av Jonathan Turley 29 juli 2024
Below is my column in The Hill on the recent notice that this blog is now being formally "reviewed" by NewsGuard, a company that I just criticized in a prior Hill column as a threat to free speech. The questions from NewsGuard were revealing and concerning. Today, I have posted the response of NewsGuard's co-founder…
By Jonathan Turley (Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.)
I hope that our readers have read the response of NewsGuard's Gordon Crovitz to my recent criticism of the company's rating system for news sites. He makes important points, including the fact that the company has given high ratings to conservative sites and low ratings to some liberal sites. I have mutual friends of both…
I am particularly concerned over the reported government contracts given to NewsGuard by the Biden Administration as well as agreements with teacher unions to help filter or rate sites. The Twitter Files have shown an extensive system of funding and coordination between agencies and these companies. The funding of such private rating or targeting operations is precisely what I have warned about in congressional testimony as a type of “censorship by surrogate.” The government has been attempting to achieve forms of censorship indirectly that it is barred from achieving directly under the First Amendment.
In den USA ist ein «Agentengesetz» schon lange in Kraft. Das Gesetz über ausländische Agentenregistrierung (Foreign Agents Registration Act, FARA) schreibt eine Meldepflicht vor. Wenn eine Organisation als «ausländische Agentin» im Sinne von FARA betrachtet wird, muss sie sich registrieren lassen und regelmässige Berichte über ihre Aktivitäten und Finanzierungen vorlegen. Dies dient der Transparenz und der Vermeidung von unlauteren Einflussnahmen aus dem Ausland.
DHS Dept of Homeland Security the biggest customer?
Face recognition.
The Verge, Oct 2023
New York Times journalist Kashmir Hill comes on Decoder to discuss her new book, Your Face Belongs to Us.
NYT article about Clearview AI Inc. and other face recognition tech companies including Chinese and South Korean ones , by Kashmir Hill, from Oct 2021. Testing f-r tech at NIST.
EFF Podcast on Kashmir Hill's book on Face recognition, Clear View AI Inc. .... it was interesting that her explanation of how it blew up so fast wasn't really a technical development as much as an ethical one.
Far From Over, Post-9/11 Wars Continue in 78 Countries Under President Biden
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011
Iain Davis and Whitney Webb
June 5, 2023The United Nations claims that the purpose of Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG16) is to promote peaceful and inclusive societies and to provide access to justice for all. Hiding behind the rhetoric is the real objective: to strengthen and consolidate the power and authority of the "global governance regime" and to exploit threats—both real and imagined—in order to advance regime hegemony.
Last year, a government commission wanted the US to adopt AI-driven mass surveillance. Now, its happeing under a guise of combating the coronavirus crisis. An article by Whitney Webb 2020.
av Kate Fitz Gibbon, Artikel i Cultural Property News, maj 2019 om den kinesiska regeringens förtryck av uigurerna i Xinjang.
The Security State and Destruction of Uyghur Culture in Xinjiang
The Chinese government’s campaign to eradicate identity, religion, and culture.
The new compromise on the draft data law, seen by EURACTIV, further refines the protection of trade secrets and clarifies the relationship with data protection rules and the application of the cloud-switching provisions.
Presentation of Surveillance StateInside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control Author: Josh Chin and Liza Lin; read by Brian Nishii
The authors of Surveillance State" discuss what the West misunderstands about Chinese state control and whether the invasive trajectory of surveillance tech can still be reversed.
the old social contract, which promised better returns from an economy steered by an authoritarian government, is strained—and a new one is needed.
As Chin and Lin observe, the Chinese government is now proposing that by collecting every Chinese citizen’s data extensively, it can find out what the people want (without giving them votes) and build a society that meets their needs.
Helmet-kirjastojen verkkosivustolla on ollut käytössä seurantateknologioita, joiden kautta tietoja esimerkiksi käyttäjän hakemista kirjoista ja muusta aineistosta on voinut välittyä sivullisille. HS