5 Legal Strategies To Reduce Your Tax Burden
By Nicholas West While people feel compelled to continue debating the government shutdown, the reality remains that tax collection is expected to continue uninterrupted. The…
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Future A.I. Won’t Need Facial Recognition to Identify Individuals in a Crowd: Claim
By Nicholas West People of the future will apparently be no more significant than zebrafish and flies, according to new studies in tracking and surveillance…
China Tracks Workers’ Brains; Now Tracking Children With “Smart” Tech Uniforms
By Nicholas West If there is any country on Earth that is most emblematic of the rising governance model that is Technocracy, it is China. …
Latest Amazon Privacy Invasion Granted User Access to 1,700 Audio Files From Another Account
By Nicholas West Artificial intelligence is not in full control just yet. Lurking behind the algorithms contained in Amazon’s smart home tech device, Alexa, are…
London Begins Testing Facial Recognition In Public Despite Being “Staggeringly Inaccurate”
By Nicholas West It appears that London is ready to roll out the gift of surveillance to its citizens this holiday season. The Met has…
Microsoft Declares Intent To Provide Military All Of Its Technology Because of the Military’s “Ethical and Honorable Tradition”
By Nicholas West After decades of tech companies and the U.S. military overlapping in a variety of ways, it appears that the largest of them…
Amazon Echo Home Recordings At Center Of Murder Trial As Judge Orders Data Release
By Nicholas West A new type of court case has been slowly but steadily emerging within the American legal system: alleged crimes being detected from…
A.I. Lie Detectors Being Tested To Replace Human Border Guards
By Nicholas West The future of travel is clearly one where automation will play an increasingly significant role. The biometric roll out is well underway…
Biometric ID For Travel Goes Global With New CBP Tourism Partnership
By Nicholas West Biometric identification has quietly rolled out at several U.S. airports and various locations around the world. In some cases, it has been…
DARPA Seeks FAA Approval For Military Drones Over American Cities By 2030 – At The Latest
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…
Welcome To The Smart Home Government Snitch Program
By Nicholas West The very nature of the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution appears to be at stake as the data…
Want Cheaper Insurance Rates? You Can Have It If You Let Companies Track and Manage Your Life
By Nicholas West One of the most insidious side effects emerging in our modern world of digital tracking and Big Data goes far beyond the…
“Digital Strip Searches” Increasing at Borders; Refusal Could Lead to $5K Fine
By Nicholas West Apparently the era of “digital papers please” is upon us. Earlier this year, in March, I reported on allegations that travelers on…
Military and U.S. Law Enforcement Establishing Joint Communication Network for Biometric Databases
By Nicholas West Does anyone remember that it used to be considered a conspiracy theory to warn people about biometric databases? Well, now that it…