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“Scarier Than Contracting The Virus” – Pandemic-Tracking Tech Raises Fears Of Global Surveillance State
“Scarier Than Contracting The Virus” – Pandemic-Tracking Tech Raises Fears Of Global Surveillance State The world is sleepwalking into a surveillance state, under cover of the virus pandemic. For the last several months, governments on both East and West hemispheres have been quickly imposing new digital surveillance measures to track and monitor citizens in quarantine. Governments have […]
Global Pandemic Response Handing Governments Sweeping Powers They May Never Relinquish
Global Pandemic Response Handing Governments Sweeping Powers They May Never Relinquish While the response to the coronavirus pandemic have ranged from mocking the disease (such has Brazil’s Bolsonaro) to physically sealing people inside of apartment buildings in China, governments are deploying an array of legislative and technical measures to track and control citizens during the outbreak which has […]
Leaked Reports Show EU Police Are Planning a Pan-European Network of Facial Recognition Databases
LEAKED REPORTS SHOW EU POLICE ARE PLANNING A PAN-EUROPEAN NETWORK OF FACIAL RECOGNITION DATABASES A POLICE INVESTIGATOR in Spain is trying to solve a crime, but she only has an image of a suspect’s face, caught by a nearby security camera. European police have long had access to fingerprint and DNA databases throughout the 27 countries […]
Adapting to a Fast-Forward World
Adapting to a Fast-Forward World The world is going through a period of accelerating change, as four secular developments illustrate. Firms and governments must make timely adjustments, not only to their business models and operational approaches, but also to both their tactical and strategic mindsets. LONDON – Firms and governments must increasingly internalize the possibility […]
40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition is Threatening Democracy
40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition is Threatening Democracy We must take action and guard what little privacy remains before it’s too late. (TMU) — On Monday, forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on U.S. government use of facial recognition technology. The letter was drafted by the digital privacy […]
America Is The 4th Worst Abuser Of Biometric Privacy Rights In The World
America Is The 4th Worst Abuser Of Biometric Privacy Rights In The World Does anyone really believe America is still the land of the free? Since 9/11, DHS, the FBI, the CIA, and countless other alphabet soup agencies have turned the United States into a public surveillance monstrosity.In 19 years, one terrorist attack has done what […]
How to Avoid Civil War: Decentralization, Nullification, Secession
How to Avoid Civil War: Decentralization, Nullification, Secession It’s becoming more and more apparent that the United States will not be going back to “business as usual” after Donald Trump leaves office, and it is easy to imagine that the anti-Trump parties will use their return to power as an opportunity to settle scores against […]
How Surveillance and Propaganda Work in ‘the Free World’
How Surveillance and Propaganda Work in ‘the Free World’ A Bloomberg report of October 22 was concise and uncompromising in declaring Russia to be a surveillance state. Harking back to the good old days of the Cold War, as is increasingly the practice in much of the Western media, Bloomberg recounted that “The fourth of 10 basic […]
Sidewalk Labs’ Smart Cities Will Create A For-Profit Social Credit System That Controls Judges And Police
Sidewalk Labs’ Smart Cities Will Create A For-Profit Social Credit System That Controls Judges And Police Smart city surveillance, is much worse than anyone could have imagined. Two years ago, I revealed how a CIA “signature school” was installing thousands of CCTV cameras and microphones in smart cities, but Sidewalk Labs wants to take public surveillance to […]
Edward Snowden on the Joe Rogan Podcast–Says US Government Could Have Prevented 9/11
EDWARD SNOWDEN ON THE JOE ROGAN PODCAST – SAYS US GOVERNMENT COULD HAVE PREVENTED 9/11 Since 2013 the real government whistleblower, Edward Snowden, has been in political asylum in Russia, where he continues to write books and tell his story of how as an employee of the NSA he discovered that the government was breaking […]
“It’s Not A Game When It’s Real-Life” – China’s Social Credit System
“It’s Not A Game When It’s Real-Life” – China’s Social Credit System In an attempt to imbue trust, China has announced a plan to implement a national ranking system for its citizens and companies. Currently in pilot mode, the new system will be rolled out in 2020, and go through numerous iterations before becoming official. While the system […]
FBI Use Of Foreign-Surveillance Tool Violated Privacy Rights: FISA Court
FBI Use Of Foreign-Surveillance Tool Violated Privacy Rights: FISA Court The FBI’s use of electronic surveillance tools violated the constitutional privacy rights of Americans whose communications were swept up in a controversial foreign intelligence program, according to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The court concluded that the FBI had been improperly searching through a database of raw intelligence […]
“This Is A Major Risk”: France Rolls Out New Facial Recognition Technology
“This Is A Major Risk”: France Rolls Out New Facial Recognition Technology Is this how French President Emmanuel Macron is choosing to celebrate 70 years of Communist rule? In a plan that sounds eerily similar to China’s ‘social credit score’ system, Macron and the French Interior Ministry are pushing ahead plans to launch a national […]
The Tech Giants Are a Conduit for Fascism
The Tech Giants Are a Conduit for Fascism A second former Amazon employee would spark more controversy. Deap Ubhi, a former AWS employee who worked for Lynch, was tasked with gathering marketing information to make the case for a single cloud inside the DOD. Around the same time that he started working on JEDI, Ubhi […]
