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Every time an app serves you an ad, it broadcasts your location into an ecosystem that surveillance vendors harvest and resell. Penlink's Webloc system turns that data into three years of tracked movement for ICE, the US Army, and dozens of police departments nationwide.
https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/phone-ads-government-surveillance
Azerbaijan has used Pegasus-grade spyware against its own journalists and activists for years, with zero consequences. Now it is building MIRAS, a permanent national surveillance platform controlled by the State Security Service, set to go live in May 2026
An independent audit of 7,000 websites found Google ignored Global Privacy Control opt-out signals 87% of the time.
EXCLUSIVE: A worker on the Gold Coast was owed $400 in unpaid wages. He asked for three months. His employer stalled. He went hungry waiting.
So he bought a domain for $7 and put up one page documenting exactly what happened.
They paid in full within days.
The site is still up. Still ranking on Google for the company's name.
https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/levit8-wage-theft-website
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ICE framed its use around disrupting "foreign terrorist organizations, particularly those involved in fentanyl trafficking." That framing does familiar work. Fentanyl enforcement is this decade's all-purpose surveillance justification, following the same pattern previously used for terrorism and child protection.
Dragon Boss Solutions LLC shipped a trusted, digitally signed software update that deployed a PowerShell script to kill antivirus tools across 25,000 endpoints. Windows Defender was not bypassed accidentally. The payload specifically added exclusions to ensure future malware would not be detected.
https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/dragon-boss-bypassed-windows-defender
Microsoft encrypted the Recall database after the original TotalRecall exposed it. A new tool found a side entrance that bypasses the vault entirely.
The FBI is putting $36 million on the table for nationwide license plate reader data through a commercial database, splitting the country into six surveillance zones.
https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/fbi-license-plate-readers-nationwide
FISA Section 702 was sold as a foreign surveillance tool. It captures Americans' communications too, and Congress just extended it without adding a single warrant requirement.
Seguritech operates over 188 command centers across 26 Mexican states, integrating cameras, drones, and facial recognition into a cross-border intelligence-sharing arrangement with US agencies.
https://www.blackoutvpn.io/blog/seguritech-mexico-surveillance-us-agencies