{"id":27863,"date":"2017-11-11T11:27:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27863"},"modified":"2017-11-11T11:27:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T16:27:33","slug":"the-surveillance-state-an-inexorable-march-toward-totalitarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27863","title":{"rendered":"The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Gizmodo released an article entitled \u201c<\/strong>US Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition to Identify People in Moving Cars<\/a>,\u201d on 11\/2\/17 by Matt Novak.\u00a0<\/strong>The Surveillance State has slowed down its rate of growth since the President took office, however, it has not halted that growth. Instead, it lies festering below the veneer of daily events, inexorably growing its tentacles and extending their reach. Akin to an infestation of weeds, the roots are deep within the fabric of our communications networks: telephones, CCTV (Closed-Circuit Television) cameras, the Internet\u2026all are thoroughly permeated.<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt from that article:<\/p>\n

The proposed program would allow Homeland Security to maintain a database of everyone who leaves and enters the US that would now include photos taken by spying robot-cameras at every border crossing. Not only does DHS want this new facial recognition program to work without anyone having to exit their vehicle, the agency wants it to work even if the travelers are wearing things like sunglasses and hats. DHS also wants it to work without cars having to stop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seems they really<\/em><\/strong> want our information for their database. There is something more. One of the readers on the article\u2019s website who uses the handle \u201cArtiofab<\/u>\u201d<\/strong> posted this comment<\/strong> that is important, as he lives on the Texas border with Mexico:<\/p>\n

\u201c11\/02\/17 12:31pm<\/a>\u00a0 Hi everybody I live near the US-MX border so I\u2019m happy to give informed opinions on this topic, since I know that a lot of the audience at Gizmodo dot com apparently lives closer to the US-CA border.<\/p>\n

Near the US-MX border along major US highways there are these interior checkpoints. If you\u2019re traveling \u201cinto\u201d the US (e.g., if you\u2019re in New Mexico and you\u2019re driving north) you stop your car, a USBP agent asks if you\u2019re all US citizens, you say yes, they let you keep going.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism Gizmodo released an article entitled \u201cUS Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition to Identify People in Moving Cars,\u201d on 11\/2\/17 by Matt Novak.\u00a0The Surveillance State has slowed down its rate of growth since the President took office, however, it has not halted that growth. Instead, it lies festering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15582,2570,16971,290,5677,1339,11133,5570,6490,765,1213,10549],"class_list":["post-27863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cameras","tag-cctv","tag-communications-networks","tag-facial-recognition","tag-gizmodo","tag-internet","tag-jerimiah-johnson","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-surveillance","tag-totalitarianism","tag-us-homeland-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27864,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863\/revisions\/27864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}