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Google’s Secret Location Database Exposed: How “Sensorvault” Tracks Billions Just published a new piece in Druthers — “Google’s Secret Location Tracking Database.” In this article, I uncover how Sensorvault, Google’s hidden geolocation system, records billions of movements around the world and fuels the growing surveillance infrastructure behind Digital ID and law enforcement tracking. It’s a deep dive into how our everyday devices are being weaponized against our privacy — and what we can do to take back control. 📘 Read the full article on Druthers — 🫶 @takebackourtech 📩 WEBSITE & NEWSLETTER | 🎥 VIDEOS| XMPP | SUBSTACK

Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams https://sherwood.news/tech/meta-projected-10-of-2024-revenue-came-from-scams-and-banned-goods-reuters/

JUST IN: Google $GOOGL partners with crypto prediction platform Polymarket to integrate directly into search. @WatcherGuru

US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/us-gives-local-police-a-face-scanning-app-similar-to-one-used-by-ice-agents/

Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark/

JUST IN: Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin says "we need open source and verifiable self-driving cars." @WatcherGuru

NEW - Amazon and Google deploy covert "winking mechanism" to notify Israel via coded money transfers when foreign authorities request Israeli data, even if the country issued a gag order preventing them from revealing that they provided such information. Read more: https://www.disclose.tv/id/6nz9boi6hq/ @disclosetv

You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-copilot-in-microsoft-365-apps-bc7e530b-152d-4123-8e78-edc06f8b85f1

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Faces on the Street to Verify Citizenship https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/

NEW - OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly. Read more: https://www.disclose.tv/id/k4bmktdjrx/ @disclosetv

Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes https://theconversation.com/smartphones-manipulate-our-emotions-and-trigger-our-reflexes-no-wonder-were-addicted-265014

🇷🇺 President Putin calls to create more advanced Russian AI. "We can create sovereign AI models, not copy someone else's." In the Web5 future everyone will have their own self hosted AI.

Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/armed-police-swarm-student-after-ai-mistakes-bag-of-doritos-for-a-weapon-3273512/

US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx30vnwd4do

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US national debt reaches new all-time high of $38 trillion. @WatcherGuru

Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws https://www.csoonline.com/article/4074962/foreign-hackers-breached-a-us-nuclear-weapons-plant-via-sharepoint-flaws.html

Fallout from the AWS Outage: Smart Mattresses Go Rogue and Ruin Sleep Worldwide https://quasa.io/media/the-strangest-fallout-from-the-aws-outage-smart-mattresses-go-rogue-and-ruin-sleep-worldwide