Police Body Cameras to be Equipped with Facial Recognition
By Nicholas West Given the steady roll-out of biometrics in banking, personal computing, and travel as of late, it seemed to be just a matter…
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Russian AK-47 Gun Maker Turns to Future of Autonomous Weapons
By Nicholas West The Kalashnikov AK-47 is certainly one of the most iconic automatic weapons ever devised. Today, nearly 70 years after its debut, worldwide…
DHS Outlines Mandatory Biometric ID at Airports for Foreign Travel
By Nicholas West What at first seemed like creeping tip-toe incrementalism toward the use of biometric ID for travel is quickly becoming a warp-speed reality….
Voice-Activated Smart Home Technology Used to Make Arrest in Assault Case
By Nicholas West A new type of court case is slowly but demonstrably taking shape within the American legal system: alleged crimes being detected from…
Low-Cost Micro Satellites are Spawning a Global Surveillance Arms Race
By Nicholas West The emergence of low-cost micro satellites is starting to spawn a global surveillance arms race: the familiar problem-reaction-solution paradigm upon what all…
Trump Admin Set to Expand Number of Civilians Killed by Drone Strikes
By Nicholas West The United States drone program by all objective analysis has not been a precision instrument for killing terrorists. Instead, the program has…
Ray Kurzweil’s New Prediction: A Future Where Virtual Reality Merges with Matter
By Nicholas West Ray Kurzweil’s 2006 book The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology has become one of the signposts toward a specific type…
Privacy Organization Urges Congress to Examine FBI’s Secret Biometric ID Program
By Nicholas West While the general public is still in the dark about the arrival of biometric identification that is taking place in nearly every…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Reveals Next Level of Biometric ID at Airports
By Nicholas West Over the last month, some very stark writing has appeared on the wall regarding the advancement of mandatory biometric IDs being imposed…
Paris Air Show Features Ultra Lethal Drones of the Future
By Nicholas West Because the current fleet of drones apparently isn’t lethal enough… Of course the list of countries being bombed by drones might beg…
Japan Imposes Sweeping Pre-Crime Surveillance Law Ahead Of 2020 Olympics
By Nicholas West With the latest spate of terror attacks we are beginning to witness supposedly democratic countries take increasingly tyrannical positions in the name…
Retired U.S. Military Commanders Call For “Perpetual, networked presence that enables operations and awareness anywhere in the world”
By Nicholas West Perhaps it should never be surprising when those who have dedicated their lives to the military should call for a further expansion…
Chicago Police Refuse To Reveal “Heat List” Pre-Crime Surveillance Tactics – Journalists Sue
By Nicholas West The Chicago police department continues to march toward what it calls “policing in the 21st century.” If their conduct is any indication,…
JetBlue Joins Delta In Push Toward Biometric ID; Partners With U.S. Customs And Border Protection
By Nicholas West We are accelerating to a full-on police state where “papers please” is set to be replaced by a less-intrusive biometric scan. It…