hooded hacker + ominous lighting = chrome bad, proton good



A person wearing sunglasses and a gray t-shirt stands against a vibrant purple background, posed in profile with a slight smile. The image is overlaid with red text posing an absurdly grandiose question about solving mass surveillance through wearables, treating a serious tech ethics issue with come...
Who else is fucking thrilled that Palantir, the mass surveillance company that brags of killing its enemies, is getting our NHS records and there is nothing we can do about it? x



The UK confirmed its plan to end private messaging. Ofcom is now being handed power to scan encrypted chats under the Online Safety Act. They’re calling it “client-side scanning.” What it means: every message on your phone gets checked before it’s encrypted. This isn’t safety. It’s surveillance.
Your face scanned for a pint of milk UK shops are using live facial recognition, putting innocent people at risk of misidentifications & wrongful accusations. We've written to major retailers urging them to either stop the use of this tech or rule out using it in future.



TESCO HAVE GONE FULL BIG BROTHER TINY CAMERAS ON SHELVES AND DIGITAL LABELS INSTEAD OF PAPER ONES COUPLED WITH THE FACIAL RECOGNITION CAMERAS ON SELF CHECKOUTS AND THE REGULAR CCTV IN THE STORE BIG BROTHER IS ALWAYS WATCHING