AI isn’t magic. It’s trained on your data—your writing, your face, your voice.
Most people opt in without realizing it.
That selfie filter? Training facial recognition.
That “smart” assistant? Logging your questions.
Before you fall in love with the algorithm, ask:
What is it learning—and from who?
Your tax dollars are funding Palantir's $50M surveillance tech that can analyze 'known populations.' When national security tools become weapons against civil liberties, where do we draw the line?
#DigitalPrivacy #SurveillanceTech
https://hecknews.com/government-surveillance-technology-privacy-palantir/
Is AI spying on your devices?
Prof. Alberto Segre (Univ. of Iowa) explains how AI connects with the tech around us—and what that means for privacy. 
Full episode wherever you get your podcasts. 
https://youtu.be/RqSkKahvlPA
I think it's being done as part of a deal with Trump's people.
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Meta will get rid of factcheckers, “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship” and recommend more political content on its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads, founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced.
In a video message, Zuckerberg vowed to prioritise free speech after the return of Donald Trump to the White House and said that, starting in the US, he would “get rid of factcheckers and replace them with community notes similar to X”.
The tech firm’s content moderation teams will be moved from California to Texas “where there is less concern about the bias of our teams”, he said.
#Facebook #US #USA #Trump #USPol #tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #SocialMedia #CambridgeAnalytica
"A parliamentary committee into rightwing extremism has recommended law enforcement agencies get greater powers to access encrypted messages in national security incidents – despite Asio boss Mike Burgess saying earlier this year he was “not asking for new laws” to address that issue."
#tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #SocialMedia #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #privacy #RightToPrivacy
Ok, so what happens to people who visit Australia?
Do they have to hand over their id to be able to access social media while they're here?
The amount of people I've seen responding to the government's new social media bill (read: surveillance bill) with "but the government has all that data anyway..?"
Like, jesus fuck me people. I understand the economy is shit, but PLEASE buy a single clue.
I feel like we're quickly moving towards NSW (?Australia) trying to pass legislation to ban the use of encrypted messaging services completely.
Really great, useful website -- Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources, and their various affiliations.
https://www.surveillancewatch.io
I feel like the panic about tiktok stealing personal data is largely racist?
Because those who panic about it rarely mention anything about Googoe/Amazon/Facebook/Microsoft etc doing the same..
Like, sure.. tiktok steals data. Personal information of users has been one of the most profitable commodities for sale for a number of years now.
But they're all doing it, and if you're only protecting yourself against Big Bad China, you might want to take a moment to ask yourself why that actually is.
#tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #Capitalism
[white men need not comment, thanks]
Government and state treasuries are •the• revenue source for #SurveillanceTech that is #GenAI https://mastodon.social/@keithwilson/112894479117053258
Bubbles must deflate or be filled.
The federal treasury and the American taxpayer are the revenue source for the expensive, hyped #surveillancetech that is #GenAI.
https://journa.host/@gilduran/112617324143863765
super disappointed and v unenthusiastic about picking up books at @pmpress now that I see that they've decided to bake twitter, google, facebook, and cloudflare trackers into the site.
if even the radical outlets like PM Press', the Pluto Press', and the Truthout's of the world are letting our data be harvested and our activities exploited, then we need to take every precaution everywhere online.
use a solid VPN with uBlock Origin on LibreWolf
We need to get a new VPN.. suggestions would be great!
We use it mostly for certain activities that might not be exactly legal
, as well as watching overseas catalogues of streaming services.
We'd like a company that doesn't just easily hand over info to law enforcement because we believe in the human right to privacy and want to support companies that also try to take a stand on that.
We were with VanishedVPN for years, but recently they seem to have become difficult to use and maybe aren't updating/servicing their stuff as much as they need to be..?
We're trying NordVPN now, but I'm not sure what they're actually like.. we just googled and they popped up. There was a fuck around with the pricing being listed in $US even though they knew we were in Australia and were charging us GST. It just seemed dodgy when we questioned why they didn't make the currency of their listed pricing more clear (literally the customer service guy said "why should we? You should know it's $US").
Can I please have suggestions.
@forthy42 @PaulaToThePeople I never told people that #Biden would be a saviour,so stop making that shit up!
All I said is that as of now #VoteBlue isn't just a "#LesserEvil" but a "#NecessaryEvil"!
If you really believe that bs then please kindly fuck off because I do intent to outlive #LateStaeCapitalism by all means necessary and sadly that's not gonna fly with the orange tyrant in power.
Yes OFC I wished we'd see #BernieSanders and #AOC instead on the roll, but sadly in the #AmericanOligarchy., the #SuperPAC|s and #BigDonors decide who can even candidate because it's a cleptocracy.
One can #vote for Biden whilst being a public #opposition on the streets, but you can't vote for Trump without inherently having the right to oppose him being stripped by him - as he already publicly stated as his intention!
I don't tell you what to think, I'll merely tell you how things are going to pan out exactly:
OR
I'll end this right here because at this point everything has been said and the sheer fact that #USpol is going to to impact my life against my consent despite being neither citizen nor resident nor eligible to vote is alteady nerve-wrecking and I think #defaitistic #FUD like yours isn't gonna help the situation anyway...
Taking the Taliban as example is completely ridiculous, as those are a clear case of warlordism and thus should not be considered acting in due process...
It's not about non-conformism, but rather exercising self- and mutual defense and that includes refusing to normalize proven to be insecure and post-privacy bs like fingerprint-based authentification.
#WhatYouAllowIsWhatWillContinue applies with all #Enshittification and the only winning move is not to endorse, use or even respect such #SurveillanceTech.
Because it's not about the now but the fact that we allow #Cyberfacists to make politricks and laws.
Your right to be able to effectively refuse to self-incriminate may not be of concern for you or your immediate friends and family but it'll protect other peoples' lives - including outside your juristiction.
Just imagine if down the line we'll get #GAFAMs to abolish any #login but #fingerprint sensors or someones' face on their devices and then just take some underground folks in dictatorships like Russia, "P.R." China or North Korea and then tell me with a straight face that you don't believe shite like that can't and won't happen in the West because it already did happen and if you can't remember then maybe you should repeat history classes from 1930 onwards...
We as #TechLiterates have a social obligation to protect #TechIlliterates by going out of our way to push back against the dragging of the #OvertonWindow into a really nasty, Orwellian corner.
So no, if you think I am the problem then please GTFO.
@Mer__edith is an extraordinarily clear commentator on the #AI hype and why it is happening right now (not "AI", which is old, but the hype, and who is interested in giving us all the impression that we're at some kind of "pivotal moment" in history). She also tied AI to the massive computational growth connected to the advertisement-surveillance profit model. Listen up! https://digitalcourage.video/w/3UJQ4XPwjWpenWM5iUmmQs #technofeudalism #surveillancetech #googlewalkout #codingbias
@Mer__edith The only winning move is to refuse to contribute, buy and use #SurveillanceTech and to demand #FLOSS & #FLOSH as well as #decentralization!
(he / they) 
