Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance

Ads and surveillance business models continue to poison the web. Kagi products will always remain free from ads and trackers.

Considerations on the loss of the old ways, from FOSS to OSS to "Subscription as a Service"

https://prose.winterschon.com/on-foss-oss-and-give-me-money/

"We should have a system that tells us where all workers are, which [places] they’re working at, whether they’re crossing individual borders.” -federal education minister Jason Clare

#SurveillanceCapitalism #AusPol

I feel I am even unable to follow current law projects against #encryption or #AgeVerification arguments. I am just tired, angry and annoyed with this crap. The most annoying thing is their lying about "protecting children"... all while everyone makes intentional effort to exploit the same children for own profit. And even if this part would be true... Why they have to choose one group to be safe and everyone else would have to deal with increasing #internet toxicity?
It's like they said "we made this area poisonus and radioactive and now we have to think about poor children affected by this. So let's verify everyone's identity to make sure they are mature enough to deal with radioactivity!"
And then "Oh, by the way, it could be convenient to mark dissidents' zones as harmful too..."

And even now they actively create more and more harmful things, embracing it and poison everything with it... also killing planet in the process.

I don't want to reveal my identity and don't want to deal with their radioactivity at all!

Flock Safety’s Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/14/flock-safetys-feature-updates-cannot-make-automated-license-plate-readers-safe/

Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/google-is-tracking-you-even-when-you-use-duck-duck-go

'Think DuckDuckGo keeps you safe from Google? Well think again. A new study shows that even with a privacy-focused search engine, Google's trackers follow you around the web (mostly through analytics, ads, and video embeds). The research by SafetyDetectives compares four countries and reveals just how hard it is to avoid Google online.'

Resist #authoritarianism - defund the apps that fund them!

Download this handy spreadsheet to track which #bigtech services you've migrated from, and record which ones you still want to do.

It's the 'Big Tech migration checklist' at the bottom of this page: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/resources.html

(no email address required, just a straight download)

Cash is losing its anonymity! Increasing tracking of banknote serial numbers raises alarms among data protectionists Privacy risks include revealing location, spending habits, and even sensitive personal info. Experts warn against mass surveillance disguised as security. #PrivacyMatters #CashTracking #DataProtection Read more: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Bill-tracking-Increasing-cash-tracking-worries-data-protectionists-10481696.html
#newz #privacy #security #surveillancecapitalism

Shortlink: https://heise.de/-10481696

So Naomi Brockwell TV blew my mind about how are smart TVs are spying on us with Automatic Content Recognition and other advertising profile scripts. Yikes!
https://youtu.be/jeq2m-OM53A?si=DPW7TQiDSopBdqiS

I don’t have the resources to switch to a more secure streaming device yet (I’m gonna build one with mini PC running LibreELEC with Kodi hopefully).

In the meantime, I setup a Pi-Hole on an old Raspberry Pi 3B I had laying around last night to block as many ads and outgoing unwanted scripts as I could.
https://pi-hole.net/

It is working great from what I tell! Even removed the ads from my Roku TV home pages lol! I’m sure some stuff is getting through, but at least it’s minimal.

Here is the PiHole install video I watched from Micro Center, but I also added SSH via private/public keys too. How to Block Ads Using a Pi-Hole With A Raspberry Pi
https://youtu.be/oX4NqFisC5Y?si=-AdahVN0F6UchwnP

Oh and it has a built-in Star Trek NG LCARS theme!
https://github.com/MichalSvatos/pi-hole-star-trek-picard

#pihole #pi-hole #raspberrypi #linux #adblocking #cybersecurity #homenetworking #homelab #privacy #dataprivacy #digitalrights #mydatamychoice #privacyisahumanright #privacymatters #blockads #surveillancecapitalism #optout #FOSS #startrek #microcenter

Pop up in #google #gmail this morning trying to blackmail me into broader routine use of #Gemini or losing access to the standard calendar insertions from reservations and flight tickets its been providing for years with more sustainable AI.

I believe this is also a criticism by @evgenymorozov of #SurveillanceCapitalism

From: @malteengeler
https://legal.social/@malteengeler/114828522634825014

Where industrial capitalism derived value from producing material goods that people wanted to buy, surveillance capitalism…treated its users as the product. Tech giants sitting atop vast amounts of user data could easily pump those troves into neural networks to more precisely profile users than ever before…
—Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
#surveillance #surveillancecapitalism

The Rebel Tech Alliance is a non-profit dedicated to bringing down #SurveillanceCapitalism

We explain the problem, provide extensive lists of vetted Alternatives, and show you who else is fighting this fight so we can Unite. We also have loads of Resources and Guides.

Please read through the site - it's in chronological order - and share widely. The more people leave #BigTech the less data Big Tech has, the less power they have. #Privacy is power!

https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/

Tomorrow at 5pm UK time three serious heavyweights will be discussing data #privacy

Carissa Veliz
Roger McNamee
Carole Cadwalladr

https://bsky.app/profile/the-citizens.bsky.social/post/3lth2xhkjg22f

It will be live steamed from here:

https://citizensreunited.substack.com/