Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.

If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.

Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.

It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.

A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.

The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.

If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #FacialRecognition #HumanRights #DigitalRights

New from Jason Buch: “That facility is, like, terrible, horrible. There’s a lot of people in there. A lot. Each room has like 45 capacity. And they’re putting like 60 people in each room. The restroom is a mess. Dirty. People are sleeping on the floor, people are sleeping in the restroom.” https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-ice-detention-bond-prosecutorial-discretion/

#ICE #politics #USpol #news #HumanRights #Texas

Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.

If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.

Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.

It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.

A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.

The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.

If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #FacialRecognition #HumanRights #DigitalRights

New from Jason Buch: “That facility is, like, terrible, horrible. There’s a lot of people in there. A lot. Each room has like 45 capacity. And they’re putting like 60 people in each room. The restroom is a mess. Dirty. People are sleeping on the floor, people are sleeping in the restroom.” https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-ice-detention-bond-prosecutorial-discretion/

#ICE #politics #USpol #news #HumanRights #Texas

I can't stress this point enough: The so-called "international" financial system is a global financial dictatorship controlled by the US.

@politics #palestine #genocide #resistance #law #icc @law #humanrights #fediverse #mastodon #socialmedia #women @womensvoices @democracy #eu #italy #italia #europe #canada #un
@politics @law @womensvoices @democracy
#FrancescaAlbanese

I can't stress this point enough: The so-called "international" financial system is a global financial dictatorship controlled by the US.

@politics #palestine #genocide #resistance #law #icc @law #humanrights #fediverse #mastodon #socialmedia #women @womensvoices @democracy #eu #italy #italia #europe #canada #un
@politics @law @womensvoices @democracy
#FrancescaAlbanese

I wish I could force every legislator
in favor of Age Verification to watch this amazing talk by Carissa Véliz,

So that they understand the dangers
of the surveillance infrastructure they are currently putting in place.

You should watch it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE

#Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Fascism

Right of Return: Omar Shakir & Ken Roth Debate “Blocked” Human Rights Watch Report on Palestine

We host a debate between two former officials at the human rights organization Human Rights Watch. Omar Shakir resigned this week after more than a decade as the organization’s Israel and Palestine director, over a report on the Palestinian right of return that he says was blocked from publication for ideological reasons. “I’ve lost faith in our new leadership’s fidelity to the integrity of what we do best, which is to publish the facts that we document and consistently apply the law,” says Shakir. Yet HRW’s former executive director Kenneth Roth says the report was “utterly unpublishable” and questions the legal basis of the unpublished report’s claim that Israel’s denial of Palestinians’ right of return is a crime against humanity. “Some Palestinian refugees may have this great suffering required for it to be a crime against humanity, but a lot of them clearly don’t,” he states. Shakir calls Roth’s objections hypocritical in light of similar HRW claims about the rights of Rohingya and Chagos Island refugees. “The right of return remains this third rail even among progressive human rights institutions,” he says.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/6/omar_shakir_hrw_israel_palestine_report

#palestine #humanrights #Jordan #Syria #Lebanon