Some States Are Targeting a Tactic Corporations Use to Raise Your Grocery Prices
Companies are using personal data to set individualized prices for customers, a ploy known as surveillance pricing.Some States Are Targeting a Tactic Corporations Use to Raise Your Grocery Prices
Companies are using personal data to set individualized prices for customers, a ploy known as surveillance pricing.
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Ring Scraps Flock Partnership Following Uproar Over Super Bowl AI Commercial
There is still “reason to distrust” the company, one security expert said, warning it has backtracked on plans before.City pauses plan to expand AI-powered security cameras in Austin Texas parks | kvue.com #AISurveillance #AustinProtests
Hệ thống camera AI tại Hà Nội sau một tuần triển khai phạt nguội đã phát hiện 269 trường hợp vi phạm trật tự đô thị. Công nghệ này đang đóng vai trò quan trọng trong việc giám sát và xử lý các hành vi vi phạm như lấn chiếm vỉa hè, đổ rác bừa bãi, buôn bán không đúng nơi quy định... giúp nâng cao hiệu quả quản lý đô thị và ý thức người dân.
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Camera AI tự động đã lập biên bản 269 trường hợp lấn chiếm vỉa hè, xả rác trái phép tại Hà Nội trong vòng 1 tuần. Các dữ liệu vi phạm đã được chuyển đến công an các xã, phường xử lý.
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Palantir was not conceived as a commercial tech product—it was born from the wreckage of a failed government surveillance program. Created by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp as the private successor to DARPA’s Total Information Awareness initiative, Palantir’s mission from the outset was to fuse mass surveillance, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics into a tool for pre-crime governance. Its first and only client for years was the CIA, which deeply shaped the company's development and embedded it into the heart of U.S. intelligence infrastructure.
What emerged was a privatized version of the Panopticon, capable of predictive policing, pandemic modeling, and mass behavioral surveillance. From wastewater analytics during COVID to nationwide intelligence contracts, Palantir is now central to how the U.S. government processes and weaponizes information. But its roots reach even deeper, linking to PROMIS software, Iran-Contra operatives like John Poindexter, and shadowy data systems like Main Core—allegedly a secret list of Americans flagged for detention during “national emergencies.” These systems were not dismantled; they were privatized, insulated from oversight, and embedded across both government and corporate surveillance architectures.
Palantir’s rise is mirrored by other Thiel-backed ventures like Clearview AI and Facebook—technologies spun out of military research, marketed as innovation, and normalized into everyday life. As Whitney Webb reveals, we are already living within a surveillance state designed decades ago, now managed not by public institutions but by unaccountable corporations with intelligence roots and global reach.
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