Tech & Free Speech
Verizon's 'Free' Pixel 11 Pro Deal Is a Surveillance Contract
They get your data, location, and digital life. You get a phone.
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Tech & Free Speech
Big Tech, censorship, AI.
Tech & Free Speech tracks Big Tech power, censorship, deplatforming, surveillance, and AI — the fight for free speech online and in the public square. Every story ties platform policy to real-world consequences for users and publishers.
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Rape Suspect Tracked on Facebook Live. So Are You.
A fugitive broadcast his own location. The same surveillance grid in his pocket is in yours.
16h ago
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Google Wants $1,000 for the Cure to Its Own Scrolling Addiction
Google built the addiction machine. Now it wants $1,000 for the off switch.
18h ago
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Google Gemini Deep Research: AI Now Reads Your Private Files
Gemini's new feature combs your Gmail, Drive, and files to build reports. Convenient — and a surveillance tool in your pocket.
22h ago
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Zuckerberg Drops $35M on Irish Castle While Meta Censors Americans
Meta's CEO drops $35 million on a feudal Irish estate while his platforms throttle, shadow-ban, and deplatform American voices at home.
22h ago
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Apple, Google News Bury Right-Leaning Outlets; FTC Must Act
A new study reveals major news aggregators promote zero right-leaning outlets, algorithmically silencing half the country.
1d ago
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St. Charles County Axes Flock Cameras After Surveillance Abuse
A county pulled the plug after an employee abused license plate readers, but Flock's AI surveillance empire keeps expanding.
1d ago
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Wall Street Cheers Meta Stock Dip; Main Street Pays Price
Wall Street sees a buying opportunity, but ordinary Americans are left with a tech giant that answers to shareholders, not families.
1d ago
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Meta Censors Speech Precisely, Fails 60% of Kid Safety Features
Zuckerberg's empire censors Americans effortlessly but can't keep predators off Instagram.
1d ago
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American Towns Boot Flock AI Surveillance Cameras
From Texas to Arizona, communities are voting to rip out AI license plate trackers as bipartisan opposition to mass surveillance surges.
1d ago
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Meta Insider Tells Jury: Zuckerberg Culture Made Child Safety Impossible
The company that censors your speech ignored real harm to kids because Zuckerberg didn't want to hear it, a former insider testified.
1d ago
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One Billion Plate Reads a Year: The Surveillance Grid Already Here
Maryland alone logged 271 million scans of law-abiding drivers — and cops are using the same network to stalk exes.
2d ago
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Google Nest Outage Bricks Devices, But The Mics Stay On
A massive outage bricked Nest and Home devices worldwide, but the data pipeline back to Mountain View likely never missed a beat.
2d ago
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29 States vs. Meta: $200 Billion and Veto Power Over Your Feed
29 AGs sue Meta over child safety — but the real play is who controls what every platform must show or hide.
2d ago
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Google Buys Spirit Airlines' Data for $10M to Feed Its AI
Bankrupt airline sold billions of passenger records to Big Tech — and not one customer was asked.
3d ago
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ICE Bans Meta Spy Glasses—But Wants To Build Its Own
The feds admit Zuckerberg's smart glasses are a privacy risk in their own offices. They're right. So why are they building a government version?
3d ago
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Apple Puts Cameras in Your Earbuds, Calls It Innovation
Apple built its brand on privacy. Now it's putting cameras in your earbuds—and making you pay for it.
3d ago
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Google Pulls Pixel From China, Ships Jobs to Vietnam—Not America
The tech decoupling is real, but those jobs are heading to Southeast Asia—not coming home to American workers.
3d ago
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Google Brings People Tracking to Your Wrist via Wear OS
Find People expands to Wear OS smartwatches — handing the search giant another real-time pipeline to your whereabouts
3d ago
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Google Buys Spirit's Dead Data—7.5 Billion Passenger Records Included
Spirit is dead. Your transaction records now belong to an AI giant. Consent was never part of the deal.
4d ago
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Meta Ordered to Pay $1B for Child Exploitation — Appeals Instead of Fixing
Zuckerberg loses in New Mexico, appeals the ruling, and lobbies for immunity while kids pay the price.
4d ago
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Google Maps Offline Mode Proves You Don't Need Big Tech Tracking To Navigate
Two tech writers reached the same conclusion: your tools work better when they stop phoning home to Big Tech.
4d ago
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AI Turns Your Vacation Photos Into a Scammer's Map
Free AI pinpoints your location from a photo 91% of the time—no tags required—and crooks are already using it.
4d ago
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States Target Meta in $1.4 Trillion Child Addiction Trial
The empire that censors parents and pushes ideology now faces the biggest reckoning in tech history for destroying kids' mental health.
4d ago
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- Surveillance and data privacy
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