Facedeals.. facial recognition tools to be used for discounts

Surveillance tools to be used in customer reward application???

 

Image reproduced from rt.com

In the wake of the latest Wikileaks release about the Surveillance Network TrapWire it has been announced by Redpepper Advertising Agency (Nashville Tennesse ) that they intend to use Facial Recognition Technology to reward customers through an application dubbed "facedeal"

If you have "liked" the pages of participating businesses you will receive a discount via mobile devices as you enter the premises... Wifi Cameras using facebooks facial recognition software will identify you from pictures that you have uploaded to your facebook.

The company explained that as businesses and customers were not manually checking in as frequently as they had hoped, Facedeal would allow automation offers to be delivered to loyal customers.

The next evolution in Targeted Advertising Systems goes from tracking consumers online via their google searches and web activities, into mining customer photographs from public profiles. Surely this brings into question human rights where privacy is concerned?

Online and mobile targeting technologies work by anonymously monitoring and tracking the content read and sites visited by a user or IP when that user surfs on the Internet. This is done by serving tracking codes. Sites visited, content viewed, and length of visit are databased to predict an online behavioral pattern.^[2]


Privacy International is fighting in order to make Governments legislate in a way that protects the rights of the general public. According to them, from any ethical standpoint such interception of web traffic must be conditional on the basis of explicit and informed consent. And action must be taken where organisations can be shown to have acted unlawfully.^[6]

A survey conducted in the United States by the Pew Internet & American Life Project between January 20 and February 19, 2012 revealed that most of Americans are not fans of targeted advertising, seeing it as an invasion of privacy. Indeed 68% of those surveyed said they are "not okay" with targeted advertising because they do not like having their online behavior tracked and analyzed.^[7]
- from Wikipeida Article on Targeted Advertising

One way of preserving your anonymity and circumventing the prying eyes of Targeted Advertising is to use The Tor Browser which does not allow cookies to be stored and is affiliated with startpage which does not record your IP address so you can search for anything without your location being stored by advertising agencies or your online behaviour being monitored.

Educate yourself on how to protect yourself when browsing online, visit EFF Surveillance Self Defence for a hands on detailed report.

Aug 15 2012

Esoteric Agenda 2012

 Ever Heard Of The Hundredth Monkey Effect?...

 As we approach the latter months of 2012, we find ourselves in a time of extreme significance!

The time of blind subservience, trickery and wickedness is dying as we arrive at this exciting juncture in humanity’s journey of evolution!

 Some of us have long been aware and preparing for the transition we are currently going through and others are just beginning to feel the subtle changes in the 'air'! The important factor is that we are remembering our function in the divine cosmos.

As the age of revealing draws closer to shine a wondrous light on the true nature of our being, the rapidly heightening vibrations of cosmic consciousness are spreading across the planet like wildfire, breaking the barriers of illusory limitation as we are 'reactivated'.

 Some believe that we are the minority; the few in a world where the masses exist in a constant trance state, but be assured, the 'few', through love, understanding, perception and positive intent are harmonising with the earths heart resonance, creating an equilibrium as evolution takes its natural path towards critical mass at an ever-quickening pace!.

Expansion and unity is on the horizon, true freedom and responsibility are within our grasp and we are becoming what we once were!

 We invite you all to share a day of age-old sacred knowledge, ancient wisdom and spiritual insight as we dive into the waves of the 'Esoteric Agenda!'

With a handpicked line up of incredible speakers each extremely conversant with the  different aspects of mysticism, esotericism,symbolism, art, spiritual sciences, harmonics, resonance, sacred language, human origin and much more! we guarantee this will be an amazing day, you will surely remember!

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Spying, Controversy and Freedom.

"Black Box" will give away ALL your communications data....

Original Story Source on RT
https://rt.com/news/uk-privacy-internet-freedom-186/

http://spyfiles.org/
It is your human right to be Free.

Swartz has told RT the new proposal will be “almost like opening up every letter sent through the post office so the government can make a copy – ‘just in case’.” RT News

See - Episode 8 of the Julian Assange Show.


A furious invisible war over our society is underway. New technologies to collect ‘netizens’ private data pop up every week. So what is private now? Julian Assange asks his Cypherpunk guests: is the world’s future tied to the Internet?
In Episode 8 of the Julian Assange Show, the host goes back to his hacker roots and sits down with members of the Cypherpunks movement to discuss the invisible battlefield: the Internet.

‘Total surveillance of every communication’

­Cypherpunks is a movement originating from Cypherpunks’ Electronic Mailing List, which was set up by activists aiming to improve Internet privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography. The movement has been active since the late 1980s. WikiLeaks is one of the many projects derived from Cypherpunks.

Ten years ago spying on every voice call and internet connection seemed a paranoid fantasy, but now as prices drop this is no longer a plot for a cyberpunk novel.
“Technology enables total surveillance of every communication,” says Jeremie Zimmermann, from the French group La Quadrature du Net. Emails, video calls, social networks – the more users rely on the web, the more exposed they get.
“We communicate using the internet or mobile phones, which are now meshed to the internet. Military or intelligence agencies have control of that data and are studying it. This is some kind of militarization of civilian life,” points out Jacob Appelbaum, a well-known independent advocate for cyber freedoms, who represented the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks at the Hope Conference in 2010.

‘Blurring privacy’ over bucks

How about private surveillance and private mass collection of data? Not too unfeasible.
“Google knows more about you than you know yourself,” remarks Andy Muller-Maguhn, of the German hacker association Chaos Computer Club.
"Netizens" are happy to hand out any kind of personal data, and social networks make their business “by blurring this line between privacy, friends and publicity,” says Jeremie Zimmermann. As long as spying agencies have access to data stored by such networks, web companies risk becoming extensions of these agencies.
"It is about economics. [Web companies] have decided that it is more important to collaborate with the state and to sell out their users; and to violate privacy and to be paid back for being a part of the surveillance culture,” sighs Jacob Appelbaum.

­Cypherpunks’ shield to privacy strike

Keeping your private data private is what the Cypherpunks movement is about. Assange’s guests hope for an economic push for companies to develop tools that will give users the ability to control their data and communication.
“Force of authority is derived from violence. One must acknowledge with cryptography, no amount of violence will ever solve the math problem. And, this is the important key. It doesn't mean you can't be tortured, it doesn't mean that they can’t try to bug your house or subvert it some way. But it means if they find an encrypted message, it doesn't matter if they have the force of the authority behind everything that they do, they cannot solve that math problem,” says Jacob Appelbaum.
Watch Part I of the “Cypherpunks” Episode of The Julian Assange Show on RT.

All text is from RT News Website.

Energy..

Energy can be the most amazing thing to feel, there is so many forms of energy, one can only guess, what other forms of energy is out in the universe that we, as beings, have never even considered.. What the power of the brain/mind is capable of even we, do not know.. If you do a few exercises, you will be able to feel other kinds of energy that is not from this planet.. I know, it sounds crazy, but, in all reality, most of us are called crazy because of the things we can come up with.. lay down outside, put your hands upwards and take some meditational breaths. For meditations, see my blog at http://6bab6alon6scorner.blogspot.com/... If you would like to know more i am on facebook. As i post these on facebook. I also will post this on this blog as well http://www.enlighteningtimes.co.uk/..

Focus on an image of any kind that you feel close to, focus on the energy that you feel from it, write it down.. Always write down your experiments when it comes to energy. On paper, on your computer, in your head, any way that you can to get it down and share with others as well if you wish.. Enjoy, i hope to get more of these out sooner.. By:Dana Neeley

Discovering the Life Plan - Enlightening Times Book Review

Discovering the Life Plan by Ann Merivale

Isbn: 978 1 84694 821 3

The author offers a detailed and sympathetic account of a huge subject in this book. It will appeal to those initially approaching the subject of past lives and karma etc.


It is well written, extensively researched ad presents an interesting insight into the Authors beliefs and that of those she has worked with over the years. 


Step by step "Discovering the Life Plan" takes the reader on an amazing journey through a collection of real life encounters of those who set out to discover why they chose to be here now.


There are notes and suggestions at the end of each chapter for those wishing to delve into the subject themselves to recover knowledge of their individual life blueprints, and plenty of references for anyone looking for practitioners to assist them in this journey. All in all a fascinating read and a thoroughly enjoyable book from beginning to end. 

More about the Author Here

J M Ashcroft June 2012

New Edition of the Enlightening Times Magazine out Now

Sunrise at 4.33am in Ennerdale Stone Circle in the Lake District. June 21st 2012

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Welcome to the Summer Solstice Enlightening Times Magazine

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Whistleblowing, A Dangerous Occupation....

RT News Feature

"as long as you have an honest motive you will be protected..."

In the Information age it is becoming increasingly difficult to report the Truth for fear of consequences ranging from ridicule to imprisonment. This is only going to get worse as those who need to be silenced become victims of cyber warfare. Did you know that any transaction you make online.. any message you send from your phone, in fact any digital footprints that you make can be accessed by those who collect and control where your Data ends up?

What is private, and what is public information?

The lines of distinction are so blurred that it would probably be safer to stay away from the internet than to know who or what to trust with your personal information.

Privacy online and protection of sensitive data will be the next market in which those with enough savvy to provide these services will prosper. Next time you consider posting your photos, thoughts, personal information on social networks be aware that there is not just your friends watching what you do. There are companies collecting and selling all of your information, creating profiles on your personality by collating and analyzing this data.

For More information read Here



Jade Ashcroft 13/06/2012