Turkey to Integrate Digital Currency with National Digital Identity System
By Tom Philips Turkey is planning to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) that will be integrated with the country’s digital identity system and…
Privacy
Treasury and DOJ Seek Greater Financial Surveillance Around Cryptocurrency
By Nicholas Anthony The rise of cryptocurrencies has made a new generation of people aware of the need for financial privacy reform in America. It’s…
US Citizens Were Given Secret Covid “decree violation” Scores
By Tom Parker Voter analytics firm PredictWise harvested location data from tens of millions of US cellphones during the initial Covid lockdown months and used…
Australia Considers Centralizing Digital ID
By Ken Macon In the wake of the Optus data breach, the Australian government is considering centralizing digital ID through the myGov or myGovID systems….
Digitization Is Humanity’s Demise. The “Smartphonization” of Humanity. The QR Code is Everywhere
By Peter Koenig What if we were really at the point where the arrow indicates on the bar-code cartoon below? Or, it could be much…
Attorney General Sues Google Over “indiscriminate collection” of Biometric Data; Compares Company to “Eye of Sauron”
By B.N. Frank Despite warnings – even about national security – data collection is big business in the U.S. and everybody seems to be doing…
What is Fog Reveal? Legal Scholar Explains App Some Police Forces are Using to Track People Without Warrant
By Anne Toomey McKenna, University of Richmond Government agencies and private security companies in the U.S. have found a cost-effective way to engage in warrantless…
IMF Meeting: CBDC Should be Tied to Digital IDs to “push society into to new equilibriums”
By Didi Rankovic Governments and financial institutions are increasingly warming to the idea of introducing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) – central banks’ digital tokens,…
10 PayPal Alternatives – For Privacy or Free Speech
By Tom Parker As digital payments have become increasingly popular, many of the largest companies in this sector have used their dominant position to censor…
Detroit OKs Expansion of ShotSpotter Surveillance Tech
By Mike Maharrey Last week, the Detroit City Council narrowly approved an expansion of the city’s controversial ShotSpotter gun control surveillance technology. But instead of…
Global Finance Elites Are Planning CBDC Social Credit Scores
By Sikh for Truth The parameters they set for digital currency will nudge your behaviour through social scoring, to control society and to control you….
VR Headset’s Inward-Facing Cameras “could allow Meta or other companies to emotionally exploit people”
By B.N. Frank Warnings about virtual reality (VR) use are NOT new and it’s not just because users are often exposed to unwanted and sometimes…
A Dystopian Surveillance State is Rising in India
By Aparajita Ghosh A few months after Narendra Modi was re-elected in 2019, India’s Parliament passed a discriminatory bill extending citizenship to refugees from six…
European Commission Wants to Allow Real-time Biometric Identification Surveillance in Some Circumstances
By Didi Rankovic EU’s proposed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, drafted by the European Commission, was under the spotlight for the first time last week in…