Do the Supposed Benefits of Smart Cities Really Outweigh the Privacy Risks?
"As data collection grows in scale, smart cities could become surveillance states in no time."
27 March 2021 - 09:41
Exploring the Privacy Risks from Facial Recognition Technology
What can you do to stay secure?
6 October 2020 - 09:52
Michelle Malkin Warns of Big Money behind the Push for Contact Tracing
"This frightening boost of capital to the surveillance state comes on top of $631 million in Centers for Disease Control funding for contact tracing tucked into the recently-passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Another $75 billion in proposed contact-tracing spending has been folded into in the House Democrats’ second stimulus bill, known as the HEROES Act."
2 June 2020 - 20:59
Police around the World Place Orders for Hi-Tech Surveillance Helmets That Scan for COVID-19 Fevers
Your private parts will soon be on display...
27 May 2020 - 18:36
Leo Hohmann: Know Your Rights or Get Swept Up into Government’s ‘Massive’ Contact-Tracing ‘Show Your Papers’ Scheme
"Americans must get educated on exactly what their rights are in terms of medical privacy."
27 May 2020 - 16:07
Changi-Lite: Singapore Uses Coronavirus Threat to Expand Surveillance State
"Singapore has gradually transformed itself into one of the least free places on the planet."
16 May 2020 - 11:38
Michelle Malkin: Is “Big Google” Watching Your Children?
"Clinton Farwell, a father of two, alleges in the suit that Google illegally collected personally-identifying biometric information from his children through their public school-issued Chromebooks ... as far back as 2015."
12 May 2020 - 07:38
Tom Luongo: “Don’t Trace Me, Bro” — Just Say No to ‘Contact Tracing’
"We’re going to empower the worst busybodies who are already insane with fear to run around collecting data for the government."
29 April 2020 - 15:48
Desperate to Identify People Staying at Home, Biometric Industry Holds “Festival of Identity Webinar”
"We cannot afford to allow shameless biometric companies to profit from COVID-19."
28 April 2020 - 18:48
CCTV Cameras Are Being Turned Into Heartbeat Measuring Social-Distancing Monsters
"... the street cams are public on the internet, so we can just connect to them and pull the data from them."
24 April 2020 - 17:48
The Future of a Free Humanity Depends on Our Actions Today
Hindsight is 20/20, we are told...
23 April 2020 - 01:48
COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society?
"It’s a concerted campaign to shift consumers towards a digital mode of commerce that can easily be monitored, tracked, tabulated, mined for data, hacked, hijacked and confiscated when convenient."
20 April 2020 - 00:05
Pandemic Drones to Monitor Crowds from Above to Detect People with Fevers in United States
"You'll be seeing this very soon. Where it's most critically needed is where we're going."
17 April 2020 - 16:48
ACLU Files Historic Lawsuit to Stop Surveillance Planes above Baltimore
"If this wide-area aerial surveillance program is allowed to move forward, we can expect mass surveillance to spread in cities across the country."
15 April 2020 - 19:39
Airbnb Gives Renters Secret Risk Assessments and Personality Tests
"Airbnb does not want people who are "shy, anxious or depressed" to rent their apartments, condominiums or homes because those types of people are likely to leave negative comments."
5 March 2020 - 04:48
SmartRent Gives Property Owners Unprecedented Access to Renters’ Private Lives
"SmartRent uses smart devices, like light switches, thermostats, speakers, and numerous other devices to turn properties into real-time surveillance platforms."
27 February 2020 - 01:48
The Fed Just Revealed Plans for a Digital Dollar Replacement
"If the Federal Reserve wanted to outlaw cash, and your only choice was to use Fedcoin to make purchases, then your financial life would be tracked under their watchful eye."
21 February 2020 - 04:48
Cities Create New Ways to Expand Neighborhood Surveillance Programs
"The name of the Dunwoody police cam-share program is called "Silent Partners" which encourages so-called silent partners" to secretly monitor vehicles and people not suspected of committing a crime."
17 February 2020 - 07:48
The EU-Originated Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) Has Made Monetary Privacy Increasingly Elusive
"Let's hope that powerful voices step forward in Parliament to make the case for privacy, monetary and otherwise."
15 February 2020 - 07:48
Hospitals Use Experian’s Secret Credit Scores to Determine Who Will Receive Medical Care
"Big Brother has no business in health care."
13 February 2020 - 01:48
Robert Carling: Let Legal Tender Stay Legal
"As is so often the case, this is a draconian measure that sacrifices our economic freedom on the altar of some high-minded regulatory goal."
12 February 2020 - 07:48
Rekor Systems Uses Video Doorbells to Create Neighborhood License Plate Reader Networks
"Rekor Systems is going to great lengths to turn smart homes into neighborhood license plate reader networks."
4 February 2020 - 22:48
The US Drug Enforcement Administration’s National License Plate Reader Network Expands To Smaller Cities
"Do you want Big Brother to know when you go to the bank, pharmacy, grocery store, liquor store, place of worship, or cannabis dispensary?"
21 January 2020 - 20:58
Elderly, Wheelchair-Bound Woman Alleges TSA Agents Groped Her Upper and Lower Body without Warning in Full View of Other Travellers
"TSA employees reportedly ordered a 95-year-old leukemia patient in a wheelchair to remove her adult diaper so that agents could search her."
17 January 2020 - 19:48