Category: surveillance

China Using Numerous Monitoring Cameras and Big Data to Suppress Religious Groups and Rights Defenders, Files Show

Rural areas of China’s eastern coastal Shandong Province have installed hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras since 2013 as a part of its massive monitoring system, initiating a monitoring model which became known as the “Sharp Eyes Project.” The main targets of the system are Falun Gong adherents and rights defenders. Linyi City in Shandong…


WEF and CCP: The Effort to Subvert Humanity; Republican Lawmakers on US–Taiwan Relationship at CPAC

The World Economic Forum (WEF) publishes a new censorship piece. Much like China, it wants to have a “one world government” formula rooted in communism. What else? I break down why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using the WEF to achieve total world domination. Plus, I spoke with four Republican lawmakers on the current U.S.-Taiwan…


Russian Surveillance Aircraft Detected in Alaska Defense Zone: NORAD

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it detected a Russian surveillance aircraft in the Alaskan air defense identification zone over a two-day period. “On two separate occasions, over the past two days, the Alaskan NORAD Region detected, tracked, and identified Russian surveillance aircraft entering and operating within the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone,” the…


Police Surveillance of London Road Network Could Face Legal Challenge

The privacy campaigning organisation Open Rights Group has teamed up with a Green Party politician to challenge measures that would allow police to put under surveillance tens of thousands of motorists driving around London every day. The steps were taken without public consultation by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. In 2014 Khan’s predecessor, Boris Johnson,…


Remote ID Law for Civilian Drones Does Not Violate the Fourth Amendment: DC Circuit Court

A federal appeals court ruled unanimously in favor of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday, stating that the mandatory remote identification of civilian drones does not violate the Constitution and that “free-for-all” drone usage is a threat to public safety. The remote ID rules require drones to provide location and identification information during flight,…


Is the EU Using China’s Methods of Surveillance?

Commentary Let’s play a quick game of word association. When you hear the word “China,” what other words spring to mind? Persecution, communism, tyranny, “zero-COVID” madness. How about surveillance? Having lived in China for nearly two years, I speak from experience when I say the following: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) monitors the actions of…


Blacklisted Chinese Hikvision Aids PRC Police to Surveil Prisoners

Researchers recently spotlighted an interrogation solution developed by Chinese video surveillance giant Hikvision that integrates face recognition cameras that identify prisoners with behavior analysis techniques. Pennsylvania-based video surveillance information company IPVM reported on July 19 that the Hikvision solution is designed to enhance and record interrogation sessions, monitor prisoners’ vital signs under intensive supervision, and…


Returning Beijing Residents Asked to Wear COVID-19 Monitoring Bracelets, Triggering Public Outrage

Beijing local authorities in some communities recently asked residents returning from domestic trips to wear COVID-19 monitoring bracelets. The orders drew wide criticism from the public over escalated government surveillance. According to mainland Chinese media Caixin, a female Beijing resident who returned from Guangdong on July 13 was told by the community office that she…


Netizen Claims Chinese Police Have Special Surveillance WeChat Version

A Chinese netizen claims that there is a police version of WeChat, a messaging app that’s widely used in China. The app logo is blue, different from the typical green WeChat icon, and the blue version comes with a bonus: the user is also an administrator who can visit the records of connected users. She…


The Spies Who Loathe Us

News Analysis In the early days of Social Media—it must have been around the year 2005—a friend wrote that she would stay off completely and forever. She valued her privacy. She saw absolutely no gain to posting her whereabouts and goings on for the world to see. The state can too easily take that information…