Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Canada: “Digital Safety Commission”
May 19th, 2024Via: Russell Brand:
Police Issued QR Codes to Enter Parts of Paris This Summer
May 14th, 2024Via: Metro: The capital of France– Paris – will be split into zones this summer, with anyone wanting to enter certain areas required to show a pass on their phone. Special measures will be in place throughout the city as part of increased security around the Olympic Games, which start in July. Anyone wishing to […]
Gavin Newsom Is Coming For Your Car, And He Wants You To Know It
May 12th, 2024Via: Politico: Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking California’s climate story — with its big ambitions and political risks — on the road. The Democratic governor, Biden surrogate and potential presidential contender is pushing aggressive climate action in appearances from China to the Vatican, selling it as a winning issue beyond the borders of his deep-blue […]
War Zone Surveillance Technology Is Hitting American Streets
May 1st, 2024Via: NOTUS: Big Brother isn’t just watching you: He’s using your cell phone, smartwatch, wireless earbuds, car entertainment systems and license plates to track your location in real time. Contracting records and notes from local government meetings obtained by NOTUS show that federal and state Homeland Security grants allow local law enforcement agencies to surveil […]
And Now… AI Assisted Police Reports
April 24th, 2024Via: Forbes: American cops are increasingly leaning on artificial intelligence to assist with policing, from AI models that analyze criminal patterns to drones that can fly themselves. Now, a GPT-4 powered AI can do one of their less appealing jobs: filing paperwork. On Tuesday, Axon, the $22 billion police contractor best known for manufacturing the […]
How Proposed Legislation Might Pave the Way for Online Age Verification and Digital ID
April 23rd, 2024Via: Reclaim the Net: Bipartisan legislative efforts are underway in the US House of Representatives to adopt new versions of two laws originally drawn up to deal with the safety of youth online. But the fear is that the bills introduced now – H.R.7891, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), and H.R. 7890, the Children […]
CIA Officer/Former FBI Boasts “Can Put Anyone in Jail…Set ’Em Up!” “We Call It a Nudge”
April 10th, 2024Update: Alex Jones To Sue FBI and CIA: Infowars founder and host Alex Jones says he plans to sue the CIA following the release of an undercover sting in which an alleged CIA officer claims that the US intelligence community “took his [Jones’s] money away” to “chop his legs off.” Via: Sound Investigations:
JK Rowling Dares Police to Arrest Her Over SNP’s New Hate Crime Law
April 1st, 2024Update: JK Rowling Hate Law Posts Not Criminal, Police Say Via: BBC: Social media comments made by JK Rowling challenging Scotland’s new hate crime law are not being treated as criminal, Police Scotland has said. The Harry Potter author described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures. The […]
FBI Agent Says He Hassles People ‘Every Day, All Day Long’ Over Facebook Posts
March 30th, 2024Via: Reason: The FBI spends “every day, all day long” interrogating people over their Facebook posts. At least, that’s what agents told Stillwater, Oklahoma, resident Rolla Abdeljawad when they showed up at her house to ask her about her social media activity. Three FBI agents came to Abdeljawad’s house and said that they had been […]
SWIFT Planning Launch of New Central Bank Digital Currency Platform
March 26th, 2024Via: Reuters: Global bank messaging network SWIFT is planning a new platform in the next one to two years to connect the wave of central bank digital currencies now in development to the existing finance system, it has told Reuters. The move, which would be one of the most significant yet for the nascent CBDC […]
