Dubai Deploys AI Robot Police for Scofflaw Cyclists
Activist Post Editor’s Note: This should make it clear that AI robot police will not be used only for the most serious crimes, as governments…
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City ID and the Right to Travel
By Edward Hasbrouck In recent overviews, we’ve discussed the barriers to getting a passport or state-issued driver’s license or ID card (especially in states that…
Florida Town Installs Live Facial Recognition to Protect Against 3 Trespassers
By Chris Burt Lakeland, Florida is not known as a particularly violent city. It does not appear on lists of America’s most crime-ridden towns. But…
Protecting Your Privacy On Your Phone And Laptop With Hakeem Anwar
By The Conscious Resistance Derrick Broze catches up with Hakeem Anwar (formerly Ramiro Romani), CEO of Above Phone and founder of Take Back Our Tech….
Anatomy of the Tech-Industrial Complex
By Josh Stylman In the news this week, there is a lot of controversy over the US House of Representatives voting on Bill HR7521 which…
Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood
By The Conversation Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and…
How The Government Used ‘Track F’ To Fund Censorship Tools: Report
Authored by Mark Tapscott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ZeroHedge) Officials from the National Science Foundation tried to conceal the spending of millions of taxpayer…
Biometric Border Surveillance: The ‘Solution’ to a Manufactured Crisis
By TheFreedomArticles NWO scheme busted: to overwhelm US cities with a massive influx of illegal immigrants, give them free accommodation and welfare, then propose a…
Pakistan Executes AI-powered Criminal Identification System
Activist Post Editor’s Note: The author is clearly supportive of this technology, perhaps not knowing the multitude of complications and errors that have occurred in…
From CIA To ‘Trust & Safety’: The Silicon Valley-US Intel Revolving Door Is Bigger Than You Thought
By Tyler Durden The US government’s involvement in all forms of media is well known, and goes back to the 1940s. And from the ‘Twitter…
Unregulated, Exploitative, and on the Rise: Vera Institute’s Report on Electronic Monitoring
By Hannah Zhao, José Martinez, and Will Greenberg Incarceration rates in the United States have long been among the highest in the world, and in…
American Totalitarian “Crypto Dollar” May Come Before the Election
By Aaron Day Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) threaten to replace the cash we use with programmable, trackable, and censorable tokens controlled by governments. Your…
City Won’t Renew ShotSpotter Contract; “questionable results of the expensive technology ultimately led to it being deemed not worthwhile”
By B.N. Frank Gun-shot detection technologies are not popular with a growing number of Americans due to their high costs, inaccuracies, ineffectiveness, liability issues, privacy…
New Zealand Grocery Stores Adding Facial Recognition, Police Want Open Discussion
By Masha Borak Facial recognition is entering New Zealand’s grocery stores and the rapid expansion of the technology has been filling the country’s newspaper headlines….