Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Social Credit Score USA
September 5th, 2019Via: Paul Watson:
Amazon Tests Whole Foods Payment System that Uses Hands as ID
September 4th, 2019Via: New York Post: Forget the titanium Apple Card — Amazon’s latest payment method uses flesh and blood. The e-tailing giant’s engineers are quietly testing scanners that can identify an individual human hand as a way to ring up a store purchase, with the goal of rolling them out at its Whole Foods supermarket chain […]
Fire Did Not Cause 3rd Tower’s Collapse on 9/11, New Study Finds
September 3rd, 2019Via: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth: On September 11, 2001, at 5:20 PM, the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed into its footprint, falling more than 100 feet at the rate of gravity for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second destruction. Despite calls for the evidence to be preserved, New York City officials had […]
DARPA to Fight Fake News
September 3rd, 2019From my ancient post on the American Culture Bomb: In summary, the U.S. military is aware that “American Culture” is a strategic weapon that is capable of defeating an enemy, or entire populations, without necessarily having to kill them. The U.S. military, however, must and will kill in order to allow “American Culture” into a […]
Proposal to Use Tech Company Surveillance Platforms to Predict Mass Shooters
September 2nd, 2019Via: Vanity Fair: Donald Trump is finally considering taking action to prevent mass shootings—not by enacting gun-control measures, but with a creepy proposal to somehow identify the “neurobehavioral signs” of “someone headed toward a violent explosive act.” According to the Washington Post, which first reported on the secret project under White House consideration Thursday, the […]
How to Teach an Iris Scanner That the Eye It’s Looking at Is Dead
August 29th, 2019Via: IEEE: Conventional wisdom has held that the iris begins decaying only minutes after death. Thanks to Maciejewicz’s work, we discovered that wisdom to be wrong: If cadavers are kept cool, the eyes can still be used for identification for up to three weeks postmortem. Researchers had also assumed that recognition systems could not accurately […]
National-Security Concerns Threaten Undersea Data Link Backed by Google, Facebook
August 28th, 2019The U.S. killed Pacific Fibre back in 2012 due to Chinese involvement. Via: Wall Street Journal: U.S. officials are seeking to block an undersea cable backed by Google, Facebook Inc. and a Chinese partner, in a national-security review that could rewrite the rules of internet connectivity between the U.S. and China, according to people involved […]
Errors in Cellphone Location Evidence Force Denmark to Review 10,000 Verdicts
August 26th, 2019Via: The Verge: Errors in cellphone location data have prompted authorities in Denmark to review 10,700 court cases to see if flawed evidence lead to incorrect convictions. The New York Times reports that the issues date back in 2012, and consist of two bugs. The first relates to how raw data from phone companies is […]
Silicon Valley Firms Building Chinese-Style Social Credit Systems
August 26th, 2019Via: Fast Company: Many Westerners are disturbed by what they read about China’s social credit system. But such systems, it turns out, are not unique to China. A parallel system is developing in the United States, in part as the result of Silicon Valley and technology-industry user policies, and in part by surveillance of social […]
How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon
August 22nd, 2019Insidious. Via: ProPublica: Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price.
