The updated funder tab on Surveillance Watch enables you to explore entities organized by their funding sources. You can identify which funders support the most surveillance and spyware vendors, and use chart mode to filter and sort by tech type.
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Centralised platforms shape the conversation to serve their interests.
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"The logic is chillingly consistent: Dissent is pathologized, monitored, and neutralized while capitalists keep making money. And universities have become willing partners in this process."
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Throughout May, help strengthen Tor's independence from profit-driven influence. 💜
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Was on Project Censored to discuss how corporations & financial institutions operate with impunity when it comes to surveillance. I emphasize the urgency of exposing these practices, protecting one another & resisting the normalization of mass surveillance.
https://www.projectcensored.org/eyes-tech-tyranny-profiteers-control/
Surveillance companies out there naming their products "FindFace" and "FaceFirst"... I'd kill to have that level of originality
@jamesmarshall Thanks for your support as always, James! Much appreciated 🙏
@samuel@social.familylison.com Try again. We made it compatible with additional browsers.
@rb3n Try again. We made it compatible with additional browsers, especially Tor and Mullvad.
"Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/
"Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/whatsapp-israel-spyware
Humans can live longer if you stop crowding every corner of this earth with toxic data centers to satisfy the mindless consumption of shit we never needed or asked for
"An intelligence officer who served in a technological role in Unit 8200 in recent years, and worked directly with Microsoft Azure employees before October 7 to develop a surveillance system used to monitor Palestinians, told +972 and Local Call that the company’s developers became so embedded that he referred to them as 'people who are already working with the unit,' as if they were soldiers."
https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/
We need to move beyond the self-proclaimed "experts" and center the conversations on real needs, genuine growth, and amplifying voices from marginalized communities who've been most harmed by centralized corporate tech.
A bit ironic for an article exposing surveillance tech and spyware use by governments to monitor human rights advocates and journalists to be sponsored by none other than a surveillance giant.
"Users don't care about federation" they said, as the future Elon Musks and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world smile gleefully.
"We already have a billionaire-proof social media."
https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2025/bluesky-free-our-feeds-mastodon/
Client Info
Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst