BOOK REVIEW:  MEANS OF CONTROL: How The Hidden Alliance Of Tech And Government Is Creating A New American Surveillance State

By Byron Tau / Crown
Reviewed by: Glenn S. Gerstell
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Check it out here:
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Thanks to Glenn Gerstell for the very good and thorough review in The Cipher Brief of 'Means of Control.' He gave it 4 out of 4 trenchcoats🕵️‍♂️🕵️‍♂️🕵️‍♂️🕵️‍♂️. Check out the review here and of course, please consider buying the book anywhere books are sold!
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New: Russia launched a satellite into space in February 2022 that is designed to test components for a potential antisatellite weapon that would carry a nuclear device, U.S. officials said. wsj.com/politics/natio…

Good Matthew Petti piece (featuring a cameo from me) about the new intelligence community commercially available data rules.

I'm an avid Jeopardy! fan and I'm normally happy when I know a Jeopardy! clue but this one is depressing to see.

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The president can shut down the internet, seize private property, waive environmental laws, and conjure up a billion dollar student loan forgiveness program out of thin air, based on nearly unreviewable emergency powers.
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There are currently 43 national emergencies. Can you name . . . any of them? notus.org/whitehouse/nat…

This follows Byron Tau reporting showing that a very similar tech is being tested in Texas: notus.org/technology/war…

“Stingrays by another name,' per Matthew Guariglia.

You could be seeing them across America soon. Manufacturer Leonardo has 4000+ LPR customers in the US.

NEW - There's a powerful new surveillance tech in town.

It scans cars for anything emitting a signal, from phones and watches to pet tracker chips and library books (?!), all to create a 'fingerprint' of a driver.

At least one U.S. agency testing it.

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Who will regulate the moon? The future of private space exploration and exploitation is prompting some very terrestrial bureaucratic fights about which government agencies will have jurisdiction. Good Maggie Severns read. notus.org/policy/moon-re…

'Interviews with 19 women involved in human rights activism in Asia, Europe and North America revealed a culture in which powerful men can get away with unprofessional and sometimes even predatory behavior without consequence.'
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Thank you!

“Interviews with 19 women involved in human rights activism in Asia, Europe and North America revealed a culture in which powerful men can get away with unprofessional and sometimes even predatory behavior without consequence.”

Read the investigation: notus.org/policy/human-r…

Incredible story from Haley Byrd Wilt about Me Too allegations in the human rights movement. These groups advocate for the oppressed but Haley's reporting finds a pattern of failing to investigate serious allegations against powerful and influential leaders.
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Very much looking forward to this one.
By Byron Tau

After a loss on FISA, the unlikely coalition of privacy-minded senators have a new target: TSA’s facial recognition program.

“The potential for misuse of this technology extends far beyond airport security checkpoints”

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Nightmare for any author or journalist: Romance novelist locked out of her own novels-in-progress on Google Docs because Google decided the content was 'inappropriate.'

As they say, the cloud is just someone else's computer.
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