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Ken James retweeted
Imagine your daughter is 14. She wants to look up something private. A health question. A question about faith. Something she is not ready to ask you yet.
Now imagine every site demands her face scan or government ID first.
The company stores it. The database gets breached, sold, or handed over. And a record of her private questions now follows her for life.
That is what online child safety laws build. Not safety. A permanent file on your child.
Mothers, you are the last line of defense. Please step up.
ChildSafetyLies.com
Ken James retweeted
Win for liberty and privacy!! Congrats .@Rebecca_schmoe šŗšø
Ken James retweeted
1993: "We just need a backdoor in encryption. It's only for criminals and terrorists."
2000s: "We just need expanded surveillance powers to fight terrorism."
2010s: "We just need access to your encrypted messages to keep everyone safe."
2020s: "We just need age verification, mandatory ID checks and VPN restrictions to protect the children"
What comes next?
The excuse changes. The infrastructure of surveillance remains.
Ken James retweeted
Let me get this straightā¦
Sam Altman founded OpenAI as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. āTo benefit humanity.ā
Then he raised billions of dollars.
Then he closed the source code.
Then he converted to for-profit.
Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone.
Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models.
Now heās saying ābad things need to happen for AI to move forward.ā
He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now heās unleashing consequences from the technology that NO ONE asked for.
Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and theyāre not even hiding it anymoreā¦
Ken James retweeted
Your son is 14. He wants to download a game his friends are playing.
The app asks for a face scan to verify his age. You are told it is to keep him safe. You hold the phone while he looks into the camera.
His face is now in a database. Tied to his name. Tied to every account he opens. For the rest of his life.
Years later, that profile decides what he can access. What he can say. What he can buy.
You did not protect him. You helped enroll him.
This is what online child safety laws are building. A digital ID for every person, starting with our children.
Share this with a parent who thinks age verification is harmless.
Follow me. Every day I show you what is coming and how to stop it.
Ken James retweeted
Idaho Senator Kevin Cook published an op-ed saying he is planning to sponsor Meta's App Store Accountability Act in the 2027 legislative session.
He seems to be under the impression the bill has something to do with "adult content graphic material" when it does not.
The App Store Accountability Act is a de facto digital ID. It will force every Idahoan to provide ID age verification just to download apps from the app stores. Not just children...everyone!! The bill also requires verified parent-child linking. That means MORE personal data to prove that you are the adult legally responsible for the child.
This nonsense about "put parents back in the driver's seat" is a blatant lie. Parents can already control app downloads on their child's device without having to surrender personal data.
Ken James retweeted
NBC just talked to five people who got pulled over, held at gunpoint, or detained after Flock cameras spit out false alerts. One electrician stopped at a Chick-fil-A in Lafayette, Indiana, and officers surrounded his work truck with guns drawn because a plate misread flagged it as stolen. Another person sat in jail for nearly two weeks over the same kind of error.
These arenāt rare glitches. Flockās system scans every car, matches against hot lists, and treats a probabilistic hit like certainty. Innocent drivers become high-risk stops with no probable cause. This is mass surveillance doing exactly what critics warned it would.
š¤ Made with AI
Ken James retweeted
New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies:
404media.co/how-cities-are-fā¦
Ken James retweeted
JUST IN: Army veteran jailed for 30 days over a shooting he did not commit after investigators relied on Flock surveillance data to identify him as a suspect.
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šØ #BREAKING: It's been revealed the Flock CEO has publicly bragged about warrantless surveillance using his camera network ā which is reportedly 3x larger than what the company has disclosed to the public.
Ken James retweeted
A military expert says ALPR systems like Flock and Axon are the same as military systems they used against foreign enemies.
Pattern-of-life analysis was how they targeted and killed the enemy.
And now they are pointing these killing systems at we the people.
"I swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States. That oath did not end just because I took off my uniform. That is why I traveled to these chambers -because I have used a comparable system against American enemies and I know what it's capable of, and I can see the danger of pointing the system at the American people."
Ken James retweeted
A bunch of unelected, unaccountable, inbred econ cultists who pulled a magic 2% inflation-model target out of their butts while impoverishing 340M Americans & protecting global billionaire bankers in order to eventually get rewarded at Pimco, giving speeches for $400k a pop.
Ken James retweeted
Subcommittee members @tedcruz, @amyklobuchar, @SenatorDurbin, @SenKatieBritt, @MarshaBlackburn, and @JohnCornyn, all support CORCAāa bill to expand federal funding for Flock cameras and centralize the data at a new national surveillance center under DHS.
congress.gov/bill/119th-congā¦
Ken James retweeted
If Sen. Josh Hawley actually cares about stopping Flock cameras, he can propose an amendment to the Senate version of the $580 billion, five-year reauthorization of federal surface transportation programs, which has yet to be written.
The amendment is: "A recipient of assistance under Title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling."
Simply put, this amendment would withhold about $ 1 billion in annual Federal funding for roads in that state if it used ALPR cameras for anything other than toll roads.
Most likely, zero states would turn down $1 billion a year to keep Flock or ALPR cameras, so this would effectively ban them.
@HawleyMO, will you take this action?
NEW: Sen. Josh Hawley on Flock cameras: āIām very worried about [them].ā
āIf youāre a guy who has one Flock camera, you shouldnāt be able to look up private citizensā information a continent away.
āWeāve got to make sure that peopleās privacy is protected,ā @HawleyMO told me.
Ken James retweeted
Hackers ripped a Flock camera off a pole, dumped what was stored on it, and handed the files to WIRED and 404 Media.
One camera. 21 days.
~50,000 vehicles. 1.6 million images. About 3,300 cars a day. Peak day: 4,454.
Flock sold this as ālicense plate readersā with on-device encryption. The software on that box wasnāt just reading plates. It was tagging vehicles, bikes, and people. Dozens of shots of a single car. Bumper stickers. Even an American flag patch on a motorcycle bag.
They put the encryption key on the camera. Then acted shocked when somebody opened it.
