AMERICANTHINKER - The digital ball and chain
By Dan Bell You and everyone you know carries a digital ball and chain -- weightless in size, yet still bright enough to be seen from anywhere by anyone who knows where to look.
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - How law enforcement is using license plate cameras to track Americans
Some Americans are criticizing law enforcement for using flock cameras, which are license plate readers, to track people they are looking for. Katy Tur has more details on the debate.
NYTIMES (Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Ian Stewart and Fernando Alfonso III) - How Cameras Can Track Every Car in the U.S., and Iran’s Catch-22
Plus, a drying river reveals Nazi-era vessels.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Bennett Haeberle and Zach Kaplan) - Flock cameras spark nationwide safety vs. privacy debate: What to know
Police have been accused of misusing Flock data to access the private information of people not suspected of any crimes.
NYTIMES (Sapna Maheshwari) - Nanit and Other Baby-Tracking Start-Ups Eye Collecting Even More Data
Nanit and other start-ups want to track your children through the night — and soon, for much longer than that.
NYTIMES (Lily Kuo and Pei-Lin Wu) - How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners
An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
YOUTUBE (Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov) - Your Car = A Spy Den
STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - Flock Cameras Harm Law Enforcement’s Aims and Kill Our Constitutional Rights
It is time for localities and states to ban these cameras immediately before society becomes a powder keg. As MAGA Republicans watch American cities decay under decades of Democrat governance—rising crime, open disorder, failed soft-on-crime policies—Flock cameras are being floated as a plausible solution. These automated license-plate readers have proliferated by the tens of thousands […] The post Flock Cameras Harm Law Enforcement’s Aims and Kill Our Constitutional Rights appeared first on StoneZone .
It is time for localities and states to ban these cameras immediately before society becomes a powder keg. As MAGA Republicans watch American cities decay under decades of Democrat governance—rising crime, open disorder, failed soft-on-crime policies—Flock cameras are being floated as a plausible solution. These automated license-plate readers have proliferated by the tens of thousands across the country, often installed with little public notice or debate. What began as a quiet expansion has now triggered a widespread and growing backlash. That backlash is far from irrational. It is the natural response of free people who recognize a fundamental threat to their privacy rights when they see one. Reports of vandalism against Flock…Open
STONEZONE (Lewis Dovland) - The Left Is Using Kids As A Trojan Horse For Total Online Surveillance
Whenever leftists say something is “for the kids,” you know that your constitutional rights are under attack. It is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. Anytime a Democrat politician looks into a television camera and declares a new policy is “for the kids,” history tells us it is time to do three things: grab […] The post The Left Is Using Kids As A Trojan Horse For Total Online Surveillance appeared first on StoneZone .
Whenever leftists say something is “for the kids,” you know that your constitutional rights are under attack. It is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. Anytime a Democrat politician looks into a television camera and declares a new policy is “for the kids,” history tells us it is time to do three things: grab your Bill of Rights, lock your wallet, and check your firearms. The political left has mastered the art of semantic camouflage. Because leftists’ true intentions—total state control and the systematic dismantling of individual liberty—are entirely unpalatable to the average citizen, they must cloak their radical agendas in the warm blanket of public safety. We are seeing this exact misdirection play out…Open
DAILYCALLER (Ashley Brasfield) - Thought Flock Cameras Were Dystopian? Wait Until You Learn About Their Other Spy Tool
Thought Flock Cameras Were Dystopian? Wait Until You Learn About Their Other Spy Tool