A few years back, there was a debate in the Granite State about police body cameras. We thought, sure, but how about putting them on Teachers? A few years later, look at what a great idea that would have been.
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Be Careful Who You Sit Next To In Church
That new person you sit next to in your regular pew may not be there for the Sign of Peace. They may be looking at who you connect with in your house of worship. You might even see their weapon and FBI badge if their sports jacket opens.
LA County Taps the Money Tree to Test Animals for COVID ‘cuz Reasons
As a thought experiment, is it possible for progressives to consider the notion of peak money? That point at which we can no longer tap the labor of future generations to pay for their stupid ideas today.
But, But … The Surveillance State (Social Credit System) Will Create Lots of Good Paying Jobs!
This is disturbing. Yahoo! Finance has an article on the wealth opportunities of a sanctioned surveillance state. It’s worth over 16 billion. They even list the companies that are ready to benefit.
ACLU Says Elf on a Shelf Normalizes Surveillance State
I’m not clear what the ACLU thinks about vaccine registries, passports, or the growing tendency in some countries to chip their employees or citizens, but they’ve got their dander up about Elf on a Shelf.
State’s Are Adopting Digital Drivers Licenses – A Digital Identity That Could go Well Beyond Driving
A handful of states have embraced or are testing the use of a digital driver’s license. A virtual passport in your smartphone that links your digital person to the real one. Advocates are selling it as a way to provide credentials everywhere you go, and why exactly would we need that?
Where Else is the FBI Flying Drones to Surveil Americans?
While the FBI did near to nothing to intervene in the months of riots that took place last summer, one they did do was fly surveillance drones. Why?
Is It Time for Cameras in the Classrooms of Our Government Schools?
This writer has previously opined on the critical need for actions in addition to the formal banning of the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in our government (i.e., public) schools.
TSA Supervisor’s Phone Has Dozens of CCTV Pics of Women in Shorts, Tight Pants and Tank Tops.
A supervisory transportation security officer with the TSA is in hot water. In the course of a separate investigation involving a 9-year-old boy who went for a little ride on a Delta baggage conveyor belt, they found “unauthorized” photos on the TSA agents phone.
Weaponized: The US Postal Service Is Also a Domestic Surveillance Agency
The United States Postal Service (USPS) loses money like everybody’s business (because it’s our money). Over 87 billion in the past 14 years – or six billion dollars a year (on average). That must be how they are funding the spy agency inside the USPS.
Tracking Bracelets as an Alternative to the Other Sorts of COVID19 Spying?
You might be familiar with the “ankle bracelet.” A digital tether that features in TV cop shows. In the age of the COVID19 political response, they are being considered for much wider application. For the same purpose, just destigmatized and made ubiquitous.
State Internet Surveillance Unit Sued for Alleged Illegal Collection Practices
A State Trooper has sued claiming his state used a DHS backed resource agency to illegally collect data on individuals making legal gun purchases or engaged in peaceful protests. Before you say you don’t care, New Hampshire has one of these too! As does every state.
False Ideas, Political Smears, and Social Pollution
It seems like it was only yesterday that I was writing about a million-dollar federal grant to a University for the creation of a web service (called ‘Truthy’) that would scry into social media and identity suspicious memes and “false or misleading ideas,” political smears and even social pollution. All sorted and labeled as organic … Read more
Obama’s Orwellian AttackWatch Slayed!
Democrats are hypocrites. I call them hypocrats. They cry about government spies, burning the Constitution, and trampling on our rights, except when their party is doing the trampling. They then institute speech intimidating spy on your neighbor “trial Balloons” like #AttackWatch and go “What?” if anyone dares complain.