The rise of smart cities is a tool in the mass surveillance toolbox. These technologies will be used to invade our privacy and even though they’re being put in place in order to create a robust response to the coronavirus pandemic, history has shown us that when the ruling elite get new toys to undermine our freedoms, they won’t let them go without a fight. The collapse of the oil market has the experts spooked, the billionaires aren’t “essential” workers and we need to recognize the dignity of those whose labor we all rely on, a Koch Industries scam, and more in ‘Taking the News from Behind.’
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