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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious

Though age verification mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship and surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk. Don’t believe it? Learn more here: EFF.org/Age

Mark Carney’s AI agenda is a gift to Big Tech ⋆ The Breach The Liberal government is charging ahead with the technology despite mounting evidence of harm for workers, vulnerable groups, and public services

The message of Canada’s first-ever Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and lack of interest in regulating AI industry should cause alarm!

OPSEU/SEFPO’s Coalition of Racialized Workers, Provincial Young Workers Committee, Rainbow Alliance arc-en-ciel and Indigenous Circle will be hosting The Global March to Gaza, Firsthand Experiences & Stories Webinar on July 16, 2025, at 7:30pm.

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The Global March to Gaza (Experiences & Stories)
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Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools. AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.

AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.

UpScrolled is live. The Instagram alternative that’s actually on your side. You can now download UpScrolled. The new place to speak up, share your work, share your life and actually be seen. If you’ve been waiting for a real alternative to Instagram, this is it. Why we neede...

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How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state President Trump and his former star advisor, Elon Musk, have accelerated the deployment of a vast technological infrastructure that monitors the lives of millions of people. The system is focusing on ...

If we don't pay attention and fight back, Canada is next.

The Great White North: Canada’s New Border Bill Appeases the Trump Administration | TechPolicy.Press Petra Molnar argues that Canada’s Strong Borders Act expands surveillance and threatens refugee rights to appease the Trump Administration's demands.

On Canada Day, a reflection on the Strong Borders Act, a draconian new bill that tries to appease the Trump administration, while harkening back to Canada’s historically exclusionary immigration policies

The Great White North, indeed
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AI is fuelling a new wave of border vigilantism in the US A new AI app pays civilians to track people crossing the border – no training, no oversight, no rules.

ICERAID is a new platform that offers crypto rewards for border vigilantism.

It is a clear reflection of a broader system – one that criminalises migration, rewards suspicion, and expands enforcement through private tech and public fear.

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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

Mattel and OpenAI have partnered up. Here's why parents should be concerned about AI in toys Mattel may seem like an unchanging, old-school brand. Most of us are familiar with it—be it through Barbie, Fisher-Price, Thomas & Friends, Uno, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, MEGA or Polly Pocket...

Are the parents understanding the implications of the AI toys and games? Is the lack of AI legislation intentional?

Listen to Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon Discuss Their New Book: "Immigration Detention Inc." Immigrant detention is at record highs and the Trump admin wants nearly $50 billion to expand detention capacity. A new book provides critical information about who profits from detention.

Listen to Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon Discuss Their New Book: "Immigration Detention Inc."

The Trump admin wants nearly $50B to expand detention. A new book provides critical information about who profits from detention.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us for a virtual conversation with Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon, authors of the powerful new book "Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants." As Congress…

Please join Nancy Hiemstra, Deirdre Conlon, and myself for a public discussion of their powerful new book "Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants" TOMORROW at 1pm eastern. Registration below, please share widely.

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Stephen Miller’s Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir Over a dozen Trump appointees in the White House and Department of Homeland Security have owned stock in the controversial company raising privacy concerns across the political spectrum.

🚨 NEW from me: Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration crackdown, has a financial stake of up to a quarter million dollars in Palantir, a key ICE contractor. Experts cite conflict of interest concerns

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“San Francisco-based AI model company OpenAI is set to develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to work on critical national security and address its issues related to both domains of warfighting and enterprise.”

Tech execs are joining the Army — no grueling boot camp required Tech leaders from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have joined the Army Reserve, bypassing traditional training to chase transformation.

Four top tech execs from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir have just joined the US Army Reserves at the rank of Lt Colonel.

Never has it been clearer that “no one is free until Palestine is free” is not a chant but a warning, as we all stare into the abyss of another world war.

THREAD: With eyes on Israel’s bombing of Iran and its ongoing genocide in Gaza, Israel has completely besieged the West Bank.

Sign the Petition Canada Must Permit Endangered Afghan Women's Rights Activist to Join Toronto Family

Please sign/share: chng.it/TxFDdByN4Y Canada must immediately issue a Temporary Resident Permit to Mohammad Younesi, a 27-year-old Afghan women's rights advocate & torture survivor detained by US immigration. A US court agreed to release him to come to Canada, but Canada refused to allow him in.

FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza says president of genocide scholars Melanie O'Brien, head of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, outlines why Israel has no defence against the charge of genocide in Gaza

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza says president of genocide scholars - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-committing-genocide-gaza-says-top-legal-scholar-melanie-obrien

In the PMs mandate letter, Canada asserts that it will "become much more productive by deploying AI at scale."

As you consider becoming a special AI vendor for government, remember that you will be on a list that includes Palantir, notorious for its links to human rights abuses.

🗓️Countdown is on until #CARFMS2025!

Join us from May 26-29 at @TorontoMet for #CARFMS2025: Canadian, Regional, and International Responses to Forced Migration.

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