🚨BREAKING: DISCORD AGE VERIFICATION VENDOR FOUND TO RUN "EXTENSIVE SURVEILLANCE" ON USERSResearchers found details about the extensive surveillance Persona software performs on its users. Beyond checking their age, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks, runs facial recognition against watchlists and politically exposed persons, screens “adverse media” across 14 categories including terrorism and espionagePersona collects—and can retain for up to three years—IP addresses, browser and device ...

RT Shaiel Ben-Ephraim (@academic_la)The Israeli government installed security equipment and controlled access to a Manhattan apartment at 301 E. 66th Street, managed by Jeffrey Epstein and owned by his brother starting in 2016 and continuing for at least two years.Units in the building were frequently loaned out to Epstein’s contacts and used to house underage models. Rafi Shlomo, then-director of protective service at the Israeli mission to the United Nations in New York and head of Barak’s security, corre ...

Communism is wealth seizure.But communism requires surveillance.Here’s how to see that.In 1918, in the midst of the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin gave an order to murder 100 nearby “kulaks.” By that he meant the kind of peasant who might have two cows.An under-appreciated aspect of Lenin’s order is that it required a list. That is: the communists couldn’t murder the kulaks without actually having a list of kulak names and locations.Moreover, the poor kulaks were tied to those locations, like farmers tend to b ...

AI has changed the very nature of surveillance.Any scrap of information online can now be integrated, digested, and synthesized…by any state or stalker capable of running an AI model…to form a dossier more complete than anything the Soviets could ever dream of.There will be no single silver bullet. But anything you haven’t encrypted can and will be used against you.So, we just need to encrypt everything.And give the AI nothing.Nothing means zero.Zero knowledge.Balaji (@balajis):From AI to ZK.Artificial inte ...

This is a good post on the impact of surveillance in Iran:https://t.co/1kT3SrsCyOIt's worth reading.IMO one mistake that freedom advocates often make is that we talk about privacy violation and surveillance as "dystopian", using the word as a semantic stop sign: we know it means "bad", we nod along, and don't really go further to clarify why it's bad. I worry that this approach is long-run unhealthy: when we criticize various companies and countries for being "dystopian" and stop there, then to someone who' ...

primetime we begin this hour with republilicans increasingly fed up with attorney general pam bondy over the epstein files here's what republican congressman thomas massey said just this morning do you still have confidence in pam bondy as attorney general i don't think pam bondy has confidence in pam bondy no i don't have confidence in her she hasn't got any sort OF ACCOUNTABILITY THERE AT THE DOJ. OUCH, THAT COMES AFTER BONDY CLASHED WITH LAWMAKERS THIS WEEK OVER HER HANDLING OF THE EPSTEIN FILES, INCLUDI ...

good evening and welcome back to the weekend WE'RE GOING TO GIN THIS HOUR WITH TRUMP'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BATTLING ALLEGATIONS THAT IT HAS BEEN CATALOGING THE SEARCH HISTORY OF LAWMAKERS WHO WERE ABLE TO VIEW UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES THIS WEEK. IT COMES AS A TRIO OF HOUSE DEMOCRATS sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding that the Justice Department stop what they called spying on Congress members reviewing unredacted Epstein files. In the letter, Congresswoman Jayapal and Congressman Raskin an ...

Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of slightly dystopian pet finders. I'm your friend David Pierce. The optell's here.Hey buddy, >> what's up. How do you feel about using the full surveillance industry to find your pets. >> This is why I don't have pets.Get them out of my face. Too complicated. Too The moral quandry of pet ownership is We do a lot of moral quandry on the show.I I will say I you know, do you really own a dog. Let's talk about it. Yeah, you just you you don't you just let it poop ...

RT Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic)The front-end of the software made by Israeli spyware firm Paragon, founded by Ehud Barak, was accidently revealed on Linked In. Paragon is the tip of an iceberg. Israeli spyware makes the western surveillance state possible. Did an article on it last yearhttps://t.co/iNAXuTD9Ex https://t.co/BHPzMpeCUa ...

RT Mr. Whale (@CryptoWhale)Jeffrey Epstein directed at least one million dollars into advanced surveillance tools.Through his close associate Ehud Barak - former Prime Minister of Israel and chairman of Carbyne - he funneled the money into the Israeli company, hiding his role behind a shell entity called Sum (E.B.) 2015 to avoid any scrutiny.Carbyne, founded by veterans of the elite intelligence Unit 8200, is marketed as a “next-generation 911 emergency system.” In reality, it enables real-time access to pr ...