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  • Stop Your Car From Spying on You

    03/26/2024 7:19:38 AM PDT · by Twotone · 27 replies
    Reason ^ | March 25, 2024 | J.D. Tuccille
    Being proved right isn't always fun. Just weeks after my warning in the March issue that our modern high-tech cars are tracking us and sharing data with manufacturers, cops, and parties unknown, came a report of soaring auto insurance premiums because of snitching vehicles. The consequences get worse from there. Fortunately, there are ways to keep your snoopy ride from contacting the mothership. Your Driving History May Be Transmitted and Stored "Car companies are collecting information directly from internet-connected vehicles for use by the insurance industry," Kashmir Hill reported this month for The New York Times. "Sometimes this is happening...
  • General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers

    03/25/2024 8:32:29 PM PDT · by george76 · 17 replies
    New York Times ^ | March 22, 2024 | Kashmir Hill
    G.M. had provided information about braking, acceleration and speed to LexisNexis Risk Solution and Verisk, firms that generated driver risk profiles for insurers... General Motors said Friday that it had stopped sharing details about how people drove its cars with two data brokers that created risk profiles for the insurance industry. The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars...
  • If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google

    03/24/2024 1:31:53 PM PDT · by libh8er · 47 replies
    Mashable ^ | 3.23.2024 | Chase DiBenedetto
    If you've ever jokingly wondered if your search or viewing history is going to "put you on some kind of list," your concern may be more than warranted. In now unsealed court documents reviewed by Forbes, Google was ordered to hand over the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of Youtube accounts and IP addresses that watched select YouTube videos, part of a larger criminal investigation by federal investigators. The videos were sent by undercover police to a suspected cryptocurrency launderer under the username "elonmuskwhm." In conversations with the bitcoin trader, investigators sent links to public YouTube tutorials on...
  • 'Leave Him Alone': Chelsea Clinton Defends Barron Trump's 'Unimpeachable' Right to Privacy Despite His Father Being a Public Figure

    03/22/2024 3:45:53 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 36 replies
    OK Magazine ^ | Mar. 22 2024 | Joshua Wilburn
    Chelsea Clinton brought up her personal experiences to advocate for Barron Trump's right to privacy, especially now that he is a legal adult. Article continues below advertisement chelsea clinton defends barron trump unimpeachable right privacy SOURCE: MEGA Chelsea Clinton was scrutinized as a kid when her dad was in office. During a recent appearance on The View, the former first daughter, now 44 years old, addressed the ongoing debate on how the media should cover former President Donald Trump's son. Chelsea's involvement in this discussion stems from her own past as a presidential child. At only 12 years old, she...
  • VIDEO: San Francisco Installing 400 License Plate Reading Cameras as Crime Plagues Residents

    03/21/2024 12:53:48 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 30 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/21/2024 | AMY FURR
    City leaders in San Francisco, California, are working to install 400 license plate readers across the area to reduce criminal activity. Leaders and community groups held a press conference on Wednesday to highlight the technology for which the city received a $15.3 million grant to install, KTVU reported. Mayor London Breed (D) said, “This does not include speed cameras. This does not include facial recognition, but it will be useful for Amber Alerts. It will help us to find missing persons as well.”
  • Study Estimates Nearly 96% of Private Property Is Open to Warrantless Searches

    03/16/2024 6:13:21 AM PDT · by Twotone · 25 replies
    Reason ^ | March 14, 2024 | C.J. Ciaramella
    The Institute for Justice says its data show that a century-old Supreme Court doctrine created a huge exception to the Fourth Amendment. Police can traipse onto the vast majority of private property in the country without a warrant thanks to a century-old Supreme Court decision, according to a new study by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning public-interest law firm. In a study published in the spring 2024 issue of Regulation, a publication of the Cato Institute, Institute for Justice attorney Josh Windham and research analyst David Warren estimate that at least 96 percent of all private land in the...
  • PEEK-A-BOO! Soros-Funded Groups Exposed in Gov’t-Financial Sector Surveillance Collusion Scandal

    03/12/2024 8:21:51 AM PDT · by JV3MRC · 9 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 3/12/2024 | Joseph Vazquez
    Two extremist groups financed by billionaire George Soros have been named in the emerging scandal involving federal law enforcement colluding with financial institutions to spy on Americans’ private transactions. Part of this Orwellian collusion involved federal law enforcement circulating documents to private financial institutions to jawbone them into giving up sensitive customer data, without them necessarily having to be suspected of committing any crimes. One of the scariest examples involved federal law enforcement passing around a 2020 “hate groups” blacklist to financial institutions that included “conservative” and faith-based organizations, according to The Washington Times. The circulated list was drafted in...
  • Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

    03/11/2024 3:38:08 PM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 30 replies
    DNYUZ ^ | 11 Mar 2024
    Mr. Dahl, 65, was surprised in 2022 when the cost of his car insurance jumped by 21 percent. Quotes from other insurance companies were also high. One insurance agent told him his LexisNexis report was a factor. “It felt like a betrayal,” Mr. Dahl said. “They’re taking information that I didn’t realize was going to be shared and screwing with our insurance.” Automakers and data brokers that have partnered to collect detailed driving data from millions of Americans say they have drivers’ permission to do so. But the existence of these partnerships is nearly invisible to drivers, whose consent is...
  • Feds Begin Using AI Tools to ‘Blacklist’ Citizens Critical of U.S. Govt

    03/11/2024 4:57:38 AM PDT · by Sam77 · 33 replies
    Disswire.com ^ | 3 March 2024 | Michael Taylor
    The United States government has been pouring millions of tax dollars into developing AI-powered tools to censor and blacklist dissent voices. This month, the House Judiciary’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Committee revealed that the U.S. government is funding AI censorship technology via the National Science Foundation (NSF) to censor political debate on social media platforms.
  • Alaska Court Rules Police Must Obtain Warrant to Surveil Houses Using Zoom Lenses, Aircraft

    03/10/2024 3:24:28 AM PDT · by CFW · 19 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | 3/9/24 | Aldgra Fredly
    The Alaska Supreme Court ruled on Friday that law enforcement officers in Alaska are not permitted to conduct aerial surveillance of a person’s yard using a zoom lens without first obtaining a warrant. In its ruling, the court said that it disagrees with the state’s claim that such surveillance was constitutional “because small airplane travel is so common in Alaska, and because any passenger might peer into your yard and snap a picture of you, law enforcement officials may do the same.” “The Alaska Constitution protects the right to be free of unreasonable searches,” the court stated in a 34-page...
  • Central Banks and Domestic Spies

    03/10/2024 3:53:21 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 3 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10 Mar, 2024 | J.B. Shurk
    What do the two have in common? They are both insidious threats to a free people. Central banks and espionage agencies are insidious threats to any free people. The former manipulate the value of money, and the latter manipulate the perceived truthfulness of information. Both ostensibly work for the broader public’s “best interest,” but as is true of all institutions, they ultimately serve the interests of those people who run them. Spies and bankers should not have so much power over free citizens. Both institutions are not only plainly anti-democratic but also inherently authoritarian. The central banker says, “Free markets...
  • Michigan’s AG wants illegal searches of homeschool families

    03/08/2024 5:35:21 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 45 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 8 Mar, 2024 | Michael Letts
    Leftist indoctrination is too difficult when parents educate their own children. Is the U.S. legal system even guided by the rule of law anymore? More and more, we are seeing stories that the agencies like the FBI, IRS, and Department of Justice have been weaponized against conservatives. Liberal prosecutors and district attorneys are no longer even pretending to be unbiased. Now, public schools have been a bastion for liberal indoctrination for far too long. Our students don’t learn how to read, multiply, or even think, but they can tell you about climate change, transgenderism, and abortion in great detail, even...
  • Democrats support politically motivated financial surveillance even at expense of abortion rights

    03/08/2024 4:53:45 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 7 replies
    Just the News ^ | 7 Mar, 2024 | Greg Piper
    Not even clear that reams of Jan. 6 bank customer information was useful to Treasury and FBI, hearing witnesses say. Jordan Peterson warns China model is coming. Congressional Democrats are so concerned about losing statutory workarounds for the Fourth Amendment that they appear willing to tolerate red states using financial transactions to track women who have abortions, a major concern after the Supreme Court struck down federal abortion rights. That's the impression from hearing Thursday of the House Judiciary Committee's Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee on alleged collusion between the federal government and banks for politically motivated surveillance in...
  • BREAKING: The federal government has been illegally surveilling and building profiles for Americans in secret portal called DSAC for those who oppose firearm restrictions, lockdowns & vaccine mandates, and or support border security

    03/07/2024 8:13:02 PM PST · by bitt · 102 replies
    /twitter.com/RealPatrickWebb ^ | 3/7/2024 | PatrickWebb
    BREAKING: The federal government has been illegally surveilling and building profiles for Americans in secret portal called DSAC for those who oppose firearm restrictions, lockdowns & vaccine mandates, and or support border security and are labeling them as domestic extremists.
  • White House goes to court, not Congress, to renew warrantless spy powers

    03/02/2024 6:35:59 AM PST · by Salman · 7 replies
    The Register (UK) ^ | Thu 29 Feb 2024 | Jessica Lyons
    The Biden Administration has asked a court, rather than Congress, to renew controversial warrantless surveillance powers used by American intelligence and due to expire within weeks. It's a move that is either business as usual or an end-run around spying reforms, depending on who in Washington you believe. Both may be true. US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) railed at the US Department of Justice's decision to seek a year-long extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to end in mid-April unless Congress reauthorizes it. "A broad bipartisan, bicameral coalition agrees that FISA Section 702...
  • Data distrust surges as Americans reject government collection efforts

    02/28/2024 8:47:36 AM PST · by Twotone · 9 replies
    The Blaze ^ | February 27, 2024 | Carol Roth
    “There are three kinds of lies,” Mark Twain famously observed. “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” You already know that the government's published statistics are not trustworthy. Federal agencies have shifted methodologies over the years, making it hard to compare data sets. In economic modeling, there is a concept called “GIGO” — garbage in, garbage out. And what we have been seeing does seem like a lot of garbage. Then, the number-crunchers perform adjustments, do other kinds of syntheses, and make revisions to that data. A good case could be made that government data has been politicized, too, and some methodologies...
  • The Federal Government Is Tracking Unvaccinated People Who Go To The Doctor

    02/27/2024 5:45:44 AM PST · by Paul46360 · 71 replies
    National File ^ | 2-24-24 | Patrick Howley
    Youtube removed my interview with Redacted host Clayton Morris in which I discuss my reporting on how the U.S. federal government is tracking people who made the choice not to get injected with the experimental mRNA injections pushed out to the public during the Scamdemic. Youtube cited a supposed breach of “Community Guidelines” in pulling down an upload of the interview, and issued a warning to the account that posted it. So feel free to watch my interview on Rumble! A bombshell piece of information was revealed at the September 14-15, 2021 virtual Zoom meeting of the federal government’s ICD-10...
  • The Day They Turned the Spies on Us

    02/26/2024 10:11:44 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 23 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 02/26/2024 | Christopher Chantrill
    Mike Benz, a former State Department official, argues that over the decades since World War II the U.S. has developed a huge intelligence system to spy and spread propaganda and influence elections in foreign countries. In about 2016 the U.S. government converted these intelligence systems elections to spy and censor and manipulate elections right here in the U.S. (Clarice Feldman already reviewed here Tucker Carlson’s interview of Mike Benz published on February 16, 2024 on the question of our national security state.)I will be referring to the interview transcript at Happyscribe.com.The idea that the government is spying on us right...
  • California Democrat sponsors bill to make insurers report firearm ownership

    02/25/2024 5:54:57 AM PST · by CFW · 19 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 2/25/24 | Eric Utter
    Democrat California Assemblymember Mike Gipson, who represents Los Angeles-area cities such as Compton, recently authored bill AB-3067, which would require insurance companies to inquire about -- and report on -- the number of firearms owned by folks seeking homeowner’s insurance. Can you say “slippery slope”? This is a preposterous invasion of privacy and would continue the recent trend of the federal government coercing private companies to do its nefarious bidding. Insurance is already a heavily regulated industry. It isn’t much of a stretch to imagine government at first “suggesting” and later mandating that insurance companies surcharge for firearm ownership, making...
  • BREAKING: IRS official Alex Mena who works in “Criminal Investigations” says IRS ‘has no problem going after the small people, putting people in prison, and destroying people’s lives.’

    02/21/2024 1:59:26 PM PST · by packagingguy · 60 replies
    @JamesOKeefeIII at Twitter/X ^ | February 21, 2024 | James O'Keefe
    Mena ‘doubts the constitutionality’ of his employer, the IRS, using AI to access everybody’s bank accounts nationwide. Mena recalls IRS agents stating “…the first person you shoot you’re gonna remember, but after that you’re gonna shoot like a hundred people, you’re not gonna remember any of them.” He says IRS agents “are assholes...they are the definition of an asshole, all of them.” This video was obtained by an O’Keefe Media citizen journalist who is a part of our American Swiper Program.