By Nicholas West It appears that, once again, the government narrative that TSA surveillance and groping is needed to keep Americans safe from the terrorists…
By Nicholas West By now it’s not exactly news that the U.S. military would love nothing more than to create mind-controlled soldiers. Since the inception…
By Nicholas West Just a little over 10 years after drone surveillance inside U.S. borders was declared a conspiracy theory, it is now an indisputable…
By Nicholas West A group of residents from Sacramento’s Land Park neighborhood are expressing their disgust with a secret drone program that has been exposed…
By Nicholas West One of the most controversial aspects of “policing in the 21st century” is the notion that if police can sweep all information…
By Nicholas West In the wake of tragedies like the Las Vegas shooting, we’ve seen a justification emerge for using drone surveillance of large public…
By Nicholas West It’s a trend that is quickly becoming accepted reality – biometric identification at U.S. airports. However, until now, it has been marketed…
By Nicholas West Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, China is offering a grim vision of the future as it implements a full-scale…
By Nicholas West While most of the news over the last several years has been about the ramp-up of drone use across the planet in…
By Nicholas West The emergence of low-cost micro satellites has spawned a global surveillance arms race: the familiar problem-reaction-solution paradigm upon what all other arms…
By Nicholas West Amid the ongoing Facebook/Cambridge Analytica debacle over their general surveillance and misuse of users’ private data, there is an emerging trend that…
By Nicholas West Even as robotics experts, universities and tech luminaries sound the alarm about the potential for a future filled with killer robots powered…
By Nicholas West “Every year, more and more of the world’s population moves into cities. The number of megacities is growing exponentially. Both of these…
By Nicholas West I’ve recently been covering the widening use of predictive algorithms in modern-day police work, which frequently has been compared to the “pre-crime”…
