Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Amazon Bought iRobot to See Inside Your Home
August 5th, 2022Via: The Verge: When I spoke to iRobot’s Colin Angle earlier this summer, he said iRobot OS — the latest software operating system for its robot vacuums and mops — would provide its household bots with a deeper understanding of your home and your habits. This takes on a whole new meaning with the news […]
How Technocommunism Will Institute The CBDC
August 2nd, 2022Via: 2nd Smartest Guy in the World: The entire global financial system is now essentially a technocommunist black ops money laundering crime scene. Central banks, their wall street coconspirators and the major corporations are all colluding in ushering in their hyper-centralized CBDC dystopia. This central bank “currency” will of course be inextricably tethered to the […]
Police Are Using Newborn Genetic Screening to Search for Suspects
August 1st, 2022In other recent news: Biological Weapons to Target Individuals Based on DNA Via: ACLU: Nearly every baby born in the U.S. has blood drawn in the immediate hours after their birth, allowing the baby to be tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening inherited disorders. This is a vital public health program, enabling early treatment […]
How the CDC Coordinated With Big Tech To Censor Americans
July 31st, 2022Via: Washington Free Beacon: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention coordinated with social media companies and Google to censor users who expressed skepticism or criticism of COVID-19 vaccines, according to a trove of internal communications obtained by America First Legal and shared exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon. Over the course of at least […]
New Records Detail DHS Purchase and Use of Vast Quantities of Cell Phone Location Data
July 18th, 2022Via: ACLU: Today, the ACLU published thousands of pages of previously unreleased records about how Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other parts of the Department of Homeland Security are sidestepping our Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable government searches and seizures by buying access to, and using, huge volumes of people’s cell […]
Amazon Admits Giving Ring Camera Footage to Police Without a Warrant or Consent
July 14th, 2022Via: The Intercept: Ring, Amazon’s perennially controversial and police-friendly surveillance subsidiary, has long defended its cozy relationship with law enforcement by pointing out that cops can only get access to a camera owner’s recordings with their express permission or a court order. But in response to recent questions from Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., the company […]
Space Force Launches New Intelligence Unit as Congress Voices Concerns Over Growth
July 6th, 2022Via: Military.com: The Space Force has assumed command of a new unit that will be focused on keeping an eye out for foreign threats in space, but it comes as Congress is warning the small service branch that it has to prepare to slow its growth. Delta 18 and the brand-new National Space Intelligence Center […]
The World’s Biggest Surveillance Company You’ve Never Heard Of
June 24th, 2022Via: MIT Technology Review: You may never have heard of Hikvision, but chances are you’ve already been captured by one of its millions of cameras. The Chinese company’s products can be found anywhere from police surveillance systems to baby monitors in more than 190 countries. Its ability to make decent-quality products at cheap prices (as […]
Alexa Upgrade Lets Dead Family Speak to You by “Learning Voice in a Minute”
June 23rd, 2022An hour ago, I was reading Starfall, by Drew Harrison. Part of the plot includes bribery of a corporate executive with AI generated material. So, get busy and, make the memories last… Via: The Sun: The goal, said Amazon’s senior vice president, Rohit Prasad, is to ‘make the memories last’ after ‘so many of us […]
Chinese Researchers Build ‘Mind Reading’ Device That Detects When Men Watch Porn
June 22nd, 2022The prototype device was made “for bad information detection.” That’s what Twitter is for. Via: Independent: Chinese researchers have reportedly developed a device that can detect when a man is watching pornography by ‘reading his mind’. The new device, as reported by the South China Morning Post, would benefit Chinese internet censors by detecting the […]
