OscailtFBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across AmericaPolice State technology and implementation makes further advances
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2012-10-28T19:58:29+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=102404http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifAnonymous protest 8th dec 2012 about government abuse of this big brother technologyhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/102404#comment2928812012-10-28T19:58:29+00:00serfAnonymous protest 8th dec 2012 about government abuse of this big brother techno...Anonymous protest 8th dec 2012 about government abuse of this big brother technology:<br />
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Spread the word! <br />
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10 years for wearing a mask during a protest in canadahttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/102404#comment2929342012-11-01T22:09:24+00:00serfIn Canada, new legislation means that you can get a draconian 10 years in prison...In Canada, new legislation means that you can get a draconian 10 years in prison for the simple act of wearing a mask while on a protest.<br />
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Wearing a mask can thwart these facial recognition systems and their true intended use of finding out exactly who are the people highlighting issues in society that the elites would prefer to see buried, and monitoring / leaning on those people until they shut their traps.<br />
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This might explain this heavy handed approach by imposing disproportionate custodial sentences on people attempting to thwart facial recognition technology.<br />
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Rapists frequently get sentences half this length which just goes to show you who the elites consider the bigger threat to society, rapists or democratic protesters!!<br />
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<a href="http://rt.com/news/canada-mask-bill-riots-759/" title="http://rt.com/news/canada-mask-bill-riots-759/">http://rt.com/news/canada-mask-bill-riots-759/</a>Software that tracks people on social media & gathers vast amounts of info created by defence firmhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/102404#comment2945202013-02-14T23:46:22+00:00TA multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of trackin...A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.<br />
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A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an 'extreme-scale analytics' system created by Raytheon, the world's fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.<br />
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The software is called RIOT -Rapid Information Overlay Technology and the report says using Riot it is possible to gain an entire snapshot of a person's life – their friends, the places they visit charted on a map – in little more than a few clicks of a button.<br />
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In the video obtained by the Guardian, it is explained by Raytheon's "principal investigator" Brian Urch that photographs users post on social networks sometimes contain latitude and longitude details – automatically embedded by smartphones within "exif header data."<br />
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Riot pulls out this information, showing not only the photographs posted onto social networks by individuals, but also the location at which the photographs were taken.<br />
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For the full text of the report see the link below. <br />
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The video implies the data is accessed by a program visiting the social media websites, but not asked is the question as to how it does this for large numbers of people because if it just trawled them by visiting the pages it would probably put a large load on the website server. To be able to handle the data for millions of people it is far more likely that the likes of Facebook, Twitter and other sites offer direct interfaces into their databases for speedier access. It will be interesting to see if this is confirmed at some later point. If so this means there would be essentially a direct feed into the data -which from the point of view of the spooks makes the most sense.Facebook, The Coolest Cutest Corporate Welfare Queen Of Them Allhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/102404#comment2946142013-02-21T06:33:51+00:00AnnaLast year, the government extracted $1.1 trillion in taxes from us more or less ...Last year, the government extracted $1.1 trillion in taxes from us more or less hardworking individual taxpayers. But now it will pay, along with the states, $429 million of our taxes to the coolest Silicon-Valley beauty queen: Facebook. In net tax refunds! Part of a vast package of juicy corporate welfare programs. Facebook isn’t just hogging our data; it’s gobbling up our money.<br />
Timing was a bit inconvenient, however. The “sequester,” as the automatic spending cuts by the federal government have been elegantly named, is scheduled to kick in on March 1. A national disaster, according to the New York Times. It would threaten everything from national security to preschool programs for low-income kids. It would cause hundreds of thousands of jobs to evaporate, or whatever. Clearly, trying to live within one’s means, or at least a modest step closer to it, is never a healthy idea.<a href="http://www.myfbproxy.com/products/" title="http://www.myfbproxy.com/products/">http://www.myfbproxy.com/products/</a><br />
So, as the drama with all its lurid theatrics was playing out in Washington, Facebook filed its first 10-K annual report with the SEC, containing its financial statements for 2012 along with a host of small-print footnotes which presumably no one would ever look at. But the recalcitrant nonpartisan research and advocacy group, Citizens for Tax Justice, combed through it anyway.<br />
Facebook is relying on a single tax break in our glorious corporate tax-dodge code to obtain its negative tax rate: the deductibility of executive and employee stock options. It cut Facebook’s federal and state income taxes by $1.03 billion last year—but that was just part of it. As Facebook said in its footnote under “Share-based Compensation,” on page 68 of the 10-K: “during the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011, and 2010, we realized tax benefits from share-based award activity of $1.03 billion, $433 million, and $115 million respectively.”<a href="http://www.myfbproxy.com/" title="http://www.myfbproxy.com/">http://www.myfbproxy.com/</a><br />
Another $2.17 billion of this US tax break is carried forward. To rub it in, COO Sheryl Sandberg giddily pointed out during the earnings call that the company “ended the year with a total of $5.8 billion in NOL tax loss carry forwards created by stock compensation”—to be used in future years.<br />
On its financial statements, Facebook claimed that it had a federal tax liability in 2012 of $559 million, that it would somehow pay $559 million in taxes in the coming year. But the number was wiped out by its infamous footnote on page 68 of the 10-K. And suddenly, that “federal tax liability” of $559 million had, like so many things on financial statements, no graspable relationship to reality.<a href="http://www.myfbproxy.com/" title="http://www.myfbproxy.com/">http://www.myfbproxy.com/</a><br />
Facebook isn’t the only one sucking on the big government teat. The tax break is available to all companies where stock-based compensation plays a big role. And innumerable other tax breaks are available as well. In its Corporate Tax Dodgers report of November 2011, the CTJ found that 30 of the 280 most “profitable” companies for the tax years 2008-2010 paid no income taxes but instead collected net tax refunds on their combined pre-tax profits of $160 billion! And 78 of them had at least one year when they didn’t pay taxes. At the same time, other companies in the study were getting whacked by huge tax bills. Hence the inherent unfairness of the corporate tax-dodge code.<br />
Meanwhile, corporate insiders rotate in and out of various government agencies that are supposed to regulate them. Perhaps the most egregious example is the SEC, where Wall Street culture and personalities have come to dominate. Regulation and enforcement have become a joke. A principle so common that it has a name: “Regulatory Capture.”