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In the 18th century, Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer, introduced the idea of the Panopticon, a disciplinary concept brought to life in the form of a central observation tower placed within a circle of prison cells. Each cell is flooded with light, which creates an environment in which prisoners are under constant watch. Even if no guard is on duty, a prisoner will always feel as if they are being watched. Bentham described it as “[a] new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind.” The Panopticon is the optimal prison; it enables an unprecedented...

A TGP reader sent this to us this morning– The program may also include the following information in the future: ** Your health records ** Your financial reports ** Credit scores ** Travel records ** Vehicle registration ** Spending ** Voting ** Sex offender status ** Licenses and Permits you have ** Parking Fines ** Social Credit Scoring This will be the end of individual rights as we know it. Don’t count on the fickle Supreme Court to help you. If the totalitarians are able to implement this you will no longer have any rights in America. It is the...

From The Verge: The video was made in late 2016 by Nick Foster, the head of design at X (formerly Google X) and a co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory. The video, shared internally within Google, imagines a future of total data collection, where Google helps nudge users into alignment with their goals, custom-prints personalized devices to collect more data, and even guides the behavior of entire populations to solve global problems like poverty and disease.

We’re all familiar with ‘credit scores’, where financial institutions track how responsible you are with your hard-earned money to assign you a value determining the loans and cards you are eligible to apply for. However, a new scoring system being trialled in China (set to become standard practice by 2020) and currently under consideration in Europe is far less discussed despite the fact it may eventually become an integral part of our day to day lives. HOW WOULD THE SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE AFFECT ME? This system monitors a lot more than your financial savviness. It involves governmental and financial institutions...

Two Facebook Insiders have come forward with internal company documents detailing a plan to curb “vaccine hesitancy” (VH) on a global scale. The stated goal of this feature is to “drastically reduce user exposure” to VH comments. Another aim of the program is to force a “decrease in other engagement of VH comments including create, likes, reports [and] replies.” It was such a shocking revelation, that it moved not just one -- but two whistleblowers to come forward to Project Veritas, so the public could be made aware of this plan to stifle free speech. One Facebook whistleblower said the...

Oh, and FaceBook ranks users in "tiers" according to how pro-vaccine they are. "Tier 1" is "direct discouragement," which means something as innocuous as saying "I'm holding off on getting the vaccine." "Tier 2" means that you're "indirectly discouraging" getting vaccinated, not by saying "Don't get vaccinated," but by sharing a report on, say, side effects from the vaccine. The whistleblower says that if the public accepts this program, they'll be rolling it out to suppress content about "everything." Anything the left claims "causes harm," which is, at this point, everything, including simply saying that "women have vaginas," which is...

The post office’s law enforcement arm has faced intense congressional scrutiny in recent weeks over its Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP), which tracks social media posts of Americans and shares that information with other law enforcement agencies. Yet the program is much broader in scope than previously known and includes analysts who assume fake identities online, use sophisticated intelligence tools and employ facial recognition software, according to interviews and documents reviewed by Yahoo News.Among the tools used by the analysts is Clearview AI, a facial recognition software that scrapes images off public websites, a practice that has raised the ire...

The security walls around the US Capitol may be removed, but the federal response to the January 6 protests has only just begun. The Democrats in Washington are determined to treat the incident as on par with the events of September 11, which may explain a troubling report about the potential use of the famed No Fly List. Yesterday Nick Fuentes, a right-wing social media pundit who attended the January 6 protests in the capital, alleged that he has been placed on the federal no-fly list, preventing him from traveling to Florida for a political rally. While Mr. Fuentes shared...

In the Haidilao Hot Pot restaurant in... Vancouver, more than 60 surveillance cameras watch 30 tables and send feeds to China. The cameras, manager Ryan Pan explains, are there to "people track" and are "part of the social credit system in China." In 2014, China's State Council issued guidelines for the establishment of a national "social credit system" by 2020, with the feeds from about 626 million surveillance cameras and smartphone scanners and with data from a multitude of sources ... For example, criticizing Chinese ruler Xi Jinping would result in the lowering of an individual's score. There are consequences...

Left-wing activists are forming a database to profile and target organizations that hire former Trump White House officials in the hopes of making these persons unemployable and unable to feed their families. “Government service does not guarantee private employment. In fact, it should not. And American business should not reward the behavior of the Trump administration with the well-oiled revolving door that traditionally spins at moments of transition,” the Campaign Against Corporate Complicity said in a statement announcing their existence. This new group intends to trigger digital lynch mobs so they harass companies that hire former Trump administration officials. The...

Have you checked your social credit score lately? You might want to. Mine seems to have taken a nosedive this month. You might want to see how yours is doing. Everyone knows what a credit score is. But social credit scores are new. They’re the latest corporate import from Communist China, where government and big business monitor every citizen’s social views and statements. And they’re the latest form of cancel culture in this country, as corporate monopolies and the left team up to shut down speech they don’t like and force their political agenda on America. For those who still...

In November 2018 The Guardian reported on group of Google employees published an open letter on Tuesday calling on their employer to cancel its plans to build a censored search engine for China, the latest expression of worker unrest at a company that earlier this month saw thousands stage walkouts over its handling of sexual misconduct cases. The Google employees were very upset that Google’s Project Dragonfly would allow the Chinese government to blacklist certain search terms. The employees said, “Many of us accepted employment at Google with the company’s values in mind… After a year of disappointments … we...

<p>FACEBOOK is rating users based on how "trustworthy" it thinks they are.</p> <p>Users receive a score on a scale from zero to one that determines if they have a good or bad reputation – but it's completely hidden.</p> <p>The rating system was revealed in a report by the Washington Post, which says it's in place to "help identify malicious actors".</p>

FACEBOOK 'TRUST RATINGS' FOR USERS COMMUNIST 'SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE' ALGORITHM FLAGS BEHAVIOR https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7067261/facebook-trust-rating-score-check/ https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/04/24/china-assigns-every-citizen-a-social-credit-score-to-identify-who-is-and-isnt-trustworthy/

FACEBOOK is rating users based on how "trustworthy" it thinks they are. Users receive a score on a scale from zero to one that determines if they have a good or bad reputation – but it's completely hidden. The rating system was revealed in a report by the Washington Post, which says it's in place to "help identify malicious actors". Facebook tracks your behaviour across its site and uses that info to assign you a rating. Tessa Lyons, who heads up Facebook's fight against fake news, said: "One of the signals we use is how people interact with articles. "For...

*China has created Big Brother* In some of China's largest cities, a high-tech effort is underway to bust low-level offenders like jaywalkers. Cameras record them going through intersections, zero in on their face and publicly shame them on nearby video screens. It's all part of the Chinese government's new social credit system where people's daily behavior is monitored and rated."I think it's a good thing," one woman said. "It makes people more honest." But this social credit rating goes far beyond a traditional credit score which is based on your finances. China's version factors in everything from jaywalking, to smoking...