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London Is Only The 6th Most-Surveilled City In The World
London Is Only The 6th Most-Surveilled City In The World According to a study by research website Comparitech, eight out of the ten most surveilled cities in the world are in China, and as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, the country that has been making headlines for its generous use of surveillance technology is featured heavily throughout the […]
2002 Landmarks on the Road to “1984” Orwellian Hell
2002 Landmarks on the Road to “1984” Orwellian Hell Next month will be the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Politiciansand bureaucrats wasted no time after that carnage to unleash theSurveillance State on average Americans, treating every person like aterrorist suspect. Since the government failed to protect the public,Americans somehow forfeited their constitutional right to […]
Mass Surveillance: NJ Cops Turn Individuals’ Phones Into Spying Devices
MASS SURVEILLANCE: NJ COPS TURN INDIVIDUALS’ PHONES INTO SPYING DEVICES It’s for their own good, of course! A New Jersey police department has unveiled technology that will allow 911 operators to stream video from callers smartphones. For the time being, callers have to turn on the live video stream, meaning they are consenting and giving […]
BigBrotherWatch: Facial Recognition ‘Epidemic’ in the UK
BigBrotherWatch: Facial Recognition ‘Epidemic’ in the UK At TruePublica we have written endlessly about the continued slow strangulation of civil liberties and human rights in Britain. We have warned about the rise of a techno-Stasi-state where technology is harnessed and used against civilians without any debate or indeed any real legal framework. We have alerted the public […]
Alarm as Trump Requests Permanent Reauthorization of NSA Mass Spying Program Exposed by Snowden
Alarm as Trump Requests Permanent Reauthorization of NSA Mass Spying Program Exposed by Snowden “The White House is calling for reauthorization of a program that security agencies have used to spy on innocent people, violate their privacy, and chill free speech.” Civil liberties groups and privacy advocates raised alarm Thursday after the Trump administration called […]
U.S. Customs Continues To “Modernize” Its System To Include Biometrics For All Passengers
U.S. Customs Continues To “Modernize” Its System To Include Biometrics For All Passengers One aspect often lost in the immigration debate is the rollout of government solutions that are set to restrict the freedom of the perfectly innocent. A key component of this is the increased collection of passenger biometrics. As I’ve discussed before, U.S. Customs […]
FBI, ICE Using Facial Recognition To Bulk-Scan DMV Photos In “Unprecedented Surveillance Infrastructure”
FBI, ICE Using Facial Recognition To Bulk-Scan DMV Photos In “Unprecedented Surveillance Infrastructure” The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been using state driver’s license databases to run photos of millions of Americans through facial-recognition systems without their knowledge or consent, according to the Washington Post. Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal […]
NSA Caught Illegally Collecting Americans’ Phone Data…Again
NSA CAUGHT ILLEGALLY COLLECTING AMERICANS’ PHONE DATA…AGAIN Once again, the National Security Agency has been caught illegally collecting the phone data of Americans. This news comes just months after a similar incident forced them to (supposedly) purge hundreds of millions of records captured without FISA authorization. According to RT, the government spy agency unlawfully gathered a “larger […]
George Orwell’s Dystopian Nightmare in China
George Orwell’s Dystopian Nightmare in China Beijing’s tyranny over its people is fast becoming more terrifying than anything in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Michael Hogue It has become fairly cliché to call China’s surveillance state—its artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition, the new “social credit system,” its cultural policing and re-education camps for Uyghur minorities—“something right out of George Orwell’s Nineteen […]
Just When You Thought Surveillance Tech Couldn’t Get Any More Orwellian…
Just When You Thought Surveillance Tech Couldn’t Get Any More Orwellian… One of my favorite TV shows was Person of Interest. In that show, a genius programmer was hired by the government to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) computer to tap into and analyze communication feeds and predict activities that may pose a threat. Unfortunately, as […]
Orwellian Future: Facial Recognition & Mass Surveillance is Coming to U.S. Schools
ORWELLIAN FUTURE: FACIAL RECOGNITION & MASS SURVEILLANCE IS COMING TO U.S. SCHOOLS We are staring our Orwellian future right in the face. Beginning in New York, facial recognition is coming to schools in the United States and it’ll be switched on for testing next week. The dystopian future George Orwell warned about in his accidental historical […]
UK Cops Fine Pedestrian $115 For Avoiding Facial Recognition Camera
UK Cops Fine Pedestrian $115 For Avoiding Facial Recognition Camera A UK pedestrian was arrested and fined £90 ($115 US) after attempting to cover his face while passing a controversial facial recognition camera van on a East London street. The notorious London police vans scan the faces of passers-by and compare them to a database of wanted criminals. One man wasn’t […]
Google Tracks Your Location and Shares It With Police, Even When Your Phone is Off
Google Tracks Your Location and Shares It With Police, Even When Your Phone is Off Even if you disable GPS, deactivate phone location tracking, and turn off your phone, it’s still possible for Google and the NSA to monitor your every move. Over the last two decades, cell phone use has become an everyday part […]
