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How the US is collecting personal data in its drive to deport one million people | FT #shorts
Financial Times· 2025-12-10 10:41
This video shows the moment a Colombian woman was arrested at a daycare center in Chicago on the 5th of November following what ICE called a targeted traffic stop. In a statement defending the arrest, the Department of Homeland Security said the woman's car was registered to a female illegal alien. But that made me wonder, how would they know that.They had to link vehicle registration data, which is held by the states, with citizenship data, which is held by the federal government. Documents show that ICE c ...
How authoritarian states get private citizens to be ‘complicit in their crimes'
MSNBC· 2025-12-07 18:55
Stanley, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and author of many books, including Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. Professor Stanley, good to see you. Thank you for being with us. >> Thank you for having me on, Ali. >> This is not a topic we've talked a ton about, but it's a topic you know a great deal about from your study of of repressive cultures. It's actually key to being an authoritarian culture, right? the ability to scare enough pe to encourage th ...
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mert | helius.dev· 2025-12-05 19:21
if it can be seen, it can be seizedzcashDisclose.tv (@disclosetv):NEW - Berlin has enacted a new draconian police law granting authorities extensive surveillance powers, including the right to secretly enter homes and hack phones.https://t.co/FglbvAltK9 ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-02 23:51
RT Drop Site (@DropSiteNews)🔴 BREAKING: AI firms Palantir and Dataminr are rushing to claim their share of Gaza’s post-war landscape, +972 Magazine reports. Both firms are embedded inside the new U.S. military hub (the CMCC) in southern Israel, where Washington is building the security machinery for Trump’s Gaza plan, according to a seating chart seen by the outlet.Palantir’s Maven, an AI “kill chain” optimizer, and Dataminr’s social-media scraping tools are being folded into the new occupation model - one ...
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Polkadot· 2025-12-02 12:34
Governance & Architecture - Polkadot's OpenGov is designed as an architecture with no rulers, admin keys, or silent capture [1] - The system contrasts with centralized governance models characterized by surveillance, speed, and centralization [1] Social & Political Commentary - The report highlights the importance of freedom of speech, contrasting it with situations where surveillance restricts expression [1]
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mert | helius.dev· 2025-11-28 19:15
europe: we must scan the private messages of all innocent civilians ever to monitor for criminalsalso europe: yeah btw we're basically not gonna punish actual criminals when we catch themenemies of civilization https://t.co/p3BxJ3HUi1 ...
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mert | helius.dev· 2025-11-28 12:40
0.0001% of the population might do crime (that we don't even punish anyway) so let's constantly surveil all 100%retardio ...
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Elon Musk· 2025-11-27 19:58
RT Pavel Durov (@durov)The EU weaponizes people’s strong emotions about child protection to push mass surveillance and censorship. Their surveillance law proposals conveniently exempted EU officials from having their own messages scanned — and David’s post helps explain why. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-27 04:27
RT ᴍʀᴄʀʏᴘ ㉿ ᴘʀɪᴠ/ᴀᴄᴄ (@MrCrypPrivacy)Surveillance doesn’t need bars, it just needs you to keep using what it tells you is "comfortable"When a system knows more about you than you do, you’re no longer a user, you’re a resourcePrivacy is resilience, it’s the ability to think, decide, and live without being shaped by others’ interestsIt doesn’t make you less visible. It makes you less controllable ...
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mert | helius.dev· 2025-11-26 20:39
holy shit Europe is actually about to outlaw private messaging and even anonymityfailed stateplan ZYannik Schrade (☂️) (@yrschrade):🚨 EU ministers voted to end private communication! 🚨Today the EU ministers approved the councils surveillance plans for Chat Control:- Warrantless mass surveillance of all emails, chats, messengers- Mandatory ID for everyone using social media (end of online anonymity) https://t.co/gUsSxhgn0u ...