European Intelligence Agencies Prepare to Surveil Car Metadata
A powerful network of policing agencies, regulators, and industrialists is deciding on the ethics and regulatory framework by which authorities can use the data gathered from motor vehicles. German intelligence agencies in particular are demanding that Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen insert the required interfaces to enable the surveillance.
According to German press reports, meetings between car manufacturers and law enforcement have been ongoing since spring. Intelligence agencies are demanding real-time data on a car’s location, driver history, and even the number of people sitting in the vehicle at any one time.
The surveillance of data generated by cars is a legal grey area, despite a EU ruling in January 2023 to standardise data collection processes, enabling judges and prosecutors to access information on demand, by mandating that companies have ten days to respond to official requests.
EU attempts to grant police access to car data have previously been criticised as being excessive and lacking in the necessary safeguards. Digital rights groups warn that the “new law would treat large parts of the population as criminals before proven otherwise.” Other critics fear that existing European data protection regulations will be violated.
Already notorious for its state-sanctioned harassment of populists Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is clamouring for new powers to surveil car data. More broadly, the issue of how and when policing agencies can snoop on drivers is to be decided by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, which already demarcates similar rules for the use of phone data.
The prospect of a pan-European database for driver identity documents has triggered a negative response from academics. University of Northumbria law professor Carole McCartney lamented that EU citizens could soon be treated as “suspects” even without committing a crime.
The dispute about how to manage data gathered through the automobile industry comes amid a wider EU-wide discussion about AI and facial recognition. Pro-open borders MEPs successfully inserted legal clauses to limit the use of biometric data for border control in the recent AI Act passed in Brussels this year.
BMW, Toyota, and Nissan were among eight companies named last month by U.S. lawmakers as having tapped into user data without proper safeguards when faced with insurance claims. Meanwhile, General Motors faces a class action lawsuit for selling on user data to a third-party firm.
A global phenomenon, growing car surveillance provoked one privacy organisation, ‘Stop Spying,’ to release a report lashing out at the rise of ‘wiretaps on wheels.’ The authors claim that U.S. law enforcement has weaponized dubious car data since at least 2013.
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Unconscious Patients are Being Enrolled in Medical Experiments Without Their Consent
Some Americans are being enrolled in medical experiments without their knowledge or consent while unconscious, according to a new report by journalist Sean Miller.
He explained how an FDA rule that took effect earlier this year allows for this horrifying scenario to take place. It involves the establishment of an exception to the longstanding requirement to obtain informed consent from individuals “when a clinical investigation poses no more than minimal risk to the human subject and includes appropriate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of human subjects.”
At least nine healthcare sites have already started taking advantage of this, automatically enrolling people in clinical trials for dangerous drugs like ketamine and fentanyl – yes, the same fentanyl behind the opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans – when they are administered to patients who are unconscious while being brought by ambulance to the hospital following car accidents and similar incidents.
One such experiment is the Prehospital Analgesia Intervention (PAIN) Trial, which is being led by the University of Pittsburgh with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense.
The medical provider network Guthrie defended its position in a press release, noting: “Because severe traumatic injuries must be treated right away, there may not be time to get consent. Giving consent for medical research usually means reading information, talking with doctors and nurses and having time to think about whether to join. A person with traumatic injury is often not able to do these things.”
Moreover, because family members are usually not around or are unreachable in these emergency scenarios, the researchers are often unable to ask them for content as well.
Although many people would have no problem with ambulance crews administering pain medicine to them in the aftermath of an accident and would have given their consent to it if they were conscious, it is important to keep in mind that once the patient is given either ketamine or fentanyl, they are automatically enrolled in this experiment in some places and therefore expected to keep up with the study protocols for as long as six months afterward.
According to the press release, random trauma patients will be given either ketamine or fentanyl at the nine healthcare sites involved. And even though the FDA rule stipulates that the risks in medical tests involving non-consenting subjects must be minimal, the study openly admits that there are serious side effects involved, acknowledging fentanyl’s potential for addiction and ketamine’s association with hallucinations and other complications.
Opting out is difficult and not foolproof
The only way to opt out of this four-year study appears to be contacting the study’s organizers and asking for a silicone bracelet you can wear indicating your unwillingness to participate. Those living in affected areas, such as rural parts of southern New York and northern Pennsylvania, have received notices in the mail about the study with instructions on how to opt out.
It’s not exactly a foolproof system; even those who do take the time to request a bracelet just in case they are involved in an accident might not be wearing it at the time of the accident or it could even be destroyed during the accident. It’s not clear whether individuals who are not local residents but are brought by EMS to the hospital could also be enrolled.
Ultimately, those who are enrolled in the study are being used as guinea pigs to help the U.S. military.
UPMC trauma surgeon Dr. Jason Sperry explained: “The goal is to help the military to provide the best care for injured personnel, help determine the best pain medicine and determine what are the best short and long-term outcomes when comparing these medications.”
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Climate ‘Communicators’ say Best Way to Persuade Voters About Global Warming is to Lie to Them
Blue Rose Research data scientist David Shor recently conducted a poll on the best and worst forms of public messaging about climate change. He found that the most effective climate “communicators” are those who point-blank lie to the public about global warming.
Shor did not say it this way, of course, and we are not speaking for him on the subject. What we are saying is that everything in the “best” messaging column is a lie if you actually look into it.
According to the poll, the “best messages ever tested” include the following false claims about the “benefits” of climate tyranny:
1) Lowered energy costs
2) Lowered kitchen sink costs
3) Creation of stable jobs
4) Investments in transit, infrastructure and manufacturing
5) Research and development (R&D) for clean energy
All of this is fluff talk, meaning none of these things actually happen when the government drops the climate hammer. In fact, the opposite is usually true as “green” energy is costly, inefficient and highly politicized for societal division.
The “lefties” are programmed to love all things green while the “righties” are programmed to hate them. The truth, meanwhile, is that earth-based “fossil” fuels are abundant, cheap and a really good bet for creating stability and prosperity for all – and they can also be used cleanly, despite what the greenies claim to the contrary.
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Green is not the way
Watts Up With That published a report about the lies of the “best” column in Shor’s poll. It provides a breakdown of the falsities.
Concerning lowered energy and kitchen sink costs, author Charles Rotter explains that consumers in the greenest areas of the world – this includes California, the United Kingdom, Canada and Germany – pay among the highest energy prices, especially compared to places where green energy is barely or not a thing.
As for the creation of “good, stable jobs,” the green agenda is a poster child for what not to do:
“Employees of Solyndra, Proterra, Fisker, Arrival UK, or any large industry in Germany, the list goes on, may have a different take, not to mention pipeline and construction workers,” Rotter explains.
The California High Speed Rail disaster is another example of green gone bad. Like other green projects of a similar nature, California’s rail pipe dream is “no more beneficial to the overall economy than if you simply paid one group of workers to dig holes and another group to fill them back up again,” to quote Rotter.
Green R&D into “clean energy” is another hoax in that it represents a lot of money being wasted “to fight the laws of thermodynamics, detract from economic growth, raise energy prices, (and) create environmental devastation.” Traditional energy, meanwhile, creates “stable, dispatchable, small environmental footprint baseload power,” Rotter says.
What about the bad messaging, you might be asking? Here we go:
“Worst messages tested: electric cars, Green New Deal, frontline communities, ‘Big Oil lied,’ climate pollution
Talking about electric cars is especially deadly for Democrats. Women in particular are frightened of batteries running out. (Interesting gendered spin on range anxiety I hadn’t thought about before).”
The Green New Deal is an especially bad talking point for the greens because it is associated with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) who first introduced it in 2019, as well as with “bans on burgers and flying, and in particular provoked a fear of making energy expensive,” to quote the poll’s findings.
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Le Pen Joins Forces With Orbán in ‘Patriots for Europe’ EP Group
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN), the largest national conservative party in the European Parliament (EP), is set to formally join Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s new parliamentary group, the Patriots for Europe, during its constitutive meeting on Monday, July 8th. With Matteo Salvini’s Lega following it in, the ‘rebranding’ of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group will be complete, and the Patriots will be the third largest parliamentary group in Brussels.
The switch from the ID to the Patriots by the French and most of the other delegations had been heavily rumored for the past week, but the official move was postponed due to the second round of the French elections on Sunday, July 7th. RN president Jordan Bardella finally announced joining the Patriots that evening.
“At long last, starting tomorrow our MEPs will fully play their role in a large group which will influence the power balance in Europe, to refuse being flooded by migrants, punitive environmentalism, and the confiscation of our sovereignty,” Bardella said.
A week earlier, the Patriots were founded by three parties: Hungary’s ruling Fidesz, the Czech ANO, and the Austrian FPÖ. They were soon joined by others during the week, with Geert Wilders’ Dutch PVV, Portugal’s Chega, the Danish People’s Party, and the Flemish Vlaams Belang all switching from ID. Meanwhile, Spain’s VOX made a surprise exit from Giorgia Meloni’s European Conservative and Reformist (ECR) group to join them as well.
Bardella’s announcement leaves only two parties in the ID which is now unviable on its own and will be formally dissolved on Friday after five years. Matteo Salvini’s Lega with its six seats will follow RN into the Patriots. After the rebranded group admitted a much larger Czech delegation in the form of Andrej Babiš’ ANO, the Czech SPD’s lone MEP will no longer have a place and is forced instead to join Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)’s own group, ‘The Sovereignists.’
This will make the Patriots the third-largest group in Brussels with 79 seats. The prestigious spot was long held by Macron’s liberal Renew, the third leg of the ruling ‘Ursula coalition’ which is now being pushed down to fifth place. ECR, as the other national conservative group, was already celebrating that it managed to dethrone the liberals when VOX defected, shrinking Meloni’s group to 78 seats.
The Patriots for Europe is set to formalize during its constitutive meeting in Brussels on Monday. Despite it being founded by Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán—whose Fidesz party will be the second largest delegation with 11 seats—the Patriots’ purpose was to be a rebranded ID group and will be led by the French with their 30 MEPs, insider sources said.
The group’s internal administration largely stays the same. It’s likely that the Hungarian, Czech, and Spanish delegations—the only new additions to the former ID—will be given a vice presidency each.
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