The Right to Be Let Alone: When the Government Wants to Know All Your Business
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.”
Supreme Court Justice Louis D.
Topic
Surveillance
A collection of 187 articles
“One Health”, ESG & “Sustainable Development”: Inside the WHO’s “Pandemic Treaty”
The World Health Organization is the One Ring to Rule them All, and its written goal, inscribed in fiery letters along both sides of its band, is the Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Treaty. Fashioned by the Dark Lord of the Twenty-first Century, the United States of America, in its
Amazon's Relationship with Police Causes Privacy Nightmare for Honest Citizen
The Amazon-owned Ring home security camera system has developed a “symbiotic” relationship with police, and creates a privacy nightmare for honest citizens by handing over private video footage to law enforcement without much pushback. Late last year, when Ohio business owner Michael Larkin cooperated with police who were investigating his
While you are watching your TV, your TV is watching you
According to Yuval Noah Harari the “covid crisis” was a watershed moment in terms of surveillance and personal data. During a panel discussion at the 2020 Athens Democracy Forum, Harari was asked what were his fears and concerns about digital surveillance. He said televisions not only know what we’re
Russia to introduce digital identity cards
It seems QR codes will soon be back in vogue in Russia.
Via Interfax:
The Ministry of Digital Development, together with the FSB, will submit to the Russian government by May 1 a draft decree allowing the use of a digital identity card on smartphones instead of [an internal] passport
15-minute cities: Councils are attempting to remove our freedoms, take control of our lives and herd us into spaces they completely control
At the same time local governments in the UK are attempting to implement 15-minute cities a top banker claims the rollout of a digital ID “super app” is inevitable. Both are dystopian control tools and neither is inevitable.
It’s not only in the UK that cities are signing up
360 Degree Surveillance: How Police Use Public-Private Partnerships to Spy on Americans
“We live in a surveillance state founded on a partnership between government and the technology industry.”
Law Professor Avidan Y. Cover
In this age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are no private lives: everything is public.
Surveillance cameras mounted on utility poles, traffic lights, businesses, and homes. License plate readers. Ring
Don’t Trust the Government with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
How do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t.
When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned and killed by the government, one can only conclude that you shouldn’
You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It
“He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows when you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness’ sake!”
“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos
The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It
“He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows when you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness’ sake!”
“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos
Iain Davis & Jesse Zurawell talk China and Technocracy – Part 2
Following up on their conversation from a few days ago, Jesse Zurawell and Iain Davis reunite to continue their discussion of the rise global technocracy.
You can listen to the first part of this interview here.
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China: Respect Right to Peaceful Protest
(New York) – The Chinese government should respect the fundamental rights of people across China to peacefully protest the government’s draconian “zero Covid” restrictions and to call for freedom and human rights, Human Rights Watch said today.
The authorities should immediately release all protesters wrongfully detained and cease online censorship
How Businesses are softening up the Public for a Chinese-Style Social Credit System
In a truly remarkable and brazen gaslighting of individual rights and freedoms, ABC Finance Limited conducted a survey asking how Brits viewed the idea of social credit scoring.
Democracies must stand firm against Xi Jinping’s next assault on human rights
The Chinese Communist Party is set to open its 20th National Congress on Oct.16.
Federal Bureau of Intimidation: The War on Political Freedom
“In so many of the little places of everyday life in which life is lived out, somehow democracy doesn’t exist.