#government-surveillance

#government-surveillance

In their gold rush to build cloud and AI tools, Big Tech is also enabling unprecedented government surveillance. Thanks to reporting from The Guardian, +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Intercept, we have insights into the murky deals between the Israeli Government and Big Tech firms. Designed to insulate governments from scrutiny and accountability, these deals bode a dark future for humanity, one that is built using the same tools that once promised a bright, positive world.

Gotham is an investigative platform built for police, national security agencies, public health departments, and other state clients. Its purpose is deceptively simple: take whatever data an agency already has, break it down into its smallest components, and then connect the dots. Gotham is not simply a database. It takes fragmented data, scattered across various agencies and stored in different formats, and transforms it into a unified, searchable web.

End-to-end encryption is an essential security tool that protects our personal data, including our bank details, health information, private conversations and images. It'd be an entirely reckless and unprecedented move from the UK Government to open up a backdoor to this data, and one that will have global consequences.

Roskomnadzor announced that phone calls made using Telegram and WhatsApp would be partially restricted, asserting they are 'the main voice services used to deceive and extort money.'

The organization has since been prominent in some of the most important legal battles for privacy, online operations, and legislative correction.

The system that the IRS is now creating would give ICE automated access to home addresses en masse, limiting the ability of IRS officials to consider the legality of transfers.

While the theatrics of DOGE are striking, it is important to recognize that its influence has deeply infiltrated the federal government, solidifying its position within the broader agenda of the Trump administration.

This is the first time that representatives for NSO Group have publicly confirmed who the spyware maker's customers are (or were), after years of refusing to acknowledge or discuss its clientele.