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

The new book The Wall Dancers explores the uneasy relationship between Chinese internet users and a government that is always watching.

Featured story: By converting a digital camera to reveal infrared light, photographer Jordan Vonderhaar turns surveillance tech back on itself, with bright foliage highlighting the intensity of Texas' #border militarization. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-river-and-the-fever-dream-photo-essay/

#Texas #photography #art #tech #surveillance #immigration #military #politics #USpol

The new book The Wall Dancers explores the uneasy relationship between Chinese internet users and a government that is always watching.

Featured story: By converting a digital camera to reveal infrared light, photographer Jordan Vonderhaar turns surveillance tech back on itself, with bright foliage highlighting the intensity of Texas' #border militarization. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-river-and-the-fever-dream-photo-essay/

#Texas #photography #art #tech #surveillance #immigration #military #politics #USpol

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

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

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

“ #Palantir is the resurrection of a #DARPA project called #TotalInformationAwareness that was so scandalous when it first was announced that Congress shut it down…then they figured out if they made it a private company no one would care.”

-Whitney Webb

https://x.com/Uncommonsince76/status/2018930882330177684

#technology #cyberwarfare #surveillance #ai @technology @democracy @law #humanrights #ice #AbolishDhs #dhs #abolishice #socialmedia #cdnpoli #war #civilrights #constitution #democracy #protest #resistance #minnesota #us

“ #Palantir is the resurrection of a #DARPA project called #TotalInformationAwareness that was so scandalous when it first was announced that Congress shut it down…then they figured out if they made it a private company no one would care.”

-Whitney Webb

https://x.com/Uncommonsince76/status/2018930882330177684

#technology #cyberwarfare #surveillance #ai @technology @democracy @law #humanrights #ice #AbolishDhs #dhs #abolishice #socialmedia #cdnpoli #war #civilrights #constitution #democracy #protest #resistance #minnesota #us

Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the #internet sewer" and I really liked that phrase.

#drawing #comic #krita #web #surveillance #google #SocialMedia #enshittification #privacy #adblocker #ads

Will you take the red pill, and follow the #BigTechWalkout 2026 programme - completing your move away from #bigtech products?

https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2026/

Or will you take the blue pill and go back to billionaire algorithm simulation?

#privacy #control #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism

Here's what the Rebel Tech Alliance website does for you :

https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/

(Screen grab from our home page)

#privacy #bigtech #ethicaltech #broligarchy #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism

How ICE is watching you

A year into the second Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, countless U.S. residents and visitors have been touched by the federal government’s rapidly changing data collection and #surveillance apparatus. Some, like an AI-powered social media analyzer and an error-prone facial recognition tool, evoke dystopian sci-fi. Others, like automatic license plate readers, have been around for decades.

#ICE

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/how-ice-watching-you

The backlash against Flocks cameras which are being weaponized for maga and miller is starting. The City of Los Altos Hills has stopped using theirs and the whole County of Santa Clara is trying to hit pause until they get answers #surveillance #governmentsurveillance #cameras #Flock #FlockSafety #ICE #NoIce

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2026/02/02/santa-clara-county-may-ditch-camera-vendor-amid-privacy-issues/

"however bad you think it is, the reality is far far worse.... two emerging problems — ICE’s reliance on #surveillance technology and the looming crisis of its concentration camp-style detention facilities.)

I want to stress my conclusion: “We as a nation must act to change the trajectory of immigration enforcement in our country. #America cannot survive as a free society if #ICE and #CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year..."
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

#Trump #Fascism #News #US

How ICE is watching you

A year into the second Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, countless U.S. residents and visitors have been touched by the federal government’s rapidly changing data collection and #surveillance apparatus. Some, like an AI-powered social media analyzer and an error-prone facial recognition tool, evoke dystopian sci-fi. Others, like automatic license plate readers, have been around for decades.

#ICE

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/how-ice-watching-you

"The arrest of Don Lemon is a warning. It tells us that this regime has already become very comfortable with surveillance and people-grabbing and is now willing to test whether it can punish those who demonstrate its illegalities. The bottom line is that this is a bunch of criminals. If we just move along, we are empowering Trump and his coterie."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #media #journalism #authoritarianism #surveillance #FirstAmendment

https://mmansour.substack.com/p/don-lemon-is-just-the-beginning

#EU: “It’s very clear that Europe is having our #independence moment, (...) during the last year, everybody has really realized how important it is that we are not dependent on one country or one company when it comes to some very critical technologies.”

Also #EU: We're pressing ahead with talks to grant United States border authorities unprecedented access to Europeans’ data, despite growing concerns about #American #surveillance. 🤦🏼‍♂️