By Derrick Broze, Dec 31, 2020 | Original The Last American Vagabond article here. The Next Administration will inherit a massive facial recognition infrastructure which was set into motion by the Trump administration. In November, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) proposed a new rule that will exponentially expand the use of facial recognition …
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Shoshana Zuboff, PhD on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — VPRO Documentary
By Cory Doctorow | Original Medium article here. | Illustrations: Shira Inbar Editor’s Note: Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended. This is the subject of Cory Doctorow’s new book, which we’re thrilled to publish …
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Propaganda Watch: Stop Calling It Contact Tracing The State of the Police State: A Letter to the Future COVID-19: Now the Government Will Be Tracking You Could China’s SARS-CoV-2 Mass Surveillance Come to the US?
. . . As Covid-19 Crackdowns Escalate Across the World Through-Wall Person Identification Achieved By Comparing Wireless Surveillance Data to Video Footage By Tyler Durden, Apr 7, 2020 | Original ZeroHedge article here. All across the world, starting with China, the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed for proliferation of surveillance states. More than 100 rights groups …
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by Derrick Broze & Josh del Sol, Mar 28, 2020 | Original TBYP article here. While much of the world has been focused on surviving a "pandemic", social distancing and quarantines, the proponents of mass surveillance and Densified 4G and 5G Wireless Telecommunications Facilities (WTFs) have been scoring major gains. During this chaotic time it’s …
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. . . Which Poses the Greater Threat? By John W. Whitehead, Mar 03, 2020 | Original Commentary here. “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: …
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9/17/18 American Enterprise Institute PanelRoger Entner — A 4G and 5G Wireless Future 12/24/18: 4G and 5G Wireless Surveillance Future Thsese area strong reasons to not allow your town to install a grid of 4G and 5G Close Proximity Microwave Radiation Antennas (CPMRAs), aka Small Cells, in residential neighborhoods — it would be …
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By David Ruiz, January 11, 2018; Original article here. House Fails to Protect Americans from Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance The House of Representatives cast a deeply disappointing vote today to extend NSA spying powers for the next six years by a 256-164 margin. In a related vote, the House also failed to adopt meaningful reforms on …
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A San Diegoan with ties to the cannabis industry insinuated himself into Santa Barbara politics—including its cannabis licensing procedures. By Mitchell Kriegman, Mar 12, 2021 Original LA Magazine4 article is here. Sipping from a Big Gulp cup, crammed behind his desk in City Hall, Anthony Wagner opened up a Zoom call in early May. Wagner …
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