Clearview Facial Recognition: A Perpetual Police Lineup
By: Mike Maharrey Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That admitted that the company scraped 30 billion photos from Facebook and other social media platforms and used them in its massive facial recognition database ...
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Geofence Surveillance: First, They Spied on Protesters. Then Churches. You’re Next
By: John Whitehead If you give the government an inch, it will always take a mile. This is how the slippery slope to all-out persecution starts. This particular slippery slope has ...
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Spying In Plain Sight
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Last week, the Biden administration asked Congress to permit its agents to continue to spy on Americans without search warrants. The actual request was to re-authorize Section ...
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The FBI and Personal Liberty
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” between federal law enforcement and federal spies. ...
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New Jersey Woman Reveals Dangers of Growing Use of Facial Recognition
By: Mike Maharrey When we warn about the growing pervasiveness of facial recognition systems, people often shrug and say, “it’s no big deal if you have nothing to hide.” The experience ...
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COVID Technologies Feeding Into the Global Surveillance State
By: Mike Maharrey In another frightening example of “mission creep,” governments around the world are using technologies developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to expand dragnet surveillance. According to an AP report, “Authorities ...
Read more.Big Brother Has Hacked the Constitution
By: Mike Maharrey Big Brother has hacked the Constitution. It has been over nine years since Edward Snowden released the first documents exposing the extent of NSA spying to the world. ...
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The Bill of Temporary Privileges
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Last week, the Director of National Intelligence, the data-gathering and data-concealing arm of the American intelligence community masquerading as the head of it, revealed that in 2021, ...
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TSA Rolls Out Facial Recognition at LAX
By: Mike Maharrey The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently rolled out facial recognition technology at some Los Angeles International Airport security checkpoints. Called the next generation of Credential Authentication Technology (CAT), ...
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Yet Another Federal Court Fail
By: Mike Maharrey Conservatives and libertarians often count on the federal courts to “protect their rights.” This is a bad strategy. Most of the time it fails. Instead of protecting rights, ...
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