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WATCHED: Russia to expand surveillance system by requiring integration of private video cameras into government surveillance networks

February 07, 2024 -

The initiative, which was the result of a decree from Perm Krai Gov. Dmitry Makhonin, took effect on Jan. 25.

The private video camera mandate is in alignment with President Vladimir Putin’s martial law declaration in Ukraine's occupied territories last October 2022, granting regional governors augmented powers to maintain the "security" of their assigned areas.

Russia's citizen monitoring has significantly heightened following the beginning of the special military ...

Bank payment processing outages highlight risks of relying on electronic banking

November 17, 2023 -

The effects of the outages were far-reaching. Many people’s payroll direct deposits failed, leaving them unable to access the money they earned. ACH payments also failed to process, which resulted in late fees. There were also duplicated withdrawals, which left many customers in a bind after their money was taken out twice for a single transaction. Between Wells Fargo, Chase and Bank of America, there were almost a million failed transactions in total.

A precise cause ...

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Latest draft of UN Cybercrime Treaty threatens online privacy

December 14, 2023 -

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a prominent U.S. digital rights group, has described the latest draft of the United Nations (UN) Cybercrime Treaty as "a significant step backward" and a warning of a dangerous broadening of its scope beyond cybercrimes defined in the convention.

Initially, the UN Cybercrime Treaty seeks to combat global cybercrime, yet in its latest draft, it transforms into an "expansive surveillance treaty." The revised ...

Russian electronic warfare systems are successfully disabling “sophisticated” US-supplied Ukrainian weapons

August 11, 2023 -

Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute think tank, said Russian electronic warfare capabilities used to be inferior compared to their Ukrainian opponents, largely because they could not keep up with their troops on the ground.

"Russian systems are largely unwieldy, vehicle-borne systems that are designed to be on the defensive," said Clark. "And as a result, their electronic warfare systems weren't very agile, they weren't very fast and they weren't very ...

Brussels rolls out electronic leash for Europeans with introduction of Digital Identity Wallet

November 30, 2023 -

An agreement forged between the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union has established the creation of new EU Digital Identity Wallets that will include digital versions of all ID cards, driving licenses, degree certificates, and medical documentation.

For the time being, the EU's Digital Identity Wallet will be voluntary, and the European Commission is insistent that it is 100 percent secure. Spain's president even commented that the new platform ...

Intelligence agencies seek congressional approval for expanded surveillance powers

10 days ago -

According to several reports, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency have been actively engaging with Congress to expand Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

Section 702, initially established in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack, allows certain agencies warrantless access to the communications of foreigners overseas to counter supposed threats to national ...

California thieves NOT BOTHERED at all by surveillance cameras

September 07, 2023 -

In broad daylight, a group of brazen masked thieves was filmed storming into a Home Depot store on Spring Street in Signal Hill on August 27 and stealing $5,000 worth of power tools in full view of shocked staff and customers.

Employees in orange aprons could only watch in shock and did not engage with the masked thieves. Some workers decided to record the raid.

One of the thieves in a gray hoodie was seen wrestling a shopping cart from an employee while the ...

Arizona Republicans ban the state from using electronic voting machines in future federal elections

May 24, 2023 -

In a letter to all 15 county boards of supervisors in Arizona, State Senate Majority Leader Sonny Borrelli said the state legislature, through a resolution passed earlier this year, prohibits them from using "electronic voting systems" as the primary method of conducting federal elections until these systems meet certain criteria that the state's election systems currently do not meet. (Related: Everything Home: Michele Swinick renews call for probe on AZ corruption, election fraud ...

The Senate’s eleventh-hour approval of the warrantless surveillance program

2 days ago -

(Article by Ken Macon republished from ReclaimTheNet.org)

Senate majority leader and Democrat, Chuck Schumer, extolled this bipartisan decision: “Democrats and Republicans came together and did the right thing for our country’s safety.” He addressed the concerns surrounding the program’s expiration emphatically: “We all know one thing: letting FISA expire would be dangerous. It’s an important part of our national security, to stop acts of terror, drug trafficking, and violent ...

The beneficial ownership information reporting rule and the surveillance state

January 04, 2024 -

(Article by Robert A. Bishop republished from AmericanThinker.com)

Reporting requirements apply to an estimated 33 million reporting companies defined as corporations, limited liability corporations, or similar entities. There are twenty-three categories of companies that are exempt from reporting. They are nonprofits, banks, insurance companies, investment funds, public companies, broker-dealers, public accounting firms, money-transmitting businesses, and existing shell ...

FBI surveillance contractor infiltrated chatrooms, monitored skeptics of COVID jabs

May 16, 2023 -

In previous times, Flashpoint was used by the FBI to infiltrate Islamic terror groups. Since that time, the group's directive has been refocused onto what the government perceives as domestic "terror" groups comprised of people who refuse to accept experimental drugs being pumped into their bodies.

Fang was able to obtain and analyze a webinar presentation created by Flashpoint that company analyst Vlad Cuiujuclu used to illustrate best practices for identifying and infiltrating ...

EU member claims Putin using top-secret electronic weapon to jam GPS on flights, ships

a month ago -

According to Harem, Putin is sparking chaos across the European Union (EU) by jamming GPS technology along the eastern flank of NATO. Most of the jamming appears to be centered in the northern half of Poland and into the waters between Poland and Sweden.

Finland is also reporting problems with its GPS guiding system for air and sea traffic, along with isolated problems in Latvia and Lithuania.

"What we have seen is a malfunctioning of GPS for ships and air travel," ...

Congress approves extension of U.S. government’s warrantless surveillance powers despite opposition

December 20, 2023 -

FISA allows the government to spy on foreigners located abroad, but Americans who communicate with those under surveillance have their information swept up in the searches, prompting agreement that reauthorization of the powers must come with reforms that limit documented abuse of the tool by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While the National Defense Authorization Act's (NDAA's) inclusion of FISA avoids an end-of-the-year expiration of the powers, it also extends ...

Alarm sounded over rapidly increasing use of SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS inside schools

October 09, 2023 -

This report comes from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which found that over the last two decades, a segment of the educational technology sector that markets student surveillance products for schools has grown into a $3.1 billion-a-year industry with a projected eight percent annual growth rate. (Related: Dallas school district installs AI spying, surveillance systems to keep an eye on students.)

"The [educational technology] surveillance industry accomplished ...

Rep. Gaetz leading charge to dismantle illegal government mass surveillance scheme

July 16, 2023 -

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) must be reauthorized by the end of the year in order to remain in place, but Gaetz and his allies are aiming to stop it, thus stopping the federal government from conducting warrantless surveillance of foreigners outside the United States.

In certain circumstances, warrantless surveillance of Americans living inside the U.S. also occurs under Section 702 of FISA. This has drawn considerable civil liberty concerns ...

WSJ: U.S. drones sent to Kyiv are vulnerable, expensive and “no match” for Moscow’s electronic countermeasures

10 days ago -

"The general reputation for every class of U.S. drone in Ukraine is that they don't work as well as other systems," Silicon Valley company Skydio Chief Executive Adam Bry said, calling his own drone "not a very successful platform on the front lines."

WSJ reported that there has been a deluge of venture capital invested in startups trying to build small, artificial intelligence-powered aircraft, hoping to sell them to the U.S. government. They focused on commercial drones ...

Electronic message from Hunter Biden demanded payment from Chinese businessman: ‘I am sitting here with my father’

July 02, 2023 -

An IRS whistleblower provided members of the House Oversight Committee with a WhatsApp message from Hunter to Chinese businessman Henry Zhao that directly implications Joe Biden as being in the same room at the same time with his son as he demanded payment.

Breitbart News reported this week:

Henry Zhao was influential in forming Harvest Fund Management. “He was elected the chairman of the board in November 2017. Under his leadership, Harvest has become one of China’s ...

Down with Big Brother: Warrantless surveillance makes a mockery of the Constitution

4 days ago -

(Article by John & Nisha Whitehead republished from Rutherford.org)

The highest bidder, by the way, has always been the Deep State.

What’s playing out now with the highly politicized tug-of-war over whether Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gets reauthorized by Congress doesn’t just sell us out, it makes us slaves of the Deep State.

Read the fine print: it’s a doozy.

Just as the USA Patriot was perverted from its stated intent to ...

Hypocrite Elon Musk profited from government surveillance while pretending to fight it

25 days ago -

While talking big against government intrusion of privacy, Musk's X platform, formerly known as Twitter, is a government spying machine that generates lots of cash for Musk and his associates.

Ten years ago, then-Twitter filed a lawsuit against the government in the hopes of forcing transparency concerning Washington's abusive surveillance of social media users. That litigation continued until last fall, even as X continued all the while to profit from government surveillance ...