De|Center
New home of #DesignFromTheMargins methodology. We transform tech & advocate for #TechAccountability to advance justice & human rights.
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- Reposted by De|CenterThe FBI has so far been unable to get into Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s iPhone because it’s using Lockdown Mode — one of my favorite iOS features. You can turn it on for iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS too! www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
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- Reposted by De|CenterICE and CBP agents are out of control and put everyone in danger. We're calling for ICE agents to withdraw from Minneapolis, and for Congress to rein in ICE’s abuses in our communities.
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- We’re proud to have contributed to this work. HRW has worked tirelessly to verify digital evidence of mass killings in Iran. “Thousands of protesters and bystanders are believed to have been killed, while severe communication restrictions conceal the true scale of atrocities.”
- Iran’s security forces have carried out mass killings after protests escalated on January 8. Despite a nationwide internet shutdown, Human Rights Watch has been able to verify videos and gather witness accounts. Read now: bit.ly/3YIRtW0
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- If corrupt authorities derive power through generalizing masses of people into faceless mobs, then the antidote is to continue to give them voices, faces, lived experiences. #decenter #designfromthemargins 🔐
- Reposted by De|CenterNow seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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- #TransDayofRemembrance Incredibly important thread remembering some of the trans siblings whose lives were taken from us in 2024. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living ✊🏽 #TDOR #Translivesmatter
- Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
- Reposted by De|CenterHarming trans kids - using art to capture the impacts of the Sussex ICB investigation on trans adolescents and families. Please read and share. The art is not mine - the artist wishes to remain anonymous. growinguptransgender.com/2025/11/19/h...
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- Reposted by De|CenterYou probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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- Umm… no thanks. Secure and private for who, @appleinsider.com? Not for the millions living under expanding authoritarian surveillance. Another case of convenience masking #surveillance creep.
- 🚨 Do not hand your unlocked phone to law enforcement 🚨 Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience” #privacy #digitalID
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- We're here at #mozfest and will be speaking about biometrics and the use of bodies as passwords on Sunday Nov. 9, 2:45-3:45 GMT+1. "“FaceID(ictator): Authoritarians Love Biometrics. We Don’t.” We look forward to collaborating with many of you. #designfromthemargins #dfm
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- We’re seeing a growing trend: biometric locks being added to privacy tech and features, framed as “extra security” Join our #MozFest session where we’ll push back, showing how this actually makes tech less private & less secure. FaceID(ictator): Authoritarians Love Biometrics. We Don’t. mzf.st/142
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[Not loaded yet] - “Every participant who was detained by authorities & had biometrics enabled, said they were violently forced to unlock their phone. […]” The research is clear: those with biometrics lost the power to resist device searches. Only using passcodes had some ability to refuse, delay, or obscure access.
- Convenience is costing people their freedom. We found that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable forced phone access by police and authorities. Plus, companies that brand themselves with user privacy are contributing to the normalization of constant bodily data capture and surveillance.
- People in crisis (war, conflict, repression) are often forced to use the same tools that exploit them, which creates structural dependence by design. Afsaneh Rigot argues that we need to reclaim hyper-accessibility for the public good. 🔐 #dfm #decenter
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- Millions in crisis rely on ubiquitous tools that betray them: from social media to Starlink. The deeper shock is when secure tools also exclude them through everyday hurdles like phone verification. In order to have real alternatives, we must reclaim hyper-accessibility. 🔐
- Reposted by De|CenterIsrael bombed an Evin, an Iranian prison that housed dissidents and political prisoners. They ended up destroying the trans wing and murdering over 100 trans people incarcerated there, many for simply being queer in Iran. This is unspeakable evil. archive.ph/PA2n5
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- Reposted by De|CenterRepublicans just took away your healthcare so they can fund their secret police: newrepublic.com/post/197612/...
- Reposted by De|CenterIf the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.
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- Israel’s genocide in Gaza. War in Lebanon. Now Iran — as the US circles in. AI weapons fuel this — tested on Gazans, expanded to Iran, used by ICE. Powered by companies like Palantir & OpenAI. It’s a war on us all! #STOPTHEWAR #NoTechForApartheid #NoTechForICE Photo @alexshams.bsky.social
- “the world needs more courage, not less. It needs people who choose justice over convenience. […] Loving you is not separate from the struggle for liberation. It is liberation itself. I fight for you, and for every Palestinian child whose life deserves safety, tenderness and freedom.”
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- “A poem by a young Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighbourhood of Tehran.” www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...
- Our struggles are connected: Palestinians, migrants in LA, families in Tehran, queer folks in Cairo, or Sudanese refugees. The decentered are policed, surveilled, criminalized. Same tools. Same logic. Different uniforms. Identify the decentered, expose the system, break its power. 🔏 1/3
- From a queer person in Cairo to a Latino man in LA, the decentered are groups that are marginalized — and then also criminalized — for their mere existence. In our upcoming report, we speak to the decentered from all over the world, and the language of experimentation colors what many of them say. 🔐
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