Category: surveillance

NTD News Today (April 28): Teachers Union Chief Offered Edits on CDC School Reopening; 10,000 FBI Agents Can Spy on Citizens: OIG

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten admitted to offering edits to the CDC’s school reopening guidelines during testimony on Capitol Hill. She denies suggesting substantive changes. More than 10,000 federal employees could have access to Americans’ data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Three witnesses testified on the issue at a House Judiciary Subcommittee…


Encrypted Message Platforms Threaten to Pull Services From UK Over Online Safety Bill

Seven of the world’s leading messaging apps have written a scathing open letter to the UK government over its proposed Online Safety Bill. Bosses from firms including Signal and WhatsApp say the bill would lead to the mass surveillance of personal communications in what would become the “British internet.” Urging ministers to “urgently rethink” the…


Is America’s Foreign Intelligence Service Interfering in US Elections?

Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…


[PREMIERING at 10AM ET] Is America’s Foreign Intelligence Service Interfering in US Elections?

Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…


Are Censorship, Surveillance, and Propaganda Pillars of the New Regime?

No one was looking when the Global War on Terror turned into an assault on American liberty. U.S. spy agencies teamed up with Big Tech and the media to target free speech and undermine the very foundations of our constitutional republic. Now the United States is guided by the tyranny that the Founding Fathers and…


[PREMIERING NOW] Are Censorship, Surveillance, and Propaganda Pillars of the New Regime?

No one was looking when the Global War on Terror turned into an assault on American liberty. U.S. spy agencies teamed up with Big Tech and the media to target free speech and undermine the very foundations of our constitutional republic. Now the United States is guided by the tyranny that the Founding Fathers and…


[Premiering at 10AM ET] Are Censorship, Surveillance, and Propaganda Pillars of the New Regime?

No one was looking when the Global War on Terror turned into an assault on American liberty. U.S. spy agencies teamed up with Big Tech and the media to target free speech and undermine the very foundations of our constitutional republic. Now the United States is guided by the tyranny that the Founding Fathers and…


TikTok CEO Says Chinese Parent Company’s Stalking of US Journalists Not ‘Spying’

The CEO of TikTok claims that efforts by its China-based parent company to stalk American journalists do not qualify as “surveillance” or “spying.” The comments referred to an ongoing Department of Justice investigation regarding how employees at the China-based ByteDance, which owns TikTok, illicitly used TikTok data to track American journalists without their knowledge. When…


Big Lies, Big Data, and the Rise of Bigger Brother

Commentary The Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright recently discussed a new “international socialist conspiracy” that has taken the world by storm. “Fringe forces of the far left,” he noted, “are plotting to take away our freedom to be stuck in traffic jams, to crawl along clogged ring roads and trawl the streets in search of a parking…


Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador Ban TikTok on Government-Issued Devices

Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador have banned TikTok on government-issued mobile devices, joining a growing list of jurisdictions that have imposed restrictions on the Chinese-owned social media network. The video-sharing platform has come under increased scrutiny in Canada and elsewhere because the Chinese government has a stake in its owner, ByteDance, and Chinese laws…