“A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.”—John Salter – Police in a small Georgia town tasered a 5-foot-2, 87-year-old woman who was using a […]
SHOT: ‘Social Score’ Facebook Has ‘Trust’ Ratings for Users–But Refuses to Divulge Your Score…
FACEBOOK is rating users based on how “trustworthy” it thinks they are. Users receive a score on a scale from zero to one that determines if they have a good or bad reputation – but it’s completely hidden. The rating system was revealed in a report by the Washington Post – and later confirmed by […]
FLASHBACK: CHASER — China Assigns Every Citizen a ‘Social Credit Score’ to Identify Who Is and Isn’t Trustworthy…
Chinese Surveillance State Is Basically the U.S. Surveillance Apparatus Minus the Constitutional Rights…
Reuters has a long, detailed examination of the Chinese surveillance state. China’s intrusion into the lives of its citizens has never been minimal, but advances in technology have allowed the government to keep tabs on pretty much every aspect of citizens’ lives. Facial recognition has been deployed at scale and it’s not limited to finding […]
From Laboratory in Far West, China’s Surveillance State Spreads Quietly…
Filip Liu, a 31-year-old software developer from Beijing, was traveling in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang when he was pulled to one side by police as he got off a bus. The officers took Liu’s iPhone, hooked it up to a handheld device that looked like a laptop and told him they were […]
Will Brennan’s Text Messages and Emails Be Next?…
Former CIA Director John Brennan has dominated the headlines this week after President Trump revoked his security clearance on Wednesday due to national security concerns. And, while many intelligence officials–like former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, and Department of Justice attorney Bruce Ohr–have all had some of their Trump-Russia communications […]
Facial Recognition Gives Police a Powerful New Tracking Tool. It’s Also Raising Alarms…
Picture a crowded street. Police are searching for a man believed to have committed a violent crime. To find him, they feed a photograph into a video surveillance network powered by artificial intelligence. A camera, one of thousands, scans the street, instantly analyzing the faces of everyone it sees. Then, an alert: The algorithms found […]
TSA Is Tracking Regular Travelers Like Terrorists in Secret Surveillance…
Federal air marshals have begun following ordinary US citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list and collecting extensive information about their movements and behavior under a new domestic surveillance program that is drawing criticism from within the agency. The previously undisclosed program, called “Quiet Skies,” specifically targets travelers who “are […]
Former Obama Officials Help Silicon Valley Pitch the Pentagon for Lucrative Defense Contracts…
Silicon Valley firms seeking lucrative business opportunities with the Pentagon face a range of obstacles, not least the morally fraught choice of enabling a military led by President Donald Trump with the latest technological solutions. Enter a group of former high-level officials from the Obama administration, who are helping to bridge the divide between tech […]
The Wiretap Rooms: The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities…
The secrets are hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers and fortress-like concrete structures that were built to withstand earthquakes and even nuclear attack. Thousands of people pass by the buildings each day and rarely give them a second glance, because their function is not publicly known. They […]
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