What if the biggest changes to freedom are not arriving through obvious force, but through systems that quietly make surveillance, digital identity, behavioural control, and dependence feel normal?

My book Systems Against the Self: Privacy, Power, and Resistance in the Modern Age explores how privacy became negotiable, how convenience became a delivery system for exposure, and how more of life now depends on being legible, trackable, and manageable.

It is not only about the problem. It is also about response through privacy, security, self-custody, resilience, stronger households, and rebuilding a more human kind of freedom.

Get it here: https://books2read.com/b/systems-aginst-the-self

#Privacy #Surveillance #DigitalIdentity #Freedom #SelfSovereignty #Books #Nonfiction #Technology

German digital ID will require an Apple/Google Account

Rooted/jailbroken phone? Custom ROM? Latest updates not applied? Authentication denied, Mutterficker!

Apple & Google become gatekeepers. "Your" device will be constantly monitored - for "compliance". "And you will be happy".

https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/

#DigitalID #IDVerification #Google #Apple #Android #iOS #technology #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #dystopia #BigTech #Germany #EU

If you live in Florida but feel alone in the fight for digital rights, don't be! We have members all over looking to connect with others to speak out:

Tallahassee
Gainesville
Volusia
Brevard
Broward
Miami

Find your group or start one yourself!
https://www.fldigitalrights.org/regions/

#Tech #Privacy #Surveillance #Flock #ALPR #AI

"The technical mechanism most commonly proposed for age verification is, depending on the specific implementation, either a government-issued identity document uploaded to a third-party verification service, or a biometric check, or a credit card confirmation, all of which require an individual to associate their real identity with their browsing behaviour before their connection is permitted. This is, it should be noted, structurally identical in concept to the white SIM architecture Iran formally institutionalised in July 2025: a system in which your identity, as documented and approved by a central authority, determines what you are permitted to access on the internet and under what conditions."—Keystone Collective @TheKeystoneCollective

The internet kill switch Iran built while the west was busy debating age verification >

https://www.keystone-collective.org/the-internet-kill-switch-iran-built-while-the-west-was-busy-debating-age-verification/

#control_infrastructures #age_verification #parenting #mass_surveillance #statism #identity_layer #BGP #networks #internet #shutdown #big_brother #identity_verification #centralisation #Iran #UK #Online_Safety_Act #USA #EU #KYC #connectivity #surveillance #chat_control #verification #identity_gating #policy #IODA #protecting_children #hypocrisy #packet_filtering #rhetoric #policymakers #kill_switch #technology

Refusing to accept an AI-poisoned future of journalism

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-to-accept-big-tech-s-ai-poisoned-future-of-journalism

>As the companies behind these products continue promising us that AI has something for everyone, I still haven’t seen a practical application that makes sense for me. But I’ve been hesitant to weigh in on the use of AI in the past as it typically concerned areas beyond my expertise and in which I do not work. But now that multiple stories from major outlets in recent days have proclaimed not just the inevitability of AI in #journalism but have trumpeted how working journalists are actively including AI-produced work in their finished product, it’s become my problem. It’s exposed a gulf between those who want to have their words remembered and those who just want people to remember that they wrote. We must stem the idea being pushed by tech companies and their billionaire funders who’ve sunk too much into their products to admit defeat that the infiltration of AI into journalism is inevitable; because from my perch as an independent journalist, it simply is not.
#A1 #dataparasitism #labor #laborNews #infotainment #infoDisparity #LLM #dataModeling #privacy #privacyNews #artificialIntelligence is commodified #propaganda and #surveillance

It's worse than we thought, although not really surprising - not just #Meta but also #OpenAI are secretly funding lobbying groups and nonprofits to aggressively push #AgeVerification laws, so that Scammy Altmann can then offer his services to scan your ID and face and profit from it, and steal you biometric data. Seriously, US #AI companies are human scum, probably as bad as tobacco companies ...🤮

#freedom #DigitalFreedom #ScamAltman #computers #internet #surveillance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QL0r7A7150