Posted on 09/04/2019 9:32:31 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Would partner with Big Tech to use spy data from Amazon, Google and Apple.
The Trump administration is considering launching a social credit score-style system in coordination with Big Tech that would use spy data collected from Amazon, Google and Apple devices to determine whether or not an individual can own a gun.
“The proposal is part of an initiative to create a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), which would be located inside the Health and Human Services Department,” reports the Daily Caller. “The new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for appointing its director.”
HARPA would employ “breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence,” including Apple Watches, Amazon Echo and Google Home.
In other words, data collected from devices that spy on private conversations and closely monitor user behavior would be used to strip Americans of their fundamental rights.
“Though the proposal is starting as a voluntary data collection scheme allegedly aimed at finding warning signs of mental illness, we all know so-called “voluntary” government programs often become mandatory at the drop of a hat,” comments Chris Menahan.
According to the Washington Post, Trump has reacted “very positively” to the idea.
The full scope of the program is chilling and would provide Big Tech with an easy excuse to formally impose the total neuro-surveillance of citizens via their smart phone and home assistant devices, something that has already been occurring surreptitiously for years.
One wonders if Trump has any idea of the slippery slope this would entail, or whether he was sold on the idea because Ivanka cried.
The proposal bears some similarities to Communist China’s social credit score system, where citizens’ behavior is tightly surveilled and then met with rewards or punishments.
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Perhaps - but anonymity on disparate platforms doesn’t allow what you’re talking about, unless there are warrants requesting deeper information on the various accounts here.
So a site like Freerepublic you could do that too? What if there are no trackers here?
sadly, no.
I can’t speak for Brave, although I do use it on my phone for its ad blocking capabilities, but I also run my own tor relay.
Each browser session on the Tor Browser offers a new fingerprint via several measures and disables javascript by default. I know you’re proud of your technical skills, but with small changes in one’s browsing habits, you anonymous.
Steenk'n Fake News Alert!
A third party site can’t access FR’s cookies, why are you lying?
I’d like to hear more about your second point, as that sounds even further out of this world.
That’s precisely what the tor browser is designed to deter. I wasn’t specifically talking about the phone, although I’m sure you are correct about that, but on Windows for example, it changes its window size upon start up every time, which is but one of its features of preserving anonymity.
These are computer scientists that design this, not 2 bit “eCommerce” programmers.
Going by what you mentioned - anything else then?
Shall not be infringed. If this is true, trump is officially a gun grabber... as if the bump stock ban and red flag rules were not enough.
Lost my vote w even suggesting an unelected government boob determines my roght to self defense.
Guess he is tired of being prez.
I am sending a note w my non renewal for the NRA.. they have been quiet while he and every leftist in America accomplish something they never have before.
Is this going tp be a weekly or bi-weekly call for our guns?
Tor can’t protect against government surveillance of other aspects of my life and correlating said data - I was writing about browser habits and tor in specific within the confines of its capabilities. It does what it does very well. VPNs are simply another layer of protection.
For the rest of what you wrote, I agree, there is no way around that.
Fake news mom. You sound like a never Trumper anyway.
If true & adopted, Trump deserves to lose reelection.
And i am sure the IRS and dept of ed are giving up their fully automatic assault rifles, NOAA too.
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