Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Vaccine Passports for Interstate Travel? “Too Polarizing for the Moment”
August 13th, 2021Via: AP: Still, while more severe measures — such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID-19 — have been discussed, the administration worried that they would be too polarizing for the moment. That’s not to say they won’t […]
Covid-19 “Vaccine” Passports Come Into Effect in France
August 11th, 2021Game Over. Via: Telegraph:
NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon
August 10th, 2021Via: Nextgov: The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion to Amazon Web Services, Nextgov has learned. The contract is already being challenged. Tech giant Microsoft filed a bid protest on July 21 with the Government Accountability Office two weeks after being notified by the NSA that […]
Infrastructure Bill Could Enable Government to Track Drivers’ Travel Data
August 10th, 2021“I think I’ll head to the store to pick up a few things.” And then… Via: The Intercept: The Senate’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill proposes a national test program that would allow the government to collect drivers’ data in order to charge them per-mile travel fees. The new revenue would help finance the Highway […]
Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
August 6th, 2021Via: EFF: Apple has announced impending changes to its operating systems that include new “protections for children” features in iCloud and iMessage. If you’ve spent any time following the Crypto Wars, you know what this means: Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage system and its messaging system. Child exploitation is […]
The Pentagon Is Experimenting With Using Artificial Intelligence To “See Days In Advance”
August 2nd, 2021“Remember the one about better broadband Internet options for rural customers? haha” And now… Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) use Starlink. I went looking for how they are using Starlink and couldn’t find much, except this gibberish on an Air Force press release. I bolded the parts that might relate to Starlink: In addition to […]
France Fines Monsanto for Illegally Acquiring Data on Journalists, Activists
July 29th, 2021Via: AFP: France’s personal data protection agency on Wednesday fined US firm Monsanto for illegally compiling files of public figures, journalists and activists with the aim of swaying opinion towards support for its controversial pesticides. The firm, now owned by German chemical giant Bayer, failed to inform the people on the watch lists compiled in […]
‘Metaverse’: The Next Internet Revolution?
July 28th, 2021Via: Tech Xplore: Imagine a world where you could sit on the same couch as a friend who lives thousands of miles away, or conjure up a virtual version of your workplace while at the beach. Welcome to the metaverse: a vision of the future that sounds fantastical, but which tech titans like Facebook founder […]
The FBI Is Locating Cars By Spying On Their WiFi
July 27th, 2021Via: Forbes: The FBI is using a controversial technology traditionally used to locate smartphones as a car tracking surveillance tool that spies on vehicles’ on-board WiFi. Known as a Stingray or a cell-site simulator, the tool masquerades as a cell tower in order to force all devices in a given area to connect into it. […]
Britcoin
July 25th, 2021Via: Daily Mail: Cash in people’s pockets would be superseded by a new ‘Britcoin’ digital currency in a plan being pushed by Chancellor Rishi Sunak. In what Treasury insiders say would be the biggest upheaval in the monetary system for centuries, the Bank of England would establish a direct digital equivalent to physical money and […]
