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03/19/2018 / By JD Heyes

Techno-tyranny police state: Merely using a Google app can now make you a crime suspect

The Left freaked out over revelations this past week that a data analytics company employed Facebook user information to (gasp!) help its presidential candidate. Now, in the age of the Internet, this shouldn’t be any surprise; campaigns have long shifted away from the “traditional” means of engaging voters primarily through direct-mail campaigns and newspapers. But […]

02/25/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Can Ford’s proposed autonomous “Robocop” car be trusted not to shoot innocent civilians?

What happens when Robocop meets Knight Rider’s KITT? You get Ford’s latest brainchild, a plan for an automated police car that’s either an abuse of privacy and power or the future of unbiased law enforcement, reported The Daily Mail. A recent patent filed by the automaker specifies the concept of an autonomous vehicle that lurks […]

01/01/2018 / By David Williams

“Big Data” police-state surveillance the new norm: Information from multiple sources (on any citizen) now being combined to generate a “criminal risk assessment algorithm”

The emergence of “big data” has been quite the revelation for many different industries. Whereas information used to be sparse and relatively hard to obtain, now it is available in such large quantities that specialized equipment and algorithms are needed to process them. The police industry is just one of the many industries that are […]

05/23/2017 / By Earl Garcia

DANGEROUS: UK police now have the power to remotely disable mobile phones, even if the owner hasn’t committed a crime

The U.K. police may soon be able to remotely disable mobile phones even if the owners did not commit a crime through a new legislation that was recently passed. The Digital Economy Act, which was passed into law in late April, contains a provision that enables police officers to place restrictions on certain handsets that are suspected to […]

03/21/2017 / By JD Heyes

Everything you search for on Google is now easily obtained by police

If you thought that your search engine history was private, think again. It’s not. Or, at least, it may not be, depending on whether or not you’re under police investigation. According to The Free Thought Project, a court in Minnesota has recently ruled that an entire city’s search history should be made available to police, […]

03/20/2017 / By Earl Garcia

PRE-CRIME lockups to become reality as AI systems will soon flag you as “high risk” for committing suicide TWO YEARS in advance

As many as 120 Americans commit suicide every day, which translates to about 45,000 deaths per year. Now, a breakthrough project has shown that machine learning may prove to be an effective method in predicting suicide attempts. The groundbreaking findings by researchers at Florida State University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center may help clinicians identify patients […]

01/09/2017 / By JD Heyes

Amazon Echo devices spy on you in your own home… police are now trying to acquire those recordings

Well, it sure didn’t take long for the authorities to find yet another way to use technology—specifically “the Internet of things”—to violate our constitutional right to privacy. As reported by EnGadget, police in Arkansas want to know if one of Amazon’s Echo devices, which are constantly connected to the Internet and listening for the sound […]

05/25/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Will police be able to override and take control of your self-driving car?

(Cyberwar.news) Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are no longer mere creatures of science fiction. Tech companies are investing billions of dollars to make AVs a reality. Although self-driving cars are a ways down the road, their impending arrival provokes a host of moral dilemmas and ethical concerns. Among these ethical considerations, is the question of which public infrastructures and […]

04/05/2016 / By JD Heyes

America’s police state citizen surveillance modeled after communist China’s citizen reputation scores

Police in the United States are increasingly using a “scoring” technique to assess citizens’ potential threat levels, with critics of the assessment methodology seeing little difference between them and police in communist China. As reported by the Washington Post, a recent scenario that played out in Fresno, Calif., is indicative of just how pervasive America’s […]

03/09/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

‘Minority Report’ technology coming to … China?

(Cyberwar.news) In the 2002 Hollywood film “Minority Report,” a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, using three special human beings that were capable of “predicting” crime. Today, the Chinese government is attempting to do the same thing, only through the use of predictive technology. As reported by Defense […]

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