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Amazon’s Plan To Help Police Identify Citizens In Real-Time And Predict Crimes
Two days ago NPR revealed that the Orlando Police Department is using Amazon’s facial recognition to identify peoples’ faces. Earlier this year, the ACLU sent an FOI request to the police department asking for more information about Amazon Rekognition. The title the police gave to the ACLU’s FOI request is both telling and disturbing it is called, ‘Conserving Read More…
One U.S. State Takes Steps To Hold The NSA Accountable For Warrantless Surveillance
In less than a month, a Michigan state law will take effect and ban any state or local government from aiding the National Security Agency’s controversial program that gathers data on Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment. On the heels of the fifth anniversary of whistleblower Edward Snowden’s disclosure of classified National Security Agency Read More…
NXIVM Doc Human Experimentation, Child Trafficking Judge, Feds Say CBD Illegal & MIC Fear-Mongering
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSWelcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/7/18). It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a Read More…
The NSA Continues To Abuse Americans By Intercepting Their Telephone Calls
One of the few positive things in the ill-named USA FREEDOM Act, enacted in 2015 after the Snowden revelations on NSA domestic spying, is that it required the Director of National Intelligence to regularly report on its domestic surveillance activities. On Friday, the latest report was released on just how much our own government is Read More…
NSA Spied On 534 Million US Calls In 2017, Up Sharply From 2016
The NSA collected “call detail records” from over 500 million Americans’ phone calls in 2017, over three times the number gathered in 2016 according to a new report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). This marks the second year of reporting following the passage of the 2015 USA FREEDOM Act – which requires that the Read More…






