The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.

“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years

"Many years on from the first use of facial recognition technology by police in the UK, and half a decade since the Court of Appeal ruled against South Wales Police in Liberty’s world-first legal challenge to the technology, the public is finally being given the chance to have its say on facial recognition."

#UKPol #Surveillance #CCTV #FacialRecognition

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/facial-recognition-consultation-have-your-say/

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

„ICE has used #MobileFortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after #DHS abandoned its own #privacy rules….“

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/

#ICE #Surveillance #USA #Fascism

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

„ICE has used #MobileFortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after #DHS abandoned its own #privacy rules….“

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/

#ICE #Surveillance #USA #Fascism

Wist je dat er meer dan 30.000 camera’s hangen in Amsterdam?

Ik ging met een groep onderzoekers en bewoners de straat op om camera's te spotten. Daarna ontstond een mooi gesprek over wat dit betekent voor onze stad. Waarom hangen al die camera’s er? Wat gebeurt er met al die data? En hoe krijgen we als bewoners, ontwerpers en beleidsmakers weer grip op de technologieën die onze stad vormgeven?

Te vaak wordt technologie ingezet simpelweg ‘omdat het kan’, niet omdat het de oplossing is voor een probleem. Dankzij de inzet van GroenLinks is Amsterdam gestopt met dataverzameling in de openbare ruimte zonder duidelijk doel. We willen geen nieuwe projecten waarbij data wordt verzameld, tenzij van te voren duidelijk is welk probleem we hiermee oplossen.

Er is nog veel meer aandacht nodig voor al die andere camera's en sensoren in de stad. Denk aan de slimme deurbel, waarbij bedrijven als Amazon toegang krijgen tot beelden van onze openbare ruimte. Uit recent onderzoek van VNG bleek dat 70% van de Nederlanders zorgen hebben over wat er met die opnames gebeurt.

#privacy #cameras #surveillance #slimmedeurbel #amsterdam

Wist je dat er meer dan 30.000 camera’s hangen in Amsterdam?

Ik ging met een groep onderzoekers en bewoners de straat op om camera's te spotten. Daarna ontstond een mooi gesprek over wat dit betekent voor onze stad. Waarom hangen al die camera’s er? Wat gebeurt er met al die data? En hoe krijgen we als bewoners, ontwerpers en beleidsmakers weer grip op de technologieën die onze stad vormgeven?

Te vaak wordt technologie ingezet simpelweg ‘omdat het kan’, niet omdat het de oplossing is voor een probleem. Dankzij de inzet van GroenLinks is Amsterdam gestopt met dataverzameling in de openbare ruimte zonder duidelijk doel. We willen geen nieuwe projecten waarbij data wordt verzameld, tenzij van te voren duidelijk is welk probleem we hiermee oplossen.

Er is nog veel meer aandacht nodig voor al die andere camera's en sensoren in de stad. Denk aan de slimme deurbel, waarbij bedrijven als Amazon toegang krijgen tot beelden van onze openbare ruimte. Uit recent onderzoek van VNG bleek dat 70% van de Nederlanders zorgen hebben over wat er met die opnames gebeurt.

#privacy #cameras #surveillance #slimmedeurbel #amsterdam

The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.

“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years

Why wouldn’t you just want a minster to be able to edit any software or hardware used in a critical service? Fed up with E2EE then just remove it for national security reasons, want more surveillance capacity just add it in to the software or hardware. #cyberbill #statepower #surveillance

In future when you think I'm being super paranoid and over-exaggerating about this stuff, I'm gonna need you to shut the fuck up.

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Trump, ICE set to be handed access to Australians’ biometric data, ID documents

The Albanese government is giving the Trump administration and agencies like ICE access to Australians’ biometric data — and we’re not being told anything about it.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/03/australian-biometric-id-data-access-donald-trump-ice/

#AusPol #Australia #US #USA #USPol #Trump #GlobalPol #surveillance #surveillanceTech

Why wouldn’t you just want a minster to be able to edit any software or hardware used in a critical service? Fed up with E2EE then just remove it for national security reasons, want more surveillance capacity just add it in to the software or hardware. #cyberbill #statepower #surveillance

#ICE setzt jetzt in den USA Gesichtserkennung und Rundumüberwachung gegen Einwanderer, Demonstranten und Journalisten ein. Worauf das zuläuft, habe ich bei @riffreporter in diesem Szenario beschrieben, das Monat für Monat mehr vom Sciencefiction zur Zeitdiagnose mutiert: https://www.riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/googlonia-ein-szenario-buchauszug2 #datenkapitalismus #surveillance #Trump #Europa

#ICE setzt jetzt in den USA Gesichtserkennung und Rundumüberwachung gegen Einwanderer, Demonstranten und Journalisten ein. Worauf das zuläuft, habe ich bei @riffreporter in diesem Szenario beschrieben, das Monat für Monat mehr vom Sciencefiction zur Zeitdiagnose mutiert: https://www.riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/googlonia-ein-szenario-buchauszug2 #datenkapitalismus #surveillance #Trump #Europa

In future when you think I'm being super paranoid and over-exaggerating about this stuff, I'm gonna need you to shut the fuck up.

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Trump, ICE set to be handed access to Australians’ biometric data, ID documents

The Albanese government is giving the Trump administration and agencies like ICE access to Australians’ biometric data — and we’re not being told anything about it.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/03/australian-biometric-id-data-access-donald-trump-ice/

#AusPol #Australia #US #USA #USPol #Trump #GlobalPol #surveillance #surveillanceTech

#Facialrecognition #ICE #surveillance –

„This may be another reason so many immigration officers are masked while on duty: They know better than we do what it means to show one’s face. In Minneapolis and elsewhere, agents now carry tools of surveillance into the field, just as they do their guns.“ David Wallace-Wells

#Palantir #giftarticle

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/opinion/ice-surveillance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J1A.D2YV.BPFga1qzpzxM&smid=url-share

About ICE Surveillance Is Here:
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#ice #usa #immigrant #migration #politics #racism #fascism #trump #palantir #surveillance #freedom #society #protest #fear #government #news #police #policestate #justice #humanrights #fail #problem #ethics #immigration #law #resistance

#Kansas Town Uses #LicensePlateReaders to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed

Police in #Lenexa , Kansas used automated license plate reader ( #ALPR ) technology to pursue a man who wrote a critical op-ed about the police department, according to reporting by Kansas public radio station #KCUR. This is a rare public example of exactly the kind of #abuse that we’ve long warned against when it comes to mass-surveillance systems like #licenseplate readers.
#surveillance #privacy

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/alpr-against-op-ed-writer