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117 Million Americans Are In Police Facial Recognition Databases – And Don’t Even Know It

117 Million Americans Are In Police Facial Recognition Databases – And Don’t Even Know It

WASHINGTON — The faces of 117 million Americans — around one-third of the nation’s population — are on file in law enforcement databases, used regularly by facial recognition software to check against images of suspected criminals. And most Americans don’t ...

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A Nationwide Gun Owner Registry Is Coming Sooner Than You Think

A Nationwide Gun Owner Registry Is Coming Sooner Than You Think

  The names and addresses of gun owners in Hawaii could be placed in an FBI database if a landmark bill there becomes law, and it would alert state officials if a gun owner was arrested anywhere in the U.S., ...

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This Innocent Action Can Land You On A Government Watch List

This Innocent Action Can Land You On A Government Watch List

Are you engaging in “suspicious activity”? You might be, according to the federal government – especially if you take pictures in public. That’s the issue under consideration in Gill v. Department of Justice, a lawsuit filed by the American Civil ...

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Grocery Store Shelf Cameras Could Watch You Shop

Grocery Store Shelf Cameras Could Watch You Shop

Surveillance cameras on store shelves may sound like something out of 1984, but they could soon be coming to a store near you. Retailers are considering installing store shelf cameras in order to garner yet more personal purchasing information. The ...

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Small-Town Clinics And Privacy Are Casualties Of Coming Obamacare

Small-Town Clinics And Privacy Are Casualties Of Coming Obamacare

Obamacare is driving a massive centralization of health care and medicine in the United States. Independent physicians and clinics are being pressured to turn their practices over to corporations and networks. A prime example of this occurred in the small ...

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AT&T Gives US Government Agency 26 Years Of Phone Records

AT&T Gives US Government Agency 26 Years Of Phone Records

The US government’s tracking of telephone calls is far more widespread than Americans thought. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has its own telephone call program that’s even more extensive than the National Security Agency’s. The DEA has accumulated a database ...

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NRA Keeping Secret Database Of Gun Owners

NRA Keeping Secret Database Of Gun Owners

If you don’t like being tracked, you should reconsider membership in the National Rifle Association. The NRA has compiled a massive database about its members and gun owners in general. The NRA has not revealed the purpose for the database ...

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EXPOSED: ATF Set To Collect Your Personal Data

EXPOSED: ATF Set To Collect Your Personal Data

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) is seeking to create a massive online database that can pull up an individual’s personal information, connections, and associates. Currently called “Investigative System,” the ATF is asking private companies to provide bids ...

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Big Brother Spies On Your Students

Big Brother Spies On Your Students

This March, the South by Southwest Education Technology Conference in Austin, Texas unveiled an enormous database holding the personal information of millions of school-aged children currently enrolled in public schools across the country. The project, dubbed inBloom, already has the ...

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