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bigtechtopia January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 surveillance, United States, USA

All cars in the US must be installed with ‘kill switch’ by 2026

Under the guise of reducing drink driving, a new law instructs car makers to install technology that can prevent the function of the vehicle

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bigtechtopia November 22, 2022December 12, 2022 Amazon, surveillance, UK

UK MP grills Amazon executive over algorithmic firing through wearable trackers

A Labour MP grilled an Amazon executive over the company’s use of surveillance devices on employees working at ‘fulfillment centers’

Qatar World Cup 2022: A mass surveillance bubble

The Qatar World Cup will be a mass surveillance bubble. 15,000 CCTV cameras, facial recognition, health apps and drones will be deployed

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bigtechtopia September 1, 2022December 12, 2022 surveillance, USA

The secretive company selling mass surveillance to police

A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies,

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bigtechtopia July 5, 2022October 13, 2022 biometric, Kenya, surveillance

Kenyans must say no to biometrics for SIM card registry

“Avoid disconnection, update your SIM registration details.” This is the message that Kenyans have been seeing for months. Kenyan telcos have been threatening

Big Tech and Biden: War on Terror 2.0

Joe Biden’s first war has already started and, backed by the might of Big Tech and the influence of the

IMF report proposes credit scores based on web search history

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has proposed basing credit scores of individuals and businesses on their internet search history and

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bigtechtopia December 12, 2020 1984, Animal Farm, dictatorship, freedom, liberty, Nineteen Eighty Four, orwell, revolution, surveillance, tyranny

The 10 most relevant George Orwell quotes for our time

As we sit at the precipice of a new age, a fourth industrial revolution, which threatens to make us mere

COVID-19 Features Latest Politics

bigtechtopia August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID19, Europe, lockdown, orwellian, surveillance

COVID-19 has served as the pretext for widespread surveillance

Mass data collection, geo-location tracking and facial recognition have become normalised in the climate of widespread fear of contagion. Yet

COVID-19 Features Important reading

bigtechtopia June 25, 2020 4IR, coronavirus, COVID19, dystopia, Fourth Industrial Revolution, surveillance, WEF, World Economic Forum

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Dystopia for and by the elite with COVID-19 as the pretext

An introduction to the blueprint for a fully surveilled, conformed and monitored global society, and how COVID-19 is being used