26 04, 2023

Chinese city public servants to receive digital yuan salaries starting May

April 26, 2023|CBDC, Consent, Digital ID, Finance, History, Human Rights, Inquiry, International, Politics, Propaganda, Psychology, Social Credit, UN, W.E.F., W.H.O.|

A QR code (blurred) for paying with digital yuan is displayed at a Chinese convenience store. Users can scan the code and use the digital yuan to pay for goods

Personnel in public service, public institutions and state-owned units at all levels […]

25 04, 2023

The National Digital ID Will Fail Just Like the Others, Says Dataveillance Expert Dr Roger Clarke

April 25, 2023|Abuse, Australia, Consent, Corruption, Digital ID, Finance, History, Human Rights, Inquiry, Law, Misinformed Media, Politics, Privacy, Propaganda, Protest, Psychology, Resistance, Social Credit, Surveillance, Technology, UN, W.E.F., W.H.O.|

The National Digital ID Will Fail Just Like the Others, Says Dataveillance Expert Dr Roger Clarke

Both major parties in Australia have been keen to establish national identity schemes going back decades. However, the public has consistently rejected them, especially once the privacy-minded inform the broader […]

24 04, 2023

Upcoming Budget to fund a new registry tracking scam texts as part of urgent crackdown to save billions lost to crime

April 24, 2023|Abuse, Australia, Consent, Corruption, Digital ID, Finance, Human Rights, Inquiry, Law, Politics, Privacy, Propaganda, Psychology, Social Credit|

The government will commit $10 million to establishing a register to track illegal messages after a report released last week showed the nation lost an estimated $3.1 billion to scam attacks in the past year.

The government will allocate $10 million in the upcoming Budget to establish a new […]

23 04, 2023

American Facebook Users Can Now Apply for Their Share of a $725 Million Facebook Settlement

April 23, 2023|Abuse, Consent, Corruption, Digital ID, Finance, History, Human Rights, Inquiry, International, Law, Misinformed Media, Politics, Privacy, Propaganda, Psychology, Social Credit, Surveillance, Technology|

A woman uses her mobile phone to check Facebook. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Facebook users have until August 2023 to claim part of a $725 million class-action settlement of a lawsuit that claimed the company’s parent Meta violated their privacy, according to a new […]

22 04, 2023

Victorian councils targeted by conspiracy theorists’ campaign of disruption and influence

April 22, 2023|Australia, Censorship, Children, Climate Change, Consent, Corruption, Digital ID, Finance, Gender, Human Rights, Inquiry, Misinformed Media, Politics, Propaganda, Protest, Psychology, Research, Resistance, Smart Cities, Social Credit, Surveillance, Technology, UN, Vax Damage, W.E.F., W.H.O.|

The ‘freedom movement’ which was defined by large anti-government protests during 2020 and 2021 has turned it’s attentions to local councils.
The ‘freedom movement’ which was defined by large anti-government protests during 2020 and 2021 has turned it’s attentions to local councils.Credit: Eddie Jim

An anti-government […]

22 04, 2023

Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever

April 22, 2023|Censorship, Corruption, Digital ID, Finance, History, Human Rights, Inquiry, International, Misinformed Media, Politics, Privacy, Propaganda, Psychology, Smart Cities, Surveillance, Technology, UN, W.E.F., W.H.O.|

Rendering of Waterfront Toronto project
Renderings from Waterfront Toronto are about trees, not tech. Planned high-rises frame a two-acre community forest, a public space by Denmark’s SLA design studio.

The city wants to get right what Google’s Sidewalk Labs got so wrong.

20 04, 2023

Gold Coast City IoT Network

April 20, 2023|Australia, Censorship, Consent, Digital ID, EMR, Finance, Human Rights, Inquiry, Law, Misinformed Media, Politics, Propaganda, Psychology, Social Credit, Surveillance, Technology, UN, W.E.F., W.H.O.|

NNNCo has rolled out a public Internet of Things (IoT) LoRaWAN network across the Gold Coast Local Government Area (LGA), in partnership with the City of Gold Coast. The Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) is leveraging globally-adopted open standard LoRaWAN technology. It enables diversified large-scale IoT applications and transforms how […]

18 04, 2023

Russians boasted that just 1% of fake social profiles are caught, leak shows

April 18, 2023|Abuse, Censorship, Consent, Corruption, Digital ID, History, Human Rights, Inquiry, International, Military, Politics, Privacy, Propaganda, Psychology, Surveillance, Technology|

The estimate is contained in a document that is part of a trove of top-secret material leaked in a Discord chatroom

Red Square in Moscow last month. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)

The Russian government has become far more successful at […]