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UK Government Denies Targeting COVID-19 Policy Critics on Social Media
UK Government Denies Targeting COVID-19 Policy Critics on Social Media The logos of mobile apps Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Messenger displayed on a tablet on Oct. 1, 2019. (AFP via Getty Images/Denis Charlet) The UK government is facing renewed pressure to shut its Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) after the unit was accused of […]
2022’s Danger Signs: From Totalitarian Paranoia to Authoritarian Madness
2022’s Danger Signs: From Totalitarian Paranoia to Authoritarian Madness The danger signs were everywhere in 2022. With every new law enacted by federal and state legislatures, every new ruling handed down by government courts, and every new military weapon, invasive tactic and egregious protocol employed by government agents, we were reminded that in the eyes […]
Saudis Use Orwellian App to Identify Dissidents, Imprisoning Some for Decades
Saudis Use Orwellian App to Identify Dissidents, Imprisoning Some for Decades FILE PHOTOS. (Credit: Facebook / @kamnapp; Saudi Media Ministry) Saudi Arabians are using a mobile app sold by both Apple and Google to snitch on their fellow citizens for dissenting against government authorities. As a result, activists and others are going to prison for […]
What to Do About a Government That’s Always Watching Us
What to Do About a Government That’s Always Watching Us Two University of Maryland professors recently announced they developed a software program called “Geneva” that can protect people from the pervasive surveillance of their online activities by repressive governments like the People’s Republic of China. This will help Chinese citizens, but it is no solution […]
Canada Admits To Secretly Tracking 33 Million Phones During Covid-19 Lockdown
Canada Admits To Secretly Tracking 33 Million Phones During Covid-19 Lockdown Canada – which has a population of 38 million – has admitted to secretly tracking 33 million phones during the Covid-19 lockown, according to the National Post, citing Blacklock’s Reporter which first noted the disclosure. The country’s Public Health Agency (PHAC) did so to assess “the public’s responsiveness during lockdown […]
Facebook or Twitter posts can now be quietly modified by the government under new surveillance laws
Facebook or Twitter posts can now be quietly modified by the government under new surveillance laws A new law gives Australian police unprecedented powers for online surveillance, data interception and altering data. These powers, outlined in the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill, raise concerns over potential misuse, privacy and security. The bill updates the Surveillance Devices […]
“Nothing To Hide,” A Poor Excuse To Justify Surveillance
“Nothing To Hide,” A Poor Excuse To Justify Surveillance Many people claim they have nothing to hide and use that as the reason they don’t object to the expanding web of surveillance being weaved over them. These people ignore the fact we are surrendering our right to freedom when we as a society go down […]
Snowden: Journalism
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The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy “Under His Eye,” she says. The right farewell. “Under His Eye,” I reply, and she gives a little nod. By now you’ve probably heard that Apple plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system out to many of the more than one billion iPhones it has sold, […]
Report: Biden Administration Officials “Unmasked” Tucker Carlson
Report: Biden Administration Officials “Unmasked” Tucker Carlson A few weeks ago, I testified in the House Judiciary Committee on the surveillance of journalists in a long series of scandals from the Bush to the Obama to the Trump to the Biden Administrations. These scandals have occurred with almost seasonal regularity. There was a rare sense of bipartisanship in […]
Reports: Pentagon Tracking “Extremist” Web Searches Including “The Truth About Black Lives Matter”
Reports: Pentagon Tracking “Extremist” Web Searches Including “The Truth About Black Lives Matter” “Asking questions, now extremism. Free inquiry, now extremism.” Alex Wong & Linnea Rheborg /Getty Images Reports circulating Tuesday reveal that the Pentagon is working with a contractor to track web searches that it describes as indicators of “white supremacy,” citing the phrase […]
Five ways to loosen Big Tech’s grip on your life
Five ways to loosen Big Tech’s grip on your life I imagine there are countless people right now who feel a wide range of emotions when it comes to Big Tech companies. Anger. Disgust. Confusion. Fear. We’ve watched with exasperation as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. have systematically squashed intellectual dissent; their actions have been […]
Some States Looking at Ankle Bracelet to Enforce Home Confinement
Some States Looking at Ankle Bracelet to Enforce Home Confinement Some states are now looking to impose the very same restriction they do with criminals by forcing people to wear bracelets to enforce home confinement. There is just way too much evidence that this virus is so minimal it is insane. There is simply another agenda […]
While Fighting the Virus, We Must Fight for Our Rights
While Fighting the Virus, We Must Fight for Our Rights These governments around the world are trying to use the pandemic to smother freedoms. Don’t let democracy sicken and die. ‘The pandemic is killing more than people and economies. It has also come for our freedom.’ Photo via Shutterstock. Twenty-two million human beings have had COVID-19 […]
France Developing Surveillance App Called “StopCovid” To Mitigate Virus Spread
France Developing Surveillance App Called “StopCovid” To Mitigate Virus Spread The world is sleepwalking into a surveillance state. The march towards an Orwellian society is closer than ever, as governments have used COVID-19 as a perfect cover to implement totalitarian measures to track citizens that amount to human rights violations to “flatten the pandemic curve.” The latest example is […]
