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Serena Fossi's avatar

It seems too late to panic.

Remember the naive days, just really a few years ago, when apple was refusing to unlock iPhones for police. I’m gathering that is no longer a problem.

How do we all reassert ourselves, our value, our right to privacy as long as these systems exist and our governments are hand in hand with the theft of our essential freedoms…to roam, to converse, to understand the world and protest when injustice is prevailing?

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progress critique's avatar

This will go on till you dismantle this global megamachine. You stop one tech application there is the next. Tech is there , global industrial -capitalist-statist global megamachine is there! Global colonialism imperialism aka western civilisation is there. Talk of privacy and so on and the rest of liberal blah blah is senseless in this context. Either you dismantle this megamachine from the roots or the juggernaut rolls on. Changing govts , and all other reformism is not only powerless to change anything in a meaningful direction , it is toxic support for whatever is going on by contributing to wilfully blind mindset and preventing any serious resistance and revolt against the System

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the suck of sorrow's avatar

Unfortunately the only solution I see is political. Warrants must be required for any access to your personal communications and data, period. No matter the medium for communication and no matter the location of the storage device. The concept of home needs to be updated to include your private information which should be protected from intrusion just as your sofa, bed, and other sundry household items.

There needs to be public officers of the courts whose sole purpose is to safeguard communications facilities. No more roosting on cell phone towers. These officers need to be provided with state of the art research into the electronic signatures these intrusive programs leave on attacked devices. Any evidence of intrusion or attack without a corresponding warrant should be punished severely.

The solution can be in our hands. We need to elect better politicians.

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man's avatar

who is we?

how many we will you find to elect the way you do?

we have the right to elect, because there is no election.

if the elected aren't corrupt at the day of election, they will be so like the german joschka fischer, just as soon , as they win influence.

if you are in here, there is no hope.

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Tony Chaney's avatar

Obviously Palantir is in lockstep with the Mossad

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Zanzibar9CH's avatar

Thanks for your excellent work of research compiled in this piece, translated in French here : https://zanzibar.substack.com/p/le-vaste-reseau-de-technologies-despionnage

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Adam Whybray's avatar

One also wonders how this goes hand-in-hand with the passing of the Online Safety Act.

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