“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.”
“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
“The Corker-Kaine AUMF is beyond dangerous. It is unconstitutional. And it is set up to never end.”
“The sharpest plunge in America’s press freedom rating occurred during the Obama administration — thanks in part to its zealous prosecutions of journalists. Trump is continuing policies started by earlier presidents.”
“A former Missouri sheriff has been charged with using an online service operated by law enforcement contractor Securus to track cell phones illegally.”
Read more: https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/269259-your-cell-carrier-selling-your-location-data
“A seemingly unsupervised CBP agent improperly attempted to force Twitter to produce records on a particular user without a court order — completely disregarding whether the summons was legal.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/07/cbp-alt-uscis-twitter/
“False flag operations succeed because many people reflexively jump to accept official narratives. Conveniently timed attacks that give pretexts for war, however, are not always what they seem.”
Read more: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/04/27/hoisting-false-flag/hRC63gFcq1zMUmd8UObqLM/story.html
“Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has decided that the two cops responsible for this horrifying incident will not be charged.”
Read more: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-man-killed-police-shower-taser/