Archive for the 'Police State' Category
New Zealand: Biometric Payment Terminals
July 31st, 2026“like, wow”. Via: Radio New Zealand: Kiwis could soon be able to make purchases using their face or hand, without the need for a card. EFTPOS New Zealand is rolling out new Verifone Victa biometric payment terminals that will allow people to pay with their faces or palms – without cards. The new tech can […]
GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta
July 28th, 2026Via: Reclaim the Net: The Justice Department is asking a federal court in Atlanta to treat a man’s erasure of his own phone as destruction of property, in the first known US prosecution built on a phone’s duress password. Samuel Tunick faces one count under Title 18, Section 2232(a), a statute covering the destruction of […]
How Texas Police Spent $4.5 Million on Four Chevy Tahoes
July 19th, 2026Via: The Drive: It’s hard to make a 2026 Chevy Tahoe cost more than a million dollars. Until you start packing it with military-grade public surveillance technology. Ominous Israeli surveillance tech is now being deployed on American roads. FalcoNet, brought to you by a company called Cognyte (Israel’s Palantir rival), secretly tracks people by intercepting […]
Happy 250th, America
July 4th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media: Related: A Country the Founders Wouldn’t Recognize as Their Creation
Flock Cameras Track A Lot More Than Your License Plate
June 28th, 2026Via: Engadget: Thanks to the rise of AI, a new kind of surveillance camera has rapidly proliferated across the United States. Typically referred to as automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, they’re most often mounted along roadways, where they log the movements of cars which pass through their field of vision. Though various companies offer […]
Digital Euro Moves Ahead
June 23rd, 2026Via: Reuters: The European Central Bank secured key parliamentary backing on Tuesday for the launch of a digital euro, an electronic means of payments aimed at making the euro zone less reliant on U.S. credit cards at a ?time of fraying transatlantic relationships. The digital euro, essentially an electronic wallet guaranteed by the central bank […]
Never Give Them Your Face
June 22nd, 2026Via: Never Give Them Your Face: They want your face. It will be called safety. Verification. Age assurance. A small step to protect children. But strip the language away and the demand is plain: before you may speak, post, or read, you must first prove who you are. And the only way they’ve figured out […]
Identity Verification on Claude
June 21st, 2026About a week ago, I complained about being asked for my mobile phone number to use Claude. And now… Via: Claude: Being responsible with powerful technology starts with knowing who is using it. Identity verification helps us prevent abuse, enforce our usage policies, and comply with legal obligations. We are rolling out identity verification for […]
We’re Already Living in an Alien Invasion Movie
June 20th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media:
For the Children: Britain Forces Age Verification to Access Social Media
June 16th, 2026What’s next? Identity checks to use VPNs? Via: Reason: Regardless of how the ban will be enforced, one thing is certain: It will come at the expense of the privacy of all British internet users. The government cannot ban children from social media without asking everyone else to prove they are not children. Ofcom, Britain’s […]
