Spying and Surveillance
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
Biometric scanners, including facial recognition, in airports would be a huge step towards a surveillance state
Kesel: “In my opinion based on everything above, JFK’s death is a clear intelligence agency hitjob; it’s absolutely impossible it was just Oswald who murdered Kennedy 53 years ago in Dallas.”
Nanochips and Smart Dust are the new technological means for the advancement of the human microchipping agenda.
Two Montana laws went into effect that work together to ban warrantless collection of cell phone data
The CIA has its own investment capital firm called “In-Q-Tel,” and it’s been funding innovative tech firms for years. This is both good news and bad. One the one hand, it allows the CIA to invest in technologies they deem useful for the intelligence community; however, some of these technologies are a little creepy when it comes to personal space and privacy.
This is unknown technology and we are not privy to testing that is done for them. Is there a government agency(ies) that tests these things, or not. Even if there is, and judging by how all of the reasons whistleblowers have shown us that we should meet the government’s representations with precaution, if not actual skepticism, can we trust that we can trust the results of such testing. Remember also that there is a so-called Black Budget in the government. Is it possible this technology falls under that and, if so, what assurance do we have that this will not be used for ill purpose.
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is intended “to help the executive branch balance national security priorities with individual rights,” the Intercept reported earlier this year. On August 25, the president announced his nomination of Adam I. Klein to chair the PCLOB. However, Klein fails to offer a strong buffer between intrusive policies and the American people.
Generally speaking, conspiracy theories form where there is a vacuum of verifiable facts associated with a controversial, usually tragic event. The concept has evolved over the years and is a part of our popular culture. There are legions of conspiracy theorists and “truthers” who have devoted their lives to certain theories, and there are legions of skeptics who have devoted their lives to debunking those theories. All the while, conspiracy theories of every stripe and variety festoon the footnotes of history.
