National Face Database - Why New South Wales is Scanning Every Driver's Face

See (11m28s) video by Tech Win Cyber of the title:

Why New South Wales Is Scanning Every Driver's Face

The next stage of the Orwellian dystopia is upon us.

Enjoy your freedom to breathe air, for now.

That's life in the FiveEyes (penal) colony.

Google Serving You Brain Rot AI Slop!

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

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSZWxjeua3g)

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. 

Viva la ‘Free’ World.

Retailer’s con job for tying your phone number to warranty.

Today we live in world that revolves around big data, as it’s more valuable than gold.

One of the problems that many people are ignorant of is; how is that data handled, where does it go, and how is it secured?

Because eventually [meaning when and not if] your data will be compromised, where your personal details will make it on the deep web.

Retailers like Harvey Norman and JB Hi-Fi, con you into giving them your phone number for ‘warranty purposes’.

That implies that if you do not hand over your phone number you will not receive a warranty on the product.

Name, phone number and email address are important parameters in order to dox your person.

They will tell you that they ‘require’ those details, but you do not have to provide them with those details, where in fact there is no such subsection in Australia’s Consumer law directing you to do so.

It is through the general population’s ignorance and compliance to corporate lies, that is paving way to a dystopian society.

Pretty close to every single cashier at every transaction at HN or JB will ask for your phone number.

For more information, see Business Reform's Stop Giving Everyone Your Real Phone Number :

or Naomi Brockwell's : They Asked for My Cell Number. I Don’t Have One.

Migration Tracker - A City Larger Than Hobart EVERY YEAR

In the United States of America a study was done into a city the (population) side of what Melbourne was a couple of decades ago where it was found that an importation of people more than 700 per week was unsustainable, from an infrastructure/resources point of view.

In Australia, at that time the authorities were allowing immigration from abroad to the tune of approx. 2,500 corporate fodder into Melbourne, alone.

 See: https://www.reviveaus.com/tracker

The authorities have caused austerity on the good people of Australia, by over populating the colony with low quality humans that are of little benefit to Australian society in general, where as a result crime has exponentially risen due to the low quality imports.

 Source:supplied

WHEN PRIVACY IS A CRIME: US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

A memorial to Manuel Terán, also known as Tortuguita,

a Cop City protester who was killed by police in January 2023.

The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City because he had GrapheneOS on his phone, an open-source operating system that enables users to enter a passcode and wipe a phone clean.

The case, which had its first hearing on Monday, centers on a little-known US federal statute that makes it a crime to destroy property in an effort to prevent it from being seized.

Experts said it may be the first time the law has been aimed at the operating system, which works on Google Pixel phones, and expressed concerns about a technology created for privacy and security being used to criminalize protesters.

“It’s concerning – and sends the message that [GrapheneOS] is criminal by default,” said Christophe Boutry, a cybersecurity and surveillance expert. Boutry and Bill Buddington, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, both said they had not seen a similar case.

The defendant, Sam Tunick, was stopped for interrogation at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport on 24 January last year, after vacationing in the Dominican Republic. Unbeknown to him, federal authorities had put him on a terrorism watchlist because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City.

Opposition to the $109m police training center, which opened last spring, came from a wide range of local and national organizations and protesters, centered on concerns around police militarization and clearing forests in an era of climate crisis. Atlanta police said the center was needed for “world-class” training and to attract new officers.

Several state attempts to prosecute Cop City protesters have foundered in the last several years, while this is the second recent federal effort, after the justice department announced another indictment last month.

The case began shortly after Tunick got off a plane in Atlanta, returning from a vacation spent whale-watching and enjoying nature on a friend’s boat. He did not know that a homeland security agent had circulated an email three hours before. The email contained Tunick’s name and photo and indicated he was being investigated for “suspected terrorism activities”. It was sent to agents on the Customs and Border Patrol tactical terrorism response team and an FBI Atlanta joint-terrorism taskforce officer.

When Tunick arrived in Atlanta, an agent took him to a room with a table, several chairs and a camera and microphone, and several agents began a “secondary inspection”. But all their questions were centered on child sexual abuse images.

These and other details were revealed in Monday’s hearing, held for a judge to hear testimony on a motion filed by Tunick’s federal public defenders, asking the court to suppress all evidence the agents obtained, including the erasure of the phone’s contents after he gave them a passcode, due to violations of his constitutional rights.

The interrogation, including the questions about child sexual abuse images, was “a pretext for a fishing expedition into Mr Tunick’s connections” to the movement against Cop City, according to the motion.

Tunick asked four times during the interrogation to speak with a lawyer, but was rebuffed each time, according to courtroom testimony. Additionally, the agents produced no warrant and did not read Tunick his rights.

But a justice department attorney and the airport agents testifying on Monday asserted Tunick was merely subjected to an everyday interrogation at an international airport, “looking for anything that’s prohibited”, as Larry Findley, a CBP officer, said.

Agent Findley and several others repeatedly asked Tunick to open his phone during the interrogation, telling him they would seize it if he did not. When he finally provided a passcode, “the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart”, according to the motion.

The motion filed on Tunick’s behalf draws into focus the question of which constitutional rights apply and which ones are suspended at national borders, including international airports.

A judge’s decision on the motion will take at least until end of October.

Marlon Kautz, a member of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, said: “We all have a right to secure our private data against unconstitutional searches. And we should – especially in a time of rising authoritarianism.”

Meanwhile, Boutry, who lives in France, said Tunick’s case was of a piece with tendencies in France and Spain, where authorities have been frustrated in attempts to gain access to the phones of journalists, lawyers and political opponents due to GrapheneOS.

In Catalonia, Spain, police have been profiling people with Google Pixel phones, assuming they have GrapheneOS installed and are drug dealers or gang members.

At the same time, Boutry said, the “main goal [of the operating system] is protection of privacy”.

“They’re our phones and the state can’t tell us how to use them.”

Source:The Guardian

Corporations DICTATE how we communicate on the internet.

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.

Apple conning you that iPhones need to verify your age in the UK.

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.

Ontario police using spyware to take over your phone, fighting to keep almost everything about it secret

The police use of ODITs is so secret that police forces have signed agreements to drop serious criminal investigations rather than reveal the name of their vendor.

The Joint Technical Assistance Centre (JTAC) makes local police and prosecutors agree not to disclose key details of the so-called ODITs. JTAC is a collaboration of the OPP, Toronto Police Service, Peel Regional Police, York Regional Police, Durham Regional Police and Ottawa Police Service. Led by the OPP.

When police in Windsor began looking into an alleged international auto‑theft ring in late 2022, they turned to familiar investigative techniques.

Some officers went undercover, others conducted long hours of surveillance, while the courts gave police permission to hide a tracking device in the alleged ringleader’s car and to intercept his cellphone location.

Within a few months, cellphone data placed the main suspect’s phone near 23 car thefts, sometimes hours apart. Yet, police never caught him actually stealing any vehicles.

Up to this point, it was an investigation like many others — but the police believed it wasn’t enough.

In April 2023, Ontario Provincial Police and Windsor Police Service asked a judge for something far more intrusive: authorization to wiretap phones, plant audio probes in homes and vehicles, and to secretly deploy what law enforcement calls “on‑device investigative tools,” or ODITs. Far more than a simple wiretap, these allow police to not just intercept calls, but to directly hack into a target’s phone or computer to extract everything from call logs and photos to encrypted messages, and more.

Essentially spyware, an ODIT can grant almost unlimited access. Investigators can capture screenshots, monitor keypresses, access emails and text messages — including those that are encrypted — and even remotely activate microphones and cameras. All without the owner knowing.

By August, police announced 23 arrests, 279 charges, and more than $9 million in recovered vehicles.

But the case has also done something else: It has pulled back the curtain on how police forces in Ontario — not just in Windsor, but in Toronto and Peel Region — are now using these powerful technologies to reach deep inside suspects’ devices. And despite ODITs growing use in major prosecutions in the province, government lawyers and police are fighting tooth and nail to keep almost everything about them secret: how they work; what safeguards, if any, govern their use; even the names of the companies that sell them.

The secrecy around the tool is so extreme that the Crown may abandon the prosecution rather than reveal the vendor’s identity and details of the ODITs capabilities and limitations, according to a court document filed in Windsor Superior Court. 

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association says the lack of openness is troubling.

“If police want to make the case that use of spyware is justified, they need to do this in a transparent manner that fully explains the details and level of intrusiveness of the tool,” Tamir Israel, the CCLA’s director of privacy, surveillance and technology, wrote in an email in response to the Star’s questions. 

If the secrecy makes it impossible for police to provide the information courts need to assess these tools, “then these tools are inappropriate for police investigations, and police should not be using them.”

The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario — which has previously raised alarms about police use of artificial intelligence, facial recognition technology and genetic genealogy — shares the concern and says the office is “closely monitoring” ODITs in terms of technical capacity, privacy risks, guardrails and ongoing court cases where their use is involved.

Given the privacy and security risks, “it is critical that police adopt and apply an appropriate transparency and accountability framework,” the privacy commissioner’s office said in a statement. 

How Ontario police are using ODITs

On Tuesday, a highly secretive court case involving the use of ODITs is set to resume in Brampton, where prosecutors are fighting to keep details about the spyware under wraps.

Most of the court documents in the opium-smuggling investigation are under seal, pretrial arguments have been held behind closed doors, and the judge’s 146-page decision relating to ODIT-related disclosure remains under a publication ban — at least for now.

The type of ODIT used in both the Windsor and Brampton cases has been “shrouded in secrecy,” defence lawyers Kim Schofield and Miranda Brar wrote in their factum filed in Ontario Superior Court in the Windsor case. Although based in Toronto, the lawyers also represent some of the accused in Project Fairfield, the name of the Windsor vehicle theft investigation.

Schofield and Brar are challenging the constitutionality of the ODIT warrant, saying police did not release volumes of related information to the authorizing judge, nor did they tell him such documentation even existed. They also didn’t tell the judge about the agreement between the police and the Crown to end the prosecution in the event the court orders them to disclose the identity of the ODIT vendor.

This “novel technique” demands “scrutiny and fully informed judicial oversight,” Schofield and Brar write in their filings, arguing they need these details to ensure there was no infringement of their clients’ constitutional rights.

They’re also arguing the warrant is invalid. Police obtained a general warrant when they should have requested a search warrant — hacking into a phone to seize data is essentially a search of the device, they argue.

The CCLA’s Israel says that because police in Ontario appear to be using commercial spyware tools, the public absolutely needs to know whether the currently secret vendor can see, store or access any of the data being collected.

“A court needs to understand the full scope of how the tool is going to operate if it’s going to fully assess its impact,” he wrote.

“This capability is among the most intrusive in terms of the detailed window it can open into any individual’s life and in a democratic society.”

He noted that regimes around the world lacking strong human rights protections have misused spyware tools to spy on political dissidents, journalists, civil society groups, political opponents and others in their home countries and around the world, including Canada.

Why so secret?

In court documents reviewed by the Star, the Public Prosecution Service of Canada says that, like other police techniques, details about how the spyware works must be kept secret if revealing them would compromise future investigations. The accused still gets full access to the evidence gathered — just not the technical play‑by‑play of how police obtained it, the Crown argues.

If disclosure “results in the police no longer having access to an effective technological tool that allows it to intercept communications, then that will have a profound impact on public safety and the ability of the police to do their job,” they write.

In the separate Brampton case, Schofield, Brar and lawyers Leora Shemesh and Michael Little are representing three brothers charged in connection with opium smuggling. They all declined to comment as their cases are before the court.

Dubbed Project Vegas, the Crown’s case against the accused drug dealers relies almost entirely on ODIT-derived messages. Defence lawyers are demanding access to the tool’s manuals, configuration details and vendor information, arguing it’s the only way they can make a full answer and defence.

The Windsor court documents indicate that federal prosecutors in Brampton have refused to release more than 140 documents related to the ODIT, citing Section 37 of the Canada Evidence Act. That section allows the Crown to object to disclosure of information on the grounds “of a specified public interest.”

The Windsor court documents reveal ODITs in Ontario are managed by the Joint Technical Assistance Centre (JTAC), a little‑known unit that pools resources from multiple police agencies — the OPP and the local services in Toronto, Ottawa and York, Peel and Durham regions — and is funded by the province.

The court documents say JTAC has a relationship with a private company vendor. But the information is so secret that JTAC is making the Crown and local police sign an agreement to potentially drop major prosecutions rather than reveal the name of the company that made the tool, Brar and Schofield write in their factum. 

Disclosure of sensitive information — including the vendor’s identity, where they’re located, the name of the tool, its capabilities and its technical infrastructure — could impact “relationships with domestic and international partners, and undermine the JTAC’s ability to use the tools and techniques in the future,” reads an “engagement agreement” in the Windsor court documents.

There are a number of reasons why the vendor should be known, Israel argues. “Different companies have different track records when it comes to their data handling practices, their respect for human rights and more,” he writes, crediting the University of Toronto’s Citizen’s Lab for putting information about specific spyware tools and companies in the public domain.

“This is not a tool that police buy and operate themselves, and as a result, you cannot separate the vendor from the tool.”

A parliamentary committee report on the RCMP use of ODITs stated the Mounties have dropped a number of prosecutions rather than reveal key details.

The scrutiny pushed the Mounties, in 2024, to publish a “transparency bulletin” that said ODITs had been used in 32 investigations between 2017 and 2022.

However, in an email responding to the Star’s request for updated information, the RCMP indicated ODITs have only been used in three additional investigations since 2022. “To be clear, ODITs are used extremely rarely and in limited cases,” involving serious criminal and national security investigations, a spokesperson wrote in an email.

They’re also expensive.

A former senior intelligence officer and expert on national security and intelligence told a parliamentary committee that just one operation involving an ODIT “will easily reach half a million dollars. That’s just to make one interception on one target with maybe one device only.”

Source:Toronto Star

With regards to Australia's corrupt police forces, when will this technology be available to them and will the general population be aware of this? 

Google WIPES OUT over 700 videos of Israel's Human Rights abuse in Palestine - Of Course It Does!

"YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations", 4 November 2025

A documentary featuring mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist. Another video revealing Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.

YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos in early October by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with their channels’ archives. The accounts belonged to three prominent Palestinian human rights groups: Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

The move came in response to a U.S. government campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

The Palestinian groups’ YouTube channels hosted hours of footage documenting and highlighting alleged Israeli government violations of international law in both Gaza and the West Bank, including the killing of Palestinian civilians...

After the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants and charged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Secretary Yoav Gallant with war crimes in Gaza, the Trump administration escalated its defense of Israel’s actions by sanctioning ICC officials and targeting people and organizations that work with the court...

“Congress did not intend to allow the president to cut off the flow of information to the American public and the world — instead, information, including documents and videos, are specifically exempted under the statute that the president cited as his authority for issuing the ICC sanctions.”

YouTube...confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.

“Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws,” YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle said in a statement...

Al Mezan... told The Intercept that its YouTube channel was abruptly terminated this year on October 7 without prior notification...

...Al-Haq’s channel was deleted on October 3...with a message from YouTube that its “content violates our guidelines.”...

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which the U.N. describes as the oldest human rights organization in Gaza, said in a statement that YouTube’s move “protects perpetrators from accountability.”...

The three human rights groups’ account terminations cumulatively amount to the erasure of more than 700 videos...

The Al-Haq spokesperson said Mailchimp, the mailing list service, also deleted the group’s account in September. (Mailchimp and its parent company, Intuit, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)...

Source:business-humanrights.org

The EU is Ditching WhatsApp and So Should YOU!

"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.

See report:

TOP REPORT: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.

Never trust what the pervert says, especially when it's to the goyím (né cattle).

Keep in mind that he's a government 'resource' as he's operating under the Five-Eyes 'Anglosphere' surveillance network.

See under 10 minute video from TLDR News EU:

IF you truly value your products, you will not use Meta products, where YOU are the product, how ironic.

Trump's Lies Exposed in a Series of Contradictions.

The old adage; "How do you know a politician is lying? His lips are moving" holds truth in Trump's public appearances.

See a collection of Trump's public appearances where he lies through his teeth to the world, as collated by Jimmy Dore within the video of the title: WATCH: Trump CAN’T STOP Contradicting Himself! , paying attention to Kurt Metzger's comments.

Trump lied on "regime change", day care, medicaid, medicare just to name a few.

With the U.S. and Israel attack on Iran, it's very clear that the US is Israel's soldier.

Hong Kong police can demand phone and computer passwords under amended national security law

Refusing to comply could lead to year in jail and hefty fine, while providing false information carries up to three years in prison

Hong Kong police can now demand that people suspected of breaching the city’s national security law provide mobile phone or computer passwords in a further crackdown on dissent.

The amendments to the law also empower customs officers to seize items that are deemed to have “seditious intention”, regardless of whether any person has been arrested for an offence endangering national security because of the items.

Refusing to comply could lead to up to one year’s jail and a fine of up to HK$100,000 ($12,773), while providing false or misleading information could bring up to three years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to HK$500,000.

The city government on Monday published the amendments to the national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020, using powers to bypass Hong Kong’s legislature. Officials will brief lawmakers on Tuesday, a government statement said.

The sweeping law punishes acts, including subversion and collusion with foreign forces, with up to life imprisonment.

The law sparked criticism from western governments and rights groups but Beijing and Hong Kong officials said it was needed to restore stability after the city was rocked by months of pro-democracy protests in 2019.

The amendments empower police to require a person under investigation suspected of endangering national security to provide any password or decryption method for electronic devices and to give the police “any reasonable and necessary information or assistance”.

Urania Chiu, a law lecturer in the UK researching Hong Kong, said the new provisions interfered with fundamental liberties, including the privacy of communication and the right to a fair trial.

Chiu said: “The sweeping powers given to law enforcement officers without any need for judicial authorisation are grossly disproportionate to any legitimate aim the bylaw purports to achieve.”

A Hong Kong government spokesperson said the amended rules conformed to the city’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, and its human rights provisions, and “will not affect the lives of the general public or the normal operation of institutions and organisations”.

According to the Security Bureau, a total of 386 people have been arrested for national security crimes so far, with 176 people and four companies convicted. The Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to a 20-year jail term in February for collusion with foreign forces and sedition, sparking international criticism.

Source:theguardian

Coming to a colony (e.g. Australia), near you? Why not? We're half way there anyway!

Keeping in mind that Australia is a totalitarian state, and NOT a (purported) democracy.

Meta deletes your personal messages

The online world, or rather the World Wide Web, is a fascist corporatocracy.

If people believe they have a right to ‘free speech’ under an amendment to whatever so called constitution their nation has, this is not the case in the digital world.

Corporations rule and are given free reign over the online serfs/slaves/products.

They and only they can decide what can be not only posted ‘publicly*’ but now privately, where there is little recourse if one has been banned from posting something.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger now deletes content in ‘private’ messages between people.

No it wasn't, it was removed by Meta!

No only does it (Meta) delete the message from the sender but it also deletes the recipient’s message.

The message can as innocuous as a cat video can be, to political satire or a link to a medical article, where ZERO justification is given and the content is removed.

We have entered a new age of slavery, digital slavery that even law makers in the ‘real world’ are upholding. 

TV series Black Mirror seems to be a dystopian documentary series rather than just ‘entertainment’.

IF you value your privacy (and therefore security), Meta products are not recommended to be used.

* IT’s not technically ‘public’ as it exists within the (private) domain of that corporation’s forum/platform

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

Key takeaway points:

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.

Source:supplied

Fuel & Other Shortages, a DELIBERATE 'failure of government'.

Australia has truly either absolute fuckwits or arseholes in charge of this colony.

In any event MANY should be removed from their positions, as they have failed the people.

Australia is one of the most resource rich land masses on the planet, yet it's wealth has been squandered by the morons in charge.

See a video of approx. a dozen minutes by TopherField:

"Australia - the 'Lucky Country'" run by total arseholes. 

or more eloquently put by David Horne as explained in the following post:

TIL calling Australia 'The Lucky Country' was actually intended as an insult, not a compliment.     

Age Verification At Operating System Level, i.e. Windows/Linux

WTF? The authorities are enacting a fascist/Nazi/totalitarian online world and it’s coming to your state or colony soon.

In California and Colorado, law is being put in place that if operating system manufacturers like Microsoft and the various organisations that distribute their own version of Linux want to do business there, they must have an age verification option prior to the user using the operating system, even if the PC is in a closed system, meaning not connected to the internet.

The action for age verification is so that the children (of the cannon fodder) are allegedly protected from harm when interacting with others on the internet, but the real reason is to officially catalogue every person on the internet to their real identity in order to censor ‘free speech’ and to  later punish them for whatever the governments see fit at a later time, e.g. for not liking the colour blue if the government see this as being ‘offensive’.

Operating systems do NOT cause harm to underage children, period, where if there is any allegation that they do, where is the 'white paper' on this topic?

This action just shows the sociopathic or retarded mentality of the lawmakers that are enacting these types of laws.

If there was truly an action to protect the children, then the victims the 'Epstein Files', would have their ('alleged') assailants brought before the courts and incarcerated.

What an absolute clown show!

This is just another farce enacted by the authorities to silence the masses, in order to control and force whatever narrative governments desire.

For more information on this topic see articles:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level

https://itsfoss.com/news/colorado-age-attestation-bill/

How to determine Australian currency is real

Middle Eastern criminal syndicates from Melbourne and Sydney have been involved in the production of counterfeit currency for quite some time, and it seems that there is no stopping them.

Unfortunately the authorities are not doing enough, where the good people are ultimately victims of this highly organised criminal venture.

The new generation of Australian notes shown in the illustration below show that under UV (Ultra Violet) light features birds and flora which currently cannot be replicated in counterfeit currency.

Also, the other side of the notes shows their year of production under UV light as shown in the photo below.

See also a 'counterfeit detection guide' document from the Reserve Bank of Australia which contains information on the first generation of polymer notes:

Google’s false information about 'protecting' its community.

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?

In the same vein as the above question, see link:

What is the first job of a government?

The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever!

Enshittification*.

Google along with others are changing the internet for the worse for the general population.

“Everything becomes a printer” is the most accurate summary of the last decade: 

subscriptions + anti-repair as the new business model.

You will own nothing, and not be happy?

The world is designed for the benefit of corporations and not the 'consumers'.

* See definition:

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-stages-enshittification-academic-publishing.pdf

Australia to use phone monitoring tool like ICE in the US?

Australians are no longer in a democracy but rather under a socialist state.

In many instances you don't have a 'right' to 'free speech', but rather you have to ask for permission to protest.

Image: U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement

Briefly,

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) recently purchased, work. 

Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighbourhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations, according to material that describes how the system works obtained by 404 Media. 

Commercial location data, in this case acquired from hundreds of millions of phones via a company called Penlink, can be queried without a warrant, according to an internal ICE legal analysis shared with 404 Media. 

The purchase comes squarely during ICE’s mass deportation effort and continued crackdown on protected speech, alarming civil liberties experts and raising questions on what exactly ICE will use the surveillance system for. 

This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.

At the end of the day the surveillance on the general population is going to get worse and worse with ZERO oversight.

What's worse, is the people are accepting this.