Archive for the 'Police State' Category
The Stablecoin Trap: The Backdoor to Total Financial Control
March 25th, 2025Via: Peak Prosperity: While the debate rages over the future threat of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), a far more insidious reality has already taken hold: our existing financial system already functions as a digital control grid, monitoring transactions, restricting choices, and enforcing compliance through programmable money. For over two years, my wife and I […]
French Scientist Denied U.S. Entry After Phone Messages Critical of Trump Found
March 20th, 2025Via: Guardian: France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration. “I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for […]
30 U.S. Zip Codes Where $200 ATM Cash Withdrawals Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance
March 18th, 2025Via: Reason: One of President Donald Trump’s Day 1 executive orders designated “certain international cartels” as “foreign terrorist organizations,” a classification that according to the State Department “play[s] a critical role in our fight against terrorism and [is] an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the […]
VR Headsets for Inmates in Solitary Confinement
March 15th, 2025Via: Futurism: Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, which is over 20 percent of the world’s prisoners. Of that massive number, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary confinement for at least 22 hours a day. Solitary confinement is the brutal practice of […]
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
March 12th, 2025Via: EFF: EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans. Mark didn’t set out to change the world. For 22 years, he was a telecommunications […]
“Monopoly Reinvents Its Board Game Without Paper Money”
March 7th, 2025Via: Popular Mechanics: Earlier this week, Hasbro announced its newest version of the classic board game Monopoly but with a big change—the role of the banker is gone. In its place is Monopoly App Banking, a concept designed to speed up play and make the game more enjoyable. When it lands in stores this August […]
Cops in Germany Are Raiding People’s Homes for Insulting Politicians
February 22nd, 2025Via: Truthstream Media:
Apple Disabling End-to-End Encryption for iCloud Users in Britain
February 21st, 2025Via: Forbes: One of Apple’s optional features is Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, which offers the company’s highest level of cloud data security. Apple has just announced that this is no longer available to new users in the United Kingdom. This is much more than a question of security, not just because it affects so […]
Larry Ellison Wants to Put All America’s Data, Including DNA, in Giant Database for AI to Study
February 13th, 2025Tell us another one, Larry. Via: Register: If governments want AI to improve services and security for their citizens, then they need to put all their information in one place – even citizens’ genomic data – according to Larry Ellison, the Oracle database tycoon. Ellison shared his take on what governments need to do to […]
Research Underway to Enable Satellites to Permanently Orbit in Very Low Earth Orbit
February 9th, 2025Is this actually going to happen? I don’t know why, but Cryptogon is read by many people who are qualified to provide a sanity check on this. I hope they comment. Needless to say, it would be very bad if remote operated/autonomous weapon systems were able to use realtime, high definition imagery, available planet-wide, for […]
