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JANUARY 11, 2015

WE THE PEOPLE RADIO

WE THE PEOPLE RADIO
 

Common Core & Technocracy

(Gravity Simulators Required)

Show appearances: NOVEMBER 2, 2014   DECEMBER 14, 2014  JANUARY 11, 2015
Today's guest: Tracee Mann
APPEARANCES:  NOV 2, 2014   DEC 14, 2014   JAN 11, 2015   MAR 29, 2015
And another episode of scare-the-crap-out-of-you radio :-)

Today will be the first of two shows looking at the tremendous impact of technology on our lives and what that means for our future. Technology can make our day easier but in many cases it also reduces our privacy. It can keep us safe or it can enslave us

The technology involved in Common Core will be deployed through games on the computer. Students will love the tests and companies will work with the government to categorize, control and manipulate our children into adulthood..

 

World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior
World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior holds new insights on how people make decisions;
 

Investing in Breakthrough Learning Technologies at the Department of Education?

 

Experts at the U.S. Department of Education are exploring how we might learn from the experiences of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and other cutting-edge R&D programs in pursuit of educational breakthroughs.
 

CATS-Gershenfeld.pdf
 
http://cats.cse.ucla.edu/index.php
 

 

https://epic.org/
 
EPIC Background

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is developing a biometric identification database program called "Next Generation Identification" (NGI). When completed, the NGI system will be the largest biometric database in the world. The vast majority of records contained in the NGI database will be of US citizens. The NGI biometric identifiers will include fingerprints, iris scans, DNA profiles, voice identification profiles, palm prints, and photographs. The system will include facial recognition capabilities to analyze collected images. Millions of individuals who are neither criminals nor suspects will be included in the database. Many of these individuals will be unaware that their images and other biometric identifiers are being captured. Drivers license photos and other biometric records collected by civil service agencies could be added to the system. The NGI system could be integrated with other surveillance technology, such as Trapwire, that would enable real-time image-matching of live feeds from CCTV surveillance cameras. The Department of Homeland Security has expended hundreds of millions of dollars to establish state and local surveillance systems, including CCTV cameras that record the routine activities of millions of individuals. There are an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras in the United States. The NGI system will be integrated with CCTV cameras operated by public agencies and private entities.

The NGI database will be used for both law enforcement and non-law enforcement purposes. It will be available to law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal level. But it will also be available to private entities, unrelated to a law enforcement agency. Using facial recognition on images of crowds, NGI will enable the identification of individuals in public settings, whether or not the police have made the necessary legal showing to compel the disclosure of identification documents. The New York City Police Department began scanning irises of arrestees in 2010; these sorts of records will be entered into NGI. The Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System (“MORIS”), a handheld device, allows officers patrolling the streets to scan the irises and faces of individuals and match them against biometric databases. Similarly, children in some school districts are now required to provide biometric identifiers, such as palm prints, and are also subject to vein recognition scans. Clear, a private company offering identity services based on biometric identifiers, attempted to sell the biometric database of its users after its parent company, Verified Identity Pass, declared bankruptcy. The transfer of the biometric database was blocked by a federal district court judge.

There is a substantial risk that personally identifiable information could be lost or misused as a result of the creation of the NGI system. Among the private contractors involved in the deployment of NGI are Lockheed Martin, IBM, Accenture, BAE Systems Information Technology, Global Science & Technology ("GST"), Innovative Management & Technology Services ("IMTS"), and Platinum Solutions. Arizona, Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee are actively participating in the NGI program. The FBI is pursuing an aggressive deployment of the NGI program, scheduled for completion and full deployment by 2014.
 
 
 
 
 

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