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• Playing God: Crispr’d GMO Food Will Stock Grocery Shelves Within 5 Years

  24-04-2019 17:49 via technocracy.news
  The FDA is lobbied and dominated by Big-Ag Technocrats who insist that GMO food is ‘substantially equivalent’ to its natural counterpart, so the GMO food race is full-speed ahead. This trend will substantially change the entire global food chain.  ⁃ TN EditorA geneticist at the University of California who helped invent the gene-editing tool Crispr told Business Insider she believes its most profound impacts will be on food.
  Several Crispr’d crops 
  
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• NYMTA Denies Facial Recognition, But 4,500 Cameras Watch NY Subway

  24-04-2019 17:27 via technocracy.news
  The NYMTA says it wants to catch fare evaders so it installs monitors with traveller pictures dynamically framed with yellow boxes, with a bold “recording in progress” message at the top of the screen; but they adamantly deny the use of facial recognition software. ⁃ TN EditorThe New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has denied suggestions that it’s putting facial recognition cameras in the subway, saying that a trick designed to scare fare-dodgers was misinterpr
  
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• Police State: Trashing The Fourth Amendment

  24-04-2019 16:50 via technocracy.news
  The next time you get stopped by a patrol car, a police blood draw van might roll up behind and demand to take your blood, and you might be strip-searched. All personal data harvested from the incident becomes the property of the Federal government, whether you did anything wrong or not.
  The Fourth Amendment states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall is
  
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