The new approach to vaccine passports, which are controversial and unpopular, is to call them by a different name. A rose by any other name might not smell as sweet and a vaccine passport by any other name would be less totalitarian.
“Surveillance Society”
Facebook’s Latest Warning to Users Is Creeping People Out
As part of their strategy to combat “extremism,” Facebook is issuing a new warning to users about “harmful” content an individual may have been exposed to. They’re also urging users to turn in others they suspect of being extremists.
h/t Mauser
Tucker and the NSA: Why Are You Surprised?
Carlson’s revelations about being spied on by the Biden administration are part of a well-established pattern of government abuse.
I’ll allow that this headline might miss the mark with many of our more regular readers, who are anything but surprised at the revelations coming out of Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show this week.
But for the rest of you, it might be just what you needed to see.
NSA Response To Carlson Sparks Numerous Reactions: ‘This Is Either Poorly Drafted Or Something Worse’
The National Security Agency’s response to allegations that it is spying on Fox News host Tucker Carlson sparked a wide range of responses on Tuesday night with most people falling into one of two camps: Either they noted the carefully crafted way that the statement was constructed or they used the statement to claim that Carlson was lying.
Tucker Carlson reveals NSA Has been spying on him
NEW: Fox News host Tucker Carlson says a government whistleblower told his team that the NSA is spying on his team's electronic communications and is "planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air." pic.twitter.com/DqOf6jndFC
— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) June 29, 2021
h/t Mauser
Section 13 Rises from the Dead
The “free world” barely pretends to favor free speech these days. The triggered interns who infest the big publishing houses openly demand their employers pulp the latest manuscripts from J K Rowling and Jordan Peterson. The totalitarian wankers of the British police sit around the station all day monitoring Twitter for transphobic quips, which is far more congenial labor than getting off their flabby arses and catching criminals. The woke billionaires of social media boast openly of their success at “fortifying” the US election by memory-holing unhelpful content.
MALCOLM: Bill C-10 was just the tip of the iceberg
“Midnight Madness: as Canadians slept, the Liberals, Bloc and NDP combined to pass Bill C-10.”
That is how Canadian law professor and the country’s foremost expert on law and technology, Michael Geist, described Tuesday evening’s House of Commons shenanigans that allowed the Trudeau government to ram through its controversial internet censorship law.
TikTok, tick-tock
Chinese-owned TikTok recently updated its privacy policy in the United States. The immensely popular social video-sharing app, known in China as Douyin, blithely gave itself permission to collect biometric data of U.S. users, including faceprints and voiceprints. The networking service is owned by Bytedance, a Chinese company headquartered in Beijing and founded in 2012.
I spy: are smart doorbells creating a global surveillance network?
I have got a new doorbell. It’s brilliant. It should be; it cost £89. It’s a Ring video doorbell; you’ll have seen them around. There are others available, made by other companies, with other four-letter names such as Nest and Arlo. When someone rings my doorbell, I’m alerted on my smartphone. I can see who is there, and speak to them.
My phone is ringing! C major first inversion chord, arpeggiated, repeated, for the musically trained – you’ll recognise it if you’ve heard it. It’s a delivery. Amazon, as it happens; Amazon acquired Ring in 2018, reportedly for more than $1bn.
“Hi, Amazon guy, I’m not in… I mean, I’m upstairs.” I’m not, but I don’t want him – or anyone else – to know that. “Could you leave it behind the bins, please?”
Liberals introduce bill to ̷f̷i̷g̷h̷t̷ ̷o̷n̷l̷i̷n̷e̷ ̷h̷a̷t̷e̷ criminalize dissent with Criminal Code amendments
The Liberals have introduced a bill to tackle online hate by amending Canada’s Criminal Code and Canadian Human Rights Act.
Bill C-36 would allow a person to appear before a provincial court, with the Attorney General’s consent, if the person fears that another will commit an offence “motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other similar factor.”
It’s Section 13 with a Hatey Face.
If passed then pointing out that sectarian violence, honour killings, the murder of apostates and gays along with all the other ways Islam enriches the world will make you a criminal.
Some, who should know better, believe this law will prevent or at least punish those who vilify Israel as an apartheid state etc.
The gatekeepers won’t allow that to happen. Instead this dangerous legislation will be used to enforce sharia law. Dissenting opinions deemed objectionable such as criticism of multiculturalism and immigration policy will be silenced based on the whims of the anointed.
Your right to free speech will be the collateral damage of this abusive law and make no mistake that was the intention all along.
We are fucked no?
“It’s worse than #BillC10. @s_guilbeault goes further with #BillC36. This is only the start.”
PODCAST: Law proposes house arrest and $70K fines for internet publishers, bloggers, Facebook & Twitter users. @AlexpiersonAMP and Blacklock’s Reporter. https://t.co/hBWaFBXQFz #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/TeqiW2qeVM— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) June 24, 2021
Liberals pass Bill C-10 to regulate social media, streaming
Canadian lawmakers passed a controversial bill that aims to regulate programming distributed by media streaming services and social platforms like Facebook and YouTube, a measure that critics warn could infringe on individual speech.
‘Every step we take’ could be monitored and analysed if facial recognition tech isn’t reined in, UK data watchdog warns
The head of the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has raised alarm over the potential abuses of facial recognition software, after several investigations found that the technology was not being properly deployed.
UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham noted in a blog post published on Friday that facial recognition technology can be harnessed to make our lives more efficient and secure, but said there was a clear danger that it could be misused.
Live facial recognition (LFR) technology capable of scanning people’s faces in real time as they walk down the street or enter a shop can be used “inappropriately, excessively or even recklessly,” the head of the UK data watchdog said, noting that there could be “significant” consequences if sensitive personal data were collected on a mass scale without people even knowing they were being monitored.
A shack in the deep woods is looking better every day.
Bill C-10 faces backward and will embarrass Canada on the world stage
With Parliament ending June 23, Bill C-10 is on the clock.
The bill was tabled on Nov. 3, purportedly to modernize Canada’s 1991 Broadcasting Act and meet challenges and opportunities presented by the global, online era. Many (including myself) assessed C-10 as lacking astute analysis and bold vision. Then things got worse. A clause that exempted user-generated content from regulation was removed, igniting debate by top experts about C-10′s impact on Canadians’ rights to free speech and an open internet. Last week, the bill was further politicized and made even more controversial when the Liberals and Bloc Québécois limited committee debate, and then, with the NDP, introduced amendments without making them public, in an attempt to rush the bill to the House of Commons, pass it and send it to the Senate.
Could an Invisible Military Laser Steal Your Privacy?
In early 2006, I sat in the Pashtun tribal areas on the Af/Pak border. When not rinsing grit out of my teeth from the thick fog in the air, I awaited information from capricious “allies,” on whether their informant could identify a senior al Qaeda leader who I’ll call “The Moroccan.” At the time, he was al Qaeda’s regional operational commander and well worth removing from the board.
RCMP broke privacy laws in using controversial Clearview AI facial recognition tools, watchdog says
OTTAWA — Canada’s national police force broke privacy law by using controversial facial recognition software that put innocent Canadians in a “24/7 police lineup,” the federal privacy commissioner says.
The RCMP conducted “hundreds” of searches of Clearview AI’s database of billions of photos scraped from the public internet, including social media sites, without consent. The company lets law enforcement and private business then match photos against that database.