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Police Use Drones and Other Innovative Technology for Public Safety Efforts

Police forces across America are adopting new surveillance technologies that increase public safety Photo: Spot can also work as a robot supermodel. Boston Dynamics 20 March 2022 | Natlawreview Police across the United States are increasingly relying on emerging technologies to make their jobs more efficient and to increase public safety. Police are using drones,…

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USA: The Government’s War On Thought Crimes

Warning: Reading this article might earn you a color-coded threat score 15 Februrary 2022 | John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | Eurasia Review Original title: The Mind Control Police: The Government’s War On Thought Crimes And Truth-Tellers – OpEd The U.S. government, which speaks in a language of force, is afraid of its citizenry….

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EU watchdog calls for Pegasus to be banned

Regulators have said the NSO Group software could -and likely already has- lead to an unprecedented level of spying. Includes the latest list of confirmed targeted individuals from other sources. 15 February 2022 | Richard Connor | DW | Plus additional files collected by Clipper Media The European Union Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) on Tuesday proposed a…

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Company showcases microchip that can download COVID-19 passport status

From digital vaxports, to ribbons to NFC (Near Field Communications) implants? What could possibly go wrong. 20 December 2021 | Jon Brown | Yahoo! News A microchip technology introduced in recent years by the Stockholm-based startup, Epicenter, is being presented as a means to store one’s COVID-19 vaccine passport under the skin, according to a…

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Los Angeles police told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop

LAPD issued ‘field interview cards’ to record a civilian’s Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media accounts. Photo: Police detain people during the George Floyd protests in Los Angeles on 1 June 2020. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock 08 September 2021 | Sam Levin | The Guardian The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social…

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U.S. Lawmakers Call for Punitive Measures Against Israeli’s NSO Group

Photo: Protestors outside the offices of the Israeli cyber firm NSO Group in Herzliya on Sunday. Credit: Nir Elias / Reuters US lawmakers are telling the Biden administration to call out by name, as well as in reports provided to Congress, private companies that sell cyber intrusion tools to governments 27 July 2021 | Ben…

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Israel ‘creating task force’ to manage the fallout to its NSO spyware

Photo: Illustration: Ali Assaf/Guardian Design Readers in search of a full accounting of Israel’s role in the creation and distribution of the spyware will be disappointed, but this article does shine a certain light on the facts missing from the ‘revelations.’ 21 July 2021 | Bethan McKernan and Paul Lewis | The Guardian Israel’s government is reportedly…

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Obituary: Athan Theoharis, Used FOIA to reveal F.B.I. Abuses (84)

Photo: Athan Theoharis in his office at Marquette University in 1991. He used Freedom of Information Act requests to uncover secrets about the F.B.I.Credit…Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Theoharis found formerly unobtainable files of J. Edgar Hoover, whom he called “an insubordinate bureaucrat in charge of a lawless organization.” 10 July 2021 | Richard Sandomir | New…

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US-owned firm ‘Emcor’ was CCTV provider for Matt Hancock’s office

Photo: The government has launched an investigation into the leaked CCTV footage of Matt Hancock and Gina Coladangelo. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters A firm that provided security at Matt Hancock’s office, where leaked CCTV footage showed him kissing an aide, has also worked at the Porton Down defence research laboratory, RAF bases, and a military bunker that would house…

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FBI, Trojan Shield and the manipulation of the encrypted phone platform, ANOM

Photo: Money seized by Australian Federal Police © Australian Federal Police/Handout via REUTERS Hundreds arrested worldwide in Trojan Shield organised crime sting 08 June 2021 | Jamie Smyth in Sydney and Michael Peel |FT More than 800 people have been arrested around the world in a sweeping police sting that lured drug dealers, mafia members and other…

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China’s ‘splinternet’ will create a state-controlled alternative cyberspace

Photo: One of the world’s first exhibitions of blockchain art – Virtual Niche: Have You Ever Seen Memes in the Mirror? – was held in Beijing in March. Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Beijing is using blockchain to build a new internet and many developing countries are likely to sign up 03 June 2021 | Flavia Kenyon | The…

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Assange Family to tour US pushing for his freedom

“Gabriel and I are excited to talk to the American public on why protecting journalism and freeing Julian is so important to a free press,” says John Shipton, the WikiLeaks founder’s father. 28 May 2021 | Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams The father and brother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are planning a nationwide tour…

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