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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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Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release

January 30, 2026

"I will not be silenced.”

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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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tech won’t save us: Decomputing For a Better Future

September 15, 2025

Paris Marx is joined by Dan McQuillan to discuss the global push by governments to rapidly adopt AI at all costs and how citizens can critically rethink our dependence on…

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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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