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Did Bill Barr Call His Shot? Unanswered Questions about FBI’s Foreknowledge of the El Paso Shooting
William Barr’s warning that a “major incident” could occur “at any time” and “galvanize public opinion” around the unpopular encryption back-door policy he has been seeking seems to have come true in the weeks since the attorney general made those statements. Continue reading
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Police drop Experian profiling tool following Big Brother Watch exposé
A year on from BigBrotherWatch’s investigation into Durham Police’s use of Experian’s ‘Mosaic’ big data profiling tool for AI custody decisions, BigBrotherWatch discovered through a long Freedom of Information battle that Durham Police heeded calls to drop the discriminatory tool less than three weeks after their exposé. Continue reading
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Massive photo databases secretly gathered in US and Europe to develop facial recognition By Kevin Reed
A report in the New York Times on Sunday revealed that millions of facial photos have been scraped from online sources and taken by hidden surveillance cameras and then shared in databases for artificial intelligence (AI) research and development purposes for more than a decade. Created in secret by universities and tech companies, the photo data… Continue reading
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Amazon NHS partnership – more questions over backdoor privatisation
There is a lot going wrong in the world today and big tech is driving much of it in its indomitable thirst for ever greater global influence and markets to profit from. In the meantime, the British government is already making many moves to ‘Americanise’ society and continues towards its unpopular privatisation model in healthcare. Continue reading
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Big tech ‘indenture entire populations into servitude’ to corporations & govts – Snowden
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. Continue reading
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“Alexa, How Do We Subvert Big Tech’s Orwellian Internet-of-Things Surveillance?” by Charles Hugh Smith
When every device in your life is connected to the Internet (the Internet of Things), your refrigerator will schedule an oil change for your car–or something like that–and it will be amazingly wunnerful. You’ll be able to lower the temperature of your home office while you’re stuck in a traffic jam, while your fridge orders another jar… Continue reading
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The Death of Privacy: Government Fearmongers to Read Your Mail By Philip Giraldi
It is discouraging to note just how the United States has been taking on the attributes of a police state since 9/11. Stories of police raids on people’s homes gone wrong are frequently in the news. In one recent incident, a heavily armed SWAT team was sent to a St. Louis county home. The armed… Continue reading
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Futurebook: We take your personal data. Seriously!
Last week we launched the interactive parody social media site Futurebookto show what the Internet would look like without privacy or freedom of expression. Now we need your help to get the word out. William can you please share Futurebook with your friends and followers? Continue reading
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Stop the Police using authoritarian facial recognition cameras
Right now, the Metropolitan Police is deciding whether to roll out live facial recognition PERMANENTLY on our streets. Continue reading
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How To Spot A Twitter Troll By Craig Murray
It is a matter of simple fact that the British government employs a very large number of people whose full time job is to influence the political narrative on social media. The 77th Brigade of the British Army, the Integrity Initiative, MI5 and MI6 and GCHQ all run major programmes of covert online propaganda. These information warriors operate on twitter, facebook, and… Continue reading
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UK: GCHQ/MI5 admit illegally spying on millions By Trevor Johnson
The domestic spy agency MI5 and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence gathering unit have been forced to admit in court that they are acting illegally in their use of bulk data, gathered by intruding into the lives of millions of innocent people. MI5 “has been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years.” Continue reading
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Summer at 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! Continue reading
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Facial recognition technology and the US military-intelligence apparatus By Kevin Reed
On Tuesday, the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee unanimously approved a resolution banning the use of facial recognition (FR) technology by the city, including by the police department. A full vote of the city council on the resolution is planned for July 16. Continue reading
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The Guardian’s direct collusion with media censorship by secret services exposed By Thomas Scripps
Minutes of Ministry of Defence (MoD) meetings have confirmed the role of Britain’s Guardian newspaper as a mouthpiece for the intelligence agencies. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 17 June 2019 (14/19)
17 June 2019 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/jun/email-17-6-19.pdf Please support our work ANALYSIS Analysis: The Commission and Italy tie themselves up in knots over Libya by Yasha Maccanico. Continue reading
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James Bridle | Videos: The New Dark Age
Internet fibre optic cables around the world trace out the routes of former empires. Imperialism didn’t stop with decolonisation: it just moved up to infrastructure level. Continue reading
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MI5 “unlawfully” handled bulk surveillance data, Liberty litigation reveals
The British security service MI5 has been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years. It also failed to give senior judges accurate information about repeated breaches of its duty to delete bulk surveillance data, and has been criticised for mishandling sensitive legally privileged material. Continue reading
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