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U.S. Dept of Commerce to Digitize the Identities of All Americans Receiving ‘Public Benefits’
Federal ‘Guidelines’ have already been secretly adopted for a Digital ID program that will start off as ‘voluntary’ but only the most gullible Americans would believe that’s anything but temporary.
In the globalist drive toward the creation of a national digital ID for all Americans is well under way, and the first group of citizens to be coerced into accepting a digital ID will be those receiving public benefits of one type or another.
Government healthcare benefits, Veterans’ benefits, Social Security benefits, and of course low-income welfare programs of every type will all be fair game for digital IDs, and the U.S. government is already far down the road to adopting a strategy of digitizing all government-dependent citizens.
Do you remember ever voting on this? I don’t. And where is Congress? Why aren’t they involved in more than just a periphery role in something as big and important as the creation of a national digital identification process? Instead, it looks like the digitalization of America, and the world, is going to be crammed down our throats. It will be up to us to resist.
Beware, Your Home Is Spying on You — and Amazon Alexa Is the Most Data-Hungry
In an ever-growing digital world, our houses, as well as our phones, keep getting smarter and smarter. More than 780 million people worldwide are expected to be part of this revolution by 2028. There’s a catch, though; our privacy seems to be the price we pay for more convenience.
A new study conducted by Surfshark, one of the best VPN providers on the market, found that an average of 1 in 10 smart home apps uses your data for tracking. Unsurprisingly, Big Tech firms Amazon and Google top the list for the most data-hungry gadgets.
As Privacy Counsel at Surfshark, Goda Sukackaite explains, data collection isn’t the only issue here. A home is the private space par excellence, where intimate aspects of our lives take place. “If mismanaged, [data collection] could lead to data theft, security breaches, and the unsanctioned, uncontrolled dissemination of personal information to third parties,” said Sukackaite. “Users must be made aware and given the means to reclaim their digital privacy.”
Indiana and Mississippi Are Sued Over Online Age Verification Digital ID Laws
A group associated with big (and smaller) tech companies has filed a lawsuit claiming First Amendment violations against the state of Mississippi.
This comes after long years of these companies scoffing at First Amendment speech protections, as they censored their users’ speech and/or deplatformed them.
NetChoice correctly observes that forcing people (for the sake of providing parental consent) to essentially unmask themselves through age verification (“age assurance”) exposes sensitive personal data, undermines their constitutional rights, and poses a threat to the online security of all internet users.
The filing against Mississippi also asserts that it is up to parents — rather than what NetChoice calls “Big Government” — to, in different ways, assure that their children are using sites and online services in an age-appropriate manner.
EU’s New AI Rules Ignite Battle Over Data Transparency
A new set of laws governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the European Union will force companies to be more transparent about the data used to train their systems, prying open one of the industry’s most closely guarded secrets.
In the 18 months since Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the public, there has been a surge of public engagement and investment in generative AI, a set of applications that can be used to rapidly produce text, images, and audio content.
One of the more contentious sections of the Act states that organizations deploying general-purpose AI models, such as ChatGPT, will have to provide “detailed summaries” of the content used to train them. The newly established AI Office said it plans to release a template for organizations to follow in early 2025, following a consultation with stakeholders.
While the details have yet to be hammered out, AI companies are highly resistant to revealing what their models have been trained on, describing the information as a trade secret that would give competitors an unfair advantage were it made public.
How a New Jersey Man Was Wrongly Arrested Through Facial Recognition Tech Now in Use in Ontario
A New Jersey man who was wrongly jailed after being misidentified through facial recognition software has a message for two Ontario police agencies now using the same technology.
“There’s clear evidence that it doesn’t work,” Nijeer Parks said.
Parks, now 36, spent 10 days behind bars for a January 2019 theft and assault on a police officer that he didn’t commit. He said he was released after he provided evidence he was in another city, making a money transfer at the time of the offense. Prosecutors dropped the case the following November, according to an internal police report.
Investigators identified Parks as a suspect using facial recognition technology, according to police documents provided as part of a lawsuit filed by Parks’s lawyer against several defendants, including police and the mayor of Woodbridge, N.J. The lawsuit names French tech firm Idemia as the developer of the software.
