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AI-powered privacy: New offline AI model challenges big tech surveillance

November 05, 2025 -

In a world where Big Tech monopolizes information and governments increasingly surveil online activity, a groundbreaking new AI model promises to restore privacy, decentralization, and uncensored knowledge. Developed by Brighteon AI, this offline-capable AI allows users to access vast troves of information—from herbal medicine to geopolitical truths—without relying on internet-connected platforms like ChatGPT or Google.

Unlike commercial AI models, ...

Amazon’s AI wearable acquisition: Convenience or surveillance?

July 28, 2025 -

Amazon is making a bold move into the world of AI-powered wearables with its acquisition of Bee, a startup specializing in voice-driven smart wristbands.

The deal, confirmed by Bee's co-founder Maria de Lourdes Zollo on LinkedIn, signals Amazon's intent to expand beyond smart speakers like Echo and into more personal, always-listening devices. Bee's $50 bracelet and Apple Watch app record conversations to generate reminders and to-do lists—raising ...

U.K. police deploy controversial AI surveillance tool built by Palantir

June 20, 2025 -

British police forces have signed contracts with a controversial American tech company to use an AI-powered platform that processes highly sensitive personal data, including information on individuals' race, sex life, health, religion and political beliefs.

An internal police memo obtained via freedom of information laws confirms plans to nationally deploy the AI system called Nectar. The technology, developed with Silicon Valley-based Palantir Technologies, ...

AI surveillance tech can find out who your friends are

March 07, 2023 -

Surveillance technology has for years been used to identify people just by getting clear pictures of their faces. This kind of technology is becoming more and more of a reality as governments around the world expand their use of AI-enhanced surveillance infrastructure. (Related: Microsoft's AI chatbot goes haywire – gets depressed, threatens to sue and harm detractors.)

Police in the Netherlands use AI to match photos of suspects to criminal databases. In London, the Metropolitan ...

Hong Kong to deploy 60,000 AI-powered surveillance cameras by 2028

October 16, 2025 -

Hong Kong is set to become one of the most heavily monitored cities in the world, with plans to deploy 60,000 AI-powered surveillance cameras by 2028—a fifteenfold increase from its current network.

The phased rollout, detailed in recent legislative filings, will integrate facial recognition, crowd analysis and suspect tracking, marking a significant escalation in the city's surveillance capabilities. While authorities emphasize compliance ...

UK police consider AI “predictive policing,” sparking fears of a surveillance state

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A quiet revolution is underway in British policing, one that aims to use artificial intelligence to monitor citizens and predict crimes before they happen. In a move straight out of science fiction, UK police are evaluating up to 100 AI projects, including "predictive analytics" designed to target individuals deemed likely to commit offenses. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood frames this as putting the "eyes of the state" on criminals "at all times." But critics ...

Google backtracks on AI ethics pledge, sparks outrage over weapons and surveillance use

February 09, 2025 -

Google has quietly erased a key promise from its AI ethics guidelines, abandoning its 2018 pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance. The move, announced Tuesday, has ignited fierce backlash from employees, human rights advocates, and tech watchdogs, who warn that the decision sets a dangerous precedent for the unchecked militarization of AI.

Google’s pivot aligns with its growing collaboration with government agencies, ...

Google faces lawsuit over alleged secret AI surveillance of Gmail, Chat and Meet users

November 20, 2025 -

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in federal court accuses Google of secretly activating its Gemini AI assistant across Gmail, Chat and Meet, allegedly scanning users' private communications without consent—a move plaintiffs claim violates privacy laws and defies "reasonable expectations of confidentiality."

The lawsuit, filed by plaintiffs Thomas Thele and Melo Porter, alleges that Google "surreptitiously turned on" Gemini AI tracking in ...

The algorithm saw a gun: When AI surveillance turns a snack into a threat

November 02, 2025 -

In a stark demonstration of the perils of automated policing, a Baltimore teenager was detained at gunpoint by officers after an artificial intelligence surveillance system mistakenly identified his bag of Doritos as a firearm.

The episode unfolded on the evening of Oct. 20 outside Kenwood High School. Sixteen-year-old Taki Allen, having just finished football practice, was sitting with friends when the routine of an after-school snack turned ...

New York MTA quietly turns to AI surveillance to predict crime before it happens

May 03, 2025 -

The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) is quietly taking a controversial step to address rising safety concerns in New York's subway system: deploying an AI-powered surveillance system designed to detect "irrational or concerning conduct" before any crime occurs.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has been expanding subway surveillance since taking office in 2021 to combat a string of high-profile crimes in the subway, including assaults and robberies, which have ...

Surveillance AI detects for suicidal ideation at schools and sends police to students’ homes

December 17, 2024 -

The New York Times recently reported on the use of software like GoGuardian Beacon, which tracks every word typed on school-issued devices to identify potential suicidal ideation. However, the results are far from reassuring. The software frequently misinterprets student communications, leading to false alarms and, in some cases, the involvement of law enforcement.AI surveillance software sends police to students' homes

In Neosho, Missouri, a 17-year-old girl ...

WATCHED: Train stations use AI surveillance technology to monitor people’s emotions using facial recognition

July 01, 2024 -

The purpose of the technology is to inspect travelers' faces for the purpose of determining their emotional states in order to deliver targeted advertising to people as they use public transport. One example of this might be a rotating digital billboard system of the future that targets "sad" travelers with advertisements for antidepressant drugs from Big Pharma.

The AI surveillance trial involved a combination of "smart" CCTV cameras that can detect objects or ...

AI allowing globalists to construct worldwide surveillance PRISON from which there is no escape

January 07, 2024 -

The AI revolution in surveillance has been happening all around us for years, and is being sold to the public as "convenience" and "safety." If computers are always watching what takes place in the world, then there will theoretically be no more crimes and the world will be well and safe – or will it?

"You can try to run, and you can try to hide, but if they really want to find you it won't be very difficult," writes Michael Snyder for End of the American Dream. "All ...

Major retailers cite RETAIL THEFT as justification for using AI-powered surveillance in stores

October 17, 2023 -

CVS, Kroger, Lowe’s, Macy's, Target, Walmart and other major big-box retailers have joined forces with technology firms and invested in the development and deployment of AI-powered surveillance systems. They consulted with loss-prevention experts and noted that their main goals are to prevent theft from taking place, make committing the crimes less appealing and turn criminals away before they even reach the store entrances – not so much in catching the perpetrators in the ...

Dallas school district installs AI spying, surveillance systems to keep an eye on students

May 30, 2023 -

A chilling, real-life manifestation of the type of futuristic, dystopian technologies portrayed in movies from the past, Dallas ISD's AI scheme will remove all personal privacy from every student's life. Using a complex and advanced algorithm, each child's behavior will be monitored and recorded continuously for use in predicting what that child might do at some point in the future.

Much like what was depicted in the 2002 sci-fi action film Minority Report, Dallas ISD aims ...

Australian politicians demanding forced online ID, AI-assisted content surveillance to stop spread of “misinformation”

April 29, 2024 -

The recent Sydney stabbing attacks and what people are saying about them online prompted Australian politicians to call for sweeping new censorship rules to remove all "misinformation" about the incidents from the internet – but will it work?

In addition to pushing for new online age verification requirements in order to use the internet, the Australian government also wants more artificial intelligence embedded within online systems to surveil, detect and remove anything ...

Government developing AI-powered surveillance program that can keep an eye on people in smart cities

March 01, 2024 -

Established in 2006, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is an organization within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The information that it gathers is supposedly meant to help the work of the United States' intelligence community.

IARPA specializes in "high-risk, high-payoff research that delivers innovative technology for future overwhelming intelligence advantage."

In early February, the organization published a technical ...

Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer; NSA surveillance to be turned over to AI machines

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The ultimate code breakers

DARPA, Northrup Grumman and Goldman Sachs

Beware of genius scientists who lack wisdom for humanity

Google acquires "Skynet" quantum computers from D-Wave

When the NSA surveillance grid is turned over to AI, humanity is finished

God-like power in the hands of high-tech sellouts

"They try to pull the plug..."

Skynet is no longer mere science ...

Japanese police to test AI-enhanced surveillance systems to better protect VIPs after Abe assassination, Kishida bomb attack

July 24, 2023 -

This comes at a time when Japanese politicians, especially prime ministers, are perceived to be at their most vulnerable. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated a year ago, and current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida just three months ago was targeted by a man who threw a pipe bomb at him during a speech. Kishida could have come to serious harm if the assailant was able to throw a second pipe bomb before security forces tackled him.

The NPA claims that if its AI ...

Google Cloud launches AI-powered anti-money laundering tool for banks, paving the way for Orwellian financial surveillance

July 07, 2023 -

The cloud computing subsidiary of the search engine giant launched the Anti Money Laundering AI (AML AI) tool, which is designed to detect illicit financial activities, last June 21. AML AI seeks to address the limitations of traditional rules-based systems that rely heavily on human monitoring. According to ZeroHedge, these traditional systems to detect money laundering have limitations – including heavy reliance on human monitoring and low rates of identifying suspicious transactions....