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It's not what you see, it's what goes on behind the scenes. Australia, the warrantless colony.
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A generation (25 years) ago, one of the largest PsyOp was enacted on the good people of the world, under a so called (alleged) ‘anti-terrorist’ agenda.
The laws were already drafted up before the turning point event to be put into place immediately after.
From an alleged plane crash into the US Pentagon, which looked more like a missile strike to the controlled demolition of Building 7, where Silverstein confirmed this, which take weeks to put into action, the US government (successfully) pulled of a huge con-job, where world governments accepts this, as it suits their agendas.
See video in his own words:
Larry 'Liar' Silverstein - WTC 7 "We Had To Pull It"
- IF you want to keep your money that’s their bank, take it OUT of Bendigo Bank!
This article is not going to have pages of attached PDFs explaining situations or how cybercriminals or scammers work.
While other banks work around the clock to protect ‘their’ cash that you gave them to be part of billion dollar profits for them, Bendigo Bank doesn’t have any (automated) systems that detect fraudulent activity, until their business day starts, that being at 9am.
So, how can you trust them with your hard earned cash, e.g. superannuation, pension etc.
The answer is - You can’t!
To make matters worse it was not even the Bendigo Bank that detected fraud, but rather the ANZ, which occurred at 3am, so they did NOTHING until it was too late!
Maybe they even outsourced their I.T. infrastructure to the scammer capital of the world, that being India?
From what is understood there are many victims of fraud from the Bendigo Bank, where realistically a class action lawsuit should occur against the bank, where Australia’s corrupt judicial system should not only make orders for compensation, but also the legal fees being fully remunerated .
Let’s see how this gross negligence by the Bendigo Bank fans out.
Bendigo Bank FAILED their customers, and the only way they can’t fail you is if you withdraw all YOUR cash from their premises.
"Never trust the government, it is NEVER for the children!!"
"This is all on purpose to take away our privacy and give big brother control over everything."
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images.
A record available at this identity theft service that includes the drivers license for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, one of several high-ranking U.S. government officials whose drivers licenses can be found for sale.
On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents on more than 170 million people in North America. The source brought it to my attention because the proprietor of this identity theft service offered my Virginia drivers license as a free sample in their initial sales thread on Exploit.
The service, dubbed Nexus, claims to have more than 153 million drivers licenses for people in the United States and Canada, as well as more than 10 million identification cards; more than three million travel documents and/or international IDs; and at least 579,000 medical cards.
A quick look around Nexus finds they are likely not exaggerating about that 153 million number: Running a blank search in Nexus (with no search parameters entered) returns approximately 11.5 million pages of results, with roughly 15 results displayed per page. It includes documents from people in both Canada and the United States, but the bulk of these records are on Americans: searching for just Canadian drivers licenses returns approximately 1.1 million results, with the largest concentration from Ontario (473,673 records).
Curiously, the identity records include not only drivers licenses but also marijuana dispensary cards. Some of the records list their “source” as “CDL,” presumably short for “commercial drivers license.” Other records carry the source notation of “CAC,” which may refer to Common Access Cards, government issued identity cards that grant physical access to government buildings and secure rooms.
The people behind Nexus claim the license images are coming from an active breach at “a major identity verification company” whose customers include multiple Fortune 500 companies.
The record totals listed by the Nexus identity theft service. The number of drivers license records increased by nearly 400,000 in the span of just 24 hours.
“We have been continuously exfiltrating new data for over a year into our private database,” the service enthused in its introductory post on Exploit. “Records are available to preview before purchase with pertinent information redacted. Customer photos are displayed if available.”
Indeed, over the past 24 hours, the number of drivers license records listed as available in Nexus has increased by nearly 400,000, suggesting that freshly stolen license data is being harvested and uploaded to this service on a semi-regular basis.
The record featuring my drivers license includes six image files: three pairs of photos of the license’s front and back, a basic image scan, as well as infrared and ultraviolet versions of the same images. A date and timestamp is appended to each image file, and the timestamp on my license scan corresponds to a date in June 2025 when I took a flight to the midwest United States to attend a family funeral.
Some of the 153 million+ license scans — including mine — feature six image files with date and timestamps appended to the filenames. Not all records include photos, and some that do feature photos do not display the associated filenames.
Intent on discovering the source of this data, KrebsOnSecurity asked more than a dozen friends and family members for permission to search for their licenses in this service. Each person whose license could be found (nine of them) confirmed having traveled on or very close to the dates in the timestamps attached to their images. It is unclear what timezone these timestamps are in, but from reviewing car rental records shared by several people who helped with this research, it appears the timezone is set to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
At first, I thought the source of the data might have something to do with airports. However, that theory went out the window when it became apparent there were no passports in this data set. Also, only some of those who helped with this research said they showed their drivers license at the airport on the day of their travel. One person whose license was in Nexus hadn’t flown at all recently, but was renting a car from Hertz for several months around the date of their timestamp.
Two of those who agreed to help are federal employees who said they shared other forms of government identification when passing through airport security. However, those individuals each said they shared their state-issued drivers licenses later that day when renting vehicles at their respective destinations, and that both rented their cars from Hertz.
After finding a note in my calendar for the day of my June 2025 flight reminding me to bring my passport, I remembered that I also never actually shared my drivers license when I went through security at Reagan National Airport on that day because I did not yet have a Real ID, a security-enhanced drivers license that is now required by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for all domestic travel. Instead, I showed the TSA agent my government-issued U.S. passport.
Here’s where it gets interesting: I was able to find my mother’s drivers license in this service as well, and the timestamps for her images are just a few seconds apart from mine. That’s notable because we both handed our licenses to the Hertz rental car representative at the same time.
According to my mom, the only place she gave her drivers license to that day was the rental car company, and if memory serves that is also true for me. I don’t recall if the rental car representative inserted our licenses into any kind of machine, but I remember they held onto them for several minutes behind the counter while we were signing various forms. KrebsOnSecurity sought comment from Hertz and will update this story in the event they reply.
Zach Edwards is a well-known security and privacy researcher who recently launched a service called DecryptAds to help people better understand how online advertisers are tracking them. A scan of Edwards’s drivers license is available for purchase on this identity theft service, and Edwards said the timestamp on his record corresponds to the middle of a trip last month to Las Vegas for the annual DEFCON security conference.
Edwards told KrebsOnSecurity that although he did not rent a car in Vegas, he did hand over his license at the TSA checkpoint, at a marijuana dispensary in Vegas, and at his hotel (the Aria). But he said the only one of those three that for sure scanned his ID in some kind of device was the dispensary.
To enter Planet13’s weed dispensary in Las Vegas, one must pass through a red telephone booth. Image: Zach Edwards.
Edwards said the dispensary he visited that day was Planet13, a multi-state chain with stores in California, Florida, Illinois and Nevada. In 2022, the New Orleans-based identity provider idscan.net published a press release announcing an exclusive identity verification agreement with Planet13’s dispensaries nationally. IDScan says it processes ID verification for more than 1,000 marijuana dispensaries in 19 U.S. states.
The “trust” page of idscan.net states that the company provides identity verification services for numerous big brands, including Hertz, Target, Fedex, Motorola Solutions, the financial services giant Jack Henry, and Caesars Entertainment. And as idscan.net’s own documentation states, the technology scans IDs with both infrared and ultraviolet light. Idscan.net says the company’s systems and technology perform more than 21 million verifications monthly, at more than 20,000 locations around the world.
Image: idscan.net.
Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, idscan.net said it was investigating the matter, but the company has not yet shared an official statement or a substantive reply to specific questions sent via email.
“At this point I’m not able to share any additional information, but the updates you have provided have been welcome, and helpful to our team’s investigation,” wrote Jillian Kossman, a marketing and operations leader at idscan.net.
During the course of my research for this story, word got around to the FBI that I was poking at the apparent source of this new identity theft service’s data. Probably they were tipped off when I shared with a trusted source that Nexus also is selling the drivers license information for the assistant director of the FBI (I did not find FBI Director Kash Patel’s license in Nexus).
Earlier this afternoon, I was added to a conference call with a half-dozen FBI agents, including senior leaders from the agency’s cyber division. During that call, the FBI shared that earlier today their New Orleans field office opened an official investigation into an apparent breach involving idscan.net.
Edwards said that as more in-person and online experiences require sharing drivers licenses, vendors who collect this sensitive data need to be held to a higher standard.
“This episode should further strengthen the resolve for people who are fighting back against online ID schemes which are requiring countless providers to ask for drivers licenses in order to access services under the guise of protecting kids,” Edwards told KrebsOnSecurity. “These systems are putting sensitive data into more and more 3rd party vendors, and we don’t have nearly the oversight to ensure they are safe.”
Larry Baldwin is principal intelligence researcher at the cybersecurity firm Cybera. Baldwin said a front and back scan of his drivers license available at Nexus contains timestamps that correspond to the date of a car rental from Hertz on a recent vacation.
Baldwin said the Nexus identity theft service presents multiple serious security and privacy threats, noting that state-issued drivers licenses are commonly used as proof of one’s identity when opening new lines of credit. Baldwin said the service could also dangerously expose many people who do not wish to be found but who cannot meaningfully change their appearance (or at least not enough to fool today’s AI-based image matching tools).
This category of people, he said, includes those fleeing domestic violence, and even people who have been assigned a whole new life and identity as part of the federal government’s witness protection program, which is generally reserved for criminal defendants in racketeering and conspiracy investigations who agree to cooperate with federal authorities.
“Just when it seems like we’re making some headway in improving authentication controls through drivers license verification systems, this happens and the very thing those improvements are dependent on are compromised,” Baldwin said.
Update, Sept. 2, 6:05 p.m. ET: A spokesperson for Caesars Entertainment said Caesars has not been a client of IDScan.net and has not used VeriScan since February 2025, despite IDScan.net listing them as a client on their website. That person said Caesars had no active VeriScan accounts at the time of the incident and did not authorize IDScan.net to retain data from its accounts, and that IDScan.net said the incident should have no impact on Caesars Entertainment.
Update, 8:56 p.m. ET: Shortly after this story was published, the Nexus identity theft service website vanished from the darkweb, replacing its login page with a plain text message that reads, “This service is no longer available.”
This is a potentially fast-moving story. Any changes or updates will be noted here along with a timestamp.
Source:KrebsonSecurity.
See also short explanation by Matt Johansen on this topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRbDaQQwWlY
SO, WHEN WILL THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT COMPENSATE YOU WHEN (NOT 'IF') YOUR PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION GET BREACHED?
AFTER IT'S 'THEIR' LAWS.
SORRY? THEY'RE NOT GOING TO OFFER YOU A REMEDY, AT LAW?
Google is literally littering the internet with garbage, AI generated garbage.
If Google wasn’t a tech company where it would be a ‘fast’ food or rather junk food corporation it’d be McDonald’s.
The ‘best' part about these corporations is that there is no regulation about how much shit they can feed you.
Google making you consume AI trash in your ‘feeds’ (how appropriate) on its media platform YouTube, is about as good for your brain as McChuck’s is good for your body, where you can refer to the ‘experiment’ by Morgan Spurlock, in Super Size Me
A mental torture tactic used on ‘persons of interest’ by military forces was to bombard the interrogated person with random, questions/facts until their brain goes to mush, a bit like you doom scrolling on social media.
Apparently the world's governments are there to ‘protect the children’, but there is no limitation/legislation on brain rot products by Google (and others).
In many feeds as much as two thirds to seventy percent of content is either AI slop or plain and simple false information contained in the ‘shorts’.
In any event Google and other corporations have invested billions of dollars in AI hardware which at the end of the day, has hurt ‘consumers’ (of hardware) where memory prices have risen six fold to purchase despite costing the same to produce as before the ‘AI crisis’.
Therefore Google (and others) have to serve you AI slop in order to obtain a decent ROI (Return On Investment) in their business endeavours.
The internet has really turned to crap as a result of a few corporations and it's very clear that governments are supporting this.
It's been established a long time ago what Australia is, and it's only gotten worse since it was first inked.
In the 1960's, author Donald Horne put pen to paper in his book "The Lucky Country" published in 1964, referring to Australia as the "lucky country".
There are a few problems with this.
First and foremost, the book "The Lucky Country" was never meant to be a complement about Australia, but rather a dig at the low lives running the place.
His sentence describing Australia, was deliberately misquoted and popularised into pop culture, as an alleged complement about this sun burnt land.
The full quote is as follows:
“Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people’s ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.”
It's also quite clear that Mr. Horne did not have a quick peruse at the Constitution, which brings up the next point.
Another 'small' technicality, yet quite a significant legal one is that on the second page of the 'original' Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK), it is stated that:
"... the Commonwealth shall be taken to be a self-governing colony for the purpose of that Act"
This was the case in 1964 and still is so today, meaning the Imperial Act has not been repealed.
Now that the technicalities are out of the way... or maybe not there is still one more important aspect the general population may not be aware, that being that 'faceless men' run this nation.
The so called 'elected' leaders, meaning "We the people" did not elect, e.g. Mr. Daniel Michael Andrews as a premier of Victoria, nor the current puppet Mr. Benjamin Alan Carroll, but rather the 'faceless men' put the clowns in a 'Punch & Judy' clown show on display.
So here's what Dave Hughes had to say about the hit and run driver which Victoria Police support:
SO, Google censors our posts on YouTube and Google Reviews on corporations.
Let us know in the comments if you cannot see this response:
Right now the federal (or feral, as we like to call it) government is advertising for the people to participate in an action in business/commerce/trade called the Census.
The excuse is that it needs to know certain things about you, but in reality, this is false and/or misleading information as they already have all this information through something called ‘surveillance capitalism’, from your electronic devices where they 'just' need you to confirm it.
If the government is advertising for you (the general population) to do something, you should realise it’s dodgy.
The most important aspect about this action is that a fundamental question needs to be asked:
Is the ABS request for your information ‘lawful’?
The short answer is no, but that should come as no surprise or shock, as many actions by state or federal governments in this colony are not lawful, where they may be ‘legal’ but not necessarily lawful.
Remember a previous time when they sold your data and YOU (the stakeholder) received zero financial compensation?
Well they’re going to do it again.
At the end of the business day, the Census is another farce the authoritarian state wants you to participate in.
Today the internet is not the same as the one that came into the homes of the general population, even though it is a government controlled carriageway.
FIRSTLY, there is no such thing as ‘freedom of speech’.
Your ‘opinion’, or even facts that you present are censored, moderated and/or removed by corporations, especially if they do not fit the current political/mainstream media narrative.
Today the internet is under the control of a corporatocracy, a handful of billionaires, also a totalitarian (virtual) state, that would make Mussolini smile in his grave, as it’s thriving in a world beyond his dreams.
Surveillance capitalism is also the order of the business day, where if something is for ‘free’, YOU are the product, period.
You are conned that the information collected is for 'advertisers', where it primarily goes into the annals of governments.
The world’s best surveillance device (for governments and corporations) is this self sponsored invention called the smartphone.
Governments and corporations are forcing, or rather ‘enticing’ the general population to use them, in order to monitor and later control them.
Personal Computers pale in comparison to the treasure trove of data that a smartphone produces.
Data is the new gold, as it has a many to one, sale relationship, compared to gold’s one to one.
A very popular resource/forum is reddit, where now it’s limiting how you communicate through it.
Before one could communicate via a browser on a PC or smartphone, whereas now if reddit detects that you’re using a browser on a smartphone, it will terminate your browsing where one MUST download the app to keep on using reddit.
So, where is the 'democracy' there? OOPS! There is none!
This is the way of the order of the new world, where privacy is becoming a criminal act.
Today, the 'interwebs' has fascist elements that would make our 'mate' Benito a proud man, as it's ideology was born before the tech was made to implement it.
Police and government surveillance is masquerading as so called 'advertisements'.
Deception by government and corporations is rife in the digital realm, where now, people who expose these ('alleged') criminal activities will be silenced through various new laws being put into place.
For those who are interested in a narrative format of an accurate account of what happened and what's going on, with regards to the tech, you can tune in to Cyb3rMaddy's Youtube channel, while you still can, where with regards to this topic you can see the video of the title:
People should all be aware that governments and corporation lie to us every single day.
Apple are prolific liars, and that’s without any exaggeration whatsoever.
The new age verification laws put in place all over the world have seriously nothing to do with ‘child safety’ but rather everything to do with data collection, so that this can be used against the people to not only monitor and control their movements, but more importantly especially to stifle so their so called ‘free speech’.
Corporations (and governments) are now dictating how people can communicate on the internet, and that's deliberate by design.
See approx. 17 minute explanation by David Bombal on YouTube within the video of the title: Install GrapheneOS Before Your Phone Becomes the Checkpoint:
Laws like the Online Safety Act 2023 (UK) apply to websites and online services, where a phone's operating system does not fall under any of the two categories of the said Act.
Keeping in mind that Apple is an active participant of the FiveEyes 'Anglosphere' global surveillance network.
If you truly value your online security and privacy, the use of Apple products is not recommended.
Governments are giving corporations a free pass to host material that can put the children (of the cannon fodder) in danger, contrary to their actions against the general population.
‘Age verification’ has been setup by shell corporations of Meta, in order to disassociate the onus from the ‘social media’ giants, where governments are following along with this.
The global policy to enact age verification started in the (penal) colony called Australia, under the false premise to ‘protect the children’.
In reality the action is used to hoover as much information as possible on a person that is connected to the internet, to be later used against that person.
People have too many ‘freedoms’ (e.g. of speech) on the internet and this must be kerbed by governments and corporations
An operating system (either mobile or personal computer) that may not even be connected to the internet, must now be subject to age verification and even content scanning, to allegedly keep the children ‘safe’.
Even though Facebook and Instagram are Meta’s ‘assets’ that are age-restricted social media platforms, at face value, other Meta assets Messenger and WhatApp are given free reign.
WhatApps is considered a ‘social media’ platform, yet it’s immune from ‘age-restriction’ law in Australia.
Roblox, facing over 150 child abuse cases, needs them moved out of the courtroom, as it does not want the instances on ‘public record’.
What’s worse is that once you enter into an agreement to use Roblox, you forfeit any ability to pursue lawsuits in an open court.
How is that even allowed by the lawmakers?
Discord is also dodgy.
Keep in mind that's it's not about the safety of the children [of the serfs], but rather stifling people's alleged right to 'free speech' on the internet.
No one taking action on the Epstein Files?
No one going to prison for paedophilia?
No one releasing the FULL data cache?
In any event, the Epstein Files are a farce, as the statue of limitations has expired for many victims to obtain a so called 'remedy'.
MANY people, especially those that are victims of a corrupt legal/judicial system, will say that “the system is broken”, but that is far from the truth.
The system is deliberately ‘broken’, unless of course you owe an alleged debt to state authorities or the taxation department.
Make no mistake that the system is not broken, but rather it’s functioning quite perfectly, the way they have intended it to.
A global deception that is going around at the moment in the ‘online’ world is something called ‘age-verification’ where the authorities allege that it’s in place so that the children (of the cannon fodder) are protected.
The uncomfortable reality is that governments do not care about the children of the slaves, but rather about controlling and monitoring society with this latest farce.
With regards to internet traffic, Australia has all sorts of DNS filters, firewalls, etc which moderate what content people can see or comes into Australia.
You may not be able to 'consume' content under DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act, US law), but corporations are allowed to 'steal' your (copyrighted) content.
Phishing emails like the one shown below can also be stopped with a simple ban of the domain name within the email.
So why isn't it done?
Because realistically, the people in government do not give a stuff about the serf's trials and tribulations.
As long as the people in government are looked after, is all that matters at the end of the business day.
AS many (European) nations ditch the 'surveillance state' products that emanate from the head of the Five Eyes snake, many others are locked in to feed the beast.
If a nation that governs approximately 70 million people can abandon closed source data hoovering monopolised operating system, there is no technical reason why fascist rulers governing a colony of approximately 28 million tax slaves cannot do the same.
The real reason is political, where the lawmakers, politicians, bureaucrats are not "public servants", but rather corporate whores, subservient to 'Big Tech', Big Pharma, Big (Four) Banks, et al.
The Australian population/serfs/plebs are nothing more than another 'resource' to be fully exploited.
Australian governments are putting the people's data/privacy in danger since all that data goes to Microsoft where we do not know where else it goes and who they sell it to.
See the following article from pcmag.com of the title:
France Kicks Windows to the Curb, Pivots to Linux OS
David Amiel, France’s Minister of Public Action and Accounts, said his country must 'break free' and 'become less reliant on American tools.'
Amid strained relationships between the Trump administration and the EU, numerous politicians in the bloc have discussed pivoting away from US technology firms in the interests of national security, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Now, France has announced it’s moving some of its government systems away from Windows towards the open-source operating system Linux, following Denmark and parts of Germany announcing similar departures from Microsoft products earlier this year.
David Amiel, France’s Minister of Public Action and Accounts, said his country must “break free” and “become less reliant on American tools.”
“We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, and our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control,” Amiel said in a statement first spotted by TechCrunch.
Linux, as it is open source, means you can run software without using an OS controlled and designed by an American firm—for example, Apple or Microsoft, as in the case of iOS and Windows. France’s government digital agency, DINUM, will be the first to make the jump, with other parts of government following at a later date.
The news comes after France announced it would be migrating its national healthcare database from US-based providers to an unnamed new platform earlier this month. It’s also set to pivot from using Microsoft Teams for video conferencing to the French-made tool Visio across all government departments.
Independence from US tech enjoys broad support in much of the EU. Around two-thirds of EU citizens support greater independence from American technology, according to recent market research from YouGov, particularly in areas like data storage and video conferencing. However, roughly four in ten thought independence was unrealistic.
In January, a clear majority of European lawmakers voted to adopt a report on technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure that directs the European Commission to find ways to reduce its reliance on foreign technology providers in areas like semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, software, and AI systems.
If you truly value your online privacy, then you would not use Microsoft's products.
"WhatsApp is also not truly secure, no matter what Meta tells you"
NEVER forget the the creep Zuckerberg LIES to an authority (Congress) so why should he not lie to his 'products' you know the people that use his platforms.
Australia has become an absolute shithole now, where this is as a result of a few decades of actions by both federal & state Liberal and Labor 'governments'.
Quite simply put the fascists in control HATE the Australian public, taxpayers, voters or constituents.
Stagflation is the order of the business years.
So what does the government do?
It imports 500,000 Indian nationals alone into the colony per year (for 10 years) to falsely prop up the 'economy'.
Aussies are going to be screwed with a 'government' created recession.
In reality the people in charge must be razed to the ground and a new 'administration' installed, in a similar manner to Israel's oops Frump's new regime change in 'Eye'ran.
Meta
funneled over $2 billion through shadowy nonprofits to push age
verification laws that would force Apple and Google to build
surveillance infrastructure into every device, while exempting Meta’s
own platforms from the same requirements.
Meta’s
lobbying operation spans 45 states using nonprofit shells to avoid
transparency requirements, with funding traced through organizations
like the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA) as part of a $70 million
fragmented super PAC strategy designed to evade FEC tracking.
Proposed
age verification laws would embed persistent identity verification
directly into operating systems, with Meta’s Horizon OS for Quest VR
already implementing this infrastructure and lobbying efforts targeting
Meta’s competitors while leaving Meta platforms untouched.
A Reddit researcher just exposed how Meta funneled over $2 billion through shadowy nonprofits to push age verification laws that would force Apple and Google to build surveillance infrastructure into every device—while conveniently exempting Meta’s own platforms from the same requirements.
Following the Money Trail Through Dark Networks
Meta’s lobbying operation spans 45 states using nonprofit shells to avoid transparency requirements.
The investigation by GitHub user “upper-up” traces funding through organizations like the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA), which launched December 18, 2024, and testified for Utah’s SB-142 just days later. Bloomberg and Deseret News reported Meta’s backing of DCA, part of a $70 million
fragmented super PAC strategy designed to evade FEC tracking.
Traditional election spending disclosure requirements don’t apply to
this fragmented approach.
What ‘Get Age Category API’ Really Means for Your Device
Proposed laws would embed persistent identity verification directly into operating systems.
The technical reality hits harder than policy abstractions. These bills mandate OS-level APIs that apps can query for age data—creating a permanent identity layer baked into your phone’s core functions. Meta’s Horizon OS
for Quest VR already implements this infrastructure through Family
Center controls. Now they want Apple and Google to build similar systems
that every app can access, turning age verification into persistent
device fingerprinting.
The Curious Case of Platform Exemptions
Age verification bills target Meta’s competitors while leaving Meta platforms untouched.
Here’s
where the lobbying gets surgical. The proposed laws hammer Apple’s App
Store and Google Play with compliance requirements but reportedly spare
social media platforms—Meta’s core business. It’s like Spotify lobbying
for streaming regulations that only apply to Apple Music. The “child
safety” rhetoric masks a competitive strategy that shifts liability from
platforms to operating system makers.
Europe Shows a Different Path Forward
EU’s eIDAS 2.0 offers privacy-preserving age verification with zero-knowledge proofs that protect personal data.
The European Union’s Digital Identity Wallet takes a radically different approach. Zero-knowledge proofs
let you verify age without revealing personal data—like showing you’re
over 18 without disclosing your birthdate or identity details. It’s
open-source, self-hostable, and only applies to large platforms while
exempting FOSS and small entities. Meanwhile, US lawmakers seem ready to
let Meta bamboozle them into complete privacy annihilation.
Your
device’s trustworthiness hangs in the balance. These laws could force
every Linux distribution and privacy-focused Android fork to implement
identity verification or face legal liability. The choice between
surveillance-free computing and regulatory compliance is coming faster
than you think.
This is huge news, that the time of this post, it's not covered by Australia's mainstream media.
For your benefit, realistically do not rely on Information Technology news by Australian 'news' outlets, but rather refer to trusted specific sources.
Approximately 12 million Australians are affected.
What Personal Data Was Leaked?
Because IDMerit is an AI-powered KYC (Know Your Customer, a government requirement fro U.S. telecomms)
provider, the data it collects is incredibly sensitive. The unsecured
1-terabyte database didn't just leak passwords—it leaked the core
personal identifiers used for your financial and digital life. The
following structured data was left open for anyone to download:
Full names
Addresses
Post codes
Dates of birth
National IDs
Phone numbers
Genders
Email addresses
Telco metadata
Breach status and social profile annotations
The last data point – breach status and social profile annotations
– could refer to a database identifier indicating whether the data
originated from a data breach or a leaked database. However, at this
point, the true meaning of the data point is unclear. The team noted
that this specific data point was present only in some regions.
“At this scale, downstream risks include account takeovers,
targeted phishing, credit fraud, SIM swaps, and long-tail privacy harms.
Industry-wide, the case underlines how third-party identity vendors
have become critical infrastructure and can become single points of
catastrophic failure,” our team explained.
MANY of the colony’s party officials that are in office are not elected democratically by the people, but rather decided in house which one of them would be a better corporate whore.
With regards to Victoria, it is truly irrelevant which premier puppet is on display whether it’s Labor’s Jacinta Allan, Daniel Andrews or the Liberals’ Denis Napthine or ‘Ted’ Ballieu, the most important room in the building is the one the politicians or staff aren’t allowed to talk about that is the ‘blue room’.
This masthead was informed under the condition of anonymity, that what is in store for Victoria over a period that exceeds the tenure of a premier is decided by ‘faceless men’, the men that truly run the nation and states.
Nothing gets done unless it's passed by members of the 'blue room', said the source.
It is what they decide that happens not only within the state but what is coordinated by their brethren in similar positions in other states is what will be executed over the years that follow.
Whether it’s new law they have waiting, for a particular trigger moment to occur that will oppress the people to town planning or infrastructure projects and who will benefit from the falsified tenders to immigration arrivals, even though they are a federal task, they still are discussed at state level.
The 'housing crisis' is a deliberate political move to cause turmoil and financial harm for the good people of Australia that will have a generational effect.
The people are truly conned if they believe that they have voted for a person that will serve them.
These politicians only take actions that are of benefit to them, where one of the goals is to fleece from the public purse as much as possible, where even if whatever is classified as ‘too much’ will not incur any consequences.
Australia’s governments are some of the most corrupt in the world, where currently Victoria’s ‘Big Build’ is just one example of this government supported fraud.
Australia’s governments are all about creating more customers.
Creating more 'consumers' and importing more useless eaters, where that subject is beyond the scope of this article.
What could go 'wrong', right?
Well, banks and financial institutions do factually commit offences and breach various Australian law, but they’re allowed to get away with it as seen within the Royal Commission, which at the end of the day was a ‘money for mates’ farce at the expense of the Australian Taxpayers.
Another action banks do, is aggregate your information, package it up, and sell it many times over.
If you ‘tap on’ and ‘tap off’ with your bank issued credit or debit card, then the bank will know your movements, package up this data and again, sell it many times over.
If you truly value your privacy, and therefore security you will not use your card or even phone with its virtual card for myki related travel.
In any event, that will just be another database which hackers will be able to eventually access and use it for whatever purpose they see fit.
The question is not ‘if’ but rather ‘when’ will your data get hacked?
Corporations lie to their stakeholders, users and the general population every single day.
Google has recently been lying on a global scale and there is zero repercussions.
There are a few ways into interact on the internet which can be summed up as either an active user or a passive one.
Let’s start with the passive example first.
A person can be the recipient of a TikTok/Instagram/YouTube link where it can be opened up in a web browser such as Brave/FireFox/Chromium without that person having to log in that corporation’s platform.
At that point in time that person cannot interact with the poster or community by writing a comment or even give a thumbs up to whatever was shown, where that person is also known as a ‘lurker’.
Since no interaction can be made, that person cannot allegedly be a danger to the community, as the community is not aware that the person even exists.
Now, if a person is logged in to TikTok/Facebook/YouTube then that person can post content that may not be safe for work, or even exercising one’s right to (alleged) ‘free speech’ by criticising a government’s new agenda or the passing of an unlawfully enacted law.
Those comments may then have to be moderated in order to allegedly ‘protect’ that online community.
So now Google (via Youtube) claims that when you are lurking on their platform, you could be a bot, implying that you could hurt the community, and when you log in “this helps protect our community”.
Quite simply put, no it does not! That is a blatant lie.
When will people wake up to the lies and deception by corporations.
It’s NOT about protecting their ‘community’ but rather surveillance capitalism, keeping in mind that Google is one of the world’s largest advertising data harvesting corporations, where they need to you log in to their platform so that they can sell you (the product) to others.
Who is "our community"? The people working for Google or the people using their platforms?
