Real-Time Drone Surveillance System Is Being Programmed To Detect Violence
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…
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Sacramento Residents Outraged By Secret Drone Program Spying on Neighborhood
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…
Activists Uncover Pre-Crime Police Program Operated by the LAPD
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…
Chicago Police One Step Closer To Using Drone Surveillance At Protests
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…
Facial Recognition For ALL International Inbound and Outbound Passengers Begins at Orlando Airport — Data Retained for “75 Years”
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…
China Begins Monitoring Brain Waves in the Workplace and Military
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…
Army Wants Soldiers to 3D Print A.I. Robot Squid in Future Missions
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…
Bill Gates Funding Web of Satellites For Global Real-Time Surveillance
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…
Social Media Now Being Used by Police and Intelligence Agencies to Collect Biometrics
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…
Uber Halts Nationwide Testing Of Self-Driving Vehicles Following Death of Pedestrian
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…
U.S. Military Working To Deploy Robot Ground Vehicles For Urban Combat By 2020
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…
Pentagon and DARPA Seek Predictive A.I. to Uncover Enemy Thoughts
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”…
New Orleans Cancels Secret Pre-Crime Police Program After Media Exposure
By Nicholas West I’m happy to report some good news coming out of New Orleans thanks to the excellent investigative reporting of Ali Winston with…
Digital Papers Please: New Reports of TSA Searching Computers and Cellphones for DOMESTIC Flights
By Nicholas West Despite being roundly hated by the traveling public, the TSA continues to trample upon anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path. Whether…