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“If people can’t trust that the data they are giving the government will be protected, (and believe) that it will be used for things other than what they gave it for, it will lead to a crisis of trust,” EFF’s Mario Trujillo told @newyorktimes https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

The New York Times

Billionaires didn't become billionaires by caring about people. They became billionaires by exploiting people.

So when you see billionaires work to dismantle the CFPB, US AID, NIH, CDC, and social welfare programs in general, know that it isn't because they think it'll help people.

It's because all they know how to do is exploit.

That's who they are.

ICE tried to rebrand its effort to monitor immigrants’ social media, but it’s still a speech-chilling surveillance program. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/eff-lawsuit-discloses-documents-detailing-governments-social-media-surveillance
EFF Lawsuit Discloses Documents Detailing Government’s Social Media Surveillance of Immigrants

Despite rebranding a federal program that surveils the social media activities of immigrants and foreign visitors to a more benign name, the government agreed to spend more than $100 million to continue monitoring people’s online activities, records disclosed to EFF show.Thousands of pages of...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Not only is this full dice-roll policing, it also threatens the rights, freedom, or even the life of whoever is unlucky enough to look a little bit like that artificial face. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/cops-running-dna-manufactured-faces-through-face-recognition-tornado-bad-ideas
Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition Is a Tornado of Bad Ideas

In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated, invasive, and oppressive technologies, making them digital, and then calling it innovation, police in the U.S. recently combined two existing dystopian technologies in a brand new way to violate civil liberties. A police force...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
There should be a reverse Indiana Jones film where a South American tribe sneaks into the Vatican, steals some relics, and gets away on a boat while a bunch of men in golden robes shake their fists and shout their strange language.

This comic is one of a series of climate comics that bring art and science together to explore the big questions about the climate crisis. More to read & download at https://www.comicartfestival.com/constrain-climate-comics

The other artists involved are - award-winning comic creator Darryl Cunningham and comic creator, academic and illustrator Sayra Begum.

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CONSTRAIN Climate Comics | Lakes International Comic Art Festival