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Lockdown Systems is an international worker-owned collective that builds freedom and privacy technologies that empower people to take control of their own data, choose what they reveal to the world, and protect themselves from unwanted surveillance.

Our solutions can be used by individuals as well as organizations, whether non-profit or for-profit, who seek to protect the data of their members.

Our projects include:
🐦️ Cyd: https://cyd.social
🧅 OnionShare: https://onionshare.org
🧊 ICE Detention Map: https://watchice.org
👁️‍🗨️ Observer Vault: https://github.com/lockdown-systems/observer-vault
🦅 StateDept X Archive: https://lockdown-systems.github.io/statedept-archive/

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Joined May 06, 2026

Collective:

https://lockdown.systems

Cyd:

https://cyd.social

OnionShare:

https://onionshare.org/

ICE Detention Map:

https://watchice.org/

Lockdown Systems @lockdownsystems@infosec.exchange

· 2mo ago

In July 2025 we started a web project showing a map listing all of ICE's reported detention centers, with the number of detainees. This data was simply gathered from public records shared by ICE. But since April 9th 2026, ICE stopped sharing this data, entirely. The public can no longer know where ICE's facilities are, and how many people are currently detained. This is a dangerous transparency problem. Read more about what happened here: https://lockdown.systems/fragile-dhs-ice-transparency/ #ICE #USpol #LockdownSystems #WatchICE #Transparency #DHS

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Fragile DHS/ICE Transparency

Starting in July 2025, we ran a project called ICEWatch that displayed data on detentions. It simply downloaded data that ICE was already publishing and rendered it on a map. Facility by facility, you could see how many people were locked up, their ICE “threat level” including if they had

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Lockdown Systems @lockdownsystems@infosec.exchange

· 5mo ago

Hello Fediverse!

We are pleased to be joining the Federated Universe today, with this new Mastodon account! 🐢

We are Lockdown Systems,
a worker-owned collective building freedom and privacy technologies to inform the public, fight surveillance, and empower people to take back control of their own data.

Our projects include:
🐦️ @cyd@infosec.exchange
🧅 OnionShare
🧊 ICE Detention Map
🥚 And more to come!

To learn more about our collective, you can visit our website at: https://lockdown.systems

We're excited to start sharing our work with the Fediverse! 🎉

#Fediverse #Mastodon #LockdownSystems #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #OpenSource

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Lockdown Systems @lockdownsystems@infosec.exchange

· 4mo ago

Earlier this year, the US State Department announced it would delete every post on its official X accounts made before Trump returned to office in 2025. Deleting years of previous government posts that should be easily accessible to the public is dangerous and antidemocratic, to say the least. At Lockdown Systems, we thought this information should remain accessible to the public. So we backed them up. Read more about this: https://lockdown.systems/preserving-the-us-state-departments-data/ Consult the whole archive on our State Dept X Archive website: https://lockdown-systems.github.io/statedept-archive/ #LockdownSystems #USpol #X #Trump #Transparency #Democracy

Preserving the US State Department’s Data

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Preserving the US State Department’s Data

In February 2026, the US State Department announced it would delete every post on its official X accounts made before Trump returned to office on January 20, 2025. The posts would be “archived internally.” But to see them, the public would have to file a FOIA request. We didn’t

Lockdown Systems @lockdownsystems@infosec.exchange

· 4mo ago

Last week our collective member @yaelwrites@mastodon.social, along with her team at the AP, won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting for their reporting on how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China’s surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

Congratulations Yael for your incredible work on this very important issue. This is a well-deserved award!

https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-releases/2026/ap-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-china-surveillance-reporting/

#PulitzerPrize #HumanRights #MassSurveillance

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Lockdown Systems @lockdownsystems@infosec.exchange

· 2mo ago

We just released a security update for OnionShare! 🧅➕

Here's what we changed:

Updates bundled Tor from 4.9.9 to 4.9.11 that fixes a security vulnerability
Updates Python dependencies

If you use OnionShare, it's time to update your desktop application!

https://onionshare.org/#download

#LockdownSystems #OnionShare #OpenSource #Privacy

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OnionShare

OnionShare is a tool for anonymous peer-to-peer file sharing, chatting, and web hosting.

Lockdown Systems @lockdownsystems@infosec.exchange

· 1mo ago

If you're at the 2026 Global Gathering in Estoril this week, come meet Lockdown Systems at our Booth and Circle! ⭕️🐢 Our collective member @erioldoesdesign@hachyderm.io will be there to talk about @cyd@infosec.exchange and what it means to share, preserve, and delete information on the social web, in an age of digital surveillance and censorship. Clawing Back Your Data in the Age of Social Surveillance When: Friday, September 4th, 15:30-17:30 Where: GG venue, Spyware Village, Booth 57 https://wiki.digitalrights.community/index.php?title=September_4_2026_Agenda We will also have a Lockdown Systems Booth on Saturday! Come chat with us and pick up some stickers! ✨ When: Saturday, September 5th, 13:00-15:00 Where: GG venue, Lockdown Systems, Booth 5 https://wiki.digitalrights.community/index.php?title=September_5_2026_Agenda #GlobalGathering2026 #LockdownSystems #GlobalGathering #GG2026 #Cyd #DataDeletion #Surveillance

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Fragile DHS/ICE Transparency

Preserving the US State Department’s Data

OnionShare

September 4 2026 Agenda - TCU Wiki