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05/31/2018 / By JD Heyes

China’s “social credit” system rewards “good” citizens while punishing “bad” ones: Is this America’s future?

Author George Orwell’s fictional work “1984” has turned out to be more prophetic than anyone could have imagined in the late 1940s when it was published. In his book, Orwell wrote about an all-powerful Big Brother ‘surveillance state’ that tracked everyone in real time. Even at home, the government was always watching and manipulating. The […]

03/23/2018 / By David Williams

Proven guilty before the crime? China using big data to detain “suspicious” individuals before any crime is even committed

Chinese citizens are already under an enormous amount of pressure to “fall in line” as it is, what with all of the surveillance going on inside of the country’s borders, but now the Chinese government have taken things one step further yet again. Based on a report unearthed by Human Rights Watch, China now has […]

04/28/2017 / By News Editors

Amazon wants you to put their new camera in your bedroom

Products like the Amazon Echo are proof of a strange new shift in our culture. Suddenly people are okay with having a device in their homes that they know is listening to them. They’re voluntarily inserting electronic devices into their private lives, which are capable of spying on them and sending the data to private […]

01/10/2017 / By JD Heyes

Facebook secretly working with the police state to violate your Fourth Amendment rights

Your constitutional right to privacy has suffered greatly in the Information Age, either through blatantly illegal government surveillance or by voluntarily giving it up through the use of social media. But what about when you don’t voluntarily give up information—does the government still have the right to it? If you’re Facebook, then the answer is […]

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