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Cyborg hologram watching a subway interior 3D rendering

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
July 19, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Censorship, China, Surveillance

Tagged
China and crime prediction algorithms, China and mind-reading algorithms, Crime prediction algorithms, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Featured, Freedom of the press and Constitution, George Orwell on total surveillance, Good Wife (TV series), James Clapper, Mind-reading algorithms, National Security Agency (NSA), Social credit scores, Surveillance and liberal democracy, Telescreen and modern equivalents}

Big Brother Is Watching You (And Trying to Read Your Mind)

_{Chinese researchers now claim to have developed technology that can read our minds} _{Gary Smith

July 19, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Censorship, China, Surveillance}

One of the most popular story lines in the widely acclaimed television show The Good Wife (2009–2016) is when National Security Agency (NSA) techies entertain themselves by eavesdropping on the heroine’s personal life. It clearly resonated with viewers and reinforced the fears of many that the NSA might be listening to their conversations. Indeed, they might be. In 2013 James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, was asked by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden about whether NSA collects “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans.” Clapper answered, under oath, “No sir, not wittingly.” Clapper had been informed the day before that he would be asked this question and he was offered an opportunity the day Read More ›

Bottom view close-up of four white surveillance cameras

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Author
News
Date
May 9, 2022

Categorized
Data Privacy, Surveillance

Tagged
Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, National Security Agency}

People Don’t Need a “Reason” to Want Privacy

_{We naturally don’t want either government or Big Tech following us around} _{News

May 9, 2022

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Data Privacy, Surveillance}

In 2014, award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald presented a compelling case for privacy at a TED Conference, dismantling the idea that “only people who are doing something wrong have a reason to hide.” Why did Greenwald feel that message was important? Two years earlier, in 2012, American intelligence contractor Edward Snowmen reached out to Greenwald, offering top secret National Security Agencvy (NSA) documents that its secret mass surveillance network. In 2013, Greenwald’s stories at The Guardian sparked an international conversation on national security versus privacy. The opening sentence of his first article reads, “The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret order Read More ›

Smart technologies in your smartphone, collection and analysis of big data

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
June 1, 2020

Categorized
Data Privacy, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Bill Gates, Birds Aren't Real, China, Conspiracy theories, COVID-19, Dwight Eisenhower, Edward Snowden, Featured, Self-censorship, Tim Cook, Uyghurs}

The Birds Aren’t Real. But Maybe the Spying Is.

_{A defense of our fundamental right to privacy} _{Gary Smith

June 1, 2020

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Data Privacy, Surveillance, Technocracy}

Technology frees us from drudgery but also enable surveillance that enslaves us. Then, far from computers becoming more like humans, we may become more like computers.