Big Brother Surveillance Begins: Cuomo Unveils Facial Scanning At New York Toll Plazas

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed on Friday that facial recognition cameras installed at bridge and tunnel toll plazas across New York City are scanning every driver’s face and feeding them into a massive database designed to catch suspected criminals.

GLOBAL POLICE STATE: Chinese government developing AI that can recognize anyone, anywhere

GLOBAL POLICE STATE: Chinese government developing AI that can recognize anyone, anywhere

A computer system that can track and identify any face anywhere may sound like science fiction, but, in China, two such companies are barreling ahead at making such technology an everyday reality. The two startups, SenseTime and Megvii, are developing competing facial recognition platforms powered by artificial intelligence. SenseTime became the world’s highest-valued AI startup after raising $600 million in April at a valuation of $4.5 billion.
The company raised another $620 million last month. Megvii isn’t far behind. It raised $460 million last November. While the valuation hasn’t been disclosed, it’s likely that it is close to or tops $2 billion. Two smaller Chinese companies include Yitu Technology, which raised $380 million last year, and DeepGlint. The eye-popping valuations shouldn’t be surprising to anyone paying attention. Last year, the Chinese government unveiled a plan to make the country the world leader in AI and to develop an AI industry worth $150 billion by 2030. READ MORE

VIDEO: A Future Surveillance World

VIDEO: A Future Surveillance World

THE EMERGING GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE STATE

We’re ALL Being Watched – Bergoglio, Soros, Palo Alto, the NHS and… a Girls Gymnastics Coach

We’re ALL Being Watched – Bergoglio, Soros, Palo Alto, the NHS and… a Girls Gymnastics Coach

Surveillance is a big topic these days as it has come out into the open that all email, social media and smartphones are actively tracking and listening to everything and everyone.  But that isn’t what this piece is about.  This piece is about the age-old phenomenon of how Diabolical Narcissists operate, and specifically how they attain their strongest dose of narcissistic satisfaction, and how our society – ALL of us together, have been turned into a massive, constant source of narcissistic satisfaction to the DN monsters that move among us, and rule over us.

POLICE STATE: Machine that anticipates your movements several minutes in advance could pave the way for next-level Big Brother surveillance

POLICE STATE: Machine that anticipates your movements several minutes in advance could pave the way for next-level Big Brother surveillance

An intelligent machine capable of anticipating your next move minutes in advance sounds like the stuff of nightmares – but is now a reality.  Researchers have taught an AI to recognize patterns in people’s actions, allowing it to accurately predict the next move in a sequence minute in advance. The software, which was built by a team at the University of Bonn in Germany, was taught to anticipate actions by watching hours of cooking videos. Dr. Jürgen Gall believes the intelligent software will eventually be able to prophesize your actions ‘hours before they happen’.  If the team manages to fine-tune the algorithm to be able to anticipate actions that far in advance, it’s possible to imagine a slew of real-world application, from home automation gadgets, to Big Brother-esque surveillance.  READ MORE

GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE STATE: No Place To Hide – Facial Recognition Technology Will End Your Privacy

GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE STATE: No Place To Hide – Facial Recognition Technology Will End Your Privacy

The Chinese police in Nanchang made news in mid-April when the press reported the arrest at a concert of a man wanted for fraud. The story was significant because automatic facial recognition systems, linked through now 176 million cameras across the country (rising to 600 million by 2020), had picked the man out of a crowd of 60,000 concertgoers and allowed the police to pinpoint his location in real time.
The episode was promoted by the Chinese government as proof positive of the benefits of the Chinese surveillance state, but the notion that an authoritarian government uses automatic facial recognition to track its citizens everywhere has sent shivers down the spine of anyone concerned about privacy and who may not have full faith in the benevolence of the Chinese government. READ MORE

SURVEILLANCE/POLICE STATE: Facial Recognition For ALL International Inbound and Outbound Passengers Begins at Orlando Airport — Data Retained for “75 Years”

SURVEILLANCE/POLICE STATE: Facial Recognition For ALL International Inbound and Outbound Passengers Begins at Orlando Airport — Data Retained for “75 Years”

It’s a trend that is quickly becoming accepted reality – biometric identification at U.S. airports. However, until now, it has been marketed either as an elective measure for preferred travelers who wish to expedite clearance or for inbound international travelers.

Smart grids, smart meters, smart switches will allow utilities to spy on its customers

Smart grids, smart meters,  smart switches will allow utilities to spy on its customers

Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh 

The federal government in Canada has moved to pass coal phase-out legislation into law with its Just Transition Task Force in favor of “clean energy.”
“The end of coal power will help usher in a new era for renewable energy,” said David Suzuki Foundation director of science and policy Ian Bruce. “With conventional coal-fired power officially headed for the history books, people across the country can literally breathe easier about the future of energy production.”

SURVEILLANCE STATE: Huge Facebook & YouTube Facial Recognition Database Built By "Ex" Israeli Spies

SURVEILLANCE STATE: Huge Facebook & YouTube Facial Recognition Database Built By "Ex" Israeli Spies

When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, he tried to describe the difference between "surveillance and what we do." "The difference is extremely clear," a nervous-looking Zuckerberg said. "On Facebook, you have control over your information... the information we collect you can choose to have us not collect."

POLICE STATE: Google's File On You Is 10 Times Bigger Than Facebook's - Here's How To View It

POLICE STATE: Google's File On You Is 10 Times Bigger Than Facebook's - Here's How To View It

Authored by Jake Anderson 

With all the attention paid to Facebook in recent weeks over ‘data breaches’ and privacy violations, even though what happened with Cambridge Analytica is part of their standard business model, it’s easy to forget that there are four other Big Tech corporations collecting just as much - if not more - of our personal info.

Oceania, ‘Tis For Thee: The World of ‘1984’ Forming Now

Oceania, ‘Tis For Thee: The World of ‘1984’ Forming Now

Jeremiah Johnson

“Oceania” was a nation described in George Orwell’s “1984” as being comprised of Britain (called “Airstrip One,”) and the United States. There were two other superpowers, namely Eurasia and Eastasia. Other lands rich in resources were contested over, such as Africa and assumingly South America…lands never kept by any of three Super-states for any significant period.

Surveillance State? Nah, Can’t Happen…Because it Happened Already

Surveillance State? Nah, Can’t Happen…Because it Happened Already

Jeremiah Johnson

Many have argued that there is neither a surveillance state, nor a concerted effort to disarm the public door-to-door, house by house, etc. Some of these are far-leftists, masquerading as conservatives…trying to appear “skeptically cynical.” We’ll “game” the thought, to bring everyone back from opacity to transparency.

(SURVEILLANCE STATE) Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As "Social Media"

(SURVEILLANCE STATE) Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As "Social Media"

NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the suspension of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, over what Facebook says was imporoper use of collected data.
In a nutshell, in 2015 Cambridge Analytica bought data from a University of Cambridge psychology professor, Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, who had developed an app called "thisisyourdigitallife" that vacuumed up loads of information on users and their contacts. After making Kogan and Cambridge Analytica promise to delete the data the app had gathered, Facebook received reports (from sources they would not identify) which claimed that not all the data had been deleted - which led the social media giant to delete Cambridge Analytica and parent company SCL's accounts.

China: Testing Ground for U.S. Surveillance

China: Testing Ground for U.S. Surveillance

Jeremiah Johnson

There is little doubt for most of us that the recent shootings in Florida were not merely a “spontaneous, random event,” precipitated by one individual. At the very least, if Cruz (the alleged shooter) was a “lone wolf,” then the Deep State and those who back it in the Congress are going to exploit it. They will not allow such a crisis to go to waste. Now a new “crusade” is forming by the Statists for gun control.

The surveillance society is here, and what you can do to protect yourself

The surveillance society is here, and what you can do to protect yourself

George Orwell’s 1984 featured a dystopian England, and indeed, a world, of three superstates that all ran according to the same principles.  Eternal war, eternal ignorance, and eternal subservience, whether realized or not.  BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU was this book’s addition to the American lexicon for many, many people.

POLICE STATE: DEEP STATE PLOY For Mass Surveillance: Facebook Recognition AI Will Use Your Own Biometrics Against You

POLICE STATE: DEEP STATE PLOY For Mass Surveillance: Facebook Recognition AI Will Use Your Own Biometrics Against You

 

Sometime this year, Facebook plans to unveil a new facial recognition technology across the site which uses artificial intelligence to scan uploaded photos to analyze and recognize faces based on images previously uploaded to the site. But this is nothing more than a surveillance technique.
According to Natural News, this sneaky surveillance technique will link users to the people they meet in real life all while tracking their whereabouts and social circle even further. And the real kicker? Facebook will roll out this AI deep state mass surveillance under the guise of “protecting your privacy.”

Big Brother Installing Surveillance Cameras in Places of Worship 

Forget the fact, that minsters, priests, rabbis, etc., are secretly spying on worshipers. Forget the fact that places of worship want their own police force. And, finally, forget the fact that places of worship are paying the government a $100 dollars a month to spy on families.

The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism

The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism

INCLUDES: Feds want to track your face

Gizmodo released an article entitled “US Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition to Identify People in Moving Cars,” on 11/2/17 by Matt Novak. The Surveillance State has slowed down its rate of growth since the President took office, however, it has not halted that growth. Instead, it lies festering below the veneer of daily events, inexorably growing its tentacles and extending their reach. Akin to an infestation of weeds, the roots are deep within the fabric of our communications networks: telephones, CCTV (Closed-Circuit Television) cameras, the Internet…all are thoroughly permeated.
Here is an excerpt from that article:

POLICE STATE: UK Spies Using Social Media Data for Mass Surveillance

POLICE STATE: UK Spies Using Social Media Data for Mass Surveillance

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Privacy rights group Privacy International says it has obtained evidence for the first time that UK spy agencies are collecting social media information on potentially millions of people.
It has also obtained letters it says show the intelligence agencies’ oversight body had not been informed that UK intelligence agencies had shared bulk databases of personal data with foreign governments, law enforcement and industry — raising concerns about effective oversight of the mass surveillance programs.

POLICE STATE: Former Facebook executive says Google, Facebook are ‘surveillance states’

POLICE STATE: Former Facebook executive says Google, Facebook are ‘surveillance states’

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Even though he was once an executive at Facebook, Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings, favors investing in Amazon instead, he told CNBC's "Fast Money: Halftime Report" on Thursday.
President Donald Trump has been a critic of Amazon, tweeting his disdain for coverage from The Washington Post, which is a personal holding of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. But Palihapitiya said he thinks that Facebook and Google face more regulatory risk, given the many retailers that compete with Amazon.