News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
It's increasingly common for parents to track their teenage children using a mobile phone app. Joanna Gray wonders if she missed the bit where we decided this was okay. Whatever happened to learning independence?
Microsoft has announced a new feature that takes a screenshot of your activity every few seconds and saves it as a permanent record. What could go wrong, asks technology expert Dr R P.
With the ever-growing presence of Government surveillance to keep us 'safe' and in line, is a descent into a Chinese-style police state now inevitable, asks Nick Rendell.
The German Government plans to direct public health authorities to begin systematic monitoring of RSV and to "implement measures to prevent spread".
Eugyppius takes a closer look at the surveillance data that show flu was suppressed by Covid, the viral interference phenomenon that likely explains it, and why it means lockdowns are a really bad idea.
Amazon shut down a customer's 'smart home' for a week after the delivery driver claimed he heard a racial slur coming through the doorbell, even though no one was home. Who needs the CCP when you have Amazon?
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, in partnership with Big Brother Watch, have discovered they were being spied upon by various shadowy state agencies, including the 77th Brigade. Welcome to the Ministry of Truth.
When you consider that vaccine passports had no medically justifiable purpose, it's entirely plausible they were simply an on-ramp to normalise a 'papers please' society with a Central Bank Digital Currency at its core.
Today, as governments usher in problematic digital technologies, what we do as a society next will determine the future of our health systems and the safeguarding of our bodily integrity and other fundamental liberties.
The EU is to start demanding holiday-makers’ biometric data – fingerprints and facial images – at its borders, greatly increasing both the level of surveillance and the length of delays at transport terminals.
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