“Surveillance Society” – Page 33

Ottawa convoy deemed national security threat a week before Emergencies Act: police

Ontario police deemed the so-called “Freedom Convoy” a threat to national security one week before the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act.

Police have described the unprecedented invocation of the legislation as “critical” to their efforts to end the demonstrations, which saw participants encamped in downtown residential streets for three weeks.

Yet it is unclear at this point why it took seven days before the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act, or why it took police an additional week beyond that to begin clearing out the convoy.

by Blazingcatfur•March 24, 2022March 24, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"

Canada’s spy agencies have held back information from Parliament’s watchdogs

Canada’s intelligence agencies have held back information from parliamentary oversight, leading a key watchdog committee to warn its work could be “compromised” if the situation continues.

The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a joint House of Commons and Senate body that reviews the country’s intelligence apparatus, warned that “some organizations” have delayed or denied the committee’s requests for information.

by Blazingcatfur•March 21, 2022March 21, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society"

Ontario to introduce new measures to block further blockades

OTTAWA — Ontarians could soon find their driver’s licences and vehicle registration revoked for participating in illegal blockades.

And those vehicles could also find themselves being hauled away by provincially owned tow trucks, preventing future issues with blockade removals hampered by reluctant towing operators.

The National Post has learned Ontario’s PC government will introduce new measures at Queen’s Park on Monday, meant to prevent a repeat of last month’s freedom convoy blockades.

by Blazingcatfur•March 21, 2022March 21, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"

Unfrozen accounts of convoy donors permanently marked

Hundreds of Freedom Convoy protesters who had their assets frozen under the Emergencies Act for donating to the movement’s fundraiser will have their bank accounts marked for life, a Commons finance committee has heard.

by Sarcasticat•March 9, 2022March 8, 2022•0•"Comply!", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Government is never your friend, Protest

It’s happening in Canada too

It’s happening in Canada too https://t.co/LsRghUJRUD

— Mark (@undersail262) March 3, 2022

by Sarcasticat•March 3, 2022March 3, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society", Australia, Canada, Economy

If they can identify Q, they can identify you… Forensic linguistics are chipping away at internet anonymity

Forensic linguistics is fast becoming the solvent of internet anonymity.

In the end, it was forensic linguistics that did for the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. The former university professor made the mistake of publishing his manifesto. Industrial Society and Its Future. Armed with a large enough a data set, an FBI team used the fingerprints of his verbal style in the same way that a forensics team would use real fingerprints.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 22, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society"

The Rising Biosecurity Surveillance Regime

Our ruling class saw in Covid an opportunity to revolutionize how we relate to one another and how we exist in the world. Recall how the phrase “the new normal” emerged almost immediately in the earliest days of the pandemic. This public health crisis offered the ideal pretext for expanding exceptional state powers beyond all previous limits. Our government and public health authorities have still not defined the thresholds for what counts as a public health emergency—the supposed legal justification for burdensome Covid “countermeasures” (a military, not a medical, term), serious infringements on civil liberties, and censorship of dissenting voices. The assumption of emergency powers by both elected officials and unelected bureaucrats continues indefinitely, with little critical scrutiny and no appropriate checks and balances.

by Sarcasticat•February 22, 2022February 21, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Totalitarianism, Tyranny!

GiveSendGo Founder: ‘It‘s a Moment for People to Stand Up‘

The Freedom Convoy moved its fundraising activities to GiveSendGo after GoFundMe, a leftist-owned platform, froze a fundraiser that previously raised over $10 million.

GiveSendGo has since been the target of leftist cyberattacks, which has seen the names of donors leak onto the internet. Despite a policy against sharing hacked materials, Twitter has done nothing to stop the hacked data, which has been used by establishment journalists to dox and harass donors, to spread.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 21, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", "China eats weird animals disease", "Surveillance Society", Canada, USA

A Social Credit System Arrives in Canada

Justin Trudeau just created a caste of economic untouchables. Can we stop this dystopian policy from taking hold in America?

Last summer, I warned readers of Common Sense that financial deplatforming would be the next wave of online censorship. Big Tech companies like PayPal were already working with left-wing groups like the ADL and SPLC to define lists of individuals and groups who should be denied service. As more and more similarly minded tech companies followed suit (as happened with social media censorship), these deplorables would be deplatformed, debanked, and eventually denied access to the modern economy altogether, as punishment for their unacceptable views.

That prediction has become reality.

by Blazingcatfur•February 20, 2022February 20, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Investigating Canadian YouTube rival Rumble and its growing popularity among the world’s far right

As he wandered the red zone of the protest site in Ottawa, David Freiheit appeared bashful about the reception he received, but also energized by it.

People wanted pictures with him, embraced him with whispers of support in his ear, and treated him like a celebrity. He was livestreaming for hours at a time, his quick legal mind providing commentary in between interviews with the people drawn to the protest, and to him.

I do not have a Rumble account. Given Justin’s pending internet control grab I assumed Rumble would be a ready target as it is Canadian and consequently all your data will be if it isn’t already in Justin’s pocket. I don’t think I was wrong as this hit piece attests. My Youtube channel was demonitized before demonitization was cool. Hell I was suspended for copyright violation for posting my own video. We’re watched we know it.

It’s for your safety!

PROTESTORS: We told you to leave. We gave you time to leave. We were slow and methodical, yet you were assaultive and aggressive with officers and the horses. Based on your behaviour, we are responding by including helmets and batons for our safety. pic.twitter.com/drxfhG9clP

— Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) February 19, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•February 19, 2022February 19, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Surveillance Society"

The Real Reason to Worry About Security Agencies’ Domestic Collection

The release last week of a partially declassified letter that Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) wrote last April to the director of national intelligence and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recalls a prominent issue of a few years ago—national security agencies conducting broad collection of data that could cover activities of Americans and be considered an affront to their privacy. Wyden and Heinrich’s heavily redacted letter requests information on an otherwise unspecified “bulk program” of collection by the CIA. The more prominent issue from a few years ago centered on collection of telephone usage data by the National Security Agency (NSA), the primary organization responsible for collecting signals intelligence in support of U.S. national security.

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2022February 16, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society"

Ontario still plans to roll out Digital ID, even after scrapping vaccine passports

Ontario’s reference to the COVID-19 situation as the impetus for restructuring society echoes the statements of the Chairman of the World Economic Forum and his organization’s globalist ‘Great Reset’ agenda.

by Sarcasticat•February 16, 2022February 16, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society", Ontario, Ontario's Corrupt Liberal Government

Just a reminder for these interesting times …

RCMP Hires US Artificial Intelligence Firm to Spy on Web Users

The RCMP awarded a new social media monitoring contract Sept. 2 to a U.S. company that uses artificial intelligence to track what’s said on the web. Virginia-based Babel Street says its software can instantly translate between 200 languages and filter social media content by geographic areas and by sentiments expressed. Using artificial intelligence, it also analyzes relationships between content and senders, according to the company.

Careful what you say in the comments. No calls to violence.

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2022February 14, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society"

Lawmakers allege ‘secret’ CIA spying on unwitting Americans

Two US senators have raised concerns that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is again spying upon unwitting Americans.

The agency has “secretly” conducted warrantless surveillance through a newly disclosed programme, Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich alleged.

In a letter to intelligence officials, the two Democrats called for declassifying details of the programme.

Government data collection has been the subject of much controversy in the US.

Officially, the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) have a foreign surveillance mission and domestic spying is prohibited by the CIA’s 1947 charter.

by Blazingcatfur•February 11, 2022February 11, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society", CIA

Feds are still using ID.me to scan your face — and human reviewers can’t keep up

On Monday, the IRS stated that it would be transitioning away from using third-party facial recognition services provided by ID.me, ending a period of intense scrutiny for the newly prominent vendor. But inside the company, workers and executives have been dealing with a very different set of challenges.

by Blazingcatfur•February 11, 2022February 11, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society"