Protect #VPN use in the UK
Sign petition:
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk
#privacy #security #Internet #authoritarian #Surveillance #ToxicLabour #Orwellian #Orwell #DemocracyNOW #OpenRightsGroup
Take action! Protect VPN use in the UK VPNs help people to stay private and safe online. Young people use them to avoid harassment, or protect location data. Companies use them to make sure remote log-in to their networks are secure. Journalists, campaigners and whistle blowers use them to protect their work and themselves. But the Government wants to force people to verify their age when they buy a VPN. This will deter people from using VPNs to stay safe and secure online. Why are the government proposing restrictions to accessing VPNs?
#Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database
Agencies are reportedly pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. #FPF is suing to learn how deep it goes.
by Lauren Harper, March 17 2026
Excerpt: "The public has never seen the reports agencies submitted by OMB, despite their impact on our privacy. However, thanks to intrepid reporting and litigation, we do have glimpses of how this is starting to play out:
- The Central Intelligence Agency has been granted increased access to domestic law enforcement databases, further blurring the line between foreign intelligence and domestic policing.
- The so-called Department of Government Efficiency got direct access to Treasury Department payment systems, including Social Security numbers, names, and birthdays, according to a whistleblower.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement got access to Medicaid recipients’ data and banking information.
- The Transportation Security Administration is now sharing biometric passenger info with immigration enforcement, turning every airport check-in into a potential trap.
"But these incursions are only the tip of the iceberg.
"Reports indicate the administration’s goal for dismantling privacy protections is to build a centralized national database, which would allow the administration to create detailed reports on every American, potentially for political purposes, including retaliation, harassment, and imprisonment.
"At the same time this database is becoming a reality, the Department of Homeland Security is rapidly expanding its surveillance capabilities, and the administration is unleashing AI across federal systems to analyze the data points they are harvesting from our private lives.
"Perhaps worst of all, by 'eliminating information silos,' the administration is creating a single point of failure for the privacy of every American. A centralized database that compiles our most intimate information, from our health to our finances, doesn’t just make us vulnerable to government abuse; it creates a massive, singular target for hackers and foreign adversaries."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/17/government-surveillance-centralized-database-privacy/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/4fObS
#SilencingDissent #SurveillanceState #CriminalizingDissent #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #Orwellian #FreedomOfThePressFoundation #USPol
Say no to Palantir in #NHS
NHS #England is rolling out software to run our health records from #Palantir, US #spy-tech firm that supports mass deportation in US & enabled #genocide in #Gaza
One of Palantirs founders is also openly against #OurNHS
Peter #Thiel claimed:
- It makes people sick
- #British people love our NHS because we’re suffering from #Stockholm syndrome
Is your local NHS Trust using Palantir’s software?
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/
Duncan McCann: The dangers from #Palantir’s #UK data grab are already here
The #US #spy-tech firm has inserted itself into the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the #police and our #health service – we’re already paying the price, says Duncan McCann
- The #dangers from Palantir’s reckless UK #data grab are no longer theoretical – they’re already happening.
Last week, the Nerve revealed that people working in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) ...
#BigData #privacy #Orwellian #corruption #spying
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#AndThen? And then #Mullvad was #censored in #UK
#UnitedKingdom is escalating its #censorship & mass #surveillance
When Mullvad tried to address this with #TV #ad “And Then?”, it was banned on British television
Outdoor ad campaign meant to criticise the TV ban was also largely halted
Here, you can watch the banned ads and explore the entire campaign
https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk
#authoritarian #Orwellian #dystopian #privacy #security #ToxicTories #ToxicLabour #KeirStalin #StarmerOut
Opt out of global #data #surveillance programs
Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical! We all have a right to #privacy, which you can exercise today by #encrypting your #communications and ending your reliance on #proprietary services.
There’s a section for nearly ever operating system.
#security #computers #safety #SurveillanceCapitalism #authoritarian #Orwellian #spying
Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora. Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical! We all have a right to privacy, which you can exercise today by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services.
#GraceTame has said “we’re living in an #Orwellian nightmare” in a scathing critique of prime minister #AnthonyAlbanese and his government’s position on the #war in the #MiddleEast.
In an essay published in Crikey on Friday, the advocate for #sexualabusesurvivors and #humanrights #activist accused Anthony Albanese of being a “#coward” and a “#turncoat” for refusing to condemn the #US #Israel strikes on #Iran.
It was her most comprehensive rebuke of the PM since he called her “difficult” at a News Corp event when he was asked to describe public figures in one word. He later claimed he meant to describe her “difficult life”.
Tame, who was named #AustralianoftheYear in 2021, said she had come up against a “well-oiled, well funded political #propaganda machine” in recent months, adding the only reason #Albanese found her “difficult” was because she had been “outspoken about Australia’s #toxicalliance with the US and Israel”.
“Anthony Albanese has let us all down by capitulating to foreign powers who crave hegemony, profit from endless chaos, and whose interests conflict with our own,” she said.
“This was recently reinforced by how quickly the government moved to show support for the Iran war initiated by the US and Israel without congressional approval and in direct #violation of #internationallaw.
“I don’t think Albanese is a bumbling misogynist. I think he’s a savvy political operator keen to appease #Washington and #TelAviv. It’s a badge of honour to weigh on his conscience.”
Tame contrasted Albanese’s historical advocacy for #Palestine and critique of Australia’s involvement in the #Iraqwar with his current position on #Iran, alleging as a “relatively defenceless Pacific middle power, Australia cannot afford to cut its military ties with the US and Israel”.
“We’re in a geopolitical chokehold,” she said.
“To Albanese, I am difficult because I am both aware of this reality and unafraid to scream it at the top of my lungs, much to his obvious chagrin.
The federal government has endorsed the war by stating that “#Australia supports action to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent Iran from continuing to threaten international peace and security”.
Tame has faced major backlash from some conservative politicians and media outlets since her appearance at a pro-Palestine rally outside Sydney’s Town Hall last month, in which she led chants of the controversial phrase “globalise the intifada”.
“That day, the press and our so-called leaders needed a soundbite,” Tame said. “They needed a #scapegoat to distract from the broadcast footage of unprovoked police brutality that erupted that very evening. I was the obvious, easy target.
“In the weeks following, countless headlines, opinion pieces, talk-show segments and radio interviews have been churned out, framing me as an antisemite and terrorist sympathiser who promotes violence. Never mind that I have spent half my life trying to protect children.”
Tame said there was a “disconnect” between the “values of everyday voters and desires of influential #powerbrokers”, which was placing the Australian government and some media outlets out of step with it’s people.
“The tide of public consciousness has turned in Australia,” she said. “The game is up; we don’t buy the propaganda anymore. Just as we don’t buy Albanese’s defence for calling me difficult.”
In an Instagram post earlier this month, Tame said she had lost three speaking engagements on the theme of child safety due to an “ongoing media campaign”.
Albanese was approached for comment. #auspol
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