• The FBI Has Gone Rogue With Its Facial Recognition Systems

    Technocrats at the FBI are driven to collect unending streams of data on any and all citizens. Any oversight or attempts to regulate are ignored or passively resisted. Other Intel agencies have followed the same pattern.  In the meantime, Americans are being corralled into a Total Surveillance Society scenario similar to China.
    [Go Rogue: “To cease to follow orders; to act on one’s own, usually against expectation or instruction. To pursue one’s own interests.” (Urba
  • Overseas Amazon Alexa Reviewers Can Also Access Owner’s Home Address

    Amazon hires ‘reviewers’ in foreign countries like Romania and India to listen to your interactions and conversations with Alexa. Guess what? They also have access to your home address! The potential for misuse is virtually certain⁃ TN EditorAn Amazon.com Inc. team auditing Alexa users’ commands has access to location data and can, in some cases, easily find a customer’s home address, according to five employees familiar with the program.
    The team, spread across thr
  • Alarm: Homeland Security’s Plan For Face Scanning At Airports

    The Department of Homeland Security is impervious to restraint on turning America into a microcosm of China with ubiquitous facial recognition systems. There is no justification to scan everyone to find the few. ⁃ TN EditorLawmakers and civil liberties advocates are calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to halt plans to begin using facial recognition technology on nearly all departing air passengers within the next four years.
    The agency’s plan has reignited the fight

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