Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Florida Sheriff Deputy Arrested After Planting Drugs on Innocent People
July 15th, 2019Via: Reason: A former Florida sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday for planting drugs and falsely arresting at least 10 people, including one case where Reason obtained body camera footage showing him lying about the results of roadside field test. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) announced yesterday that, following a months-long investigation, former Jackson […]
New Zealand Gun Owners Refusing to Turn Over Firearms to Government
July 8th, 2019Via: Reason: Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an ineffective means of convincing people to obey. Specifically, New Zealand’s government—which also stepped up censorship and domestic surveillance after bloody attacks on two Christchurch mosques earlier this year—is running into stiff resistance to new […]
The 5G Dragnet
June 23rd, 2019Via: The Corbett Report:
“Amazon Could Equip Drones to Keep Watch Over Your Home”
June 19th, 2019Via: Times: Amazon’s delivery drones could one day be fitted with an arsenal of cameras and sensors to monitor customers’ homes in between drop-offs. The retail giant has obtained a patent for a “surveillance as a service” function for the drones, which could be fitted with thermal-imaging cameras, surveying lasers and chemical sensors to detect […]
DHS to Move Biometric Data on Hundreds of Millions of People to Amazon Cloud
June 19th, 2019Via: Nextgov: The Homeland Security Department is looking to upgrade the software it uses to analyze biometric data on hundreds of millions of people around the globe, and it plans to store that information in Amazon’s cloud. The agency’s Office of Biometric Identification Management will replace its legacy biometric analysis platform, called the Automated Biometric […]
Police Department to Deploy ‘RoboCop’ to Monitor Public Areas
June 19th, 2019Via: Fox6: The Huntington Park Police Department is set to unveil “HP RoboCop,” the latest tool in the force’s arsenal that will keep an electronic eye on public areas, the city of Huntington Park announced in a news release. The device is “an autonomous data machine that is meant to serve outdoors,” that will use […]
Drone Over Hong Kong Protests
June 15th, 2019Via: Team BlackSheep:
HONG KONG LEADER SUSPENDS EXTRADITION BILL
June 15th, 2019Via: Reuters: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday indefinitely delayed a proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after anger over the bill triggered the city’s biggest and most violent street protests in decades. The extradition bill, which would have covered Hong Kong’s seven million residents as […]
The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction
June 14th, 2019Via: The Rutherford Institute: The government now has at its disposal technological arsenals so sophisticated and invasive as to render any constitutional protections null and void. Spearheaded by the NSA, which has shown itself to care little to nothing for constitutional limits or privacy, the “security/industrial complex”—a marriage of government, military and corporate interests aimed […]
Photos Of Travelers Coming In And Out Of The U.S. Have Been Hacked And Stolen
June 10th, 2019Via: BuzzFeed: A US Customs and Border Protection subcontractor suffered a data breach that exposed the photos of tens of thousands of travelers coming in and out of the United States, the agency revealed Monday, in what it described as a “malicious cyber-attack.” The database of identifying traveler photos and license plate images had been […]
