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China’s Big Brother Social Control Goes to Australia
(Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images) China’s Big Brother Social Control Goes to Australia Australia is preparing to launch its own version of the Chinese regime’s high-tech system for monitoring and controlling its citizens. The launch will be in Darwin, and will include systems to monitor people and their activity on their cell phones. The new system is […]
Orwell Goes Retail: Stores Now Track Where You Shop… And Sleep
Orwell Goes Retail: Stores Now Track Where You Shop… And Sleep In news that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, retailers are now tracking not only where are you shop, but also where you sleep, according to a new Bloomberg article. For instance, Hill Country Galleria in Bee Cave, Texas used information and location data […]
Global Government and Mass Surveillance May Be Needed to Save Humanity, Expert Says
Global Government and Mass Surveillance May Be Needed to Save Humanity, Expert Says A prominent Oxford philosopher who is known for making terrifying predictions about humanity has a new theory about our future, and it isn’t pretty. Over 15 years ago, Nick Bostrom, author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, made the case that we are all living […]
Thousands Of Amazon Alexa Eavesdroppers Can Also Access Users’ Home Addresses
Thousands Of Amazon Alexa Eavesdroppers Can Also Access Users’ Home Addresses Bloomberg has it in for Amazon these days. Two weeks after we finally got confirmation what everyone had known for so long, namely that an internal Amazon team numbering in the thousands was secretly listening in to Alexa users’ commands without their prior knowledge, Bloomberg reported that the […]
She Wrote The Patriot Act. Her Next Job Is With Facebook
She Wrote The Patriot Act. Her Next Job Is With Facebook Facebook announced Monday that Jennifer Newstead, a Trump appointee who served in the Department of Justice (DoJ) under President Bush, will join the social media company as General Counsel, supervising its global legal functions. Newstead replaces Colin Stretch, who announced in 3Q18 that he will exit. […]
Police Still Secretly Tracking TransLink Riders? Yes, Even More
Police Still Secretly Tracking TransLink Riders? Yes, Even More Two years after sparking a provincial probe, Tyee finds practice has grown. What happened after The Tyee exposed that TransLink increasingly was handing over data about its riders to police without informing customers or requiring any warrants? That was in August 2017. A follow-up Tyee investigation […]
Five Reasons to Care about RCMP Monitoring Your Social Media
Five Reasons to Care about RCMP Monitoring Your Social Media Surveillance is going ahead without oversight or accountability, for one. You should care, even be scared, by The Tyee’s reports on the RCMP’s “Operation Wide Awake,” a secretive and unsupervised social media monitoring operation. We’re already deep into a new era. Police — and businesses […]
Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state?
Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state? Predictive analytics enabling law enforcement to identify “high-risk” areas has highlighted ethical and legal quandaries Science fiction has long speculated on the danger of a dystopian future and machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI). But with the advent of big data, we no longer need to speculate: the future […]
Social Media, Universal Basic Income, and Cashless Society: How China’s Social Credit System Is Coming To America
Social Media, Universal Basic Income, and Cashless Society: How China’s Social Credit System Is Coming To America Some well-informed Americans may be aware of China’s horrifying “Social Credit System” that was recently unveiled as a method of eradicating any dissent in the totalitarian state. Essentially freezing out anyone who does not conform to the state’s […]
NSA Abandons Part Of Mass Surveillance Program Exposed By Snowden
NSA Abandons Part Of Mass Surveillance Program Exposed By Snowden The National Security Agency (NSA) has reportedly abandoned part of their infamous surveillance apparatus exposed by former contractor Edward Snowden, and used for the mass collection of Americans’ communications records; including phone logs, metadata and text messages. The New York Times noted that House minority leader national security adviser […]
The Insane Surveillance of your iPhone that Exposes You To Massive Risks
The Insane Surveillance of your iPhone that Exposes You To Massive Risks There is a new and very serious data scandal rising up with iPhones that Apple is being asked to shutdown. There are a number of major companies who are now secretly recording your every move on their iPhone apps without your permission or even your […]
2019: The Three Trends That Matter
2019: The Three Trends That Matter Look no further than Brexit in Britain, the yellow vests in France and the Deplorables in the U.S. for manifestations of a broken social contract and decaying social order. Among the many trends currently in play, Gordon Long and I discuss three that will matter as 2019 progresses: 2019 Themes (56 […]
DRAGONFLY: Google Employees Publicly Rebel Against Building a Dystopian New Search Engine
DRAGONFLY: Google Employees Publicly Rebel Against Building a Dystopian New Search Engine More than 1,400 Google staff, many journalists, and human rights organizations are calling on Google to halt its controversial project called Dragonfly. What is Project Dragonfly? Dragonfly is a search engine specially built for China. It would unleash more censorship on a mass […]
The Conflicting Forces of Modernism: Kafka and Kierkegaard
The Conflicting Forces of Modernism: Kafka and Kierkegaard We seem to be heading into a confrontation between the two forces of Modernism: the primacy of the individual versus the increasing technological and economic might of the central state. In Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score” (May 7, 2018), I wrote about Kafka’s vision of […]
Is China Really More “Dystopian” Than The UK?
Is China Really More “Dystopian” Than The UK? RT reported that the UK’s so-called “National Data Analytics Solution” will see an algorithm process whichever of 30 separate data points have been recorded about a person in local and national police databases in order to predict which members of the population are most likely to commit […]
