Love that quote “We’re going to search your house. We don’t have a warrant, but we paid your landlord $100 to give us a spare key. So now we’re searching your house without a warrant,” by Laperruque
The warrant is dead. Privacy is now a luxury, not a right. We’ve officially entered the 2026 digital monitoring grid where ‘data’ is the new currency for control. This isn’t just news; it’s the ‘Exodus’ of our personal sovereignty in real-time
Don’t put Sim cards in your phones, folks.
Block ads. Only use apps in froid and official Foss repos
how tf do you expect me to be able to use my phone without a sim?
Wifi
Use McDonald’s wifi to go into a Minecraft world and build text messeges with world blocks.
There’s also Briar and other mesh network stuff.
Submit a FOIA request.
Can we crowdfund buying data on congress, the Epstein class and their chdren, and the Trump crime syndicate so that it can be made freely publicly available?
Looking at CCPA deletion requests https://privacy.ca.gov/tips/submit-a-privacy-request/
The way it’s worded on that page, Businesses must comply with requests within 45 days. But if the government accesses the data as a sub processor, must they comply?
My guess would unfortunately be no.
Citizens: You can’t spy on me without a legal reason!
Govt: I know, but they can.
(big tech giants appear with decades of data)
It is one of the big lies of capitalist countries like the U.S.
“Don’t worry [CITIZEN ID] you have rights! The constitution says you do”
But then everyone is coerced to working for companies that are closer to miniature dictatorship kingdoms, with some of them being more powerful than “legitimate” governments.
Yeah no shit this news is like over 6 years old, they have been doing this for some time.
Some of it is, I’m sure. But the reason I posted it was because it had a lot of detailed information which I hadn’t seen before. It was literally my first post on Lemmy today, other than comments. I hope I didn’t make a faux pas.
nah, looks like real paws to me
Sorry, you were right to post it, I am just saying this is an ongoing thing we have those of us who followed the news have known about for quite some time. Just this last summer or so there was An article In This Very intercept detailing how the feds were streamlining the buying of data broker info and distributing it to agencies, previously agencies bought it individually and many bought the same tranches of information separately.
The whole thing is fucked. It’s a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment we all know it but the goddamned federal courts are fucking traitors and deserve, something something.
Well, the good news for me personally is that since a year, I’ve been getting off of the American tech stack, hosting in Europe, with .eu domains, using aliases for emails on my own email server, locking down my stuff, and erasing what there is from iCloud, Google, etc… Completely. I wrote a long basic how-to a month ago to help others, and have been meaning to update it more. I’ve also been migrating my startup company’s setup to do the same. It’s all done now and I couldn’t be happier with the results. I’ve also been encouraging others online and friends and family to do the same. I even have a few of them using my Nextcloud server nearly full time now.
So I am trying to help. 😃
The Fourth Amendment has been dead since the PATRIOT Act.
The fourth amendment was dead long before the Patriot Act. From the crime waves in the 80s if not late 70s.
the judiciary is comprised of useful idiots that care more about the law than humanity.
What always freaks me out is people considering their government worse than the likes of Meta, Palantir, Google, Microsoft… At least you can vote (hopefully) for a different government. The problem is when the companies are able to buy governments, like USA is.
we could it would just take an unprecidented change in voter sympathies.
better just do nothing because that works way better
Gotta vote to keep a clear conscience for what comes next
Go away with your doomer memes.
You know what else won’t work, performative cynicism without any actual contribution.
People are stuck in web 1.0 and web 2.0 thought patterns when it comes to privacy.
You’re not kidding, that’s for sure.
My wife watched a video about ICE surveillance last night and she couldn’t believe they are building databases or protestors or holding airport photos of immigrants for 75 years. Normies do not understand just how bad it is, they think pointing out all this stuff is crazy conspiracy theory.
100% of the data is out there for every single action we do now. Everything we say (smartphones, ‘smart’ devices), Where we are driving, when we are driving, when we are out and about, who we are with, who we exchange messages with, how much money we make, what we spend it on, everything we comment on the internet, all of our browser history, every message we exchange on nearly all platforms… everything is for sale. 1984 is technically feasible, today. We’re so close it’s terrifying.
I started talking to a friend about this and he called me a tin foil hat wearing conspiracist and said even if it’s true him and his company is making money off of it so he doesn’t care.
You can vote for the party that supports Meta/Palantir/Google/Microsoft or you can vote for the other party that supports Meta/Palantir/Google/Microsoft
Is Apple excluded?
What a reductive thing to say.
Maybe you should look at who has been expanding the surveillance state for the past 25 years, because it’s essentially a bipartisan issue in Congress and all administration. Edit to expand on my point, but the Democrats continued sycophancy to giant corporations and refusal to enact policies to benefit actual people is why America has accelerated towards fascism for the past 30 years.
Agreed. But the point they’re making (wittingly or unwittingly) isn’t “they’re both directly and indirectly responsible for the rise of the surveillance state.”
The fundamental point is: “Both parties are the same because of this one issue.” And that position is reductive to the point of being indistinguishable from the positions of centrists and conservatives, both of which often prefer easy-to-digest, broad-stroke politics over wrestling with the nuances.
Thanks for putting words in my mouth and talking down to me.
No, the point I’m making is that both parties serve the same masters. Look at who Meta/Palantir/Google/Microsoft donate to, do you think they’re wasting their money when they give millions and millions to both parties?
No, the point I’m making is that both parties serve the same masters.
To what end? What’s the logical conclusion people should draw from this?
…do you think they’re wasting their money when they give millions and millions to both parties?
I mean, yes, but to which party do they give more? You’re essentially saying “follow the money.” Here’s where the money went in 2024. You’ll note that the top eight biggest donors gave to Republicans.
They might serve the same masters, but the masters have favorites and not by accident.
To what end? What’s the logical conclusion people should draw from this?
Instead of only engaging in politics every few years when its time to vote, people should be politically active all year and engaged in struggle in the workplace and on the streets. Minneapolis shows the way - they didn’t vote to get rid of Kristi Noem, they forced her out by taking to the streets and by launching a general strike. Voting might be part of a larger strategy, but only part of one.
I mean, yes, but to which party do they give more?
Tech companies and people who work in tech tend to give more to Democrats. Palatir is an exception to this general rule, but Meta/Alphabet/Microsoft were mostly behind Harris in the 2024 election. Does this surprise you for some reason?
People confuse cynicism with wisdom.
It’s easy to be cynical, it takes effort to be wise.
🌈 But with rainbows 🌈
