“Surveillance Society”

A Canadian tech company that has received millions of dollars in funding from the Ontario government is allegedly implicated in a spy incident involving an Egyptian presidential candidate, according to a new report.

Researchers from The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School shared in a press release Friday that they believe, with “high confidence,” technology produced by the Waterloo, Ont.-based firm Sandvine was used in multiple attempts to infect spyware technology into the device of Ahmed Altantawy, a former Egyptian lawmaker who recently announced his intentions to run for Egypt’s highest office.

It takes the Star about 3/4 of the article to mention the funding came from the Wynne and McGuinty governments.

You may think you’re not worth spying on. But to our government, we’re all terrorists now.

My email was being “held in government quarantine” pending review, a letter from Yahoo! informed me. I was sitting in the computer lab in the German department at New York University. It was September of 2003. I remember because I’d just received an email about a merit scholarship for that semester. The government wants to know about my scholarship? was my first thought. My next one was: Let ‘em. What did I care if the government knew my GPA?

Police have been told to scan every shoplifting CCTV image reported to them through facial recognition technology as figures reveal some forces are failing to identify suspects in as many as two thirds of cases.

Only one in seven shoplifters were charged over the past year across England and Wales, while 54 per cent of cases were closed with no suspect identified and other evidential difficulties led to a further 20 per cent of cases collapsing.

More than 4,000 people join Facebook group encouraging others to report sightings of the vehicles so that they can be targeted

Opponents of London’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) expansion have started targeting a fleet of camera vans attempting to enforce the rules.

Images posted on social media show some of the vans have been daubed with graffiti, had their cameras covered by bags and their tyres deflated.

One was photographed being rescued by a recovery truck.

When you don’t want to pay the #ULEZ Charge and you hate the #LTNs…#BritishRambo pic.twitter.com/IPI3nkqJLf

— Shahid Qazi (@_ProFreedom) September 11, 2023

This isn’t creepy at all.

This isn’t creepy at all. It’s just the perpetual one-part Kafka, one-part Orwell, and three parts identity politics panopticon that critical race theory claims is the only way to the unachievable goal of true social justice.

The British government decided to leave out the so-called ‘spy clause’ from its upcoming Online Safety Bill at the last minute, but the decision’s only temporary until the technology behind scanning encrypted messages becomes accurate enough, The Register wrote on Thursday, September 7th.

“If the appropriate technology does not exist that meets [certain] requirements, then [the regulators] will not be able to use Clause 122 to require its use,” Stephen Parkinson, a Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport minister said in Westminster on Wednesday. “A notice can be issued only where technically feasible and where technology has been accredited as meeting minimum standards of accuracy.”

The New York Police Department is rolling out its air force of drones this Labor Day weekend, raising the usual ruckus from civil libertarians. Kaz Daughtry, NYPD Assistant Commissioner, responded to critics, saying, “I understand there may be concerns, but these drones are not going into the backyards to look for the secret sauce that mom, dad, or grandma’s making.”

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The deliberate targeting of certain believers by the surveillance state is beyond the pale

New documents uncovered this week revealed that FBI director Christopher Wray was completely full of it when he testified to Congress that attempts to investigate traditional Catholics were limited to one rogue FBI field office.

Large money-center banks appear to be in the vanguard of a movement to build a system of personal social credit scores.

This week, British bank Barclays became the latest to be accused of shutting the accounts of its customers for political or religious reasons. This followed revelations in April that Coutts, a private bank owned by British Bank NatWest, was alleged to have closed the accounts and publicized personal information of conservative politician Nigel Farage, one of the foremost Brexit advocates and a supporter of the policies of former U.S. President Donald Trump.