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Gov’t Can’t Be Trusted With Cellphone Tracking Amid Pandemic: Former Ontario Privacy Commissioner
A cell tower in rural Ontario in a file photo. (The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick) Gov’t Can’t Be Trusted With Cellphone Tracking Amid Pandemic: Former Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ontario’s former privacy commissioner is sounding the alarm about the government’s tracking of cellphone data to inform policy, after it was revealed recently that a federal agency has […]
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 […]
Video: Al Gore’s Latest ‘Solution’ To Climate Change Is Mass Surveillance
Video: Al Gore’s Latest ‘Solution’ To Climate Change Is Mass Surveillance Meanwhile, new research finds that the carbon footprints of the wealthiest 1% are on track to be 30 times larger than the size compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5°C Speaking from the private jet and super yacht owners gathering, otherwise known as the COP 26 […]
Living in a Potemkin World
LIVING IN A POTEMKIN WORLD “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in […]
Facial Recognition Apps for Home Quarantine a ‘Privacy Disaster’: Report
A woman looks at her phone. (Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels) Facial Recognition Apps for Home Quarantine a ‘Privacy Disaster’: Report A new report from the left-leaning Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology has warned state-level governments to avoid crossing into “new frontiers” of citizen surveillance following the increasing adoption of home quarantine apps in the country. Currently, […]
“Programmable Digital Currency”: The next stage of the new normal?The war on cash’s endgame is here: money replaced by vouchers subject to complete state control.
“Programmable Digital Currency”: The next stage of the new normal?The war on cash’s endgame is here: money replaced by vouchers subject to complete state control. Building on the bitcoin model, central banks are planning to produce their own “digital currencies”. Removing any and all remaining privacy, granting total control over every transaction, even limiting what […]
One Ring to Rule Us All: A Global Digital Fiat Currency
One Ring to Rule Us All: A Global Digital Fiat Currency We’ve written extensively about the “war on cash.” In a nutshell, governments would love to do away with cash in order to better track and control their citizens. There have been numerous moves closer to a cashless society in recent years, from capping ATM withdrawals to doing […]
Central Bank Visions of Absolute Control
Central Bank Visions of Absolute Control There’s not much you can do in the year 2021 that doesn’t leave a digital trail. The collusion of big tech and big government has assured this. Still, there does remain one simple way to elude the busybodies. In fact, one of the last ways to preserve some level […]
20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9/11 to COVID-19
20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9/11 to COVID-19 “I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”—Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported […]
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, […]
The Insecurity Industry
The Insecurity Industry The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it 1. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is take it apart. I don’t do this to satisfy a tinkerer’s urge, or out of political principle, but simply because it is unsafe to operate. Fixing […]
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 […]
