Tag: mass surveillance

Credit Card Provider Discover to Track Gun Purchases from April

Exclusive: Credit card provider Discover told @Reuters it will allow its network to track purchases at gun retailers in April, making it the first among peers to move ahead with the initiative aimed at helping authorities probe gun-related crimes https://t.co/VZDeBky7WI pic.twitter.com/5C8o9oYU5G — Reuters (@Reuters) February…

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NATO Reveals “Persistent Surveillance from Space” Project to Spy Entire Planet

🛰️ 18 European nations including the UK have agreed to explore and develop a framework for improved surveillance from space. 🇬🇧🇧🇪🇧🇬🇨🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇷🇭🇺🇮🇹🇱🇺 🇳🇱🇳🇴🇵🇱🇵🇹🇷🇴🇪🇸🇹🇷🇸🇪 The agreement will launch the Allied Persistent Surveillance from Space Initiative. 👉 https://t.co/3mvurK83TS pic.twitter.com/n69FvrteTE — Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) February 16, 2023…

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New York Requires Social Media to Monitor and Report “Hate”

NOW – Gov. Hochul: "In the state of New York, we're now requiring social media networks to monitor and report 'hateful conduct' on their platforms." pic.twitter.com/5LctpfRuqo — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 6, 2022 Texas and Florida are trying to force social media companies to allow more…

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Telegram Hands User Data to Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany

NEW – Telegram has released user data to the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany in several cases, Spiegel reports. The NGO CeMAS monitors 3,000 German-language channels & groups for "disinformation, antisemitism, and right-wing extremism." https://t.co/ib75xumI7L — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 4, 2022 Bad news! Turns…

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CIA Doing Mass Surveillance on Americans, Declassified Documents Reveal

Huge: CIA mass ("bulk") surveillance has been carried out “entirely outside the statutory framework, and without any judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight. The nature and full extent was withheld even from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence." https://t.co/qF4OowjDku — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February…

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Biden Plans to Monitor Every Financial Transaction

I don’t know why the libertarians at reason magazine care about this – it is going to be private companies working with the government to monitor people’s transactions. But hey – they’ve got a good article about it. Matt Welch writes for reason magazine :…

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