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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

February 20, 2026

Together with two other researchers, they set out to look into Persona, the San Francisco-based startup that’s used by Discord for biometric identity verification – and found a Persona frontend…

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Discord’s age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

February 15, 2026

Last week, Discord invited the contempt of its users by announcing it will be rolling out global age verification restrictions in March, which will restrict viewable content and communities for…

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Surveillance isn’t “out there” anymore

November 16, 2025

it’s on our streets

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Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

November 9, 2025

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the…

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Who is Larry Ellison?

November 3, 2025

Here’s everything you need to know about the billionaire IDF donor who may soon have the keys to the TikTok algorithm in the US.

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Murdoch’s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control

November 2, 2025

Blake Montgomery Wed 24 Sep 2025

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Discover how local communities are pushing back against Flock’s surveillance camera contracts

November 2, 2025

Learn about their victories and the hidden implications. via More Perfect Union

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Living in Britain in 1984 | Forty Minutes: Voices in a City | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

August 17, 2025

In 1948, George Orwell wrote his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, an imaginary account of what life in Britain might be like in that year. Of his book, Orwell said: 'I do…

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Oracle

August 16, 2025

and surveillance

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YouTube backlash begins: “Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?”

August 13, 2025

Tens of thousands of YouTubers are raging against YouTube's plan to use AI to detect underage users in the US. On Tuesday, a Change.org petition rapidly neared its 50,000-signature goal,…

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