What they're not telling you: The media has not informed us about the Flock cameras, age verification acts etc. that are happening in North America. There is very little discussion about EU's chat control and age verification schemes as well..
# THE TAKE: Your Ignorance Wasn't Accidental The mainstream press didn't *fail* to cover Flock's automated plate readers or the EU's Chat Control directive—they actively deprioritized it. These aren't obscure stories. Flock operates in 2,000+ U.S. jurisdictions. Chat Control would mandate client-side scanning on encrypted messengers. The silence is structural. Reddit's /r/privacy became your news source because traditional outlets answer to advertising networks that depend on surveillance capitalism's infrastructure. They profit from the same systems they'd need to adequately critique. Age verification acts? Those create permanent digital identities—infrastructure for future control layers. Technical specificity matters. These aren't privacy concerns in abstract. They're architectural decisions with irreversible downstream effects. Stop treating ignorance as a discovery. Start asking why your paid information gatekeepers let you remain uninformed.
What the Documents Show
Please, share news of your local developments too. The accelerating transformation of democracies to mass surveillance police states seems to be.
Primary Sources
- Source: r/privacy
- Category: Surveillance State
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