Tag: surveillance programs
Red Rocks rejects biometrics for event entry
The event venue located in Colorado announced it will abandon palm scanning for event entry and will ban all biometric surveillance at its events.
High-tech workplace surveillance: New report warns of dystopian mass surveillance amid...
“The speed at which these new privacy-shredding technologies have been unleashed is alarming, especially given that none of them have been proven to be effective at mitigating the spread of COVID-19.”
An ‘unethical experimentation on children’: Digital rights groups oppose facial recognition...
"The research shows that prematurely deploying the technology without understanding its implications would be unethical and dangerous."
Thank You, Edward Snowden: An End to General Warrants as So-Called...
We've taken a few baby steps back toward democracy after the expiration of the misnamed “PATRIOT Act” gives restoration to Americans’ privacy. But if it wasn't for the revelations of Edward Snowden, we would have never known.
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Israelis invade Syria: Who will stop Israel?
Israel's latest land-grab in Syria, and the UN and the rest of the world's inability to stop Israel from ignoring and violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.
Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny display the scale of acceptance for vigilante violence
The contrast in how Penny and Mangione have been covered in the media and treated by the elite show that vigilante violence actually is acceptable in America when carried out against those with little to no agency.
The world’s four legacy empires going down
In a future full of signs that the four empires that have long dominated our world are all crumbling.
Trump’s pick to lead federal housing agency has opposed efforts to aid the poor
Such views would seemingly place Turner at odds with the core work of HUD, a sprawling federal agency that serves as a backstop against homelessness for millions of the nation’s poor, elderly and disabled.
It was the rage of the age
Was Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research facility in Suffolk County, pivotal to the spread of eugenics through the United States and world?