Excessive Surveillance

Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over ‘excessive’ surveillance in smart devices

UK consumer group Which? finds some everyday items including watches and speakers are ‘stuffed with trackers’. Air fryers that gather your personal data and audio speakers “stuffed with trackers” ...

World - The Guardian - 23 hours ago

An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted

Politicians have always courted the wealthy, but Elon Musk and co represent a new kind of donor, and an unprecedented danger to democracy. The concept of “elite overproduction” was developed by ...

World - The Guardian - 5 days ago

30% of the cameras in Border Patrol's main surveillance system are broken, memo says

Nearly one-third of the cameras in the Border Patrol’s primary surveillance system along the southern U.S. border are not working, according to an internal agency memo sent in early October, ...

Internal memo says 30% of southern border surveillance cameras are broken

About 30% of the cameras in the Border Patrol’s main surveillance system at the southern U.S. border are not working, according to an internal Border Patrol memo. NBC News’ Julia Ainsley reports on ...

Maher: Harris has to prove she's not 'stealth version of the worst excesses of the left'

Comedian Bill Maher said Vice President Harris has to prove she’s not “a stealth version of the worst excesses of the left” in an interview that aired Thursday. “Kamala’s big, I think, challenge ...

Politics - The Hill - October 24

Ex-Kentucky officer convicted of using excessive force against Breonna Taylor

Brett Hankison is first Louisiana police officer at scene of raid that killed Taylor to be convicted. A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force ...

World - The Guardian - 3 days ago

Ex-detective found guilty of excessive force in deadly Breonna Taylor raid

A federal jury found former Kentucky police detective Brett Hankison guilty of using excessive force in the 2020 Kentucky raid which killed Breonna Taylor. Her death sparked police reform and ...

Jury convicts ex-Kentucky officer of using excessive force in Breonna Taylor raid

The 12-member jury returned the late night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used excessive force on Taylor's neighbors.

‘You got it or you didn’t’: the sweat, smoke and sonic excess of the indie scene pre-Britpop

A new photography book captures the ramshackle squats and grimy venues that were a playground for confrontationally uncommercial early-90s bands like My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab and Silverfish. ...

World - The Guardian - 10 hours ago

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