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We Had First Flock, Yes, But What About Second Flock?

From “The Libertarian Institute” The 1998 action thriller Enemy of the State (RIP Gene Hackman) imagined a world in which government surveillance could follow an ordinary citizen almost anywhere, drawing on cameras, communications data, and increasingly sophisticated technology to monitor his movements. What once played as an exaggerated warning about the surveillance state now looks

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America After 9/11: 25 Years of Fear, War, Surveillance and Permanent Emergency

This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institution It has been republished with permission from the author. Please contact the author directly for republishing information. “I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general

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Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers

From “The Free Thought Project” Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings. A handful of cities across the U.S. have ditched Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras and immediately replaced them

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Exposing the Dark Enlightenment & the MAGA Technocratic Coup of America

From “Man In America” Patrick Wood has spent nearly 50 years tracking the rise of technocracy, the quiet plan to replace elected government with rule by engineers, algorithms, and a handful of unelected tech billionaires. In this episode, we break down why the executive order everyone cheered may have actually opened the door to something

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Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Your Own Surveillance

From “Man In America” They’re building a digital prison in America and there is an insane amount of money behind it. I walk through how Flock’s ALPR cameras feed a searchable national database, how Axon is quietly replacing every canceled Flock contract, why the phone in your pocket is a bigger tracker than any camera

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Flock, Axon, Israel, and American Freedom

From Greg Reese Transcript of video: Flock cameras capture a complete vehicle fingerprint and use neural networks to identify and track people. Flock’s system can generate “heat maps” charting a vehicle’s movements for 30 days, which can be used to reconstruct a person’s movements, associations, and habits. Flock’s Nationwide Data Sharing allows police in one

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The Fourth Amendment Is Being Liquidated by Subscription

From “The Free Thought Project” Flock Safety and the private surveillance companies building an American panopticon one municipal contract at a time. (Josh Walkos) The black pole does not look like tyranny. That is the point. It looks like street furniture. A small black camera. A solar panel. A utility box. Nothing dramatic. No uniformed

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