“Thirty-one states now allow law-enforcement officials to access license photos to help identify potential suspects.”
“India’s government is looking for a company to analyze social media posts to help boost nationalism and neutralize any ‘media blitzkrieg by India’s adversaries.'”
“The UK paid legal fees for the defense of Pinochet against efforts to extradite him in light of severe human rights abuses, later paying the same barrister again to aid Sweden in its effort to extradite a journalist, Julian Assange, without charge.”
Read more: https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/06/from-pinochet-to-assange-a-tale-of-two-extraditions/
“The feature disables data transfer through the Lightning port one hour after a phone was last locked, preventing popular third-party hacking tools used by law enforcement from accessing the device.”
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/13/technology/apple-iphone-law-enforcement/index.html
“Officials reportedly claim the move will increase security and potentially reduce congestion.”
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/13/china-cars-rfid-monitoring-surveillance/
“The Founding Fathers never intended a secret police force to be an independent fourth branch of the federal government.”
“The trials of the Catonsville Nine, the Chicago Seven and Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon Papers — all of those events came after the Spock trial, each an escalation of the government’s response to dissent.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/when-the-government-went-after-dr-spock.html
“These are not actions by rogue agents. They are systematic, and they come straight from the top.”
“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/
