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Amazon’s Underbelly 1.0: Bolstering the Surveillance State with Rekognition
The potential abuse of this software for surveillance and data harvesting purposes is so troubling that some of Amazon’s shareholders have pleaded with the company to forgo selling its facial recognition technology to the government.
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U.S. Government Targets Journalists As Real Terrorist "Incel" Threat Grows
It was difficult to take this movement seriously until they, too, discovered that vans could be rented affordably and plowed into crowds of pedestrians. Like Isis, Incel is radicalizing disenchanted, lonely, frustrated young men.
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Act Out! [105] - What Vault 7 Means For You & Become a War Tax Resister
This week on Act Out, you may have heard: the CIA could be listening to your phone conversations, recording your Skype calls, and even spying on you through your TV.
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Act Out! [80] - How to Spot a White Supremacist, An Inside Look at Anonymous & Jews vs. Israel
We're introducing a new segment for all those times you think to yourself, "Wow, that's fucked up." First topic: white supremacists.
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Act Out! [73] - Battling Big Brother & The Man; The Surveillance State & Protester’s Rights
This week, as the DNC rages on, we're talking state surveillance – digging deep into the past and present with surveillance expert, Chip Gibbons from Defending Dissent.
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The Illusion of Freedom: Ready for a New Political Radicalism
We are being assaulted by political campaigning that resembles the constant crusading by fascists and communists in past totalitarian societies.
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The Digital Dog Ate Our Civil Liberties Homework: “It’s Just the Way It Is”
Of all the excuses ladled out for the Obama administration's shredding of the 4th Amendment while assaulting press freedom and prosecuting whistleblowers, none is more pernicious than the claim that technology is responsible.
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Targeting "Social Contagions," Defense Department Prepares for Mass Civil Breakdown
Twitter posts and conversations will be examined "to identify individuals mobilized in a social contagion and when they become mobilized."
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Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit
For the first time, the founder of an encrypted email startup that was supposed to insure privacy for all reveals how the FBI and the U.S. legal system made sure we don't have the right to much privacy in the first place.
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In Cecily McMillan Trial, NYPD Case Against Occupy Activist Doesn’t Add Up
Cecily McMillan faces up to seven years in jail on charges of assaulting a police officer, sending a chilling message to Occupy protesters.
