Sophia Yan | The Telegraph | Source URL Chinese cities are launching a scoring system for dog owners where anyone found failing to care for their pets could be forced to pay a fine – or even have their dog confiscated. The credit system is already being enforced in the […]
Caitlin Johnstone | The Antimedia | Source URL (CJ Opinion) — Facebook has purged more dissident political media pages today, this time under the pretense of protecting its users from “inauthentic activity”. In a statement co-authored by Facebook Head of Cybersecurity Nathaniel Gleicher (who also happens to be the former White House National Security Council Director of Cybersecurity Policy), […]
Charlie Nash | Breitbart | Source URL Amazon Echo and Google Home A.I. assistant devices are scaring their owners with unprompted statements. According to the Wall Street Journal, one Echo owner “was sitting on her bed crying one day after having just quit her job, listening to music, when she said […]
Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge | Source URL China’s restive far-western Xinjiang region has revised its legislation to allow local governments to “educate and transform” people influenced by extremism at “vocational training centres” – a term used by the government to describe a network of internment facilities known as “concentration re-education camps”, […]
Yahoo News | Source URL SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is launching the first electronic device to bear its brand, a screen and camera-equipped gadget intended to make video calls easier and more intuitive. But it’s unclear if people will open their homes to an internet-connected camera sold by a […]
Bellinda Kontominas | ABC.net | Source URL Laws will be strengthened to protect people from cyberbullying and online trolling and keep up with changes to technology, the New South Wales Government has announced. The changes aim to address an emerging trend of offenders threatening and harassing victims online through social […]
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project | Source URL State College, PA — In all of our years reporting on police conduct and activity at the Free Thought Project, we have never seen anything like we are reporting today. Several utterly insane videos show police officers from Penn […]
If passed, the bill would also require the NYPD to provide individual breakdowns each time a body camera was used and explanations for why it failed to record Graham Rayman | New York Daily News via PoliceOne | Source URL NEW YORK — A pair of NYPD oversight bills will be […]
Funds will support new approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities PoliceOne | Source URL WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice has awarded $6 million to law enforcement agencies and organizations across the country to advance community policing efforts, the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) announced Monday. According […]
KSHB Kansas City | Source URL KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City police at the South Patrol Division want to shed a little light on how to keep your community safe. They’re hosting neighborhood watch training Wednesday evening. Police say neighborhood watches create more awareness, prevent crime and encourage community building. […]
Josh Reynolds | Bored Panda | Source URL George Orwell’s 1984, Black Mirror S03E01, Psycho Pass, The Orville and many others have all theorised how technology can make our lives better… or worse. The future is now.
Meghan E. Irons and John Ellement | Boston Globe | Source URL Boston Police Commissioner William G. Gross Monday unveiled a new Boston police bureau aimed at enhancing the city’s community policing strategy that will be led by a veteran of the department. Nora Baston, who holds the civil service rank […]
Hannah Fry | The Los Angeles Times | Source URL Episode 1 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/500472954-nbpd-episode-0-the-prologue.mp3 Episode 2 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/501475386-nbpd-episode-1-something-is-wrong.mp3 Episode 3 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/501479394-nbpd-episode-2-the-story.mp3 After a fruitless years-long search for a fugitive murder suspect, Newport Beach authorities are taking a very different approach toward capturing their man: On Wednesday, they announced the release of a […]
Tom Wilkinson | The Independent | Source URL Northumbria Police identifies unsatisfactory performance in handling of complaints by woman later murdered by ex-boyfriend Two police officers will be given further training following an investigation into how they handled complaints from a woman who was subsequently murdered by her jealous ex-boyfriend. Alice […]
CJME Several media outlets in Regina were targeted with graffiti overnight on Monday. As of 10 a.m., the Regina Police Service said it had three reports about graffiti from three different outlets, however social media reports put it at five outlets. In each case, the message was the same: “gangstalking […]
RT | Source URL Facebook says it had mistakenly deleted videos and limited the reach of US conservative educational organization PragerU. The content has now been restored, but PragerU supporters don’t think it was an accident. PragerU (short for Prager University, after its founder Dennis Prager) says nine of its […]
Mass Private I | Source URL A recent article in KSFY revealed that the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is training citizens to act like cops. Because that is what America needs right now, more police. These ‘citizen cops’ go through a ten-week training program called “Citizens Academy” which teaches them to take part in […]
Global Research | Source URL The police routinely do surveillance on suspects. We all know that. The DEA, FBI, CIA and a whole host of other agencies also do surveillance on suspects. What we don’t know is how they pick their suspects, how they do surveillance and how long do […]
Claire Reilly | cNet | Source URL A note in a dead woman’s pocket read: “There are cameras inside and outside the house.” On July 30, 2011, Simon Gittany threw his fiance, Lisa Harnum, off a 15th-floor balcony. She didn’t survive. Court documents paint a tempestuous relationship in the months leading […]
Gary Robbins | San Diego Union-Tribune | Source URL Feel like earning a little extra money and maybe improving your health at the same time? Consumers will soon be able to sell or rent their DNA to scientists who are trying to fight diseases as different as dementia, lupus and […]
Jay Syrmopoulos | The Free Thought Project | Source URL Dallas, TX – When militarized FBI agents clad in tactical gear raided the home of Rakem Balogun in December 2017—forcing him and his 15-year-old son outside in their underwear on the cold and windy night as agents ransacked his residence—he thought […]
Romeo Vitelli Ph.D. | Psychology Today | Source URL “What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he’s out there, and he’s clearly not going to leave you alone until one of […]
Tara Siegel Bernard | The New York Times | Source URL It’s not just you. Those pesky robocalls — at best annoying disturbances and at worst costly financial scams — are getting worse. In an age when cellphones have become extensions of our bodies, robocallers now follow people wherever they go, […]
Palm Beach Post | Source URL MIAMI — An Alaska man has agreed to plead guilty and serve a life sentence to avoid the death penalty on charges of killing five people and wounding six in a shooting rampage at a Florida airport, authorities announced Tuesday. The plea agreement detailed in […]
Mass Private I | Source URL All across the country businesses are being encouraged to use facial recognition to identify everyone. Companies like DeepCam, have been been secretly working for three years, to create a facial recognition customer watch list system. “After three years in stealth mode, DeepCam has released Retail by DeepCam,a […]
Nicola Stow | UK Sun | Source URL | Technology that hacks into a meal ordering system before tampering with the food could become a weapon of a Cold War future, says top computer science professor RUSSIA could use robots to poison food for “untraceable” assassinations of state exiles, an […]
Note: One day after Shayla Avants of TI-USA visited the campus to preview for the event on March 23 Miami Herald A pedestrian bridge under construction collapsed Thursday, just days after crews had dropped an elevated 950-ton span in place on a signature project that was intended to give Florida […]
Rachel Blevins | The Free Thought Project | Source URL Encinal, Texas – A landowner has filed a lawsuit after he discovered that Border Patrol agents had illegally placed a camera on his property that gave them access to 24/7 surveillance of his land, and they then threatened to arrest […]
Jamiel Lynch | CNN | Source URL. Police in Panama City Beach, Florida, have charged two 12-year-old middle-school students with cyberstalking after the suicide of another student. Police said Tuesday in a statement that 12-year-old Gabriella Green, known as Gabbie, was found unresponsive at her home on January 10 and […]
