RT.com Jun 1, 2014 Reuters / Mario Anzuoni The National Security Agency is collecting millions of images of people through its international surveillance network to be implemented in a number of other facial recognition programs, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Read Snowden’s comments on 9/11 that NBC didn’t …
Read More »Closing the Gap Between 1984 & 2014: LAPD Deploys Orwellian Spy Drones
LAPD acquires drone capability RT.com May 31, 2014 https://www.draganfly.com – Draganflyer X-6 For a city infamous for circling police helicopters, Los Angeles Police were surprisingly late to the drone game. All that has changed, however, as the department quietly added two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to its …
Read More »Police Testing Google Glass to Further Expand the Police State
The Free Thought Project John Vibes May 23, 2014 Police departments in Dubai and New York City have been testing Google Glass to see how they can implement it for use on the streets. It has been known for months that the NYPD is testing this technology, but it was …
Read More »Apple Helps Cops Hide Police Brutality
May 12, 2014 The rapid emergence of smart phones with high definition cameras leads to consequences for law-breaking cops. Recently, law enforcement throughout the country has been trying to pass laws that would make it illegal to film them while they’re on duty. But Apple is coming out with …
Read More »Are You One of 52 Million that Will Be in the FBI’s Face Recognition Database Next Year?
FBI Plans to Have 52 Million Photos in its NGI Face Recognition Database by Next Year April 15, 2014 Electronic Frontier Foundation New documents released by the FBI show that the Bureau is well on its way toward its goal of a fully operational face recognition database by this summer. …
Read More »Police Testing a “Live Google Earth” System to Watch Crime as it Happens
April 15, 2014 Gizmodo.com In Compton last year, police began quietly testing a system that allowed them to do something incredible: Watch every car and person in real time as they ebbed and flowed around the city. Every assault, every purse snatched, every car speeding away was on record—all thanks …
Read More »The Complete Interactive Guide To How The NSA Spies On Everything You Do
Zero Hedge April 6, 2014 With all the hoopla about missing airplanes, renewed wars of the cold variety, and rigged markets, it is easy to forget that America is now officially a totalitarian state of the Orwellian kind, where the population has – involuntarily – ceded all of its privacy in exchange …
Read More »Facebook to buy company that makes solar-powered drones
Facebook is expanding from the cyberworld to out of this world. Facebook is buying drone-making company Titan Aeronautics for $60 million, according to TechCrunch. Titan Aeronautics makes near-orbital, solar-powered drones that can hover in space for up to five years. RT takes a look at the altruistic reason Facebook gives …
Read More »Hundreds of Millions of Private Account Credentials Found for Sale Online
The batch could be used to launch email scams and crack into online accounts, experts said By Kevin Rawlinson BBC News February 26, 2014 A “treasure trove” of stolen personal details has been found on sale on black market websites, a security firm says. About 360 million account credentials …
Read More »Sound wave 3Dvolution: Japanese scientists move objects using acoustic levitation
RT.com Image from 96ochiai.ws/3DOFacoustic Japanese scientists have been successful in moving an object in a three-dimensional space through a complex system of acoustic levitation, surpassing previous research endeavors that lifted the objects in two dimensions. In order to move expanded polystyrene particles of 0.6 mm and 2 mm in diameter, …
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