“Surveillance Society”

The microchip implants that let you pay with your hand

A microchip was first implanted into a human back in 1998, but it is only during the past decade that the technology has been available commercially.

And when it comes to implantable payment chips, British-Polish firm, Walletmor, says that last year it became the first company to offer them for sale.

“The implant can be used to pay for a drink on the beach in Rio, a coffee in New York, a haircut in Paris – or at your local grocery store,” says founder and chief executive Wojtek Paprota. “It can be used wherever contactless payments are accepted.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", technology, Yikes!

Ontario Government Won’t Comment On Progress Of Digital ID Program

The Ontario government is remaining tight-lipped about the progress and rollout of the proposed provincial digital ID program.

The program was intended to launch in 2021, but was delayed due to the development of the province’s proof-of-vaccination app. In November, the government said they would roll the program out in 2022.

But since then, the government has removed reference to the 2022 timeline from the digital ID website.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Ontario

Judged by Those Who Believe In Nothing

Welcome to the Woke Inquisition.

The brilliant Nazi-era system of segregating society based on health papers has once again become all the rage. Better yet, modern technology has made it possible to segregate people using digital codes, just like your supermarket organizes products. No need for all that paper anymore! Not only is digital tracking a more efficient way to control people and destroy the world, it’s much greener, too.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

The FBI is spending millions on social media tracking software

A new FBI contract is raising surveillance concerns

Social media users seemed to foreshadow the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — and the FBI apparently missed it.

Now, the FBI is doubling down on tracking social media posts, spending millions of dollars on thousands of licenses to powerful social media monitoring technology that privacy and civil liberties advocates say raise serious concerns.

The FBI has contracted for 5,000 licenses to use Babel X, a software made by Babel Street that lets users search social media sites within a geographic area and use other parameters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Threats Within: More make believe reasons why Justin Trudeau must control the internet

Threats Within: Canada’s spy service boosts attention to ‘ideological’ domestic extremism

… “Ideologically” motivated violent extremism (IMVE) — the service’s catch-all term, which includes far-right and white supremacist-motivated violence — is “fast approaching parity with the threat from religiously-motivated violent extremism in terms of investigative resources deployed” in Canada, CSIS Director David Vigneault wrote in late 2021.

“The pandemic has been seized upon by extremists, who are exploiting the situation to spread disinformation, amplify anti-authority narratives, and promote acts of violence,” Vigneault wrote in a letter to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino in late 2021, adding IMVE “disproportionately targets equity-deserving groups in Canada.”

“CSIS is actively investigating IMVE threats, and when appropriate, mitigating these threats through the use of threat reduction measures.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

We Will Delete You

How liberal democracies acquired the power to end your participation in society with the push of a button

Before beating a hasty retreat, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went where no world leader has gone before. Last month, he became the first Western leader to wield the financial system as a push-button weapon of government enforcement against opinions and behaviors that he found politically distasteful or inconvenient. This is an entirely new form of power, which much of the world has not even begun to reckon with—but which may well define our politics in the years to come.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Justin Trudeau - Pissant

If you want to control people, here’s what you go for

If you wanted to rule the world, what would you change to make that happen? Try something that can easily track and control everyone as they go about their daily lives — to the point that they can’t escape your stalking or dictates. If you could control the one thing that everyone must use everywhere in his daily activities, you could make the dictators of the past look like rank amateurs.

What would have this amount of power to track and control everyone in society? What is the one system of the federal government that you must use in your daily life to buy gas, food, or anything else you need?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Beware the risks of tyrannical tech

Your bank account, car and WiFi could be shut off at a moment’s notice

“Just think about it. Our whole world is sitting there on a computer. It’s in the computer, everything: your, your DMV records, your, your social security, your credit cards, your medical records. It’s all right there. Everyone is stored in there. It’s like this little electronic shadow on each and every one of us, just, just begging for someone to screw with, and you know what? They’ve done it to me, and you know what? They’re gonna do it to you.”

— Sandra Bullock as Angela Bennett, The Net, 1995

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Ottawa convoy deemed national security threat a week before Emergencies Act: police

Ontario police deemed the so-called “Freedom Convoy” a threat to national security one week before the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act.

Police have described the unprecedented invocation of the legislation as “critical” to their efforts to end the demonstrations, which saw participants encamped in downtown residential streets for three weeks.

Yet it is unclear at this point why it took seven days before the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act, or why it took police an additional week beyond that to begin clearing out the convoy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"

Canada’s spy agencies have held back information from Parliament’s watchdogs

Canada’s intelligence agencies have held back information from parliamentary oversight, leading a key watchdog committee to warn its work could be “compromised” if the situation continues.

The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a joint House of Commons and Senate body that reviews the country’s intelligence apparatus, warned that “some organizations” have delayed or denied the committee’s requests for information.

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Ontario to introduce new measures to block further blockades

OTTAWA — Ontarians could soon find their driver’s licences and vehicle registration revoked for participating in illegal blockades.

And those vehicles could also find themselves being hauled away by provincially owned tow trucks, preventing future issues with blockade removals hampered by reluctant towing operators.

The National Post has learned Ontario’s PC government will introduce new measures at Queen’s Park on Monday, meant to prevent a repeat of last month’s freedom convoy blockades.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"