Pentagon and DARPA Seek Predictive A.I. to Uncover Enemy Thoughts
By Nicholas West I’ve recently been covering the widening use of predictive algorithms in modern-day police work, which frequently has been compared to the “pre-crime”…
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New Orleans Cancels Secret Pre-Crime Police Program After Media Exposure
By Nicholas West I’m happy to report some good news coming out of New Orleans thanks to the excellent investigative reporting of Ali Winston with…
Digital Papers Please: New Reports of TSA Searching Computers and Cellphones for DOMESTIC Flights
By Nicholas West Despite being roundly hated by the traveling public, the TSA continues to trample upon anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path. Whether…
Amazon Smart Device Owners Can Now Become Spies For UK Police
By Nicholas West The use of information obtained by smart devices is already threatening to rewrite the criminal justice system in America. I’ve covered various…
New Orleans Residents Used As Secret Test Subjects For Pre-Crime Police Technology
By Nicholas West The concept of “policing in the 21st Century” is not only the implementation of a range of high-tech surveillance measures, including biometrics,…
Robots Will Soon Be Punishing Humans: Ford Files Patent For Robotic Police Cars
By Nicholas West In October of last year, I reported on the network of autonomous police vehicles being deployed in Dubai that included hoverbikes and…
Police Drone Battle Continues After LAPD Approves New Purchase and Officer Training
By Nicholas West The general concern over police spying continues to be addressed by the Los Angeles public. As I have been covering over the…
China Accused of Using Biometric Surveillance to Send Thousands to Political Detention Camps
By Nicholas West As we continue to chart our path down the slippery slope of biometric identification for human beings, we’ve had to speculate about…
Disturbing Trend of Police Wanting Drones for Routine Infractions
By Nicholas West After lulling the public into believing that using drones in the U.S. would be confined to border patrol or for counter-terrorism in…
Customs And Border Protection Seeks Biometric ID For All Major U.S. Airports Within 4 Years
By Nicholas West Over the past several months I’ve been covering the rapid acceleration toward mandatory biometric identification at U.S. airports. At the core of…
Connecticut’s New Drone and Surveillance Program Is An Orwellian Nightmare
By Nicholas West Hartford – While a battle has been raging for years in Los Angeles, California over a proposal to give drones to the…
Mobile App Flaw Allows Hackers To Control Smart Home Devices and Spy on Owners
By Nicholas West As people begin acquiring greater numbers of smart tech gadgets to manage their lives and homes, each one of these items is…
Miami International Airport Signs on to Biometric ID for Travelers
By Nicholas West Over the past several months I’ve been covering the incremental arrival of biometric identification at U.S. airports and a clear acceleration in…
Dubai Adds Hoverbikes To Its Technocratic Police State, Becoming Ground Zero for Cities of the Future
By Nicholas West Most readers (and certainly this writer) will likely never visit the exorbitantly priced Dubai, which might make the following story seem less…