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Why it Is Ethical To Resist the Biosecurity Surveillance State

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Peter Leithart over at the Theopolis Institute invited me to contribute to this “Conversation,” which begins with a lead article from theologian Doug Farrow, “Whether There is a Moral Obligation to Disobey the Coercive Mandates,” followed by several responses, including mine. With permission, I’m reprinting here my piece, “The Rising […]

‘Rolling Surveillance Devices:’ Chinese Self-Driving Cars Are Mapping America

As Chinese companies test autonomous vehicles on U.S. roads, concerns are growing about the sheer amount of data these “roving surveillance machines” collect and the potential impact on national security. luck Reports Chinese companies have been quietly testing self-driving cars on American roads in recent years, particularly in California. While this may seem like a […]

How Woodrow Wilson normalized mass surveillance

Many horrible things happened in 1917, but most of them were caused by one man: Woodrow Wilson. Wilson laid the foundation for today’s Big Tech surveillance. He did it through centralization and bureaucracy, a collectivism unlike anything America had ever seen before. On April 2, 1917, Wilson urged Congress to declare war on Germany, saying […]

Government Funds AI Tools for Whole-of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes I feel scared. Very scared. Internet-wide surveillance and censorship, enabled by the unimaginably vast computational power of artificial intelligence (AI), is here. This is not a futuristic dystopia. It’s happening now. Government agencies are working with universities and nonprofits to use AI tools to surveil and censor content on the […]

Blaze News investigates: FISA’s warrantless surveillance under Section 702 violates Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights

The U.S. House of Representatives Section 702 Last month, the government passed a bill amending parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Although the warrantless surveillance powers are said to only target foreigners, the communications of many Americans could potentially be subject to government investigation. At the time, significant reforms to address widespread abuse of […]

Get ready for the surveillance state Olympics

Thanks to AI-powered mass surveillance algorithms, intelligence agents had a great look at Depeche Mode’s recent two-night stint at the Accor Arena. Smart cameras captured everyone in the name of protection. French law enforcement and intelligence agencies are using this “threat” as a pilot for widespread surveillance to be used by police at all ranks […]