‘Adversarial Actors, Home and Abroad’
Which non-foreign adversarial types do elites have in mind when they promote domestic censorship and news blockades?
Read more...Category Archives: Surveillance state
New California Program Wants All Hate “Incidents” Reported to the State
The CA vs Hate hotline will document any action or behavior “motivated by hate” but legally protected by the First Amendment right to freedom of expression. Similar efforts are in the works for other states and cities.
Read more...“All I Want Is a Future”
“The future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.” But what we can see is not pretty.
Read more...Banks Try to Make Security Customer-Friendly. Not a Good Mix.
Retail bank security ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Read more...Larry Johnson and Other Former Insiders Debunk Air Guardsman-as-Pentagon-Leaker Story as Press Cheers Arrest
The Air National Guardsman as Pentagon leaker story is comig apart. But like “six guys in a boat”, no one in polite company will say so.
Read more...Banning TikTok Could Weaken Personal Cybersecurity
Banning TikTok would be a messy business….and probably not technologically enforceable.
Read more...Feds Bust $3.4 Billion Crypto Theft, Demonstrating Ability to Penetrate Supposed Secrecy
One of the big selling points of crypto, privacy, is rapidly disappearing.
Read more...Pentagon in Panic as Second Set of Leaked Documents Gains Traction, Revealing Spying on Allies and Deteriorating Ukraine Capabilities
The Pentagon and intel chiefs are in a tizzy over a major documents leak. How serious is it?
Read more...Now Is the Time for a Federal Ban on Facial Recognition Surveillance
Please support a bill in Congress that would block federal agencies from using facial recognition to track and misidentify millions of people.
Read more...Using Tik-Tok as a Trojan Horse, the RESTRICT Act Would Create an Internet Censorship Star Chamber
The RESTRICT Act has run into a buzz saw of well-warranted criticism. But will that be enough to stop it?
Read more...The Role of Default Settings in Online Searches: Challenging Google Dominance
A meaningful level of onsumers will opt out of the default setting of Google as their search engine, particularly if prompted early and often
Read more...Tech Companies Are Getting Into Neurotechnology. Should We Worry?
Consumer-facing neurotechnology could make computers more accessible — and pose a new kind of threat to data privacy.
Read more...How Wall Street Takeover of Rental Market Is Fueling the Homelessness Crisis
New lawsuits allege mega landlords are colluding to keep rents high and units vacant while also embracing surveillance tech to evict tenants.
Read more...State of Big Tech 2022: Dismantling National & Global Digital Enclosures
From fintech to food systems to social media, the State of Big Tech offers a blueprint for the 99% to break privatized status-quo enclosures.
Read more...Government Surveillance at 2022 U.N. Climate Conference
Gambling in Casablanca! Spying in Sharm el-Sheikh, at the COP27 conference! Who’d have thunk it?
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