The successful exercise of power requires a social cage restricting the citizen’s option of leaving, a “closing of the escape route,” if you will.
Tag: Surveillance
Australia has gone woke. ‘Mateship’ is on the brink of being banned.
Just picture an Australian culture where ‘She’ll be right, mate’ and G’day, mate’ are outlawed, banned, possibly even illegal with hefty fines.
Divide and Conquer They Have. What Comes Next?
They have taken advantage of your fear, heightened it, and then exploited it. But to admit that we’ve been fooled is to admit we’re wrong.
George Orwell: The Man Behind 1984 and His Dire Warning to Us
George Orwell’s 1984. It’s the internationally acclaimed dystopian bestseller that some say depicts a prophetic view and a chilling warning to us all. Between the pages of ’84 are the dire consequences for man when propaganda is at its height; for when a government rules with an ironclad fist. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery….
Beware Google’s Dystopian COVID-19(84) Surveillance. It’s Straight Out of Orwell-And You’re Lapping It Up.
We’re straight out of 1984 and into 2020 with one giant leap forward (hehe *sigh*). Orwell must be growing restless in his slumber as the Internet giants track and share our surveillance data with governments that ask. The COVID-19 virus, which originated in Wuhan, China after a 6-week cover-up by the Chinese Communist Party, has…
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…
Turnbull Govt’s $18.5M for Citizen Surveillance with “The Capability” and “iOmniscient” Facial Recog. Technology
This is a whole other league of creepy, this is a whole other league of invasive and the fact that there’s been no discussion around this is really weird.
The Political Winds of Whistleblowing
Comparing the reactions of politicians over the latest intelligence community leak over General Michael Flynn’s phone call with a Russian diplomat, and with those reactions toward Snowden in 2013, it appears the Democrats have had a change of heart for whistleblowers.
Governments Implement Predictive Analytics to Spy on Social Media Content, Preempting Social Unrest
Predictive analytics used on all media platforms to “quell unrest,” have been discovered.
Police Caught Spying on Journalists to Uncover Source of Leaks
Despite the federal government promising that more broadly-reaching law enforcement agencies in Canada are not currently spying on the press, the guarantee is hardly comforting.
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