Commentary In China, WeChat has become an indispensable tool for 1.2 billion of the country’s 1.4 billion people. Need to transfer money? Use WeChat. Need to book a doctor’s appointment? Use WeChat. Need to order a taxi? Use WeChat. Need to message a friend? Use WeChat. The “super-app,” as you can see, is used for…
Your Call May Be Monitored: China-Like Surveillance Comes to the US
September 22, 2021
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Google Reveals Exponential Growth of New Surveillance Method
September 9, 2021
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A recent transparency report from Google shows that U.S. law enforcers are increasingly relying on geofence warrants, a new surveillance tactic that civil libertarians say violates the Fourth Amendment. Unlike typical warrants that authorize the surveillance of specific targets, geofence warrants allow police to collect vast troves of geolocation data from devices within a given…
Aussies Test-Driving the Chinese Regime’s ‘Fangkong’ Methods
September 5, 2021
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Commentary Freedom-loving people all over the world are aghast at the strict lockdowns and other actions being taken by Australian states in a misguided effort to achieve “Zero COVID.” Australian state governments are all in on “zero COVID-19,” mandating masks, social distancing, quarantines, contact tracing, and vaccine passports until around 75 percent of their citizens…
Australia Passes Sweeping Online Surveillance Bill Amid Privacy Concerns
The Australian federal government last week passed a sweeping surveillance bill that would grant top law enforcement agencies the authority to take over social media accounts and hack the devices of individuals suspected of participating in serious online crime. The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identity and Disrupt) Bill 2020 passed both houses of federal parliament on Aug. 25,…
Australia Passes Sweeping Online Surveillance Bill Amid Privacy Concerns
The Australian federal government last week passed a sweeping surveillance bill that would grant top law enforcement agencies the authority to take over social media accounts and hack the devices of individuals suspected of participating in serious online crime. The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identity and Disrupt) Bill 2020 passed both houses of federal parliament on Aug. 25,…
Stranded Afghans Delete Social Media as Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment
Concerned that they could be targeted by Taliban online surveillance operations, U.S. Afghan allies are reportedly scrambling to delete their social media profiles in droves. Meanwhile, privacy advocates are raising the concern that the U.S. data program possibly inherited by the Taliban could lead to blowback threatening civil liberties in America. The New York-based group…
Privacy Group Challenges USPS Surveillance Operation
A prominent internet privacy group has sued the United States Postal Service (USPS), alleging that its social media surveillance program violates federal law. According to a lawsuit filed last week in Washington DC by the Electronic Information Privacy Center (EPIC), the USPS has been operating its Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) without conducting a privacy impact assessment—a…
NC Plans to Give $27 Million for GPS Surveillance to Disrupt Domestic Violence
August 15, 2021
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By Dan Kane From The News & Observer RALEIGH, N.C.—When lawmakers last year wanted the North Carolina state court system to fund a $3.5 million project using tracking technology to prevent domestic violence attacks, court officials balked, saying they lacked the expertise. Lawmakers approved the pilot project, run by a Greenville-based nonprofit, assigning funding to…
EU Border Agency Trials High Tech Controls as Afghan Fighting Spreads
ALEXANDROUPOLIS, Greece—The EU’s border agency is trialing new high-tech surveillance equipment to detect illegal migrant boats, just as rapid gains by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have raised the prospect of a surge in people fleeing to Europe. A balloon system equipped with cameras is being tested at Alexandroupolis airport near the Greek-Turkish land border in…
The Complex Power Hierarchy Behind China’s Internal Spy Chief
News Analysis Surveillance, intimidation, and manipulation act as the grease for the gears that drive all communist systems. Whether it was the regimes of the past, or the leading communist country of our modern day, the systems all share these characteristics. For communist leaders to control those below them, they are fully dependent on whoever…
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