By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026From Flock cameras to ICE's use of Google data in its ethnic cleansing campaign, the US government and the commercial surveillance industry have created a public-private partnership from hell. 152 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026It's a partnership where governments refuse to block commercial spying and companies hand their commercial surveillance data over to governments in return. From there, it was a short leap to governments *insisting* that the private sector gather our data. 152 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026That's the right way to think about age verification, chat control, and other mandates for corporations to spy on us using our devices and our accounts: a government requirement for private-sector mass surveillance. 161 0
