TSA Announces “biometrics vision for all commercial aviation travelers”

Papers, Please! – Today the US Transportation Security Administration released a detailed TSA Biometric Roadmap for Aviation Security & the Passenger Experience, making explicit the goal of requiring mug shots (to be used for automated facial recognition and image-based surveillance and control) as a condition of all domestic or international air travel.

This makes explicit the goal that has been apparent, but only implicit, in the activities and statements of both government agencies and airline and airport trade associations.

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It’s a terrifyingly totalitarian vision of pervasive surveillance of air travelers at, quite literally and deliberately, every step of their journey, enabled by automated facial recognition and by the seamless collaboration of airlines and airport operators that will help the government surveil their customers in exchange for free use of facial images for their own business purposes and profits.

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Corporate Rule: Charging You For Privacy

privacyJoseph P Farrell – This article I simply have to pass along, for it’s a lesson – a “case study” as they’d say in business or management schools – in what happens when you give your support to the looney-tunes visions of David Rockefailure or Edmund de Rottenchild or any of the other super-rich financial crapitalist predators that have too much time on their hands and who want their big Corporations to rule the world. This article was shared by Mr. C.S., and it’s well worth contemplating:

AT&T Says It May Soon Charge You Extra For Privacy

Now, in case you missed it, here it is:

A top AT&T executive says the company may soon return to charging consumers an additional fee to protect their privacy. Last year, you might recall AT&T quietly started charging between $531 and $800 more each year if customers wanted to opt out of AT&T’s Internet Preferences program, which uses deep-packet inspection to track and monetize user behavior around the Internet. AT&T was heavily criticized for the move, and ultimately stopped charging the extra fees — but only to help secure regulatory approval for its Time Warner merger. Continue reading

Seeing Through Walls… It’s Simple…

technologyJoseph P Farrell – In case you missed this development and story in your perusal of the internet and the latest technological scams being dreamed up to rob you of your privacy, I enclose it here for today’s high-octane speculation, as Mr. B.H. and many others saw this and sent it along in this week’s emails:

Scientists Have Found a Way to Photograph People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi

And, lest you missed it, here’s the first few paragraphs that pretty much say it all:

Wi-Fi can pass through walls. This fact is easy to take for granted, yet it’s the reason we can surf the web using a wireless router located in another room.

However, not all of that microwave radiation makes it to or from our phones, tablets, and laptops. Routers scatter and bounce their signal off objects, illuminating our homes and offices like invisible light bulbs.

Now, German scientists have found a way to exploit this property to take holograms, or 3D photographs, of objects inside of a room – from outside of the room. Continue reading

Why Is the State in Our Bedrooms and Living Rooms as Well as Our Bank Accounts?

controlCharles Hugh Smith – A limited government is concerned with proscribing the exploitation of citizens by elites and criminals. A Totalitarian State seeks control of everything–including what goes on in the bedrooms, living rooms and minds of its citizens.

G.F.B.’s example of the state exerting control over its citizens’ private choices and behaviors in their own homes was the Prohibition of alcohol which was the federal law of the land in the U.S. from 1920 to 1933.A recent conversation with my longtime friend G.F.B. clarified a key distinction between the public and private spheres.

Though alcohol consumption in the home was not banned outright at the federal level, the net result of banning the manufacture and distribution of alcohol was the criminalization of everyday citizens’ attempts to purchase alcohol for their home consumption.

A limited government’s purview is actions taken in public that could harm other citizens. Drunken drivers, for example, end up killing innocent citizens. Limiting the “freedom” to drive drunk is a state action that is limited to the public sphere: if a citizen chooses to get drunk in the privacy of his own home, that’s different from driving on public streets while drunk.

In the good old days of the early Republic, the government was focused on matters of sovereignty and defense, not what citizens were doing in their own homes or communicating in private letters. Enforcement of federal laws was largely limited to collecting tariffs and other revenues and adjudicating property disputes. Continue reading

The Media Is Lying: Trump Is Not Ending Privacy On The Internet. He Is Dismantling A Soros Agenda. [Video]

Alexandra Bruce –  Grindall explains how “Net Neutrality” is to the “Internet Freedom and Privacy” as “Obamacare” is to “Affordable Healthcare” as the “PATRIOT Act” is to “Patriotism and honoring the US Constitution”.

The US Government’s names for legislation in recent decades has invariably meant the opposite of what they, in fact enact.

He says that the Mainstream News TOTALLY does not report the facts accurately and as a result, most of us are very misinformed about the March 7, 2017 legislation that overturned so-called “Net Neutrality”. The December 2, 2016 Act has been promoted by NGOs that were financed to the tune of $200M by the Ford Foundation and George Soros, which are fronts for the CIA.

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