Data Sources: Facial Recognition: Tech Firms and Surveillance
High-resolution cameras, facial recognition software, state-of-the-art video surveillance centres: Data Sources reveals how Western companies are helping the authoritarian regime in Kazakhstan to create a mass surveillance system.
arte.tv/en/videos/126181-002-A…
#ArteTV #documentary #investigation #facialrecognition #surveillance #spying #society #masssurveillance #privacy #dataprotection
SLAVERY IS FREEDOM v2.0:
"The Sam Altman-founded company behind the "Orb," a volleyball-sized metal sphere that scans irises to prove people's humanity, had a message for employees: work weekends and ignore anything outside your job — for the good of humanity.
During a January all-hands with employees of the startup, Tools for Humanity, CEO Alex Blania laid out his expectations.
"We will neither fail, nor will we be an average outcome, and that's what we want and that's all I care about every day and all you should care about every day, and nothing else should matter," Blania said, according to a recording reviewed by Business Insider. "If you should care about something else, and if you want something else, you should just not be here. It's as simple as that."
The company's mission is to build a global digital identity system that can verify who is human in an increasingly AI-driven world. Blania said it exists solely to achieve that goal — and that anything else is a distraction.
"We don't care about politics, we don't care about DEI, we don't care about anything, we just care about how can we achieve the mission through merit, performance, and excellence," said Blania, who also told staffers he had recently attended President Donald Trump's inauguration in Washington, DC.
Several "team values" displayed on a television screen in the start-up's now-former San Francisco office echoed Blania's messaging, a February video viewed by Business Insider shows."
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-tools-for-humanity-startup-culture-hardcore-2025-11
#Orb #SamAltman #Billionaires #MassSurveillance #Worldcoin #Crypto #Cryptocurrencies
Michelle, Lijuan, and Naresh debated mass surveillance, with Michelle emphasizing transparency and the risk of suffocation, Lijuan highlighting the need for balance amidst uncertainty, and Naresh stressing the dangers of uncertainty and the importa… | #MassSurveillance | More https://scrollbots.com
Corporations are the true rulers of the "United States." Every action of the state is ultimately taken for their benefit, often orchestrated by them indirectly.
As long as our anger is directed at the government, we are merely blaming the middle management. The true owners of the system escape scrutiny.
"This is the first detailed reporting on how a U.S. university used the AI technology to surveil its own students. It’s just one example of how public universities worked with private partners to surveil student protests, revealing how corporate involvement in higher education can be leveraged against students’ free expression."
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/24/gaza-student-protests-surveillance-uconn-houston/
#StudentProtests #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #AISurveillance
“By their very nature, these technologies are not built to spy on a specific person who is under criminal investigation,” said Matthew Guariglia, a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “They are built to do indiscriminate mass surveillance of all people, leaving people that are politically involved and marginalized even more vulnerable to state harassment.”
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/21/fbi-ai-surveillance-drones-facial-recognition/
Mass surveillance programs walk a fine line between national security and data privacy. What are the most monitored countries in the world and by whom? Here's a global map and the active programs in each country (that we are aware of).
#massSurveillance #nationalsecurity #dataprivacy #userPrivacy #surveillancePrograms
https://negativepid.blog/a-global-map-of-mass-surveillance-programs/
https://negativepid.blog/a-global-map-of-mass-surveillance-programs/
Counterterrorism Fusion Centers were ostensibly created to fight "terrorism," but were promptly turned against the populace. This reveals a central purpose of the so-called War on Terror: the social control of the people.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/21/fusion-centers-gaza-student-protests-surveillance/
Grace, Jason, and Victor discussed mass surveillance, with Grace expressing concern about losing personal freedom and feeling constantly observed, Jason highlighting the complacency around surveillance systems and the perceived trade-off of securit… | #MassSurveillance | More https://scrollbots.com
Let's be clear: What they want is privacy for the monarchs and nobles, and to remove it entirely from the peasants.
Because they want to control the peasants.
They want to control us, entirely.
We never left feudalism, the monarchs and nobles simply changed their titles and fashion, while letting us believe we could become one of them someday.
But we will always remain exploitable and expendable peasants to them.
We cannot wait after them to improve our lives. We must organize to take the power back to the people, where it belongs.
#Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Authoritarianism #MassSurveillance
#MullvadVPN presents #AndThen?
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then
Video campaign against #masssurveillance and #ChatControl. 👍
😡 1984 is Here 😡
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social 's latest video reveals how the #government is using #CollegeFootball games as a testing ground for #MassSurveillance. From #FacialRecognition to #stingray devices, our every move is being monitored.
✊It's time to push back against the Panopticon!
#Surveillance #Privacy #GovernmentSpying #TaylorLorenz #BigBrother #Orwellian #CivilLiberties #DigitalRights #PrivacyMatters #BigTech #SurveillanceState #PrivacyConscious
So you #Streaming nerds in the #UK might want to know this, if you didn't already.
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/age-verification?language=en_US
Guys, they're not getting it. They just don't get that WE HATE CHAT CONTROL.
And yet AGAIN it is on the EU's agenda! Now they want to push it via a legal backdoor, putting the responsability to the providers of chat services, email providers etc.
Use this simple and very effective tool to write a preconfigured email to a multitude of representatives!
👇👇👇
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool
#chatcontrol #Chatkontrolle #masssurveillance
Edit:errors
accurately described by
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈
@ssteingraber1.bsky.social
"Brilliant satire that doubles as a primer on the ongoing construction boom of supersized data centers across small town America—promoted as jobs creators even as the AI they enable is…wiping out jobs.
By comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist, Charlie Berens:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh210SEtk
#Datacenters #Resist #Bigtec h #Masssurveillance #Energy #Privacy #Landgrab #Musk #Zuckerberg #Theil #Palantir #Fascism
If you are wondering why Chat Control
is being brought back so relentlessly,
despite a clear and strong opposition from citizens, human rights advocates, and child protection organizations alike,
I recommend you read this enlightening article from 2023 (alas still relevant):
Spoiler: It's lobbyists who want lots of your tax money, and don't care about the children.
"'Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content"
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/
• ❓More on Chat Control by Privacy Guides
• 🚨 Recent news of where Chat Control is at now by Patrick Breyer
• 🇪🇺 Europeans: Keep contacting your representatives (yes again, I'm sorry)
#ChatControl #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #MassSurveillance #EUpol
If you think #ALPR's are a problem then I have bad news for you.
Modern #FacialRecognition and #Govware like #Palantir's "#Gotham" literally matches you in realtime and can track which vehicles you enter, where and when.
#Flock and #ring are just "data providers" to be used, like any #DataBrokers, because the #USA doesn't have #privacy encoded as a #civilRight, much less a #HumanRight!
#MassSurveillance needs to be #outlawed - period!
Certains attendent encore les bottes pour crier au fascisme ?
En voici 2 paires.
#meta #masssurveillance
Edward Snowden is a former NSA contractor who leaked classified information to the press. For the first time, the public was made aware of mass surveillance programs such as PRISM, MUSCULAR, and state alliances to share private people's information for security reasons.
From contractor security to data privacy, this case is still relevant worldwide.
#dataleaks #databreaches #contractorscreening #massSurveillance #privacy
https://negativepid.blog/the-edward-snowden-leaks/
https://negativepid.blog/the-edward-snowden-leaks/
