Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Los Angeles Unified School District and Microsoft Implement Daily Pass App for Students
March 23rd, 2021As you watch this, you might be thinking, “This can’t be real.” It’s definitely real. Via: Reclaim the Net: The Los Angeles Unified School District has partnered with tech giant Microsoft to introduce a COVID-19 “Daily Pass” app which requires students as young as 13 to complete daily in-app health checks in order to gain […]
UK Announces Vaccine ‘Certificates’, Says They Are Not Vaccine Passports
March 22nd, 2021Via: Summit News: The UK government Culture Secretary announced Thursday that “Covid-19 certification” is coming to enable people to attend sports events and go to theatre performances, but in the same breath denied that COVID passports are being introduced. Appearing on Sky News, Oliver Dowden said that the government is trialling a system to ensure […]
Company Offering Realtime Tracking Information For “Specific Cars In Nearly Any Country On Earth”
March 17th, 2021Mobile phone tracking: Check License plate tracking: Check Vehicle telematics tracking: Check Via: Vice: A surveillance contractor that has previously sold services to the U.S. military is advertising a product that it says can locate the real-time locations of specific cars in nearly any country on Earth. It says it does this by using data […]
A Defensive Computing Checklist
March 17th, 2021For those who didn’t get enough from Who Controls Your Computer? (And How to make sure it’s you). This is more hilarious than anything else: defensivecomputingchecklist.com
First AI System for Contactless Monitoring of Heart Rhythm Using Smart Speakers
March 11th, 2021Via: University of Washington: UW researchers have developed a new skill for a smart speaker that for the first time monitors both regular and irregular heartbeats without physical contact. The system sends inaudible sounds from the speaker out into a room and, based on the way the sounds are reflected back to the speaker, it […]
NY Testing ‘COVID Passport’
March 4th, 2021Via: Fox: With the limited resumption of sporting events at venues in New York, Madison Square Garden and the Barclays Center will be used as testing grounds for a new digital pass that could confirm the owner’s COVID status. It will confirm an individual’s vaccination or recent negative coronavirus test. First tested at the Brooklyn […]
Skydio: Drones With ‘Most Advanced AI Ever’ Coming Soon To Your Local Police Department
March 3rd, 2021Via: Forbes: It claims to be shipping the most advanced AI-powered drone ever built: a quadcopter that costs as little as $1,000, which can latch on to targets and follow them, dodging all sorts of obstacles and capturing everything on high-quality video. Skydio claims that its software can even predict a target’s next move, be […]
China’s ‘Sharp Eyes’ Program Aims to Surveil 100% of Public Space
March 3rd, 2021Via: Dave Gershgorn: One of China’s largest and most pervasive surveillance networks got its start in a small county about seven hours north of Shanghai. In 2013, the local government in Pingyi County began installing tens of thousands of security cameras across urban and rural areas — more than 28,500 in total by 2016. Even […]
Israel: ‘Freedom Bracelet’ Tracking Device Launched As Alternative To Quarantine
March 2nd, 2021Via: Summit News: Israel has rolled out what it is calling a ‘Freedom bracelet’, a tracking device that will serve as an alternative to a two-week quarantine for anyone entering the country from abroad.
Reasons Why Bill Gates Is Now America’s Biggest Farmland Owner
February 28th, 2021The inflation hedge is definitely a part of it, but my guess is that future production of dangerous frankenpHood is the main driver. Via: New York Post: For investors who know what they’re doing, agricultural land offers financial stability in uncertain times. “Farmland has had a remarkably consistent ability to hedge against inflation,” Sherrick says. […]
