Prison Terms for Paying in Cash? Austerity and Inflation will be the Next Excuses in YOUR Country

Inflation is more than a daily struggle. The war on cash and therefore the war against freedom is spreading. Here’s how to combat it.

Facial Recognition Forces Kids to Pay Attention in Class

In Hangzhou, China, a high school has implemented facial recognition technology in the classroom. The system scans and stores the emotions of each student’s face every 30 seconds to determine if they are angry, fearful, confused, happy or upset. Hangzhou No. 11 High School categorizes these emotions to determine how the student is progressing. The…

Amazon’s Facial Recognition Technology Can Now Detect Fear in People

(CD) — Privacy advocates are responding with alarm to Amazon’s claim this week that the controversial cloud-based facial recognition system the company markets to law enforcement agencies can now detect “fear” in the people it targets. “Amazon is going to get someone killed by recklessly marketing this dangerous and invasive surveillance technology to governments,” warned Evan Greer, deputy director…

Surveillance Slips Into Totalitarianism…But Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned

It’s a page out of Orwell’s 1984. The increasing revelations about surveillance across the globe into our private lives is causing a divide in the Western states. Are the actions of the NSA in the United States, and the ASD in Australia creating an increasingly totalitarian environment? Are the Western states increasingly becoming paranoid with…

Help Keep Your Private Life Away from Prying Eyes

Make your New Year’s resolutions count and be sure to include in them your privacy. What do I mean by that, you ask? Below is a list of devices and techniques used by our spying agencies to see what we’re up to. Some of them may even surprise the more tech savvy amongst us… Internet…