14 July 2019 — RT
Tech giants such as Google or Facebook store vast amounts of personal data for their own gain but they are also “happy to hand over” this data to governments, making people vulnerable to persecution, Edward Snowden warned.
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Summer at Open Rights Group
1 July 2019 — Open Rights Group
The first half of 2019 has been strong for Open Rights Group (ORG). We have taken positive steps in challenging exploitative online advertising practices and protecting digital privacy. We are also getting ready for our biggest ever ORGCon London event taking place in less than two weeks!
Statewatch News Online, 17 June 2019 (14/19)
17 June 2019 — Statewatch
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ANALYSIS
Analysis: The Commission and Italy tie themselves up in knots over Libya by Yasha Maccanico.
James Bridle | Videos: The New Dark Age
14 June 2019 — Verso Books
[Bridle’s book, ‘The New Dark Age‘, is a scary and absolutely essential book to read if you want to know where capitalism is taking us, unless we stop them. WB]
Despite the apparent accessibility of digital information, we’re living in a new Dark Age. In these videos, James Bridle explores colonial cabling, the distributing lack of neutrality in artificial intelligence, and conspiracy theories and the internet. Watch all the videos.
‘Unlimited reach, no safeguards’: Snowden warns of greatest social control scheme in history
2 Jun, 2019 — RT
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The US government has a tendency to hijack and weaponize revolutionary innovations, Edward Snowden said, noting that the natural human desire to communicate with others is now being exploited on an unprecedented scale.
“Technotyranny”: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State By John W. Whitehead
31 May 2019 — Global Research
“There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick
Red pill or blue pill? You decide.
Twenty years after the Wachowskis’ iconic 1999 film, The Matrix, introduced us to a futuristic world in which humans exist in a computer-simulated non-reality powered by authoritarian machines—a world where the choice between existing in a denial-ridden virtual dream-state or facing up to the harsh, difficult realities of life comes down to a red pill or a blue pill—we stand at the precipice of a technologically-dominated matrix of our own making.
Britain: The Database State
23 May 2019 — True Publica
By TruePublica: Britain is a surveillance state, the worst in the democratic West. In a short period of time, it has amassed a rather sordid history of citizen surveillance – and it continues to be unlawful. Last September’s damning judgement of British security operations against its own people saw the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rule that the government had unlawfully obtained data from communications companies and didn’t put in place safeguards around how it did it. But what does the state really know about us and what about the future?
Government forced to delete millions of illegal citizen biometric voiceprints
14 May 2019 — True Publica
Last year, TruePublica published an article about how the British government were now going ‘full Orwellian‘ in their attempt to build a national biometric database. The opening line to the article was – “We said that the government would eventually take the biometric data of every single citizen living in Britain and use it for nefarious reasons. DNA, fingerprint, face, and even voice data will be included. But that’s not all.”
Statewatch News Online, 13 May 2019 (12/19)
13 May 2019 — Statewatch
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4. EU criminal law could cover “crimes relating to artificial intelligence”
5. EU: The human rights monitoring ship Mare Liberum is being prevented from leaving port
6. Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe
7. EU: Common European Asylum System: deadlock in the Council
8. ECHR: Terrorism convict can be deported from France to Algeria without any ri
The Government’s Secret Hostile Environment Database
29 April 2019 — True Publica
Back in July 2011, David Cameron made a speech about transparency. He told the electorate of Britain that a new dawn of government transparency had arrived and the release of official data would change the way government delivered public services.
Statewatch News Online, 29 April 2019 (10/19)
29 April 2019 — Statewatch
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1. EU lawmakers rubber-stamp European Defence Fund, give up parliamentary veto
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3. German Police launches “National Internet Referral Unit“
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18 March 2019 — Statewatch.org
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4. EU: Biometrics, extended travel surveillance, internal-external “synergies”:
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