Mainstream Britain might finally be waking up to the fact that it elected a totalitarian government that increasingly seems to behave like the Chinese Communist Party.
“Surveillance Society”
The horror of turning children into thoughtcriminals
I wasn’t surprised to read The Times’s story about schoolchildren being investigated for possible ‘hate crimes’. These included a nine-year-old who’d called a classmate a ‘retard’ and two girls at a secondary school who’d told another pupil she smelt ‘like fish’. The police, having decided that these episodes did not meet the threshold for criminal prosecution, dutifully recorded them as ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHIs).
Biden-Harris Administration Secretly Signs Up for UN World Governance, Internet Censorship
On September 22, unnoticed by most Americans, the Biden-Harris administration adopted the United Nations Pact for the Future to transform global governance, which introduces the foundations of a world government. There was no debate, no media coverage, no press releases, and no interviews about the Biden-Harris administration’s surrender of United States sovereignty to the UN.
Americans were apparently not supposed to find out.
RCMP plans to go undercover online to trap violent extremists
The RCMP is planning to conduct undercover surveillance online using fake personas to investigate ideological extremists in Canada, says an internal strategy document.
Experts in ideologically motivated violent extremism (IMVE) in Canada say the strategy is overdue at a time when online extremism threatens to spill over into real world violence. They warn that extremist activity in Canada could increase in the wake of the U.S. election, regardless of who becomes the next president.
Civil liberties advocates say they fear that having officers carry out undercover investigations online using fake personas could violate charter rights or lead people to take actions they otherwise might not take.
You can bet Trudeau and all the usual suspects are hyperventilating in anticipation.
‘Silent prayer’ breaches of abortion clinic ‘buffer zones’ will land offenders unlimited fines
People who engage in silent prayer in protest at abortion face unlimited fines if they breach buffer zones around clinics that come into force.
The new legislation will bar protests including silent prayer within a buffer zone of 150 metres of a clinic or hospital providing abortion services.
Federal agency ‘working to establish’ digital ID without parliamentary approval
The federal IT department on Monday said they are “working to establish digital credentials” for Canadians without parliamentary go-ahead.
MPs have repeatedly rejected introduction of any electronic national ID system as expensive and risky, per Blacklock’s Reporter.
Who will guard the guardians?
Americans paying attention have been horrified to learn just how inept and malicious our federal law enforcement agencies have become under the Harris/Biden cabal. Institutions necessary for the preservation of our representative republic have not only failed us but have been turned against us. As Juvenal wrote: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guardians? The answer, increasingly, is certainly not the Harris/Biden Administration.
Meta smart glasses can reveal personal details about strangers on the street — even home addresses
This pernicious program is every stalker’s dream.
Two Harvard students developed a program for Ray-Ban’s Meta smart glasses that can be used to identify an individual and obtain access to their personal information, including a home address.
AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, who are engineering students at the Ivy League school, posted a chilling demonstration of what their program, dubbed I-Xray, can do.
Want your DNA profile from the RCMP’s DNA bank? You can’t have it, a new ruling finds
OTTAWA – A person’s DNA profile may dictate who they are but, if it’s in the RCMP’s DNA bank, they aren’t allowed to have it.
That’s according to a first-of-its-kind decision published this summer by Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard. The ruling is an example of how the government can sometimes legally withhold even extremely personal data like one’s DNA profile in certain cases.
RCMP will kill you by drone soon …
RCMP aims to dramatically expand reach into remote areas via drones
The RCMP is looking to expand the growing use of drones by Canadian police, issuing a tender for long-range aircraft that could reach far-flung crime scenes and other incidents well before officers arrived.
Bank of Canada Abandons Plans to Develop Digital Dollar
The Bank of Canada (BoC) will not be introducing a digital currency any time soon.
After researching and holding public consultations on the idea of a central bank digital currency, the BoC said it will be shifting its focus away from the concept.
Freeland is crying.
Federal Study Finds ‘Vast Surveillance’ of Social Media Users
Several social media and streaming services are engaging in “vast surveillance” of their users, including children, by collecting and sharing personal information, the Federal Trade Commission has disclosed.
The findings, released Thursday, stem from a comprehensive study of nine major companies, including Meta, YouTube, and TikTok. According to the report, the platforms — which primarily offer free services — capitalize on consumer data by using it for targeted advertising based on user demographics.
RCMP Lifts Veil on Use of Emerging Technologies to Fight Crime
The RCMP says it installed tools on digital devices to covertly collect electronic evidence in 32 cases over a recent five-year period.
The criminal offences being investigated in these cases from 2017 to 2022 involved national security, illicit drugs, financial misdeeds and other serious matters.
The national police force disclosed the statistics Tuesday in a report that provides details about various operational technologies, some of them little known to the public.
What’s At Stake in the Censorship War
The fight for a free Internet is raging globally.
The censorship war has hit a flashpoint. Late last month, Brazil banned Elon Musk’s social media site, X, after Musk refused a government order to suppress seven dissident accounts. Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes responded by restricting access to the platform across the country. This story has direct implications in Brazil and also reveals the hidden stakes of the global censorship war.
One way to measure the influence of a political regime is to trace the flow of money, goods, people, information, and force. These are the raw materials of politics, and the form that these materials take helps to shape the form of the political regime.
Keir Stasi? UK government wants to prosecute ‘non-crime hate speech’
In the United Kingdom’s escalating war on the freedom of expression, the U.K. Home Secretary is seeking to reinstate the prosecution of “non-crime hate speech,” overturning a 2021 court ruling which described the measure as a move towards a police state in Britain.
According to an August 28 report in the U.K. Times, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper “faces a legal battle” to reinstate measures to interrogate, monitor, and even prosecute members of the public for a range of “non-criminal” remarks.
h/t XC