Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
The Fantasy of Opting Out
November 1st, 2019Via: The MIT Press Reader: Consider a day in the life of a fairly ordinary person in a large city in a stable, democratically governed country. She is not in prison or institutionalized, nor is she a dissident or an enemy of the state, yet she lives in a condition of permanent and total surveillance […]
Military Algorithm Can Predict Illness 48 Hours Before Symptoms Show
October 25th, 2019Via: Nextgov: U.S. service members are strong but they’re still people, and people get sick sometimes. But when one gets sick at the last minute, that can have serious repercussions on their unit’s ability to execute critical missions. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, or DTRA, is trying to get ahead of this problem by developing […]
SpaceX Plans to Start Offering Starlink Broadband Services in 2020
October 24th, 2019Global Lightning. Hmm. Via: Space News: Shotwell said many of the Starlink features are being tested by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under a program called Global Lightning. SpaceX in December 2018 received a $28 million contract to test over the next three years different ways in which the military might use Starlink broadband […]
“We the People” Have Become “We the Police State”
October 23rd, 2019Via: The Rutherford Institute: We are fast becoming slaves in thrall to a faceless, nameless, bureaucratic totalitarian government machine that relentlessly erodes our freedoms through countless laws, statutes, and prohibitions. Book: Battlefield America: The War On The American People by John W. Whitehead
We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe
October 21st, 2019Via: Scientific American: The telecommunications industry and their experts have accused many scientists who have researched the effects of cell phone radiation of “fear mongering” over the advent of wireless technology’s 5G. Since much of our research is publicly-funded, we believe it is our ethical responsibility to inform the public about what the peer-reviewed scientific […]
Junior Minister Says Gov.UK Considering Facial Recognition to Verify Age of Porn-Watchers
October 21st, 2019In other news, China: Face Scan Required to Use Internet. Via: The Register: The UK government could use facial recognition to verify the age of Brits online “so long as there is an appropriate concern for privacy,” junior minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Matt Warman said. The minister was responding to an urgent […]
Google Starts Drone Deliveries in Christiansburg, Virginia
October 18th, 2019Via: VentureBeat: As of this afternoon, select residents of Christiansburg, Virginia can tap drones operated by Google parent company Alphabet’s Wing for quick and fee-free deliveries of packages, over-the-counter medications, snacks, and gifts. The company today revealed that it’s become the first to operate a commercial air delivery service directly to homes in the U.S., […]
SpaceX Submits Paperwork for 30,000 More Starlink Satellites
October 16th, 201942,000 satellites in low Earth orbit… Is anyone besides me wondering if there is some other purpose here besides fast Internet access? Via: SpaceNews: SpaceX has asked the International Telecommunication Union to arrange spectrum for 30,000 additional Starlink satellites. SpaceX, which is already planning the world’s largest low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation by far, filed paperwork in […]
Google’s New Voice Recorder App Transcribes in Real Time, Even When Offline
October 16th, 2019Via: TechCrunch: At Google’s hardware event this morning, the company introduced a new voice recorder app for Android devices, which will tap into advances in real-time speech processing, speech recognition and AI to automatically transcribe recordings in real time as the person is speaking. The improvements will allow users to take better advantage of the […]
Firefox Privacy – The Complete How-To Guide
October 15th, 2019Via: Restore Privacy: Mozilla Firefox is arguably the best browser available that combines strong privacy protection features, good security, active development, and regular updates. The newest version of Firefox is fast, light-weight, and packed full of privacy and security features. It is for this reason that I consider Firefox to be the best all-around browser […]
