Screen Actors Guild: Provision that okays AI digital replicas and synthetic performers promotes redundancy in film industry
Leaders of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America, in contrast, overwhelmingly agreed to have their members accept the agreements they hammered out with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).
New probe questions why Data Analytical Services has never been subjected to congressional oversight
The scale of the data available to and routinely searched for the benefit of law enforcement under the Hemisphere Project is stunning in its scope. One law enforcement official described the Hemisphere Project as “AT&T’s Super Search Engine” and … “Google on Steroids,” according to emails released by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) under the Freedom of Information Act.
Revealed: How for 10 years US presidents funded shadowing project that allows cops access to trillions of phone records
There is no law requiring AT&T to store decades’ worth of Americans’ call records for law enforcement purposes. Documents reviewed by Wired show that AT&T officials have attended law enforcement conferences in Texas as recently as 2018 to train police officials on how best to utilize AT&T’s voluntary, albeit revenue-generating, assistance.
NASA finalising ‘Son of Concorde’ aircraft that can fly from New York to Nairobi in 90 minutes
Engineers are aiming to reduce the sound of the typical sonic boom to a sonic thump to minimise disruption to people on the ground. NASA said in August they have identified potential passenger markets in about 50 established routes that connect cities.
British government has ‘the most invasive network surveillance programme anywhere in the world – Edward Snowden
The principles of “know your customer” will be imposed on everybody for everything, and anything that doesn’t have that will be made illegal under National Security justifications. Essentially, what we’re looking at is a cyber Patriot Act, which will allow for the unfettered surveillance of everyone’s online activities, and the ability to restrict or block access to the internet.
Technology: In US the balance of power between the citizenry and government has become that of the ruling and the ruled
The US government implemented Stellar Wind, a programme to actively – and illegally – spy on all Americans within days of the 2001 9/11 attack. Ten years later, in 2011, construction began on an NSA data centre in the Utah desert. It’s now the largest surveillance storehouse in the US.
Wuhan Cover-Up: Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates are the frontmen for military-medical-industrial complex
A powerful syndicate, composed of government public health technocrats, a rapacious pharmaceutical industry, military and intelligence officials, and media and social media titans, appropriated awesome new powers to override constitutional and civil rights, censor information, suppress dissent and engineer compliance with arbitrary diktats.
Public relations: Israeli spyware firm mounts charm offensive to repair damaged brand
It is not illegal to register to lobby for two affiliated clients, and powerful law firms doing lobbying work often do so for purposes of efficiency and holding meetings together.
Why Israeli spyware firm NSO wants ‘urgent’ meeting with US Secretary of State Blinken
For NSO, the blacklisting has been an existential threat. The push to reverse it, which included hiring multiple American public relations and law firms, has cost NSO $1.5 million in lobbying last year, more than the government of Israel itself spent.
US cybersecurity centre tossed into mix-up by China’s stealthy Volt Typhoon hackers targeting critical infrastructure
The NSA’s Adamski and Josh Zaritsky, chief operations officer of the Cybersecurity Collaboration Centre, urged network defenders to manage and audit their system logs for anomalous activity and store logs such that they can’t be deleted by an attacker who gains system access and is looking to hide their tracks.
