Tag: Surveillance
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Big Brother is called Alexa & Hey Google Kill
Last month the news hit that Google is working with the US Military in creating recognition AI for military drones This made quite a few staff leave unhappy with the idea their technology is aiding killing people (and made a mockery of their ‘Don’t Be Evil’ slogan, but as we know those ethical qualms disappeared…
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NSA Dick Pics Sheriff
YouTube has been pulled (and the official video is Geoblocked in the UK, because obviously John Olliver has no fans in his home country!) but it’s on Facebook, or for some time, maybe, Vid.Me or DailyMotion: John Olliver interviewed Edward Snowden, as well as grilling him he also helped him communicate to the American public…
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Public Service Messages
Some of you might recognise some of this footage from Godfrey Reggio’s 1974 commercials for the New Mexico Civil Liberties Union, as I used bits for one of my Kleptones videos. I got it from a documentary about Godfrey, but good to see the full adverts at last, they are beautiful. And they still seem…
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The Day We Fight Back
Two years ago, Radio Clash along with many other sites blacked out in opposition to SOPA and similar European laws such as ACTA. The former was stopped fairly quickly, and the latter fizzled out as European politicians realised how unpopular it was amongst their electorates as it was quite rightly perceived as a US attempt…
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When will we fight back?
A friend noticed the change in Cory Doctorow’s tone recently, he explains it as the anniversary of Aaron Schwartz’s death but a lot of us are despairing. Like Tim Berners-Lee warned middle of last year, there is an attempt to not only close up the Internet and make it some walled garden, a virtual shopping…
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The gradual acid drip of fascism
Something I’ve always struggled with it certain labels, certain accusations towards the UK government and security services. ‘Police state’ ‘Nazi’ ‘Fascism’ ‘Stasi’ – all very easy to blurt out and demean the original usage, and when using them you think about some cold grey depressing country (oh it is the same!) in Eastern Europe with…