Spying and Surveillance
The documents themselves are quite bizarre and, honestly, despite reports dismissing them, it is worth remembering that this is exactly what the CIA was working on for years during MKULTRA. That program was supposed to have been shut down after the Church Hearings and other congressional hearings exposed all of the CIA’s clandestine activities at the time many that violated human rights including experimentation on patients and the American population without their knowledge.
Police in the US city of Boston unjustly spied on thousands of social media posts and specifically targeted Muslims and African Americans claims the ACLU
The CLOUD Act will also allow the U.S. to enter into agreements that allow the transfer of private data from domestic servers to investigators in other countries on a case-by-case basis, further globalizing the ever-encroaching surveillance state. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has strongly opposed the legislation, listed several consequences of the bill, which it called “far-reaching” and “privacy-upending”:
New leaks from Edward Snowden, has just released documentation showing that the NSA worked ‘urgently’ to target bitcoin users.
The CLOUD Act – a piece of legislation which may erode privacy protections around the globe – was passed by the Senate recently.
AnyVision claims their facial recognition technology can detect, track and recognize any person of interest with more than 99% accuracy. Their video also claims they can identify marathon runners in real-time.
Boston Police effectively broke the law by illegally surveilling social media users for years to conduct online surveillance in 2014, 2015, and 2016, without telling the city council
The Verge reported Friday, U.S. will now be privy to a capacious database of license plates — data reaped by private corporations in the course of standard operations by automated license-plate readers.
The Kentucky House unanimously passed a bill that would require police to get a warrant before engaging in drone surveillance in most situations.
Biometric database is set to commence soon to access Russian financial services.
A group of activists discovered that the WiFi devices have front-facing cameras, and have taken it upon themselves to cover the cameras with Post-It notes to cover them up. However, a LinkNYC team subsequently began sweeps to remove them … and so a front-lines privacy battle has ensued.
Officials are claiming that spying and surveillance programs won’t end anytime soon
The surveillance network is being expanded in Connecticut.
Dozens of police departments across the US are using special devices to track suspects without warrants.
Human trafficking remains a major problem worldwide, and it’s not just pimps and escaped convicts involved. It’s politicians, the elite, wealthy businessmen, your neighbours, and oftentimes the people that you’d least expect. There was an astonishing 35.7% increase in the amount of human trafficking victims in the U.S. between 2015 and 2016, and that’s just the known number of victims. This begs the question: Are we getting better at finding them, or are an increasing number of people being forced to sell their bodies? Sadly, statistics suggest the latter. Technology has played an integral role in finding these victims in recent years; however, technology can also enable human trafficking through the dark net and even through the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips
