🚨 JANTAR MANTAR IS A PROTEST SITE, NOT A DIGITAL OPEN-AIR PRISON! 🛑
Delhi Police has stationed Facial Recognition Vans to live-scan peaceful protesters. They are harvesting biometrics and extracting personal data on the spot—and we have three direct questions for the administration:
❌ UNDER WHAT LAW IS THIS LEGAL?
Supreme Court ruled that Privacy is a Fundamental Right (Puttaswamy case). Mass-scanning citizens exercising their legal right to protest is unconstitutional.
📂 WHERE IS THIS DATA COMING FROM?
How are these AI systems identifying youth live on site? Are national databases, Aadhaar records, and public registries being illegally cross-matched to turn citizens into targets?
⚠️ HOW WILL THIS DATA BE WEAPONISED?
Who stores these facial scans? How long will they be kept? Are secret registries being built to shadow-ban, intimidate, and target students for demanding accountability?
Appalling violence against an unarmed, youth-led civil disobedience movement in India.
Peaceful protestors were challenging the broken education system under the Modi government. They were met with tear gas and baton charges.
Solidarity with those demanding justice.
Watching India's Gen Z over the past few days has filled me with hope.
They have looked after strangers like family, shared food and water, cleaned and swept their own protest sites, cared for the elderly, sung Jana Gana Mana and songs of hope together, stayed disciplined under immense provocation, quietly kept the movement alive through countless acts of selfless service and reminded us the courage can be peaceful.
To their parents, I offer my deepest respect for raising compassionate, responsible and courageous citizens. India owes you a debt of gratitude.
If this is the generation we have raised, India's future is in safe hands.
Indian Gen Z... you are not just the future of this country. You are role models to the world. 🇮🇳❤️
We're receiving multiple reports of students being randomly picked up from the streets while heading to or returning from Jantar Mantar and being detained.
We urge Delhi Police to stop these arbitrary detentions and the harassment of young students. Joining peaceful protest movement is not a crime.
Irrespective of the different views taken by different sections of the people, the act of stepping down (by the Education Minister) will certainly defuse the situation
idk why nobody protests against police brutality in India.
We badly need police reforms, but nobody seems to give a fuck about it.
Everyone just accepts the ugly reality that police can assault any random civilian like an animal and get away with it like it’s nothing.
No mainstream media covered it. So GenZ became the media. No political party supported it. So GenZ built their own party. No celebrity spoke up. So GenZ made the content go viral without them. This generation genuinely do not need permission from institutions that have already failed. That is just core problem solving.
Update: We are working on a follow-up to the LG story and have some disturbing findings re: LG's products. It will take us a while to parse everything and we have involved multiple security researchers, lawyers (working on reading around 40,000 words of LG agreements that are, generally, terrifying in scope), and network experts, but will have an update for you all as soon as we can finalize collecting all of the information and parsing. There is a lot for us to crawl through (and I'm also already up to thousands of dollars in LG product purchases, but each one peels back another layer of the enshittified onion). This will be a fairly large research piece and will take time, but is also the worst I've seen so far in this 'genre' of product and agreements.