Tag Archives: Orwellian

Amazon employees protest sale of facial recognition software to police

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“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

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California To Create A ‘Ministry of Truth’ To Combat Fake News

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“The Electronic Frontier Foundation opposes the bill, calling it ‘flawed’ and ‘misguided.’ The group argues the measure would make the government and advisory group responsible for deciding what is true or false. It also points out the First Amendment prevents content-based restrictions, even if the statements of ‘admittedly false.'”

Read more: http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/06/25/california-considers-fake-news-advisory-group/

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American Totalitarianism and the Culture of Fake News

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“The Pew study indicates that there is a significant cognitive problem among US people in being able to assess facts from opinions.”

Read more: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/06/26/american-totalitarianism-and-culture-fake-news.html

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American held in ICE custody for 1,273 days just one of many

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“Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations, according to a Times review of federal lawsuits, internal ICE documents and interviews.”

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.html

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The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities

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“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/

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Jogger imprisoned for 2 weeks after accidentally entering U.S.

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“A visitor from France says she was jogging along the beach south of White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it. So began a two-week nightmare that landed her in a prison jumpsuit.”

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4717060

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Canada using massive US anti-terrorist database at borders

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“The Canadian government has worked for the past three years to expand its involvement in Tuscan, without public acknowledgment or public consultation.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/canada-us-tuscan-anti-terrorist-database-at-borders

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Supreme Court: Warrants Are Generally Needed to Collect Cellphone Location Data

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“The Constitution must take account of vast technological changes, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, noting that digital data can provide a comprehensive, detailed — and intrusive — overview of private affairs that would have been impossible to imagine not long ago.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/politics/supreme-court-warrants-cell-phone-privacy.html

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FBI Won’t Reveal Extent of Illegal “Geek Squad” Spying

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“The FBI trained Geek Squad employees to go snooping around customers’ computers looking for a crime.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/fbi-uses-geek-squad-for-illegal-spying/

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Mom Brings Coughing 10-Month-Old to the Hospital. Days Later, Cops Take the Baby.

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“This practice—overly suspicious government officials seizing children from their parents—isn’t confined to Minnesota.”

Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/18/cps-mom-baby-cops-kidnapping

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