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Behavioural surplus is the extra information that can be processed when we interact with an app, website or device, in order to be repackaged and sold as accurate predictions about us.
https://theprivacydad.com/what-is-behavioural-surplus/

Border Patrol drones have shown up at the LA protests. Should we be worried?
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5349890-cbp-drone-surveillance-los-angeles/

Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and military against protesters in Los Angeles is widely being interpreted as
a display of intimidation and state power ahead of his birthday,
when Trump will oversee a military parade in Washington, D.C. in the style of a dictator.
The president has warned that protesters in D.C. will be
“met with very heavy force.”
Democrats and civil rights groups say the president is inflaming tensions to justify further repr…

Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
No Paywall
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
[Space Command]
SERVALAN: How did that happen?
JARVIK: They fired through their own force shield.
SERVALAN: Don't be absurd.
JARVIK: You asked, I told you.
[Liberator flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/294

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A well written, but terrifying read
#surveillance #privacy
https://pr…

The growing surveillance state in the U.S. is far worse than you imagined
Through legal loopholes, executive orders, and shady contracts, the Trump administration crushes safeguards protecting against surveillance

EU would require €241-286 billion investment to keep its nuclear power capacity roughly at today's level, draft shows. It would increase from 97 now to 109 GW by 2050; that's 12%, sharply reducing its share of growing overall electricity demand.

another reason concrete is better than cameras. there are real solutions to traffic violence without making excuses for mass surveillance
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/

SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds
SF and Oakland police appear to have repeatedly broken state law by sharing data from license plate cameras with federal agencies. OPD fulfilled a request related to an ICE investigation on one occasion.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
SERVALAN: Yes, of course. But why so formal, Rai? What can be so important that we can't discuss it in a more relaxed way? Oh, Rai, come here. [She beckons him to join her on a couch. Stroking his shoulder] Rai, I thought we were old friends.
[Servalan continues stroking his shoulder.]

Trump is taking decisive steps to crush administrative safeguards and preempt legal challenges,
allowing his administration to rapidly consolidate a surveillance state with diminished privacy rights.
Aided by recent Supreme Court decisions, Republican lawmakers, and quickly eroding due process rights,
the administration is ensuring that the data and sensitive information of each person in the U.S. can be used against them.

The growing surveillance state in the U.S. is far worse than you imagined
Through legal loopholes, executive orders, and shady contracts, the Trump administration crushes safeguards protecting against surveillance