“The self-flying drone will be able to track and follow vehicles as they move through challenging terrain that would be impossible to film previously without a skilled drone pilot.”
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/30/skydios-self-flying-drone-can-now-track-down-cars/
“Why wouldn’t the CIA and the Pentagon effect a domestic regime-change operation on November 22, 1963?”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/why-kennedy-had-to-be-removed/
“Here are some lesser-known examples of the social credit system’s real-life applications, from hospitals to K-pop.”
Read more: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit
“Overcoming the evils of our age will require more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth and toughness.”
“Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains.”
“People with the implants can wave their hand near a machine to unlock their office or gym, rather than taking out a key card. Many microchip users are not concerned with hacking or surveillance at this point.”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/swedish-people-embed-microchips-under-skin-to-replace-id-cards-2018-5
“70 years ago, one out of every 20 U.S. jobs required a state license; today, almost 1 in 3 American occupations requires a license.”
“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
“Both Operation LASER and PredPol are sponsored by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance’s SMART Policing Initiative, which aims to use ‘evidence-based, data-driven’ policing strategies to try and pre-empt and prevent crime.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/predictive-policing-surveillance-los-angeles/
“Boston Dynamics, the company known for its ‘nightmare-inducing’ backflipping robots, has unveiled two new videos that show them autonomously navigating through different terrains, including an office and a lab, and jogging in a grass field.”