Read George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 to get ready. His “Big Brother” system previews the pervasive government monitoring that’s coming.
China already uses powerful Big Brother technology to amplify power at home and abroad. Its surveillance technology helped identify and punish almost 900,000 officials last year, an Associated Press investigation found. Outside its borders, China used the technology to threaten wayward officials, dissidents and alleged criminals. AP article #1, AP Article #2 Silicon Valley companies such as IBM, Oracle and Microsoft developed the technology. Last week the AP cited a review of hundreds of leaked emails, government procurements, and internal corporate presentations as sources for its findings. The technology, particularly the IBM developed i2 program, mines texts, payments, flights, calls, and other data to identify the friends and family of officials and their assets. Reporting on Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang, the AP said “Li’s communications were monitored, his assets seized and his movements followed in police databases. More than 40 friends, relatives, and associates – including his pregnant daughter – were identified and detained, even by tracking down their cab drivers through facial recognition software.” “They track you 24 hours a day. All your electronics, your phone – they’ll use every method to find you, your relatives, your friends, where you live,” Li said. “No matter where you are, you’re under their control.” Government sponsored Big Brother surveillance is building on its foothold in America.
The U.S. government has developed a similar, if not more advanced system, reported NPR in November. In addition to the Border Patrol’s nationwide vehicle surveillance system, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has employed new surveillance tools including apps that let allow agents to point a cell phone at someone's face to identify them, licensed software with access to vast amounts of location-based data, and spyware that can hack into cell phones. ICE is also ramping up social media surveillance with new AI-driven software contracts. And it is considering hiring 24/7 teams of contractors to scour databases and platforms like Facebook and TikTok and create dossiers on users. "Immigration powers are being used to justify mass surveillance of everybody," Emily Tucker, the executive director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law,” told NPR. "The purpose of this is to build up a massive surveillance apparatus that can be used for whatever kind of policing the people in power decide that they want to undertake," she said. The climax of Orwell's 1984 showed the Thought Police finally overwhelming the spirit of determined rebel Winston Smith who suddenly realized he “loved Big Brother.” Will we come to love Big Brother too? "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” – Romans 2:2. Crawford is an author and syndicated columnist from Jackson.
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I thought painter Thomas Kinkade was the “father of lights”
If the software is programmed to catch crooked dems, good. Due to the number of these crooks the new data centers will definately be required to handle the volume of data.
With the exception of national security and negotiations in economics and international affairs, I want " transparency" from every damn politician in both parties!
I also don't want our red carpet rolled out for former Commie dictators like Putin!
I don't want anyone who befriends perverts like Epstein goes to " parties" where wives aren't welcomed and the girls are underage running a "hot dog" stand, much less our Nation. And, yeah, I know some commenters defending Trump likely went to parties at the National Guard Armory where wives weren't included but the rich and important were. Ladies beware, the " good ole" boys want to make Fornication, not Fortification, great again and women at their mercy.
Put the Crack pipe down.
Both parties are going to support more and more surveillance of citizens. Look at the power grab they did when the created Homeland Security. The two may squabble for public consumption but when it comes to their security they are of one mind. Public safety, you know. Every issue these days, from immigration to health care, is a reason to expand government power.
It's for the children.
Alex Jones was right again!
The House of Representatives should be exercising its oversight responsibilities.
But it hasn't even been in session for five of the last six months of this year.
All of the dems and RINOs are salivating to have the kind of surveillance and control the CCP has. Make no mistake the number one thing on their wish list is to disarm the American people, once that happens the freedom of speech goes and every other freedom as well.
Surveiling officials? Fine, go ahead, what took you so long? That’s where the rot and the malaise generates from, not from some workaday Joe Schmoe.
Big Brother type surveillance is primitive and inefficient, like chains and prisons. Instilling the institutional mindset, like hypnotism is far more effective and usually goes without detection. We are mostly mental slaves anyway. This administration will prove it. China should learn from us.
"How I learned to stop worrying and love the...data centers."
Antichrist is coming. This is just paving the way.
We are eating the remains caused by the big reveal of Covid. Now we get to see how man eats each other. If u are smart, u will gravitate to the state with the most intelligence. Dumb states produce dumb men that eat their vulnerable. They clamor over little to no resources and push poor Lazarus aside. The less there is, the greedier man is. Quality of life is declining while technology accelerates. That is what happens when u concentrate power. MS is a prime example.
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