“Not only do they attach strings to project funding such as this camera requirement in Richmond, they also finance many state and local surveillance programs outright.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/how-feds-use-transportation-funds-spy-you
“A staggering 95% of the facial recognition system’s ‘matches’ were actually wrongly identifying innocent people.”
Read more: https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/uk-police-facial-recognition-wrong,news-58429.html
“There’s every sign consolidation of the industry will continue, particularly given that the drop in the price of cannabis has threatened the profit margins of dispensaries.”
“Data from more than 10,000 accounts were exposed. The unprotected servers were letting anybody see Apple user IDs, parents’ email addresses, unique phone IDs, users’ attempts to ‘find my iPhone’ and passwords stored in plaintext.”
“Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17379968/amazon-rekognition-facial-recognition-surveillance-aclu
“The CIA operative and FBI informant used to gather information on the 2016 Trump campaign has, for weeks, been falsely depicted as a sensitive intelligence asset rather than what he actually is: a long-time CIA operative with extensive links to the Bush family who was responsible for a dirty and likely illegal spying operation in the 1980 presidential election.”
“The US and Israel are insisting that not only were the killings legally permissible, but that any questioning of the deaths is tantamount to terrorism itself.”
Read more: https://news.antiwar.com/2018/05/20/israel-us-try-to-block-international-force-for-gaza-strip/
“In February, the company insisted that all that stolen data didn’t include passport numbers. Except it did.”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2018/5/10/17337260/equifax-data-breach-passports
“This fully electronic license, which is encoded into smartphones, will grant police officers the power to monitor citizens without even having to conduct routine traffic stops.”
Read more: https://www.aier.org/article/e-drivers-licenses-enable-round-clock-surveillance
“Police originally tried to blame his death on asthma, but now the Jefferson Parish coroner is telling a very different tale.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/may/16/four_white_louisiana_narcs
