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.
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
🌈 But with rainbows 🌈
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.
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.
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 goddamn 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. 😃
I can’t find it can you link it?
Sent you a DM.
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.
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?
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
