💻 Laptop Tracking in Schools

Most of the tracking on school laptops happens through the browser. Every website a student visits, how long they stay there, and even the type of page can be logged and displayed on a dashboard for teachers or IT administrators.

Some schools also use silent remote viewing, allowing teachers to beam into a student’s screen—sometimes without the student even knowing. In many cases, this extends beyond the classroom into the home.

While these measures are framed as protecting students, they create serious risks for privacy and trust.

Parents and educators deserve to know what’s happening on these devices—and that there are safer solutions.

📺 Watch the full Back to School Tech Awareness Webinar to learn more and explore alternatives.

✏️ Take your privacy back this school year. Explore solutions at Above

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#TBOT 16: Digital ID in North America

We’re kicking off a 6-part series on Digital ID around the world — starting with North America.

Watch on Substack

From facial recognition at borders to national ID frameworks quietly forming behind the scenes, this episode dives into how the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are rolling out their own versions of Digital ID — and what it means for your freedom to move, work, and live privately.

This is part of the ongoing Digital ID Report, exposing how over 90% of countries are implementing these systems in lockstep.

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Friends in the U.S, send me a picture of your sky right now and the state that you are in, I'm working on a story.

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🧠 Apple’s Enhanced Visual Search: Scanning Your Photos Without Consent

In my recent webinar Media Master: Open Source Photo and Video Editing, I covered three AI systems built into Big Tech phones. One of the most concerning is Apple’s Enhanced Visual Search — a feature that scans your photos for landmarks and sends that data to Apple’s servers… without your consent.

Even worse, some users found it re-enables itself after being turned off. It’s not just cloud photos — it’s every photo your iPhone takes.

📺 Watch the full Media Master: Open Source Photo and Video Editing webinar to learn how to protect your memories and take back control.

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My dear solutionaries,

I've just finished the Digital ID report I've been working on for the past few months. The report is ~9K words (after cutting it down) looking at the Digital ID programs in every continent.

To say I'm sick of researching this topic would be an understatement. Still, we must pay attention as its the next paradigm in digital surveillance and contol.
(unless you want to move near the Amazon jungle, the deserts of Africa, or Antartica).

I hope to have a download available for the e-book by tomorrow.

One thing the research makes obvious is that banks are captured, and we need for alternative monetary systems. Two areas that I want to focus on are cryptocurrency or barter/credit networks. Does anyone have solutions?

Friends,

We have a couple of important reminders:

Workshop applications are due November 1st!

Right now we only have a handful of them. Would be a shame if we didn't have the busy packed schedule we usually have.

Please submit your workshop ASAP! Also, if you did submit it after September 1st, unfortunately it's been lost. Please submit again!

Apply to host a workshop at TPR 2026: https://thegreaterreset.org/workshop-application/

Ticket prices go up on November 1st as well!

Don't miss your chance to get your tickets for only $188 USD before they go up to $222!

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Dear Abovians,

The right to ‘identification’ has been presented to us as an essential human right; Digital ID programs operational in 90% of countries. After months of researching, we conclude that Digital ID is the cornerstone of the next generation of surveillance.

We are taking a stand by publishing our Digital ID report, raising awareness and presenting solutions to help others avoid Digital ID.

These systems have been planned for decades, they reach the farthest corners of the globe; the goal is to consolidate every human being under Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) which combines identity, payments, and information exchange.

This is a global issue, and there is a lesson to be learned from every region.

North America surprises its residents with surprise biometric ID renewals. Europe and the U.K aspire for universal interoperability. South America, the Middle East, and Africa show us that developing countries receive hundreds of millions in funding for documenting their population. In Asia, we see the bleak future of Life Under Digital ID, where people live under a Digital Caste System. Rights can be taken away with a single misstep or even completely at random.

Digital ID is the first and most important component of DPI. Once enough people enroll in Digital ID, the subsequent components are easily layered ontop.

You give up your rights as soon as you enroll your legal identity with your biometrics.

Our new report will give you knowlege to prepare for the years ahead, and emphasizes that community is the answer. We have a narrow window of a few years to build resilient people-first networks to provide for ourselves and each other.

Download the report here.

Wherever you reside on earth — we are united in this challenge.

— Hakeem Anwar, Founder of Above and #TBOT

Friends,

We have a couple of important reminders:

Workshop applications are due November 1st!

Right now we only have a handful of them. Would be a shame if we didn't have the busy packed schedule we usually have.

Please submit your workshop ASAP! Also, if you did submit it after September 1st, unfortunately it's been lost. Please submit again!

Apply to host a workshop at TPR 2026: https://thegreaterreset.org/workshop-application/

Ticket prices go up on November 1st as well!

Don't miss your chance to get your tickets for only $188 USD before they go up to $222!

Get your tickets here: https://thegreaterreset.org/tickets/

Thanks for your support! Stay tuned for more exciting announcements!

📱 Your Devices Are Pre-Hacked—You Just Didn’t Consent Yet

In Media Master: Open Source Photo and Video Editing, I walk through how big tech phones and laptops come with features that are silently installed and activated without your consent. Companies claim it’s for your privacy—so private, they don’t even need to ask.

This is how things like contact tracing, digital ID, and vaccine passport systems get rolled out globally—instantly.

I also share how the Above Phone flips this model completely. No hidden connections. No backdoors. Just full control, from the stock camera to the open-source media apps we recommend.

📺 Watch the full Media Master: Open Source Photo and Video Editing webinar
🛡️ Browse our privacy gear.

🚨Learn what life is like with Above Phone - Rise Above: Device Overview Webinar, Oct 29

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⚡️Palantir’s War Surveillance is Coming Home

In my recent conversation with Mike Adams, we dove into the troubling ways surveillance technology is being misused. We talked about how tools originally tested in conflict zones—like Palantir's tech in Gaza—are now quickly coming home. These surveillance tools, once used in war, are being turned on everyday people under the guise of security.

Palantir is glueing together data from every federal agency, building a surveillance network that can track and profile people in incredibly detailed ways. This is how tech developed "for war" ends up right in our own neighborhoods, and it's something we all need to be aware of.

🪧 Watch the full interview here
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🔒 Discover how Above Phone, services, and tools work together to protect your privacy — Rise Above: Device Overview Oct 29, 12 pm CDT.

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We talked about water desalination several episodes back, heres a fundraiser for Palestinians to build a new system in Gaza. Aside from the scarce aid coming in, its crazy to me that the whole population of Gaza has no means to convert sea water into drinking water.

7 months ago, I made this video in Ele_elna_elak headquarter and desalination plant, that became now a pile of rubble that we can’t even reach to benefit from it, as the location is still under the Israeli control.

The common goal of any colonial power is to paralyze the occupied people so it can’t be self sufficient, and this is the trap that we are trying to avoid as activists and community leaders.

‼️‼️CALL TO ACTION: support this team’s stubborn resistance and donate to the campaign: Paypal.me/BisanCharity

⚡️Derrick Broze on the #TBOT Show

This is a clip from my latest #TBOT Show interview, where I sat down with my friend Derrick Broze—author, journalist, and founder of The Conscious Resistance Network.

Watch full interview on Substack.

We dive deep into the rise of Digital ID as part of the global technocratic control grid, and how things like autonomous zones in Mexico are creating real-world alternatives. Derrick shares what it means to live intentionally, build parallel systems, and take back power from the technocratic state.

In the second half (for paid members), we explore powerful personal themes—the tragedy of activism, living for the 7 generations, the choice to accept and reclaim your past, and the discipline that fuels Derrick’s work ethic.

It’s a conversation that challenges how we see freedom—a reminder that it begins with how we live, not just what we resist.

🚨Download the Digital ID Report and learn how these systems are being built worldwide

Had a great conversation with Jack Spirko of the Survival Podcast recently! 🔥 One of the things we talked about is missing coming of age tradition, and how we're pretty careless with handing tech over to children today.

Global Digital ID & School Surveillance - Epi-3751

Hakeem Anwar from Above Agency joins us to discuss the rising threat of Global Digital ID & The equally disturbing roll out of School Surveillance of our children. Don’t miss this one, it will absolutely shock you!

https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/big-big-brother

📊 The Actual Outcomes of School Tech

The promise of educational technology was convenience and learning support. The reality? Students’ personal lives are exposed to administrators, teachers, and big tech itself.

Chromebooks running Google’s OS and Chrome browser quietly build profiles of children’s interests and habits—conditioning consumer behavior long before they even have spending power. Lawsuits have been filed, but legal loopholes allow the tracking to continue.

The outcome is a generation of students monitored, restricted, and denied true autonomy in how they learn.

But it doesn’t have to stay this way. By reclaiming freedom of device choice, schools and families can restore privacy, encourage independent learning, and give kids the tools to build real technical literacy.

📺 Watch the full Back to School Tech Awareness Webinar

📚 Get privacy gear

🔒 Discover how Above Phone, services, and tools work together to protect your privacy — Rise Above: Device Overview Oct 29, 12 pm CDT.

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⚡️Digital ID Is Sweeping the World

I recently joined the Permaculture P.I.M.P.cast to break down how Digital ID systems are expanding globally—what’s driving them, how they impact personal freedom, and what real solutions exist for those who want to stay autonomous.

🎧 Watch the full episode here

📖 Learn more in Life Under Digital ID: A Global Analysis with Solutions

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