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The Encryption Double Life of Canberra
Behind closed screens, the same officials pushing to weaken privacy laws are perfecting the art of vanishing conversations.
Biden Administration Placed COVID Mandate Critics on Watchlists, Intelligence Documents Reveal
Parents with questions became potential suspects in a bureaucratic algorithm built to profile dissent.
UK Government’s Secretive “Homicide Prediction” AI Project Sparks Minority Report Comparisons and Surveillance Concerns
Buried in bureaucratic jargon, the plan quietly turns trauma and health data into forecasts.
Britain’s AI Spy Machine Gears Up for the Next Wave of Censorship
AI-driven “disinformation” platform enables UK government to track social media posts, including political opinions.
Big Brother on Board: UK Train Stations Use Amazon-Powered AI to Read People’s Mood
Civil liberties groups warn of potential overreach and lack of transparency in public surveillance practices.
The UK’s “Chilling” Secret Unit That Monitored Lockdown Dissent
More revelations about the secretive Counter Disinformation Unit.
CDC Catalogs Lawmakers’ Tweets About Vaccines, Documents Reveal
Building a database.
Driverless Cars Record Everything, Making Them Moving Surveillance Machines
Police are increasingly tapping into the data.
UK Government Botches Vaccine Passports, Makes Over 700,000 Errors
Not only are vaccine passports an affront to civil liberties, the technology behind them is often lacking.
UK Universities Expel Students for Online “Hate Speech”
Top staff at the universities are rejecting free speech and proactively policing jokes and pranks that they deem to be online “hate speech.”
