In the trade-off between privacy and security, it helps to know the extent of your local surveillance infrastructure. There are now easy ways to find out. I didn’t tell anyone I was meeting Michelle Dahl, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a watchdog group. But by the time I greet her in Brooklyn,
Most people think the surveillance state started after 9/11. It started in 1956. In this episode of America Hijacked, I pull the original FBI memos, the Senate transcripts, the patent filings, and the court records law enforcement tried to hide, and I show you how the same machine that watched Martin Luther King is now
London, England: An anti-ULEZ vigilante group known as the “Blade Runners” has committed itself to removing or disabling every last ULEZ camera in London. 90% of the cameras in South East London have already been “retired”. Within London’s ‘Ultra Low Emission Zone’, people are charged a daily fee of up to £17.50 for driving cars
Rahima Mahmut speaks about life inside the world’s ultimate surveillance state and the need to ban Hikvision from the UK. Surveillance cameras made by companies linked to crimes against humanity watch millions of people every day in the UK. Hikvision and Dahua facilitate Chinese government’s persecution of the Uyghurs, from forced sterilisation in “re-education camps”