“Surveillance Society”

UK: Army spied on lockdown critics

A shadowy Army unit secretly spied on British citizens who criticised the Government’s Covid lockdown policies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Military operatives in the UK’s ‘information warfare’ brigade were part of a sinister operation that targeted politicians and high-profile journalists who raised doubts about the official pandemic response.

They compiled dossiers on public figures such as ex-Minister David Davis, who questioned the modelling behind alarming death toll predictions, as well as journalists such as Peter Hitchens and Toby Young. Their dissenting views were then reported back to No 10.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Surveillance Society"

Censorship, Mass Surveillance and Bugs: World Economic Forum vs. The Free World

The World Economic Forum’s nation-crushing empire looks like a chop shop that has stolen parts from the world’s worst dictatorships in order to create Frankenstein’s “woke” monster. It has swiped the Aztecs’ penchant for human sacrifice to ward off bad weather, the Chinese communists’ love of total control and the eradication of traditional culture, the Italian fascists’ society-squeezing partnership with corporate monopolists, and the German Nazis’ belief in a “master race” — chiefly the celebrities, bankers, crony capitalists, and potentates who assemble in Davos and elsewhere to applaud their own achievements and further implement their “master plan,” which the WEF affectionately calls “The Great Reset.”

As Klaus Schwab, himself, recently declared to his potpourri of princely guests, the WEF intends to “master the future,” and who better to “master” what has not yet been written than those who view the rest of the planet’s inhabitants as little more than servants and serfs?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Eat Government Bugs", "Eating Bugs", "Surveillance Society", "The Great Reset", World Economic Forum

Feds ‘Committed’ to Complete WEF-Initiated Digital ID Project, Says Transport Canada

Canada’s participation in a World Economic Forum (WEF) initiative to test digital ID in travel had stalled due to the pandemic, but Transport Canada says the entities involved are committed to bringing the project to a close.

“All partners remain committed to working together to close out the project and disseminate the knowledge gained through this initiative,” Transport Canada spokesperson Hicham Ayoun told The Epoch Times.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", World Economic Forum

Canadian military finances technology to collect social media data despite claims it was shutting down such efforts

Six months after National Defence claimed it was shutting down efforts to collect social media data of Canadians, the military was back again developing new technology to accomplish such tasks.

Defence firms and other companies were given almost $10 million to develop new ways to analyze social media and sift through accounts.

Is it me or is there just a lot more crap than ususal going on in Canada this week?

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Surveillance Society", Big Tranny

Shot in the act: How an explosion in surveillance video is transforming the justice system

Highway cameras track an accused killer in an SUV travelling across Toronto before and after a double murder. A neighbour’s street-facing home security camera captures a man slashing his estranged wife to death with a machete in a driveway across the street.

These are just two examples from recent murder trials at the downtown Superior Court, where judges and juries routinely gaze for hours at computer monitors showing video footage and other digital evidence.

Fifteen years ago it was rare for a killing to be caught on video.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Crime

Should Canada follow U.S. lead and make anti-impaired technology mandatory in all new cars?

One of the worst aspects of seeing your family ripped apart by a drunk driver, said Brenda Simmons, is knowing that it could have been avoided with political will and the right application of technology.

“If somebody didn’t have the decency, or they didn’t have the decision-making capacity [and they] still decide to get behind the wheel, if that vehicle didn’t start because of some mandatory technology, my son would still be here,” she told CBC News.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Law and Order", "Surveillance Society"

Destroying American Democracy – An Inside Job

Over the last few years, there has been much written about the destruction of American democracy. Frequently the threat has been of alleged interference in U.S. elections by Russia, China or other state actors. Government agencies, the name of election integrity, were assigned to identify and disrupt these foreign intrusions. As more and more information is revealed about these agencies, it seems that America’s Intelligence Community participated in these activities domestically, and in a way that poses a grave threat to both election integrity and American democracy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up", "Surveillance Society", USA

FBI reveals it uses CIA and NSA to spy on Americans

The FBI revealed how the bureau uses the CIA and National Security Agency to probe the private lives of Americans without a warrant in its updated rulebook, which is the first version made public since the Obama administration.

The handbook, rewritten in 2021, confirms a decade-old leak showcasing the bureau’s collaboration with the CIA and NSA for FBI probes that may involve surveillance without court orders against people not accused of any crimes. Such probes are known as “assessments” at the FBI.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", FBI

Liberal media is trying to protect the FBI from hard questions about illegal surveillance

Besides addressing the crisis at the southern border, there is no more urgent matter for the new Republican House majority to direct its attention to than the conversion of the federal government into a progressive cudgel against civil rights. And there is nothing less surprising than the media-Democrat complex’s determination to strangle the probe in its cradle.

In the left’s playbook, everything is either about race or Donald Trump — if not both. So as night follows day, with House Republicans poised to establish a much needed Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Democrats and their press accomplices are framing the panel as an adjunct of the 2024 Trump presidential campaign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", FBI

Facial recognition mistake leads to wrong man being arrested and thrown in jail for SIX days

Louisiana authorities’ use of facial recognition technology led to the mistaken arrest of a Georgia man on a fugitive warrant, an attorney said in a case that renews attention to racial disparities in the use of the digital tool.

Randall Reid, 28, was jailed on November 25 in DeKalb County, Georgia, after authorities misidentified him as a purse theft in Jefferson Parish and Baton Rouge.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

‘Dystopian’ new spy technology should terrify you

Frightening new technology in the hands of government intelligence agencies has the ability to commandeer any smart camera and even “alter feeds” to manipulate both its audio and visuals — including past recordings, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.

The Big Brother-like software — used by the nation’s intelligence agency Mossad — has been brokered since 2018 to global states by a former Israeli defense force cyber chief’s company, Toka.

But only recently has the true power of this superior hacking tool been revealed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Government-Run On-Line Extremism

Evidence suggests certain governments have operated fake far-right social media accounts, raising the prominence of ‘extremism’ in the public consciousness in ways that can justify limiting freedom of speech.

Fake far-right social media accounts have apparently been promoted by several western governments.

According to Breitbart, citing an investigation by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung… 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

The platform suppressed true information from doctors and public-health experts that was at odds with U.S. government policy.

I had always thought a primary job of the press was to be skeptical of power—especially the power of the government. But during the Covid-19 pandemic, I and so many others found that the legacy media had shown itself to largely operate as a messaging platform for our public health institutions. Those institutions operated in near total lockstep, in part by purging internal dissidents and discrediting outside experts.

Twitter became an essential alternative. It was a place where those with public health expertise and perspectives at odds with official policy could air their views—and where curious citizens could find such information. This often included other countries’ responses to Covid that differed dramatically from our own.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly", "China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", "extremists", "Surveillance Society", Twitter