Die US-Migrationsbehörde ICE nutzt kommerzielle Handy-Standortdaten, um Menschen ohne Haftbefehl zu verfolgen. Das System kann ganze Nachbarschaften überwachen und Bewegungsprofile erstellen.
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
A #socialMedia and phone #surveillance system #ICE bought access to is designed to #monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track movements of those devices & their owners over time, & follow them from their places of work to home or other locations
Commercial location data, acquired from hundreds of millions of phones via a company called #Penlink, can be queried without a #warrant #privacy
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
Yes Signal is secure. It is private. Yet it's Achilles' heel is its availability.
Signal was the first secure messenger to be blocked in Iran. It is easy to block signal. You could also block the verification SMS delivery, and boom, no new registrations at all!
@delta may leak the social graph, but to be honest, In situations, such as Iran's current, it might be the best that you've got.
Yes Signal is secure. It is private. Yet it's Achilles' heel is its availability.
Signal was the first secure messenger to be blocked in Iran. It is easy to block signal. You could also block the verification SMS delivery, and boom, no new registrations at all!
@delta may leak the social graph, but to be honest, In situations, such as Iran's current, it might be the best that you've got.
Abdanan, January 7th 2026. A 40K people city in Iranian mountains where people took over all police and government buildings, as far as we gather. Internet blockades are happening intermittently in various forms. There is a massive sense of uncertainty and panic, also from the government side.
We hear of many people succeeding in using #deltachat and #chatmail relays, and are trying, to the best of our abilities, to help people set up communications so families and friends can stay safe.
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Newborn babies could be given a Digital ID. That is not harmless admin, it is the start of a lifelong record, linked to every move, mistake, and opinion.
Once this is normal, it will never be rolled back.
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Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.
Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.
They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.
To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone less safe. You dickheads are the problem.
Grant #Asylum and instant Right to #residency and #work to any #antifascist|s fleeing to the #EU, including their family (regardless of relationship status!).
Recognize #women, #trans* and #nonbinary people as politically prosecuted minorities under the #Trump regime.
Turn over seized Russian and #US assets into a #fund to support #Ukraine.
Enact a "#HostileNations" directive that makes it illegal to do any business with nations threatening #EU members and -Allies with violence in any form or are engaged in such acts.
“We must not underestimate or minimise the hybrid militarisation that insinuates itself from cyberspace into our pockets via digital devices. These devices are not only the source of capitalist surveillance for commercial marketing purposes, but also, and above all, the control exerted by governments and private companies, which now possess an infinite amount of knowledge related to our tastes, our actions, our physical and virtual experiences, which are transformed into numerical data easily processed by algorithms, resulting in a unique mass profiling —and this may not sound contradictory—that is useful for predicting and even guiding our future behaviour.”
> The UK just proposed three extreme surveillance measures: mandatory 24/7 scanning software on every phone and tablet, age verification for all VPN users with website tracking, and labeling encryption developers as "hostile actors." This comes after 500,000 people petitioned against age verification, and lawmakers responded by making things
"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has a new definition of “reasonable expectation.” According to the justices, it’s no longer reasonable to assume that what you type into Google is yours to keep.
In a decision that reads like a love letter to the surveillance economy, the court ruled that police were within their rights to access a convicted rapist’s search history without a warrant. The reasoning is that everyone knows they’re being watched anyway.
The opinion, issued Tuesday, leaned on the idea that the public has already surrendered its privacy to Silicon Valley.
We obtained a copy of the ruling for you here.
“It is common knowledge that websites, internet-based applications, and internet service providers collect, and then sell, user data,” the court said, as if mass exploitation of personal information had become a civic tradition.
Because that practice is so widely known, the court concluded, users cannot reasonably expect privacy. In other words, if corporations do it first, the government gets a free pas
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"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has a new definition of “reasonable expectation.” According to the justices, it’s no longer reasonable to assume that what you type into Google is yours to keep.
In a decision that reads like a love letter to the surveillance economy, the court ruled that police were within their rights to access a convicted rapist’s search history without a warrant. The reasoning is that everyone knows they’re being watched anyway.
The opinion, issued Tuesday, leaned on the idea that the public has already surrendered its privacy to Silicon Valley.
We obtained a copy of the ruling for you here.
“It is common knowledge that websites, internet-based applications, and internet service providers collect, and then sell, user data,” the court said, as if mass exploitation of personal information had become a civic tradition.
Because that practice is so widely known, the court concluded, users cannot reasonably expect privacy. In other words, if corporations do it first, the government gets a free pass."
Right now, I’m having a nagging feeling, that if we don't pay attention to #AI and #surveillance exceptionally well now - and by that I mean: probably yesterday - it might gonna be a long walk home soon.
And "long" in this case might in fact mean "very, very, very long".
This is an example of how far the surveillance capitalism has gone. IMHO there is no logic to your TV monitoring what you are watching. It is time for some serious legislation when it comes to what data can be collected and what it can be used for. IMHO companies should not be building profiles on their users.
I know you're the wrong audience for this meme, dear followers, but try replacing the search engine #Google with #WhatsApp, #iPhone, #Android, #Windows, #chatGPT, or #Gemini — are you still laughing at the #people who use Google every day?
Kate Manne has an extract from Soraya Chemaly's new book "All We Want is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy":
"These are not precursors to “real” fascism—they are its gendered expression. What’s typically dismissed as background noise, “women’s issues,” is in fact the main event: a fascism rooted in gendered domination, made the more dangerous by how intimate, normalized, and structural it is."
The spirits I summoned / Now I can’t get rid of them
Even old #Goethe knew that it’s dangerous to summon spirits you know nothing about. And if you’ve had a humanistic education, you know that too. I’ve already realized that you can’t assume that everyone has had such an education.
Regardless, since the education system is failing when it comes to digitalization, at least in the “West,” and children have to swipe around on Apple tablets, the structure has to be changed.
Does anyone else remember when MySpace was still around and thousands of 14-year-old girls became experts in CSS programming? That’s what you needed to be cool.
Something similar will happen with #agerestrictions and censorship efforts. They’re easy to get around, you just have to learn how. At 14, learning is still easy. More #surveillance, more #censorship ! You’re old and weird. Keep it up.
Aujourd'hui, un amendement à la loi sur la police a été adopté à #Berlin. Il autorise à peu près tout ce qui est possible en matière de surveillance numérique : scanners comportementaux, recherche faciale, analyse de données de type Palantir, trojan d'État....'.
Heute wurde in Berlin eine Novelle des Polizeigesetzes verabschiedet. Sie erlaubt so ziemlich alles, was an digitaler Überwachung möglich ist: Verhaltensscanner, Gesichtersuche, Palantir-artige Datenanalysen, Staatstrojaner. Ein Kommentar.
"L’argument « rien à cacher » se révèle [...] pour ce qu’il est vraiment : un argument de privilégié. Il est prononcé avec assurance par ceux appartenant aux groupes démographiques dominants. Pour les #minorités, la technologie de surveillance crée le danger, indépendamment de toute culpabilité réelle." "En affirmant : « Je n’ai rien à cacher », on accepte implicitement une définition tronquée de la #vieprivée, réduite à un espace opaque destiné à dissimuler des secrets honteux. Cette vision insulte 77 ans de construction juridique internationale." "L’imposture de l’innocence : pourquoi « je n’ai rien à cacher » est une capitulation démocratique. Le mantra « rien à cacher » légitime une #... show more
"L’argument « rien à cacher » se révèle [...] pour ce qu’il est vraiment : un argument de privilégié. Il est prononcé avec assurance par ceux appartenant aux groupes démographiques dominants. Pour les #minorités, la technologie de surveillance crée le danger, indépendamment de toute culpabilité réelle." "En affirmant : « Je n’ai rien à cacher », on accepte implicitement une définition tronquée de la #vieprivée, réduite à un espace opaque destiné à dissimuler des secrets honteux. Cette vision insulte 77 ans de construction juridique internationale." "L’imposture de l’innocence : pourquoi « je n’ai rien à cacher » est une capitulation démocratique. Le mantra « rien à cacher » légitime une #surveillance intrusive et biaisée. Nos données, même innocentes, peuvent discriminer, contrôler, manipuler. Défendre la vie privée, c’est préserver #liberté, #dignité et #resistance démocratique face aux dérives technologiques." lesoir.be/711561/article/2025-… #démocratie #technologie #Belgique #PhilippeHensmans
I'm glad that I already had deleted AppCloud. If you have a Samsung device, check if it's on your device. If it's there, I suggest that you also delete "AppCloud" by using the Canta app and Shizuku app.
> Die US-amerikanische Datenanalyseplattform Palantir, konkret deren Softwarelösung »Gotham«, wird inzwischen in mehreren deutschen Bundesländern zur polizeilichen Gefahrenabwehr und Strafverfolgung eingesetzt – und das längst nicht mehr nur im Kontext von Terrorismus oder organisierter Kriminalität.
Die US-amerikanische Datenanalyseplattform Palantir, konkret deren Softwarelösung »Gotham«, wird inzwischen in mehreren deutschen Bundesländern zur polizeilichen Gefahrenabwehr und Strafverfolgung eingesetzt…
Googles Search AI Modus will alles über Sie wissen!
‚Erinnern Sie sich an die Worte von Google-CEO Eric Schmidt: "Wir können mehr oder weniger wissen, woran Sie denken"? Diese Dystopie wird nun mit dem Search AI Mode wahr….‘
Einzeln betrachtet ist jeder der Punkte höchst problematisch. Strapaziert Grundrechte, verstößt gegen Datenschutz-Grundsätze, rechtsstaatliche Prinzipien, IT-Sicherheit, Maß und Ziel, Peinlichkeit.
Zusammen ist es aber ein - das schreibst du schon - Desaster.
Once upon a time, software was free — not in the “free trial” sense, but actually free. It lived in the halls of universities, passed between curious minds on floppy disks, shared in the spirit of collaboration and discovery. Hardware was the business; software was the art.
Then came a young man named Bill Gates. Fueled by BASIC and caffeine, he learned to code thanks to that culture of openness — and then, he turned freedom into monopoly. Gates dropped out of Harvard, founded Microsoft, and declared that software would no longer be shared; it would be sold. The age of commercial code had begun.
Microsoft’s first weapon was MS-DOS, a text-based operating system that quietly took over the newborn PC world through IBM’s early machines. Then came Windows, the glossy illusion — a friendly graphical interface that promised empowerment while locking users into Microsoft’s walled garden.
Like a corporate version of The Godfather, Microsoft “made offers” comp
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How We Volunteered for Digital Slavery
Once upon a time, software was free — not in the “free trial” sense, but actually free. It lived in the halls of universities, passed between curious minds on floppy disks, shared in the spirit of collaboration and discovery. Hardware was the business; software was the art.
Then came a young man named Bill Gates. Fueled by BASIC and caffeine, he learned to code thanks to that culture of openness — and then, he turned freedom into monopoly. Gates dropped out of Harvard, founded Microsoft, and declared that software would no longer be shared; it would be sold. The age of commercial code had begun.
Microsoft’s first weapon was MS-DOS, a text-based operating system that quietly took over the newborn PC world through IBM’s early machines. Then came Windows, the glossy illusion — a friendly graphical interface that promised empowerment while locking users into Microsoft’s walled garden.
Like a corporate version of The Godfather, Microsoft “made offers” competitors couldn’t refuse. DR-DOS? Made intentionally incompatible. Linux? Targeted in internal memos. Internet Explorer? Forced onto every desktop “for your convenience.” The result: a near-total monopoly achieved not by innovation alone, but by control, coercion, and corporate muscle.
Fast forward to today. Microsoft’s empire no longer needs to hide its power — it runs your computer, your documents, your identity. Telemetry, the friendly name for mass surveillance, quietly records how you use your device. With Windows 11, you can’t even log in without a Microsoft account — the digital equivalent of Big Brother’s stamp of approval. Imagine Orwell’s 1984 rewritten for the 21st century: Winston Smith doesn’t fear the telescreen anymore. He bought it, installed it, and clicked “I agree.” Even students are being tracked through Microsoft Office. Their learning curves analyzed. Their data stored. Their digital lives quantified — all under the illusion of “productivity.”
Steve Ballmer once called Linux “a cancer.” But history, ever fond of irony, flipped the metaphor: Microsoft became the cancer instead — feeding on the open-source world it once despised. Today, Windows happily integrates Linux as a feature, commodifying the very freedom it tried to destroy. Microsoft didn’t defeat open source; it absorbed it. Like the Borg. Like the Matrix. Like capitalism always does.
Meanwhile, the cost of this corporate control extends far beyond money. Windows 11’s unnecessary hardware requirements have already forced millions of functional computers into landfills — a quiet environmental catastrophe disguised as an “upgrade.” The planet pays for your shiny new taskbar.
The illusion of control doesn’t stop at your desktop. As Edward Snowden revealed, Microsoft has shared user data with the NSA — turning your operating system into a global surveillance node. When the International Criminal Court made decisions the U.S. didn’t like, its staff found their Microsoft email access revoked. That’s not science fiction. That’s administrative reality. And it could happen to anyone. We once feared governments might use technology to control us. Instead, we let corporations do it — and we pay a monthly subscription for the privilege.
But not all hope is lost. There’s still the red pill — Linux. It’s not perfect, but it’s free, open, and community-driven. No forced logins, no corporate backdoors, no hidden surveillance. Just software built by people, for people. Switching to Linux isn’t rebellion for rebellion’s sake. It’s a vote — for transparency, for sustainability, for democracy. The blue screen of illusion can still be escaped.
Surveillance under Surveillance what this is about
‚Surveillance under Surveillance shows you cameras and guards — watching you — almost everywhere. You can see where they are located and, if the information is available, what type they are, the area they observe, or other interesting facts.
Different icons and colors give you a quick overview about the indexed surveillance entries. Click on those icons on the map to get the available information.‘
Das Projekt „Surveillance under Surveillance“ visualisiert Videoüberwachung auf einer Weltkarte. Kurzfristig stand der Weiterbetrieb auf der Kippe, jetzt geht es unter dem Dach des Chaos Computer Club Hamburg weiter…..
Die digitale autoritäre Transformation schreitet in den USA zügig voran. Videos zeigen, dass Beamte der CBP (Border Patrol) und des ICE (militarisierte Zoll und Polizeibehörde des Innenministeriums) inzwischen immer mehr Menschen in der Öffentlichkeit bedrängen und bedrohen, um sie zu biometrischen Gesichtsscans zu nötigen.
Vor wenigen Monaten wurde für das ICE eigens eine App entwickelt, mit der solche Scans zur Identifizierung möglich sind. Biometrische Datenbanken und vernetzte Systeme spielen bei der technologisierten Faschisierung eine zentrale Rolle. Auch die autoritäre EU baut derzeit ihre biometrischen Datenbanken nicht nur für Grenzkontrollen aus und möchte die biometrischen Daten der Mitgliedsstaaten der US-Regierung und Behörden überlassen.
Die digitale autoritäre Transformation schreitet in den USA zügig voran. Videos zeigen, dass Beamte der CBP (Border Patrol) und des ICE (militarisierte Zoll und Polizeibehörde des Innenministeriums) inzwischen immer mehr Menschen in der Öffentlichkeit bedrängen und bedrohen, um sie zu biometrischen Gesichtsscans zu nötigen.
Vor wenigen Monaten wurde für das ICE eigens eine App entwickelt, mit der solche Scans zur Identifizierung möglich sind. Biometrische Datenbanken und vernetzte Systeme spielen bei der technologisierten Faschisierung eine zentrale Rolle. Auch die autoritäre EU baut derzeit ihre biometrischen Datenbanken nicht nur für Grenzkontrollen aus und möchte die biometrischen Daten der Mitgliedsstaaten der US-Regierung und Behörden überlassen.
"An ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien," said the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee.
🔴 👁️ - Rachel Maddow über Donald Trumps jüngsten Vorstoß, die Telefone aller Amerikaner zu überwachen: „Dadurch wird Ihr eigenes Telefon zu einem Spion gegen Sie. Über diese Überwachungsmöglichkeit habe ich in den letzten Jahren schlaflose Nächte gehabt.“
