Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
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 […]
The Top 10 Creepiest and Most Dystopian Things Pushed by the World Economic Forum (WEF)
June 5th, 2022Via: Vigilant Citizen: Here are the 10 most dystopian things that are being pushed by the WEF right now. This list sorted is in no particular order. Because they’re all equally crazy. Related: “Environmentally-Friendly Digital Children Who Will Not Deplete the Planet of Any of Its Natural Resources”
Iran Rolls Out Digital Food Rationing
May 20th, 2022Via: Off-Guardian: Iran is set to be the first country to roll out a food rationing scheme based on new biometric IDs. Where vaccine passports failed, food passports will now be eagerly accepted by hungry people who can’t afford rapidly inflating food prices. This is the realization of a longstanding agenda by the Rockefeller/UN/WEF crowd […]
Pranking Scam Call Centers
May 11th, 2022Via: Mark Rober:
90% of Nations Planning Central Bank Digital Currency
May 9th, 2022Via: Off-Guardian: Essentially, any CBDC would give either the state, the central bank or the corporation issuing the money as wages the power to control how and where the money is spent. Any CBDC amounts to potential third-party control of your money. It’s that simple.
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
May 4th, 2022Via: Vice: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents […]
FBI Conducted Millions of Warrantless Searches of Americans’ Data in 2021
April 30th, 2022Via: National Review: The FBI conducted as many as 3.4 million searches of data in the U.S. without a warrant over the year 2021, according to a new government report. The Annual Statistical Transparency Report, was published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Thursday and focuses on the intelligence community’s use […]
Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes
April 30th, 2022Via: Vice: Facebook is facing what it describes internally as a “tsunami” of privacy regulations all over the world, which will force the company to dramatically change how it deals with users’ personal data. And the “fundamental” problem, the company admits, is that Facebook has no idea where all of its user data goes, or […]
