“Surveillance Society” – Page 44

Ex-ADT employee admits hacking into 200-plus live cameras, spying on naked women and couples having sex

A former ADT employee admitted Thursday that he hacked into the video feeds of more than 200 Texas customers to spy on naked women and couples having sex inside their homes.

Telesforo Aviles, 35, logged into customers’ accounts more than 9,600 times over a four-year period “in order to view their footage for sexual gratification,” he admitted in federal court.

“This defendant, entrusted with safeguarding customers’ homes, instead intruded on their most intimate moments,” Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah said in a statement.

One thing is certain. Our government would never stoop to such low measures!

by Blazingcatfur•January 22, 2021January 22, 2021•0•"Surveillance Society"

High Decibel Social Distancing ‘Dog Collars’ for Factory Workers Deployed

A Swedish manufacturer in France has been accused of treating their employees like dogs after the company asked its workers to wear a social distancing device that emits a high decibel sound if employees are too close to each other.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2021January 17, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Surveillance Society"

Hacked home cams used to livestream police raids in swatting attacks

Hackers have livestreamed police raids on innocent households after hijacking their victims’ smart home devices and making a hoax call to the authorities, the FBI has warned.

It said offenders had even spoken to responding officers via the hacked kit.

It marks the latest escalation of a crime known as “swatting”, in which offenders fool armed police or other emergency responders to go to a target’s residence.

The FBI said there were “deadly” risks.

by Blazingcatfur•December 31, 2020December 31, 2020•0•"Surveillance Society"

Test-Monitoring Software Is an Invasion of Privacy

You might remember reading these words in high school or university:

“The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"Surveillance Society"

Did Americans Come to Love Big Brother?

Millions of Americans may come to resemble Winston Smith, the defeated hero of Nineteen Eighty-Four, who at last accepts the calm.

In less than a month, there will likely be no more President Trump for the media to obsess over. No more false stories about him overfeeding koi fish or headlines screeching that Trump told Americans to inject bleach to combat COVID-19. No more Trump-fixated media worries over how to best accentuate bad news and downplay good.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"Surveillance Society", Big Brother

The Era of Biotechnology, Mass Surveillance, and Government Control

The world is arguably experiencing the first biowar in history. This is not to say that any country deliberately manufactured covid or released bioweapons, but as recent reporting from the New York Times shows, the Chinese government tried to exploit it politically, perhaps calculating that a pandemic would hurt more complex economies than simpler ones. A great power competition has crossed over into the biology of the planet.

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2020December 22, 2020•0•"Surveillance Society", Big Brother

New Satellite Has “Superman’s X-Ray Vision” To See Through Buildings

A new satellite from Capella Space is capable of taking high-resolution images anywhere in the world, even through the walls of buildings, according to Futurism.

What makes the Capella-2 satellite nothing short of magnificent is its onboard sensor, called the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), which can snap a picture in night or day, rain or shine.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2020December 22, 2020•0•"Surveillance Society"

Your Search History Will Determine Your Financial Credit Score In Future, Says IMF

A new white paper by the IMF calls for linking your search history to your financial credit score, which would in effect lower your score if you visit websites marked harmful by their fact-checkers.

In a new blog post for the International Monetary Fund, four researchers presented their findings from a working paper that examines the current relationship between finance and tech as well as its potential future.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2020December 21, 2020•0•"Surveillance Society", WTF?

Americans Said No to Coronavirus Contact Tracing Spy Apps

But will they be able to stay off the “national server” if the Democrats take over?

When the NHS, Britain’s socialized medicine system, debuted its contact tracing app, six million eagerly rushed to download it. After a few days, 10 million had downloaded and installed the app, and after a month, around 40% of smartphone users had put a monitoring device on their phones that would trace their social interactions and could tell them to isolate at any moment.

by Blazingcatfur•December 13, 2020December 13, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Surveillance Society"

British policing’s Orwellian practice of recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ that blacklist children for thoughtcrime must end

Something has gone seriously wrong in this country, when the police take it upon themselves to intimidate a 14 year-old schoolgirl by making an official record of her innocuous statement in class.

The girl, known only as Miss B, became a target of police interest because she, along with millions of other people, took the view that sex is distinct from gender identity. At a time when it is increasingly verboten to question trans ideology’s claims on the subjectivity of both sex and gender identity, Miss B’s views are too often condemned as hatred.

It is the police and politicians who should be jailed.

by Blazingcatfur•December 5, 2020December 5, 2020•0•"Surveillance Society", Big Tranny