In case you didn't know, Palantir (owned by Thiel), has all your personal data from private AND GOVERNMENT sources. This includes surveillance data from street cameras. 

 How Some Governments Eliminate HTTPS/TLS Encryption!

Our ability to communicate privately is under siege from multiple fronts. While the Five Eye countries seek to bypass end-to-end encryption, some countries already eliminate even STANDARD WEB encryption. So depending on who you're communicating with there's already someone watching. 

 Be a Subversive with Linux! We are under Attack!

Our basic expectation of private conversations using End-to-End Encryption is under attack. The UK just passed the Online Safety Bill and the intent is to zuck us by bypassing encryption via client side scanning. But we can fight back with Linux.  

 Sound Thinking, the company that makes dangerous gunshot-detection tech, is likely buying Geolitca, which makes predictive policing software. This is even more reason for cities  to ban predictive policing before it comes to them.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/cities-should-act-now-ban-predictive-policingand-stop-using-shotspotter-too 

 Google’s safeguards to anonymize location data aren’t foolproof. “This is all very new and very untested and made up as they go along,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @Business. “And that’s, from a civil liberties point of view, very dangerous.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-28/google-user-data-is-police-s-top-shortcut-for-solving-crimes 

 I was just explaining the dangers of this in a recent video and lo and behold, the legislation passed in the UK. So we are all zucked. Here comes the end of End-to-End encryption for the normies!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users