Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Winged Microchip Is Smallest-Ever Human-Made Flying Structure, Could be Used for, “Disease Tracking, Population Surveillance”
October 8th, 2021Via: Northwestern Now: Northwestern University engineers have added a new capability to electronic microchips: flight. About the size of a grain of sand, the new flying microchip (or “microflier”) does not have a motor or engine. Instead, it catches flight on the wind — much like a maple tree’s propeller seed — and spins like […]
Singapore’s Patrol Robots
October 6th, 2021Via: Guardian: Singapore has trialled patrol robots that blast warnings at people engaging in “undesirable social behaviour”, adding to an arsenal of surveillance technology in the tightly controlled city-state that is fuelling privacy concerns. From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion […]
“Keyword Warrants”
October 6th, 2021Via: Forbes: The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally unsealed court document shows. There are fears such “keyword warrants” threaten to implicate innocent Web users in serious crimes and are more common than previously thought.
Amazon’s Home Robot Can Follow You Around
September 28th, 2021Great! Via: USA Today: Amazon’s next big leap in hardware: a personal robot. On Tuesday, Amazon announced Astro, a home robot the company says can help owners keep up with tasks such as home monitoring or keeping in touch with family and friends.
China Declares All Virtual Currency Transactions “Illegal”
September 24th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: China expanded its escalating crackdown on cryptocurrencies on Friday when its central bank declared that all activities related to digital coins are “illegal” and must be banned. In a statement the People’s Bank of China said the latest notice was to further prevent the risks surrounding crypto trading and to maintain national security […]
The New Warrant: How U.S. Police Mine Google for Your Location and Search History
September 16th, 2021Via: Guardian: It was a routine bike ride around the neighborhood that landed Zachary McCoy in the crosshairs of the Gainesville, Florida, police department. In January 2020, an alarming email from Google landed in McCoy’s inbox. Police were requesting his user data, the company told him, and McCoy had 7 days to go to court […]
We Are in a Global Revolution That Is Bringing in a Genuine and Terrifying Totalitarianism
September 16th, 2021“9/11 wasn’t enough…” Via: Richard Dolan: Just because the word “revolution” isn’t being bandied about doesn’t mean it’s not all around us. We happen to be living in the midst of a global revolution that is bringing in a genuine and terrifying totalitarianism. The 9/11 Revolution was Phase One; welcome to Phase Two which is […]
20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9/11 to COVID-19
September 10th, 2021Via: The Rutherford Institute: What a strange and harrowing road we’ve walked since September 11, 2001, littered with the debris of our once-vaunted liberties. We have gone from a nation that took great pride in being a model of a representative democracy to being a model of how to persuade a freedom-loving people to march […]
LAPD Orders Cops To Collect Social Media Data On Every Single Person They Stop
September 9th, 2021Can you imagine how far gone people have to be to comply with this? Via: ZeroHedge: Los Angeles police officers have been directed to collect social media information on every civilian they interview, including people who haven’t been arrested or accused of a crime, according to the Guardian, citing leaked records. According to the report, […]
Australia: “We Will Be Looking At What Contact Tracing Looks Like In The New World Order”
September 9th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: And here is Hazzard, who has referred to the New World Order multiple times. pic.twitter.com/ZVm8ITaV8C — Wong Do Mein (@wong_d0_mein) September 9, 2021
