A.I. Pre-Crime DETECTION has ARRIVED

The great Philip K. Dick called out so many of the trends in our modern world.

Now Minority Report Pre-Crime is coming true.

 

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Popeye Turns Gay and Woke

 

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

― Philip K. Dick

After nearly a hundred years in existence, the Popeye comic strip is reportedly getting a woke makeover, with the strip’s latest cartoonist promising more ethnic diversity and “more characters who aren’t heterosexual.”

Cartoonist Randal K. Milholland described the Popeye character as being “gender fluid,” citing old episodes in which the plot required Popeye to dress in drag.

“I [want] to bring in more characters who aren’t heterosexual,” Milholland said in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News. “I don’t live in that purely straight white world, and I don’t think a lot of other people do either.”

In one of the strip’s biggest changes, Olive Oyl’s sister-in-law Cylinda Oyl is now Afro-Latina. Cylinda has traditionally been portrayed as a white woman with dark, bobbed hair.

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1984 Facial Recognition Cameras to Track COVID Cases, Ensure Mask Compliance

“No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”

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Philip K. Dick

(Summit News)  Authorities in South Korea are set to use the country’s facial recognition camera network to track people with COVID in real time and ensure they are wearing face masks.

The system will first be tested in Bucheon, on the outskirts of Seoul, in January before being extended to other areas of the country.

The scheme uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition software linked to the city’s 10,820 security cameras “to track the movements of active cases and their close contacts, and to determine whether they wore a mask,” reports RT.

One official said the system was needed to reduce the workload on the team tasked with tracking COVID cases in the city by relying on information such as records of card purchases and cellphone location data.

“Using facial recognition technology will enable that analysis in an instant,” said Bucheon Mayor Jang Deog-cheon, adding that it reduces the burden on workers having to spend “hours analyzing a single [segment of] CCTV footage.”

Park Dae-chul, a lawmaker from the main opposition People Power Party. called the plan a “neo-totalitarian idea.”

“It is absolutely wrong to monitor and control the public via CCTV using taxpayers’ money and without the consent from the public,” said Park.

Summit.news

1984 Era of total surveillance

This decade old report is still true

“Big Brother is Watching You.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Dem L.A. Requires 1984 Vax to Eat Food

L.A. Dems Go Full Nazi

The Los Angeles City Council voted 13-0 today to have the city attorney prepare an ordinance requiring people to show proof of at least partial vaccination against COVID-19 to enter most public indoor spaces in the city, including restaurants, bars, gyms, concert venues, movie theaters and even “retail establishments.”

Council President Nury Martinez — who is currently in line take over as mayor once Eric Garcetti leaves — and Councilman Mitch O’Farrell introduced the motion last Wednesday.

“COVID-19 could be eradicated if we had mass vaccinations across the country and across the world,” O’Farrell said before noting the United States’ history eradicating smallpox and mostly eradicating polio through vaccinations.

Read more at Deadline

French Police Patrol Cafes Demanding Vaccine Papers as Rand Paul Calls For Mass Resistance To COVID

Total Tyranny: Biden Starts New Pre-Crime Program

 

“There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.”

- James Bamford

(Zerohedge)  -  It never fails.

Just as we get a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be a chance of crawling out of this totalitarian cesspool in which we’ve been mired, we get kicked down again.

In the same week that the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously declared that police cannot carry out warrantless home invasions in order to seize guns under the pretext of their “community caretaking” duties, the Biden Administration announced its plans for a “precrime” crime prevention agency.

Talk about taking one step forward and two steps back.

Precrime, straight out of the realm of dystopian science fiction movies such as Minority Report, aims to prevent crimes before they happen by combining widespread surveillance, behavior prediction technologies, data mining, precognitive technology, and neighborhood and family snitch programs to enable police to capture would-be criminals before they can do any damage.

When Science Fiction 

Becomes Science Fact

This particular precrime division will fall under the Department of Homeland Security, the agency notorious for militarizing the police and SWAT teams; spying on activists, dissidents and veterans; stockpiling ammunition; distributing license plate readers; contracting to build detention camps; tracking cell-phones with Stingray devices; carrying out military drills and lockdowns in American cities; using the TSA as an advance guard; conducting virtual strip searches with full-body scanners; carrying out soft target checkpoints; directing government workers to spy on Americans; conducting widespread spying networks using fusion centers; carrying out Constitution-free border control searches; funding city-wide surveillance cameras; and utilizing drones and other spybots.

The intent, of course, is for the government to be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful in its preemptive efforts to combat domestic extremism.

Where we run into trouble is when the government gets overzealous and over-ambitious and overreaches.

This is how you turn a nation of citizens into snitches and suspects.

In the blink of an eye, ordinary Americans will find themselves labeled domestic extremists for engaging in lawful behavior that triggers the government’s precrime sensors.

Of course, it’s an elaborate setup: we’ll all be targets.

In such a suspect society, the burden of proof is reversed so that guilt is assumed and innocence must be proven.

It’s the American police state’s take on the dystopian terrors foreshadowed by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Phillip K. Dick all rolled up into one oppressive pre-crime and pre-thought crime package.

What’s more, the technocrats who run the surveillance state don’t even have to break a sweat while monitoring what you say, what you read, what you write, where you go, how much you spend, whom you support, and with whom you communicate.

Computers now do the tedious work of trolling social media, the internet, text messages and phone calls for potentially anti-government remarks, all of which is carefully recorded, documented, and stored to be used against you someday at a time and place of the government’s choosing.

In this way, with the help of automated eyes and ears, a growing arsenal of high-tech software, hardware and techniques, government propaganda urging Americans to turn into spies and snitches, as well as social media and behavior sensing software, government agents are spinning a sticky spider-web of threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, flagged “words,” and “suspicious” activity reports aimed at snaring potential enemies of the state.

It works the same in any regime.

As Professor Robert Gellately notes in his book Backing Hitler about the police state tactics used in Nazi Germany: “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.”

Here’s the thing as the Germans themselves quickly discovered: you won’t have to do anything illegal or challenge the government’s authority in order to be flagged as a suspicious character, labeled an enemy of the state and locked up like a dangerous criminal.

In fact, all you will need to do is use certain trigger words, surf the internet, communicate using a cell phone, drive a car, stay at a hotel, purchase materials at a hardware store, take flying or boating lessons, appear suspicious to a neighbor, question government authority, or generally live in the United States.

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1984 - ESPN watches you through your TV

Big Brother is Watching You

(Infowars)  -  “One of the great new technologies we have here at ESPN is that we can look at YOU in your house through your TV!”

This was said by ESPN announcer Bill Walton as the network spied on the family of Arizona Wildcats center Dusan Ristic THROUGH THEIR TV as they watched him play basketball from their living room in Serbia:

The creepy admission, from the Feb. 10 Wildcats vs. Trojans game, confirms what Infowars has documented for years: Smart TVs have cameras embedded WITHIN their viewing screens that allow companies, government agencies and even hackers to spy on you in the “privacy” of your own home.

Just read patent application US20150116196A1:

he present invention discloses an LED display module, an LED TV and an LED TV system, wherein a camera component is embedded on the LED display module; in this way, the LED TV is capable of taking pictures from middle of the display screen; because the participants are looking at the display Screen, as a result, the local participants at local and the other end can look in the eyes, which improves sensory feeling of video interaction and realizes getting more information from the eye expression; because the camera component can take pictures from the front side, accuracy of taken feature information is improved; and the accurate feature information can facilitate accurate Subsequent action analysis; as a result, the present invention realizes wider application of LED TV.

Now that the patent is already filed and the technology is already in your living room, what’s the next step? Public acceptance.

Notice how this Big Brother technology was publically announced matter-of-factly on a sports network: it was a beta test to make the public slowly realize what’s already happening – and to accept it without question.

In 2014, Infowars reported how Samsung admitted it can record “a user’s personal conversations” with the microphones on its new Smart TVs.

Here’s a snippet from Samsung’s SmartTV privacy policy:

In addition, Samsung may collect and your device may capture voice commands and associated texts so that we can provide you with Voice Recognition features and evaluate and improve the features. Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.

Wikileaks later revealed the CIA has malware capable of turning these TVs into full-time listening devices – even when the TV appears off!

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“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”

Philip K. Dick

1984 - Big Brother builds a pre-crime list of "possible" victims

Are You on Big Brother's List?

• Police are secretly gathering computerized lists of "possible" crime victims . . . a list you are NOT allow to see.  
• You can bet that if the police are building a computer list of possible victims to watch they are also doing a computer list of "suspicious" people to spy on.

(Chicago Tribune)  -  What if someone you knew had a 16 percent chance of being shot? Would you tell him or her? That 16 percent, by the way, is roughly the same odds of being shot in a game of Russian roulette with a six-shooter. What, if anything, would you do to get your friend out of harm's way?

Over the past three years, the Chicago Police Department has been using data analytics to generate what it calls its Strategic Subject List to inform people of probabilities just like the one above. 

The SSL contains the names of people that the CPD's predictive algorithm deems to be the most likely victims — and perpetrators — of gun violence. The logic underlying the SSL is that gun violence is intensely concentrated within small, identifiable social networks.

Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson recently reported that 50 out of the 64 gunshot victims (or roughly 78 percent) from the Memorial Day weekend were on the SSL.

The CPD's use of predictive analytics to develop the SSL has come under intense national criticism. Why?

One reason is lack of transparency. The algorithm used to populate the SSL has not been made public and how the SSL is being used has not been clear. Secrecy during a time when mistrust of the police is high simply fans the flames of cynicism and mistrust. 

Reducing gun violence in our cities means valuing and saving the lives of the very people who are likely to be on any list of potential victims — including and especially those with a criminal record whose chances of finding family-sustaining employment, securing housing or finishing school are often blocked by practices and policies that have little to do with their individual situations.

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Homeland Security Pre-Crime Software

Philip K. Dick 
Dick was generations ahead of his time
in predicting Big Brother.

Big Brother is Watching You
and the mindless Sheeple roll over and bleat baaah.

Obama's DHS Opens Office in Silicon Valley to Better Control the Internet

A Bi-Partisan Big Brother

The 1984 Police Surveillance State is fully and eagerly funded by both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.

(Tech Dirt)  -  If only the endlessly-escalating West Coast cost of living could have prevented this:

Today I am pleased to announce that the Department of Homeland Security is also finalizing plans to open up a satellite office in Silicon Valley, to serve as another point of contact with our friends here. We want to strengthen critical relationships in Silicon Valley and ensure that the government and the private sector benefit from each other’s research and development.

That's Jeh Johnson addressing the crowd at the RSA Conference. Of all the news no one wanted to hear, this has to be close to the top of the list. Three-lettered government agencies are pretty much NIMBY as far as the tech world is concerned, especially after Snowden's revelations have seriously and swiftly eroded trust in the government.

No one wants a next-door neighbor who's going to constantly be dropping by for a cup of decryption.

The current course we are on, toward deeper and deeper encryption in response to the demands of the marketplace, is one that presents real challenges for those in law enforcement and national security.

Let me be clear: I understand the importance of what encryption brings to privacy. But, imagine the problems if, well after the advent of the telephone, the warrant authority of the government to investigate crime had extended only to the U.S. mail.

Our inability to access encrypted information poses public safety challenges. In fact, encryption is making it harder for your government to find criminal activity, and potential terrorist activity.

We in government know that a solution to this dilemma must take full account of the privacy rights and expectations of the American public, the state of the technology, and the cybersecurity of American businesses.

We need your help to find the solution.

"Let me be clear: I understand the importance of what doors bring to privacy. But, imagine the problems if, well after humanity moved out of caves, the warrant authority of the government to investigate crime had only extended to dwellings without doors." 

Bullshit. The DHS, along with other law enforcement agencies -- is seeking is the path of least resistance. It can get warrants to search encrypted devices. It just may not be able to immediately crack them open and feast on the innards. It may also get court orders to compel decryption. This is far less assured and risks dragging the Fifth Amendment down to the Fourth's level, but it's still an option. 

Then there's the option of subpoenaing third parties, like cloud storage services, to find the content that can't be accessed on the phone. So, it's not as though it's locked out forever. This may happen occasionally but it won't suddenly turn law enforcement into a wholly futile pursuit. 

Silicon Valley isn't going to help the DHS "find a solution." There isn't one. The DHS may as well get some legislation going and force companies to provide a stupid "good guys only" backdoor because the tech world already knows you can't keep bad guys out with broken encryption. This should be painfully obvious and yet, the "good guy" agencies seem to think tech companies are just holding out on them. 

From there, Johnson switches to his most disingenuous rhetorical device: the assertion that Americans are clamoring for an unrealistic level of safety.

I tell audiences that I can build you a perfectly safe city on a hill, but it will constitute a prison.

Who the fuck is asking you to do that? The only people pushing for "perfectly safe" are government agencies who like big budgets and increased power and the private companies that profit from this sort of fearmongering. Most Americans are far more pragmatic and they'd rather keep what's left of their privacy and civil liberties, even if it means the safety of the country is slightly less assured. 

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Jeb Bush Is Pro NSA Spying

1984 - Facial Recognition For Kindergarteners!

The march to 1984 goes on and on

And the American Sheeple bleat, "Big Brother, please save us from everyday life."

(Breitbart News)  -  A California school district is about to launch a first-of-its-kind facial recognition pilot program for K-6 aged children. Select San Diego area elementary school children will log into their iPads through a biometric system that is being pitched as a time saver because youngsters will not have to learn or remember manual online passwords anymore.

On March 15, the Encinitas Union School District (EUSD) board voted 4-0 to approve the biometrics program from Salt Lake City-based Virtual Keyring (VKR). The district runs nine elementary schools with an enrollment just under 5,400 pupils. Every student has an iPad because of a program the district launched in 2012 at a price tag of $2.7 million, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.

At the board meeting, district Superintendent Tim Baird pushed this “single sign in” technology as something that “gets us into that ‘walk through one door’ and you’re into everything.”

Some parents are worried by the sound of that. Baird insisted, however, that this user-friendly technology is only meant to gain access to the system and was not going to track children, even though he admitted to the Encinitas Advocate that Virtual Keyring could be perceived as “Big Brother-ish.”

It is a cloud-based password management system that claims to take away the worry of student data being hijacked because it operates off of a 256 bit AES encryption bit, the US Government standard.

Virtual Keyring boasts that the technology is more secure than any password and since information isn’t stored on the physical device, it cannot be stolen. The company also provides cyber-security to banks, law firms and government agencies. The Utah Highway Patrol is a client.

The way it works is to “authenticate students on their school-issued iPads with biometrics” and not just through a keyed-in password, according to the Encinitas Advocate.

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Face-Tracking Minority Report Style | Big Brother Watch

“No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.” 
Philip K. Dick

Secret military device lets Detroit area cops track your cellphone

Welcome to the Police State

• In violation of the Bill of Rights the Department of Homeland Security is providing military grade spy hardware so local police can collect data off your cellphone.

(Michigan)  -  Oakland County commissioners (Detroit-Warren-Dearborn) asked no questions last March before unanimously approving a cellphone tracking device so powerful it was used by the military to fight terrorists.

Now, though, some privacy advocates question why one of the safest counties in Michigan needs the super-secretive Hailstorm device that is believed to be able to collect large amounts of cellphone data, including the locations of users, by masquerading as a cell tower.

"I don't like not knowing what it's capable of," said county Commissioner Jim Runestad, R-White Lake Township, who has met in recent weeks with sheriff's officials about his concerns reports the Detroit News.

The Oakland County Sheriff's Office is one of about two dozen forces nationwide -- and the only one in Michigan -- with the $170,000 machine. So little is known about Hailstorm that even national experts will only speculate about its capabilities.

The technology from Florida-based defense contractor Harris Corp. is believed to be an upgrade of Stingray, a suitcase-sized contraption that is installed in cars and used to trick nearby phones into connecting with it and providing data to police.

The technology can track fugitives and find missing children, but privacy advocates said they worry because similar machines can collect data from innocent smartphone users.

"It's all very secretive and information about (Stingray and Hailstorm) is tightly controlled, which makes it (difficult) to have a broad discussion about these tools," said Alan Butler, a lawyer for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group.

Harris sells the device to police agencies and requires them to sign nondisclosure statements. Oakland County, like other agencies, obtained Hailstorm using money from a U.S. Homeland Security grant.

Undersheriff Michael McCabe said, "Hailstorm helps us capture fugitives from the law, people wanted for murder and rape" and can be used only with a search warrant. He said the federal Homeland Security Act bars him from discussing Hailstorm, but he elaborated at length about what it doesn't do.

"It's not a tool to spy on people, unequivocally," McCabe said.

The Detroit News sought basic information from the sheriff's office about Hailstorm, including copies of its purchase contract, correspondence about its use and necessity and returned warrants in closed cases in which the device was used.

The county denied The News' Freedom of Information Act request, saying the information is protected by anti-terror laws and includes "investigating records compiled for law enforcement purposes that would disclose law enforcement investigative techniques or procedures."

Christopher Soghoian, a senior policy analyst and principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union, said he began noticing police agencies nationwide purchase Hailstorm about the same time as Oakland County. The county received a $258,370 federal grant that paid for all but $105,000 of the device, training and about $56,000 to purchase a vehicle to contain it, records show.

Butler said the machines were developed for military and spy agencies and information about them is on "bureaucratic lockdown" because the manufacturer, Harris, claims specifications are "a trade secret and proprietary."

Also see our article Police searching your cell phone without a warrant

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the
intention of relinquishing it.”  
George Orwell
1984

Google to Transmit Your Cellphone Videos to Police

Google to Act as a Police Spy

• You know that fine print you don't read?  I suspect that buried somewhere in that print is you giving permission to assorted multi-national corporations to "share" your private information with the police or military.
• So-called "private" companies can get around the 4th Amendment need for a search warrant and collect your data.  They can then "voluntarily" share that information with the government.

The American Police State  -  Google has filed a patent for identifying when a “mob” event takes place by detecting when a number of cellphone videos or photos are taken at one particular location with the intention of forwarding such information to law enforcement authorities.

“When there are at least a given number of video clips with similar time stamps and geolocation stamps uploaded to a repository, it is inferred that an event of interest has likely occurred, and a notification signal is transmitted (e.g., to a law enforcement agency, to a news organization, to a publisher of a periodical, to a public blog, etc.),” states US Patent #20140025755.

 

The patent raises questions about what level of remote access Google or any other company should have to your cellphone, and how such information may be abused or misinterpreted to alert authorities to ‘suspicious behavior’ which is in fact completely lawful reports Infowars News.

 

Time and location data pertaining to photographs and videos is a feature which already exists in virtually all modern cellphones.

 

“Would only photos/videos you uploaded as publicly viewable be included into this system? Could you opt out? Could Google access the private content stored on your local device for these purposes?” asks Quentyn Kennemer.

 

Such a system could easily be exploited by law enforcement authorities for a multitude of reasons, including the surveillance and monitoring of protesters.

 

The potential threat to privacy and freedom that would be created if these kind of measures became commonplace is open ended. Back in 2012, Apple filed a patent allowing it to wirelessly disable cameras on iPhones by “forcing certain electronic devices to enter “sleep mode” when entering a sensitive area.”

 

Protests, political gatherings and other events at which authorities wish to prevent communication, documentation or video streaming could be turned into dead zones by creating a “geofence” around designated locations.

 

We have also seen preparations for giving police or government the power to impose a “blackout” on all communications during certain times because cellphones can “annoy, frustrate, and even threaten people in sensitive venues.”

 

 

CEO Billionaires Defend NSA

The government's defense of constant surveillance of the American public reached a new level of absurdity when Obama compared Paul Revere to the NSA. Now it's time for the corporate billionaires to defend what their puppet Obama can't. Enter Bill Gates and Marc Andreesen to tell that we need to trust the NSA and we're too stupid to understand the technology. William Binney, former Technical Director of the NSA worldwide understood the technology and has been telling us that the NSA is breaking the law.

 

 

 

 

Liberty - Going, going, gone.

China wants robots to replace human workers

Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. "More human than human" is our motto.
Blade Runner

The Droids are Taking Our Jobs

• We are looking at a brave new world of a massive and permanent unemployment of countless millions of people and ever increasing poverty caused by computers, the Internet and robotics.
• In China more than 60 percent of the enterprises surveyed have reduced production line employees by at least 10% using robotics.  While 16 percent of the firms have cut their production jobs by more than 30%.
• Best of all, robots do not form unions, take vacations or want pay raises.

Zhejiang province is to invest 500 billion yuan ($82 billion) over the next five years to encourage manufacturers to adopt more robots to overcome the short supply and high cost of labor.

The program is underway and will help at least 5,000 companies a year, a source with the investment division of the Zhejiang Economic and Information Commission told China Daily, without giving details.

Replacing humans with robots is the most effective way to tackle the labor shortage and rising labor costs, the commission said reports China Daily.

From 2005 to 2012, average labor costs in Zhejiang, a hub for private manufacturing enterprises, almost tripled from 14,847 yuan to 41,370 yuan a year, with an annual increase of nearly 16 percent.

In a survey conducted by the commission in May, 75 percent of respondents said rising costs were the main reason for switching to robots.

Robot Hamburger Maker
Even fast food jobs are rapidly being abolished by technology.  No longer will they say, “He’s going to end up flipping burgers.” Because now, robots are taking even these ignobly esteemed jobs. Alpha machine from Momentum Machines cooks up a tasty burger with all the fixins. And it does it with such quality and efficiency it’ll produce “gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.”
(singularityhub.com)

As factories used more robots, the proportion of surveyed enterprises with labor shortages dropped from 80 percent last year to 56.4 percent. The survey was based on replies from 515 enterprises that have introduced robot workers.

More than 60 percent of the enterprises surveyed have reduced production line employees by at least 10 percent, while 16 percent of the firms have cut their production jobs by more than 30 percent.

Meanwhile, robot workers have helped these factories improve productivity by more than 10 percent.
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If such a strategy is adopted by large enterprises throughout the province, the labor shortage will be reduced by 700,000 workers, saving 29 billion yuan in labor costs a year, the commission said.

Li Gang, president of the robotics sector in China at ABB, a leading supplier of industrial robots, said China has become a "world factory", but with increasing awareness of health and safety the manufacturing sector faces challenges in the workplace.

"Replacing workers with robots in dangerous and unhealthy working environments and using them for more creative jobs will be an inevitable choice for China's manufacturing sector," Li said.

He was speaking at a forum during the 15th China International Industry Fair in Shanghai last week.

Li said robot sales in China accounted for 21 percent of the world's total in 2012, and he estimates that the country will become the largest robot market in the next year or two.

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