“The system includes mandatory facial-recognition scans at gas stations and Wi-Fi sniffers that secretly collect data from network devices. Over the past two years, the technology has helped authorities round up an estimated hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims and lock them up in clandestine camps that China calls ‘re-education centers.'”
“Lonsdale and Luckey argue that building cheaper, more efficient systems is a virtuous pursuit, saving taxpayer dollars. Anduril’s Palantir pedigree may have prepared it for criticism.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/palmer-luckey-anduril-border-wall/
“The United States is at war in so many places that the majority of citizens would struggle to name half of them.”
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/congress-may-declare-the-forever-war/562175/
“There are now over 10,000 migrant children in government custody in 100 U.S. shelters in 14 states. All 10,000 of these children have been forcibly separated from their parents.”
“160 American-born children have a parent who could soon be ordered to leave the country; many families are relying on handouts.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/11/us/tennessee-immigration-trump.html
“He survived about 15,000 days of isolation – a form of captivity that the United Nations has denounced as torture and that scientific studies have shown is capable of inflicting severe psychological damage on individuals in less than a week.”
“Graham, a retired colonel, has in the past supported the ability to indefinitely detain those captured under the current AUMF and has opposed limits on the president’s ability to conduct war.”
“This system poses a very real threat to First Amendment-protected activities. Further, DHS has a well-documented history of poor data management, and face recognition has a high rate of misidentifications.”
“Why didn’t any of the evidence about a possible second gunman come out at the trial?”
“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/