Deja Vu: The FBI Proves Again it Can’t be Trusted with Section 702
By Matthew Guariglia We all deserve privacy in our communications, and part of that is trusting that the government will only access them within the…
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City Sued for Refusing to Release “Smart City” Documents; Litigation Focuses on 4th Amendment Violations
By B.N. Frank American opposition to “smart cities” and all the costs, privacy violations, environmental, health, and safety risks associated with them has been ongoing…
Historic Penalty Decision in BIPA Case Shows the Need to Take Biometric Privacy Seriously
By Jim Nash Biometrics in one U.S. jurisdiction is now officially a live electrical wire dancing on the ground, ready to shock the unwary, and…
Indian District Rolls Out Live Facial Recognition to Fight Crime Wave
By Masha Borak A district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is rolling out a crime-fighting search engine powered by live facial recognition called…
Hundreds of U.S. Communities Are Operating Red-Light Cameras and/or Speed Cameras
By B.N. Frank Cameras, cameras, everywhere including on roads in hundreds of U.S. communities courtesy of U.S. police departments! From the American Institute for Economic…
Japanese Police Test AI-Equipped Cameras To Protect VIPs
By Tyler Durden Japanese police will begin testing security cameras equipped with AI-based technology to protect high-profile public figures, Nikkei reports. AI-equipped cameras can have…
BIS Blueprint For “Unified Ledger” — Global Control Of ALL Assets, Information & People
Tokenizing the world means declaring digital value of all physical resources. This means all your property plus impersonal assets like the rain forest in Brazil….
WHO’s Power Grab Through Surveillance And “Triple Billion” Targets
By Rhoda Wilson During an interview with Peter Sweden, Noor Bin Ladin exposed how the World Health Organisation (WHO) does not care about your health, but…
First Draft of UN Cybercrime Convention Drops Troubling Provisions, But Dangerous And Open-Ended Cross Border Surveillance Powers Are Still on the Table
By Katitza Rodriguez This is Part I of a two-part post about the first draft of the UN Cybercrime Convention. Part I provides background on…
Are 15-Minute Cities Smart?
By Thomas Buckley The 15-minute city (FMC) – a neat idea, a new way to control the populace, a trendy blip in the public planning…
This Is Why We Need to Talk about CBDCs
By Aaron and Melissa Dykes (Normally this is the type of article we only share with our Patreons, but this needs to be seen by…
From Contact Tracing To Carbon Footprint Tracking: WEF’s Carrot Or Stick Approach To COVID & Climate Policy
If the object is to enforce a lower and lower carbon footprint on humans, then at some point, one could be standing naked, homeless and…
Philippines Unveils New CCTV System Command Center, Plans Facial Recognition Procurement
By Ayang Macdonald A massive video surveillance communications and command center with more than 400 high-definition CCTV cameras has gone operational in Pasig City, a…
Targeted for Tyranny: We’re All Suspects Under the Government’s Precrime Program
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.”― James Bamford, journalist We’re all being targeted…