“The NTIA said that its assessment rested ‘in large part on China’s record of intelligence activities and economic espionage targeting the US, along with China Mobile’s size and technical and financial resources.'”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/us-government-asks-fcc-to-deny-china-mobiles-license-request.html
“The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/nsa-call-records-purged.html
“SiiP’s database will include samples from YouTube, Facebook, publicly recorded conversations, voice-over-internet-protocol recordings, and other sources where individuals might not realize that their voices are being turned into biometric voice prints.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/interpol-voice-identification-database/
“The growing recognition among white-collar workers that their labor is a precondition to the carrying out of unjust policies — and that if they withhold that labor, they can help bring these policies to a halt — is critical.”
“Microsoft Corp. scrubbed an online reference to its work for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agency faces criticism for its role in separating families at the U.S.-Mexican border.”
“The employees call out two specific businesses that Amazon should end: the sale of facial recognition software to law enforcement (marketed as Amazon Web Services Rekognition), and the sale of AWS cloud services to Palantir (a data analytics firm that provides ‘mission critical’ software to ICE).”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/22/17492106/amazon-ice-facial-recognition-internal-letter-protest
“About 2,000 children have been separated from their parents over two months.”
“The stock prices of oligopoly private prison companies Geo Group and CoreCivic have been rising ever since the Trump announcement.”
Read more: http://inthesetimes.com/article/21234/private-prison-trump-family-separation-immigration-ice
“Emotion, not genuine geopolitical insight, drives popular support for inflated defense spending.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-military-industrial-complexs-assault-on-liberty/
“The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company’s ‘extreme willingness to help.'”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/