Meta harvests your chats, likes, and location to sell ads while its AI data centers guzzle water and power. Endless scroll fuels anxiety, depression, and sleep loss especially for youth. #DeleteMeta #DataRights #MentalHealth #ClimateJustice Demand transparency
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Meta turns your life into a data mine, your friendships into ad fuel, and your attention into Wall Street profit. Its endless scroll feeds anxiety while AI data centers burn through energy and water. #DeleteMeta #DataRights #MentalHealth #ClimateJustice

Two Fronts in the Battle Over Digital Privacy From smartwatch tracking to TV content control, 2026 reveals two critical privacy threats: police access to biometric data and Big Tech's digital gatekeeping.

Two Fronts in the Battle Over Digital Privacy

#DigitalPrivacy #Surveillance #TechRegulation #DataRights #AusNews

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How the FBI can conduct mass surveillance – even without AI Anthropic fought against the government’s misuse of its technology, but authorities are buying Americans’ data, enabling them to surveil citizens at scale

App data → data brokers → federal agencies.

That pipeline already enables large-scale surveillance. AI just turns it into detailed profiles faster.

This is infrastructure.

#DeFlock #PrivacyMatters #CivilLiberties #StopSurveillance #DataRights

X challenges €120m fine under EU censorship law at top European court X this week launched a landmark legal challenge against the €120 million fine it received in December under the Digital Services Act (DSA), an EU censorship law.

X filed an appeal at the EU's General Court against its €120M DSA fine for deceptive blue checkmarks, opaque ad repos & blocking researcher data access. First-ever DSA enforcement action. #DSA #XPrivacy #EUFine #DataRights

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Google Asked Me to Help Fight Privacy Laws. Their Email Was a Tracking Device. Google sent small business owners a lobbying email asking them to oppose state privacy regulations. We decoded it. The irony writes itself.

Big Tech says it protects your email… while lobbying to preserve tracking.

That’s the conflict: they profit from what you think is private.

EMail Parrot doesn’t mine your messages or depend on ads - it strips tracking and protects your group by design.

#Privacy #Email #DataRights #SecureComms

Tech Giants Face Legal Heat Over Privacy Breaches Three of the world’s most prominent technology companies—Google, Microsoft, and Kenneth Cole Productions—are facing a new wave of legal scrutiny over how they collect,…

Google paying hundreds of millions for spying via Assistant “false accepts” isn’t a win, it’s a warning: they turned private home conversations into ad fuel for a decade. Sue, delete, divest. #SurveillanceCapitalism #DataRights
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Mount Vernon Council Clashes Over FLOCK Surveillance and Data Sovereignty Congressional Candidate Tomas Scheel Proposes Local Tech FLOCK Alternative to MVPD Chief Christman

People should own their data.

You can justify anything with the NO voters defense of "what if it saves a life." That logic has no limit.

What we DO know: systems like this are already being used by #ICE and others to harm people.

#Privacy #Surveillance #FLOCK #MVPD #DataRights #MountVernon

What the govt actually agreed to share, Who consented.
“Data stays in Canada" is not a privacy policy.

#Sask #Saskatchewan #Privacy #HealthData #Bell #AIFabric #YQR #cdnpoli #DataRights

Bell Canada to start construction on Canada's largest AI data centre near Regina this spring | CBC News The Regina AI data centre will be built in phases and is expected to be operational by the end of 2027.

Bell + Sask govt say this new data centre will process data for municipalities, universities & the public sector. But publicly available documents reveal NO details on: Whether health data is included,

#Sask #Saskatchewan #Privacy #HealthData #Bell #AIFabric #YQR #cdnpoli #DataRights

New Lawsuit Challenges Rubio’s Threats Against Foreign Tech Regulators

Sec. Rubio is SUED for threatening foreign social media researchers with visa bans for 'censoring Americans.' When government weaponizes Big Tech intimidation, ALL our rights are at risk. #Rubio #FreeSpeech #DataRights #TechAccountability #Resist #NoKings
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Is the new US TikTok safer? - Harvard Law School Harvard Law Lecturer Timothy Edgar unpacks the new $14B TikTok Chinese divestment deal.

New US ownership, same red flags. TikTok's 2026 privacy update NOW tracks precise location & sensitive health data. Who REALLY owns your information? Demand real answers. #TikTokPrivacy #DataRights #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech

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Virginia’s Age-Check Mandate

Virginia is forcing platforms to verify all users via ID or biometrics to limit minor screen time. Experts call it a data disaster waiting to happen.

👉 Read the article and see our sources: s.vp.net/1SKQF

#Privacy #Virginia #DataRights

Your contribution: 100%. Your profit share: 0%. They don't want freedom; they want captive data for AI factories. We demand dividend equity for every byte we create. Stop paying to be exploited!

#DividendJustice #DataRights
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Digital Sovereignty 2026: How the EU Is Reshaping Meta GDPR, DMA and DSA are fundamentally changing Meta’s business model. Learn how tracking, AI, ads and cybersecurity work in 2026.

Meta's "pay-or-consent" surveillance model was rejected by the EU in early 2026. GDPR now bars Meta from merging WhatsApp, Instagram & Facebook data without granular consent. #Meta #DMA #DSA #GDPR #EU #DataRights #BigTech #Privacy
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Meta promises to reduce data sharing for EU users by 2026 to avoid EU GDPR fines Meta reaches an agreement with the EU

After a €200M DMA fine, Meta now must let EU users choose between full data sharing for personalized ads or reduced sharing for generic ads replacing the old "consent or pay" model. The EU continues monitoring compliance. #DMA #EU #AdTech #DataRights
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EU court adviser rejects Meta’s fight against EU antitrust demands for Facebook data BRUSSELS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - An adviser to Europe's top court on Thursday backed Meta Platforms' fight ​against EU antitrust regulators over ‌what the U.S. tech giant said were aberrant requests for i...

An advocate general recommended dismissing Meta's appeals against European Commission requests for Facebook Marketplace and user data during antitrust probes. The ruling signals Meta cannot shield its data troves from regulators. #Meta #GDPR #EUPrivacy #DataRights
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Five Funders Supporting Privacy in the Digital Age As privacy erodes and surveillance becomes ubiquitous in the U.S. and around the globe, which grantmakers are on the case?

As privacy erodes and surveillance becomes ubiquitous in the U.S. and around the globe, which grantmakers are on the case?

Martha Ramirez(@martharamirez.bsky.social) Reports: tinyurl.com/ebe7a9dd

#DigitalPrivacy #SurveillanceTech #DataRights #AIAccountability #TechGovernance #CivilLiberties

🤝 IMSPARK Pacific Partnerships Built on Ethics, Agency, and Values 🤝

#DataRights, #EthicalEngagement, #IMSPARK, #PacificAgency, #RegionalLeadership, #SoftPower, #SolomonIslands, #SurveillanceConcerns, #ValuesBasedPartnerships

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🤝 IMSPARK Pacific Partnerships Built on Ethics, Agency, and Values 🤝

#DataRights, #EthicalEngagement, #IMSPARK, #PacificAgency, #RegionalLeadership, #SoftPower, #SolomonIslands, #SurveillanceConcerns, #ValuesBasedPartnerships

Link to Substack: imaginepacific.substack.com/p/imspark-pa...

US privacy policy US Privacy Policy at OpenAI

OpenAI's updated privacy policy now collects your files, images, audio, video & contacts. Data
kept after deletion "for compliance." More third parties get your data. Read the fine print.
#Privacy #OpenAI #DataRights #AI

📢 Under UK GDPR, we’ve asked UK religious institutions & archives to disclose or erase any records about #Jesus, Mary, & their lineages, in our capacity as part of Āl ʿImrān (Family of Imran). Accuracy, transparency & lawful processing matter. #UKGDPR #DataRights #FamilyOfImran #Church #Vatican #Law

Say no to Palantir in the NHS. The NHS is a public service, not a surveillance industry showroom.

The NHS is a public service, not a surveillance industry showroom.
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#SaveOurNHS #NoToPalantir #ProtectPatientData #NHSNotForSale #PublicServiceNotSurveillance #DataRights #StopTheSpies #KeepItPublic #PatientPrivacy #HandsOffOurRecords #ConsentMattersUK

California just did what DC won't: Launched a one-click tool for residents to DELETE personal data from 500+ brokers. While federal privacy stalls, control flips to consumers for now.

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#Privacy #CCPA #GDPR #DataRights #GoodRevenue

Judge Orders Anna's Archive To Delete Scraped Data - Slashdot Anna's Archive has been hit with a U.S. federal court default judgment and permanent injunction over its scraping and distribution of OCLC's WorldCat data, which occurred more than two years ago. According to the ruling, the shadow library must delete all copies of its WorldCat data and stop scrapin...

Shadow library 📚 Anna's Archive faces a legal eclipse! 🌑 Court orders data deletion & halts scraping of vital WorldCat info. 🤔 #DataRights

Source: yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/16/2155232/j...

Wikipedia Starts Charging AI Giants For Training Data Access Wikipedia will now charge AI giants for access to its training data, marking a major shift in how open knowledge powers generative AI.

Wikipedia is done being scraped.

The nonprofit is now charging AI giants like Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft for access to its knowledge—turning “open data” into licensed power.

🔍📚🤖

#Wikipedia #AI #GenerativeAI #AITrainingData #DataRights #TechNews #MediaAndAI

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The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data.

Finally!! California just launched DROP, a one-stop delete tool that tells 500+ data brokers to erase your info with one request.
🧠 centralized deletion for citizens
⚡ simplifies privacy control
🎯 first of its kind

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#Privacy #DataRights #TechPolicy

New California 'delete-all' data privacy platform launches Jan. 1 The new DROP platform aims to make it easy to request the deletion of online personal data held by data brokers in California.

Californians now have a delete button for the data brokers hoarding and selling their personal info‼️
🧠 One request hits 500+ data brokers
⚡ Deletes personal data across the web
🎓 Brokers face fines if they don’t comply
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#Privacy #DataRights #California

California’s DROP Act Is Live — And It Quietly Changes Data Privacy Forever On January 1, 2026, California quietly flipped a major switch in the privacy world.

California’s DROP Act is live.
Residents can submit one opt-out and deletion request to registered data brokers via a central portal. Enforcement starts August 2026 with real penalties. This quietly reshapes data privacy in the U.S.
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#Privacy #CalPrivacy #DataRights

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#Privacy #DataPrivacy #DataRights #LinkedIn #BigTech #CSIE #OptOut #AIEthics #AITraining #AntiBot