traditional legal frameworks, its impact on wellbeing, civic participation, and democratic engagement is profound and lasting.

These dynamics raise urgent questions about the safety of those who speak out for justice, and whether current human rights protections are keeping pace with contemporary forms of harm.

A live case study: concerns about the detention of Dr Tamara Dixon

Recent concerns have been raised regarding the reported detention of Dr Tamara Dixon, an African American academic and former university professor.

Writing every step of the way about her experiences, Dr Tamara’s latest updates include that she is currently being held in an immigration detention setting in Luxembourg, where she is seeking asylum from severe transnational repression. Yet her efforts have been met with hostility and further covert harm in addition to restricted access to legal counsel and a limited ability to communicate due to confiscation of her personal devices.

With only one hour per day of permitted access to the computer facilities at the detention centre, without much clarity as to what’s next for her, Dr Tamara’s case is emblematic of broader concerns around due process, access to legal representation, and the treatment of individuals who may be vulnerable within detention systems.

It also highlights how quickly individuals can become isolated from support networks and advocacy channels, particularly when communication is restricted.

For human rights observers, such cases underscore the importance of independent monitoring, legal access, and safeguards against administrative or institutional overreach.

Importantly, and unfortunately, this case is not isolated or exceptional. Instead, it’s part of a wider pattern being flagged by activists and civil society organisations about how dissenting or visible individuals can become exposed to compounded vulnerabilities, especially when intersecting with race, gender, migration status, and advocacy work.

Organised harassment as a human rights issue

Organised harassment is increasingly being recognised by advocates as a serious but under-acknowledged threat to human rights and democratic participation. This type of repression and retaliation does not always appear in ways that are easily legible to formal institutions.

Instead, it thrives on weaponised conditioning cues to signal surveillance and intimidation in public without widespread detection. The campaign of psychological warfare and total assault on character, life and property can also extend to hidden reputational harm, career sabotage and other forms of financial and emotional abuse designed to destabilise and destroy victims.

Its effects are cumulative: social isolation, reputational damage, economic harm, and in some cases, deterrence from civic or advocacy engagement altogether.

For individuals working in racial justice, gender equity, and human rights, these patterns can operate as a form of structural silencing, thereby reducing participation not through direct censorship, but through sustained pressure and attrition.

A personal dimension: lived experience within Bounce Black

At Bounce Black, these conversations are not abstract.

Our Founder has, for the past four years, experienced sustained organised harassment and transnational repression while continuing to lead racial equity-focused work, community programmes, and trauma-informed advocacy initiatives.

This lived reality underscores how advocacy itself can become a site of vulnerability, and how those working to challenge systems of inequity are often simultaneously navigating personal exposure to harm.

This is not unique.

It reflects a broader pattern experienced by many Black women leaders, community organisers, and equity practitioners who operate at the intersection of public visibility and structural resistance.

Where do we go from here?

If George Floyd’s legacy is to extend beyond symbolic remembrance, it must include a serious reckoning with how power adapts, and how harm evolves.

This means:

• Expanding human rights frameworks to recognise modern forms of repression and organised harassment
• Strengthening protections for activists, academics, and whistleblowers across borders
• Ensuring access to legal representation and communication for those in detention settings
• Supporting independent investigation and accountability mechanisms
• Investing in the wellbeing and safety of those doing racial equity work
• Listening seriously to lived experiences, even when they fall outside conventional institutional categories

Racial equity cannot exist without safety for those who speak about it. And that is everybody’s business!

A call to action

Six years on, the challenge is not only remembrance, but responsibility.

We are calling on human rights organisations, policymakers, academic institutions, and civil society actors to take coordinated action in:

• Recognising transnational repression and organised harassment as urgent human rights concerns
• Supporting individuals and communities reporting these harms
• Demanding transparency and accountability in detention and immigration systems
• Protecting the civic space required for racial justice work to continue

The legacy of George Floyd demands more than reflection. It demands infrastructure (legal, social, and political) that protects life, dignity, and truth-telling.

Without that, equity remains an aspiration rather than a reality.

And to quote a wise Black woman…

Ain’t nobody got time for that!

"Special mentions" for Little Elm, Houston, and Texas City police for non-criminal investigation (ab)uses of Flock. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background
#deFlock #HPD #Houston #HTX #TX #Texas #LittleElm #TexasCity #Flock #Misuse #AccessAbuse #Police #Panopticon #EFF #PoliceState #SurveillanceState #ALPR #ALPRs

"Special mentions" for Little Elm, Houston, and Texas City police for non-criminal investigation (ab)uses of Flock. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background
#deFlock #HPD #Houston #HTX #TX #Texas #LittleElm #TexasCity #Flock #Misuse #AccessAbuse #Police #Panopticon #EFF #PoliceState #SurveillanceState #ALPR #ALPRs

"Special mentions" for Little Elm, Houston, and Texas City police for non-criminal investigation (ab)uses of Flock. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background
#deFlock #HPD #Houston #HTX #TX #Texas #LittleElm #TexasCity #Flock #Misuse #AccessAbuse #Police #Panopticon #EFF #PoliceState #SurveillanceState #ALPR #ALPRs

"Special mentions" for Little Elm, Houston, and Texas City police for non-criminal investigation (ab)uses of Flock. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background
#deFlock #HPD #Houston #HTX #TX #Texas #LittleElm #TexasCity #Flock #Misuse #AccessAbuse #Police #Panopticon #EFF #PoliceState #SurveillanceState #ALPR #ALPRs

"Special mentions" for Little Elm, Houston, and Texas City police for non-criminal investigation (ab)uses of Flock. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background
#deFlock #HPD #Houston #HTX #TX #Texas #LittleElm #TexasCity #Flock #Misuse #AccessAbuse #Police #Panopticon #EFF #PoliceState #SurveillanceState #ALPR #ALPRs

Oh no😳🫢 - Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many? #Oura users' data is not end-to-end encrypted and can be handed to the government. Will the wearable tech maker say how often it turns over data? #privacy #Surveillance #SurveillanceState

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-says-it-gets-government-demands-for-user-data-will-it-share-how-many/

Oh no😳🫢 - Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many? #Oura users' data is not end-to-end encrypted and can be handed to the government. Will the wearable tech maker say how often it turns over data? #privacy #Surveillance #SurveillanceState

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-says-it-gets-government-demands-for-user-data-will-it-share-how-many/

Oh no😳🫢 - Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many? #Oura users' data is not end-to-end encrypted and can be handed to the government. Will the wearable tech maker say how often it turns over data? #privacy #Surveillance #SurveillanceState

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-says-it-gets-government-demands-for-user-data-will-it-share-how-many/

Oh no😳🫢 - Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many? #Oura users' data is not end-to-end encrypted and can be handed to the government. Will the wearable tech maker say how often it turns over data? #privacy #Surveillance #SurveillanceState

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-says-it-gets-government-demands-for-user-data-will-it-share-how-many/

Oh no😳🫢 - Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many? #Oura users' data is not end-to-end encrypted and can be handed to the government. Will the wearable tech maker say how often it turns over data? #privacy #Surveillance #SurveillanceState

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-says-it-gets-government-demands-for-user-data-will-it-share-how-many/

"The Department of Homeland Security just rolled out a new website for its city-occupying task forces that looks, more than anything, like a vibe-coded pitch deck...

In an interview earlier this month with far-right influencer Nick Shirley, Coristine outlined his mission as a federal vibecoder. 'We’re actually setting Americans up for growth moving forward, and to believe in the capitalist system and, like, see how it can actually work for them.' He’s been working 14-hour days, he added, and 'AI is super important, I use it every day.' ”

This is also a nightmare for citizen privacy and data security -- it's another augmentation to the burgeoning #SurveillanceState .

"Homeland Security’s New Task Force Website Sanitizes Trump’s Deportation Agenda"
Sophie Hurwitz for @motherjonesmag
4/18/2026

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/homeland-security-task-force-new-website-sanitizes-trump-deportations-ai-big-balls/

#DHS #ICE #HSTF #DataPrivacy #AuthoritarianSlide

"The Department of Homeland Security just rolled out a new website for its city-occupying task forces that looks, more than anything, like a vibe-coded pitch deck...

In an interview earlier this month with far-right influencer Nick Shirley, Coristine outlined his mission as a federal vibecoder. 'We’re actually setting Americans up for growth moving forward, and to believe in the capitalist system and, like, see how it can actually work for them.' He’s been working 14-hour days, he added, and 'AI is super important, I use it every day.' ”

This is also a nightmare for citizen privacy and data security -- it's another augmentation to the burgeoning #SurveillanceState .

"Homeland Security’s New Task Force Website Sanitizes Trump’s Deportation Agenda"
Sophie Hurwitz for @motherjonesmag
4/18/2026

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/homeland-security-task-force-new-website-sanitizes-trump-deportations-ai-big-balls/

#DHS #ICE #HSTF #DataPrivacy #AuthoritarianSlide

"The Department of Homeland Security just rolled out a new website for its city-occupying task forces that looks, more than anything, like a vibe-coded pitch deck...

In an interview earlier this month with far-right influencer Nick Shirley, Coristine outlined his mission as a federal vibecoder. 'We’re actually setting Americans up for growth moving forward, and to believe in the capitalist system and, like, see how it can actually work for them.' He’s been working 14-hour days, he added, and 'AI is super important, I use it every day.' ”

This is also a nightmare for citizen privacy and data security -- it's another augmentation to the burgeoning #SurveillanceState .

"Homeland Security’s New Task Force Website Sanitizes Trump’s Deportation Agenda"
Sophie Hurwitz for @motherjonesmag
4/18/2026

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/homeland-security-task-force-new-website-sanitizes-trump-deportations-ai-big-balls/

#DHS #ICE #HSTF #DataPrivacy #AuthoritarianSlide

"The Department of Homeland Security just rolled out a new website for its city-occupying task forces that looks, more than anything, like a vibe-coded pitch deck...

In an interview earlier this month with far-right influencer Nick Shirley, Coristine outlined his mission as a federal vibecoder. 'We’re actually setting Americans up for growth moving forward, and to believe in the capitalist system and, like, see how it can actually work for them.' He’s been working 14-hour days, he added, and 'AI is super important, I use it every day.' ”

This is also a nightmare for citizen privacy and data security -- it's another augmentation to the burgeoning #SurveillanceState .

"Homeland Security’s New Task Force Website Sanitizes Trump’s Deportation Agenda"
Sophie Hurwitz for @motherjonesmag
4/18/2026

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/homeland-security-task-force-new-website-sanitizes-trump-deportations-ai-big-balls/

#DHS #ICE #HSTF #DataPrivacy #AuthoritarianSlide

"The Department of Homeland Security just rolled out a new website for its city-occupying task forces that looks, more than anything, like a vibe-coded pitch deck...

In an interview earlier this month with far-right influencer Nick Shirley, Coristine outlined his mission as a federal vibecoder. 'We’re actually setting Americans up for growth moving forward, and to believe in the capitalist system and, like, see how it can actually work for them.' He’s been working 14-hour days, he added, and 'AI is super important, I use it every day.' ”

This is also a nightmare for citizen privacy and data security -- it's another augmentation to the burgeoning #SurveillanceState .

"Homeland Security’s New Task Force Website Sanitizes Trump’s Deportation Agenda"
Sophie Hurwitz for @motherjonesmag
4/18/2026

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/homeland-security-task-force-new-website-sanitizes-trump-deportations-ai-big-balls/

#DHS #ICE #HSTF #DataPrivacy #AuthoritarianSlide

MIT’s AI future scenarios range from ‘Star Trek’ utopia to human extinction

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/shows/pat-gray-unleashed/mits-ai-future-scenarios-range-from-star-trek-utopia-to-human-extinction

MIT’s AI future scenarios range from ‘Star Trek’ utopia to human extinction

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/shows/pat-gray-unleashed/mits-ai-future-scenarios-range-from-star-trek-utopia-to-human-extinction

#Palantir #PeterThiel #AI #SurveillanceState #Democracy #Fascism #Epstein #Manifesto

#Palantir #PeterThiel #AI #SurveillanceState #Democracy #Fascism #Epstein #Manifesto

#Palantir #PeterThiel #AI #SurveillanceState #Democracy #Fascism #Epstein #Manifesto

#Palantir #PeterThiel #AI #SurveillanceState #Democracy #Fascism #Epstein #Manifesto

#Palantir #PeterThiel #AI #SurveillanceState #Democracy #Fascism #Epstein #Manifesto

CALL YOUR SENATORS.
Tell them to vote NO on #CORCA

"...but in reality, if you look at this bill, what it is is a gigantic handout to the #DHS and #ICE

What it does is allow the Department of Homeland Security to create a new National Crime Center for Organized Shoplifting -- a crime THEY get to define...

And what it allows them to do is work with local and state law enforcement and private companies to collect information about people who are accused of shoplifting, including personal information, citizenship status, driver's license information, health information -- there is no practical limit in the bill to what the can collect.

They can then take that information, share it across the government however they want, with no restrictions....

...and we have no idea where any of this data is being stored, how it's being stored, how it's being used, and you have no right to ask."

https://youtu.be/VbXJJrO4Ogk

@ProjectLincoln @themaxburns #DataPrivacy #cybersecurity #SurveillanceState

CALL YOUR SENATORS.
Tell them to vote NO on #CORCA

"...but in reality, if you look at this bill, what it is is a gigantic handout to the #DHS and #ICE

What it does is allow the Department of Homeland Security to create a new National Crime Center for Organized Shoplifting -- a crime THEY get to define...

And what it allows them to do is work with local and state law enforcement and private companies to collect information about people who are accused of shoplifting, including personal information, citizenship status, driver's license information, health information -- there is no practical limit in the bill to what the can collect.

They can then take that information, share it across the government however they want, with no restrictions....

...and we have no idea where any of this data is being stored, how it's being stored, how it's being used, and you have no right to ask."

https://youtu.be/VbXJJrO4Ogk

@ProjectLincoln @themaxburns #DataPrivacy #cybersecurity #SurveillanceState

CALL YOUR SENATORS.
Tell them to vote NO on #CORCA

"...but in reality, if you look at this bill, what it is is a gigantic handout to the #DHS and #ICE

What it does is allow the Department of Homeland Security to create a new National Crime Center for Organized Shoplifting -- a crime THEY get to define...

And what it allows them to do is work with local and state law enforcement and private companies to collect information about people who are accused of shoplifting, including personal information, citizenship status, driver's license information, health information -- there is no practical limit in the bill to what the can collect.

They can then take that information, share it across the government however they want, with no restrictions....

...and we have no idea where any of this data is being stored, how it's being stored, how it's being used, and you have no right to ask."

https://youtu.be/VbXJJrO4Ogk

@ProjectLincoln @themaxburns #DataPrivacy #cybersecurity #SurveillanceState

CALL YOUR SENATORS.
Tell them to vote NO on #CORCA

"...but in reality, if you look at this bill, what it is is a gigantic handout to the #DHS and #ICE

What it does is allow the Department of Homeland Security to create a new National Crime Center for Organized Shoplifting -- a crime THEY get to define...

And what it allows them to do is work with local and state law enforcement and private companies to collect information about people who are accused of shoplifting, including personal information, citizenship status, driver's license information, health information -- there is no practical limit in the bill to what the can collect.

They can then take that information, share it across the government however they want, with no restrictions....

...and we have no idea where any of this data is being stored, how it's being stored, how it's being used, and you have no right to ask."

https://youtu.be/VbXJJrO4Ogk

@ProjectLincoln @themaxburns #DataPrivacy #cybersecurity #SurveillanceState

CALL YOUR SENATORS.
Tell them to vote NO on #CORCA

"...but in reality, if you look at this bill, what it is is a gigantic handout to the #DHS and #ICE

What it does is allow the Department of Homeland Security to create a new National Crime Center for Organized Shoplifting -- a crime THEY get to define...

And what it allows them to do is work with local and state law enforcement and private companies to collect information about people who are accused of shoplifting, including personal information, citizenship status, driver's license information, health information -- there is no practical limit in the bill to what the can collect.

They can then take that information, share it across the government however they want, with no restrictions....

...and we have no idea where any of this data is being stored, how it's being stored, how it's being used, and you have no right to ask."

https://youtu.be/VbXJJrO4Ogk

@ProjectLincoln @themaxburns #DataPrivacy #cybersecurity #SurveillanceState

Backdoor. #surveillanceState

"Ontario police are using spyware that lets them remotely take over your smartphone. They’re fighting to keep almost everything about it secret

The police use of ODITs is so secret that police forces have signed agreements to drop serious criminal investigations rather than reveal the name of their vendor."

@gvwilson https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116604484857942131

Backdoor. #surveillanceState

"Ontario police are using spyware that lets them remotely take over your smartphone. They’re fighting to keep almost everything about it secret

The police use of ODITs is so secret that police forces have signed agreements to drop serious criminal investigations rather than reveal the name of their vendor."

@gvwilson https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116604484857942131

Backdoor. #surveillanceState

"Ontario police are using spyware that lets them remotely take over your smartphone. They’re fighting to keep almost everything about it secret

The police use of ODITs is so secret that police forces have signed agreements to drop serious criminal investigations rather than reveal the name of their vendor."

@gvwilson https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116604484857942131

Backdoor. #surveillanceState

"Ontario police are using spyware that lets them remotely take over your smartphone. They’re fighting to keep almost everything about it secret

The police use of ODITs is so secret that police forces have signed agreements to drop serious criminal investigations rather than reveal the name of their vendor."

@gvwilson https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116604484857942131

Backdoor. #surveillanceState

"Ontario police are using spyware that lets them remotely take over your smartphone. They’re fighting to keep almost everything about it secret

The police use of ODITs is so secret that police forces have signed agreements to drop serious criminal investigations rather than reveal the name of their vendor."

@gvwilson https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116604484857942131

"Since the early 2000s, a major life goal of mine had been to land a professorship in philosophy. Academia has always been the community in which I felt most at home. However, after leaving a postdoctoral position last December, I struggle to imagine myself returning. There are many reasons for this, one of which is that AI is destroying the university system in realtime."

"The AI Companies are Spying on You"
Also: More on students using AI to cheat, AI-controlled lethal drones, and the coming Super El Niño.
5/19/2026

Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter from @xriskology

https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-ai-companies-are-spying-on-you

#AI #technofascism #surveillanceState

"Since the early 2000s, a major life goal of mine had been to land a professorship in philosophy. Academia has always been the community in which I felt most at home. However, after leaving a postdoctoral position last December, I struggle to imagine myself returning. There are many reasons for this, one of which is that AI is destroying the university system in realtime."

"The AI Companies are Spying on You"
Also: More on students using AI to cheat, AI-controlled lethal drones, and the coming Super El Niño.
5/19/2026

Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter from @xriskology

https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-ai-companies-are-spying-on-you

#AI #technofascism #surveillanceState

"Since the early 2000s, a major life goal of mine had been to land a professorship in philosophy. Academia has always been the community in which I felt most at home. However, after leaving a postdoctoral position last December, I struggle to imagine myself returning. There are many reasons for this, one of which is that AI is destroying the university system in realtime."

"The AI Companies are Spying on You"
Also: More on students using AI to cheat, AI-controlled lethal drones, and the coming Super El Niño.
5/19/2026

Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter from @xriskology

https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-ai-companies-are-spying-on-you

#AI #technofascism #surveillanceState

"Since the early 2000s, a major life goal of mine had been to land a professorship in philosophy. Academia has always been the community in which I felt most at home. However, after leaving a postdoctoral position last December, I struggle to imagine myself returning. There are many reasons for this, one of which is that AI is destroying the university system in realtime."

"The AI Companies are Spying on You"
Also: More on students using AI to cheat, AI-controlled lethal drones, and the coming Super El Niño.
5/19/2026

Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter from @xriskology

https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-ai-companies-are-spying-on-you

#AI #technofascism #surveillanceState

"Since the early 2000s, a major life goal of mine had been to land a professorship in philosophy. Academia has always been the community in which I felt most at home. However, after leaving a postdoctoral position last December, I struggle to imagine myself returning. There are many reasons for this, one of which is that AI is destroying the university system in realtime."

"The AI Companies are Spying on You"
Also: More on students using AI to cheat, AI-controlled lethal drones, and the coming Super El Niño.
5/19/2026

Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter from @xriskology

https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-ai-companies-are-spying-on-you

#AI #technofascism #surveillanceState

@klemens

More ways to track, collect information for google profile and others, advertise and sell to you, so they can make money.

#SurveillanceState

@klemens

More ways to track, collect information for google profile and others, advertise and sell to you, so they can make money.

#SurveillanceState

Senator Wyden Again Tells Trump Administration It Owes The Public Access To A Section 702 Ruling

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/19/senator-wyden-again-tells-trump-administration-it-owes-the-public-access-to-a-section-702-ruling/

Senator Wyden Again Tells Trump Administration It Owes The Public Access To A Section 702 Ruling

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/19/senator-wyden-again-tells-trump-administration-it-owes-the-public-access-to-a-section-702-ruling/

Senator Wyden Again Tells Trump Administration It Owes The Public Access To A Section 702 Ruling

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/19/senator-wyden-again-tells-trump-administration-it-owes-the-public-access-to-a-section-702-ruling/

Senator Wyden Again Tells Trump Administration It Owes The Public Access To A Section 702 Ruling

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/19/senator-wyden-again-tells-trump-administration-it-owes-the-public-access-to-a-section-702-ruling/

Senator Wyden Again Tells Trump Administration It Owes The Public Access To A Section 702 Ruling

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/19/senator-wyden-again-tells-trump-administration-it-owes-the-public-access-to-a-section-702-ruling/

Unconstitutional Data Centers (Total Surveillance Centers): Coming to an American City or Town Near You.

Posted by Jerry Alatalo | May17, 2026

{Editor’s note: Importance – HIGH. Please share this information far and wide. Feel free to share your thoughts on the issues discussed, particularly the dangerous nature of so-called “data (surveillance) centers” – as exhaustively described/explained by Reinette Senum, in the comments. Thank you very much. Peace.]

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Description:

(01:45) CIA Whistleblower on Fauci Cover-Up
(02:46) Stephanie Weidle of Feds for Freedom
(06:40) CIA Undermining National Security
(12:09) Data Center Spreading Like Cancer
(12:49) Reinette Senum on Fighting Surveillance Data Centers
(15:36) Citizens Losing Power to Data Centers
(17:12) The Noise of Data Centers
(24:19) Palantir
(28:09) Due Process
(29:00) Effects on Farmlands
(32:49) Eminent Domain
(37:15) Tucker Carlson Debates Kevin O’Leary
(40:08) The Military Using AI
(41:18) Digital Pricing at Walmart
(49:38) Our Power is in Our Numbers
(51:22) A Perfect Storm
(53:00) Educating State Legislators
(57:01) Programmable Money vs Cash
(59:50) The People’s Study

In a recent hearing, hosted by Rand Paul, a CIA whistleblower testified on the COVID coverup. What was revealed in this public meeting? Will the information disclosed result in justice for actions taken during the pandemic? Plus, data centers and wireless technologies are taking over the world. Reinette Senum, Carolyn Betts and Polly Tommey discuss these topics and more, today, on “Financial Rebellion.” Don’t miss it!

https://rumble.com/embed/v77nskq/?pub=10w7jh