Microsoft censoring Windows Live Messenger chats under guise of fighting piracy
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Piracy seems to be the favorite excuse nowadays when it comes to censorship, destroying internet freedom, and even absurdly large domestic digital surveillance operations. Now Microsoft, one of the world’s largest corporations in the technology sector, has been actively monitoring and censoring conversations on their Windows Live [...]
New Big Brother facial recognition system scans 36 million faces per second
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie A new system has emerged to process surveillance footage for facial recognition, and it makes much of the previous technology seem like it belongs in the Stone Age, further empowering the Big Brother surveillance state. This is just another front in the rapidly growing surveillance industry which [...]
Google awarded patent for tailored advertising based on spying on sound and environment
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie On March 20, 2012, Google was awarded U.S. Patent 8138930, known as “Advertising Based on Environmental Conditions,” which can be viewed here or here. This patent is one of the most troubling advances in the growth of Big Brother Google as it proposes that background sounds, temperature, [...]
National Counterterrorism Center gets insane new power over private data on Americans
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Just when you thought the ludicrously paranoid federal government of the United States of Americacouldn’t get any worse; Attorney General Eric Holder signed new guidelines for the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). The American Big Brother surveillance state has grown exponentially over recent years and it does not [...]
Cloud-based video surveillance on the rise with potential for exponential growth
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie According to IMS Research, the world market for cloud-based video surveillance, also known as Video Surveillance as a Service, or VSaaS for short, is only going to continue to grow in coming years, further helping the expansion of the global Big Brother surveillance grid. Considering the rise [...]
Incentivizing citizens spying through ‘soft control’ and cell phones
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Like me, chances are you have probably never heard of the concept of “crowd soft control,” or just “soft control,” for that matter. “Soft control” is a way to leverage the millions of cell phones owned by Americans across the United States of America in order to [...]
NSA building massive $2 billion heavily fortified spy complex
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Deep in the heart of Mormon country in Bluffdale, Utah – home of America’s largest polygamist sect known as the Apostolic United Brethren – the National Security Agency (NSA) is constructing a surveillance center the likes of which the world has never seen. This facility, which is [...]
Internet service providers to launch biggest digital spying operation in history on July 12
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Internet service providers (ISPs) across the United States are set to voluntarily begin a digital surveillance operation so large that nothing can even come close in the history of espionage. Starting on July 12, 2012, if you download software, videos or music which are potentially protected by [...]
Study shows that computers might be able to spot liars better than human experts
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Similar to the so-called “threat assessment” technology being researched, funded and field tested by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), computer scientists are researching ways to read the visual cues individuals display when they are lying. In a small-scale study of forty videotaped conversations, researchers [...]
