Australia's biggest mass surveillance operation police tried to keep secret

The police state of Australia keeps many surveillance operations a secret from the serf population.

This is just one of them that made it out of the bag.

See article from 6 May 2019 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation of the headline:

Facial recognition system rollout was too rushed, Queensland police report reveals

GIF: Facial recognition software was used on members of the public at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

The biggest mass surveillance operation known to have been used by police in Australia was so rushed that it lacked the data to operate effectively, the ABC has learned.

Key points:

• The facial recognition system rollout failed to identify any targets flagged as a high priority
• Council for Civil Liberties criticised the system's use for general policing at the Commonwealth Games
• QPS tried to block the ABC's efforts to have its report on the surveillance system made public

But the Queensland Police Service tried to keep that a secret. 

The facial recognition system used in Queensland during the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games also had so few specific targets that it ended up being used for general policing.

Details of the surveillance system's rollout were revealed in an evaluation report conducted by the Queensland Police Service (QPS) after the 2018 event.

The report, obtained by ABC News under Right to Information (RTI), showed none of the 16 high-priority targets requested as part of the operation could be identified.

"Difficulties were experienced in data ingestion into one of the systems with the testing and availability not available until the week Operation Sentinel [the Games security operation] commenced," the report found.

"The inability of not having the legislation passed, both Commonwealth and state, in time for the Commonwealth Games reduced the database from an anticipated 46 million images to approximately eight million."

Photo: Special Emergency Response Team officers at the Commonwealth Games, which authorities described as as the state's biggest security event. (ABC News: Tom Forbes)
 

Halfway through the Games, the technology was opened up to basic policing, which turned up only five identities out of the 268 requested.

"Given the limited requests from within the Games, opportunity to conduct inquiries for the general policing environment was provided to enable better testing of the processes and capabilities," the report stated.

Protective security zones around Games venues gave police increased powers to detain, search and move people on, and 3,000 extra police officers were stationed on the Gold Coast at the time.

Michael Cope from the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties said it was a clear case of "scope creep".

"It reminds people that all this legislation is always dressed up as trying to get bad people who are coming to murder us — it is not at all," he said

"This just demonstrates that really the main use of this thing is not going to be to find people who might be potentially coming to cause mayhem and to kill people, but it's going to be to catch people who are committing ordinary mundane offences."

 Photo: Facial recognition technology was opened up to basic policing for the Gold Coast Games. (ABC News: Ashleigh Stevenson)
 

While police records were included, images from Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads were left out.

The report also found similar issues with millions of national identification images that were not included in the database.

Facial recognition software is also used at airports across the country by Australian Border Force.
Last week, a glitch in the system led to lengthy delays for thousands of travellers.

Police tried to keep report secret

When asked how the system performed during the Games, QPS initially told ABC News there "were no problems experienced with its use".

QPS then repeatedly tried to block requests for documents under RTI, until the Office of the Information Commissioner overruled them, saying it was in the public interest for the report to be released.

Queensland Law Society president Bill Potts said the public deserved to know the extent of surveillance methods being used by authorities.

"One of the real questions to ask is, why has it taken so long and why did they find it so hard to provide details of something which they had announced would be utilised and was going to be a terrific success?" he said.

"It may well be that there are operational reasons why they don't want the public to know.

"The difficulty is, when such technology exists when you have the Orwellian 'big brother is watching'. I think there needs to be very clear guidelines and very clear expectations set as to the circumstances under which it will be used."

Concerns for future use

In Queensland, the mass surveillance technology can be used to identify suspects for crimes that could attract a sentence of at least of three years in jail.

Photo: A police report revealed failures with the "rushed" rollout of facial recognition technology at the Commonwealth Games. (ABC Gold Coast: Damien Larkins)
 

Queensland privacy commissioner Philip Green, who was unaware of the documents until they were released to ABC News, said he had concerns about future use of the technology.

"For law enforcement in the most serious crime prevention, in terrorism for instance, no-one's going to argue with it," he said.

"But we do need, as a society, to look at impacts of the technology on a wider group of people to make sure that they're not being disadvantaged unfairly and that the technology use is proportionate and reasonable.

"Countries such as China have been reported for using this sort of technology for jay-walking offences, and even rationing toilet paper in public toilets.

"Minority groups have obviously been oppressed in countries where protections and human rights protections aren't in place — that's my broader concern."

Royal Commission into banking a farce as hard working Aussies get screwed over

Subservience to the banks?

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry, led by Kenneth Madison Hayne was a farce at the expense of hard working Australian taxpayers.

One example of the farce is that there were only 'recomendations' for charges for approx 14,000 criminal breaches in the law, as opposed to actual charges being laid as soon as the report was made public.

When a serf allegedly commits an offence, charges are laid pretty much instantaneously, where 'recommendations' are not even part of the vocabulary.

In any event, whatever alleged financial 'suffering' occured to the banks as a result from the royal commission, the hard working Australian (tax) slaves bear the brunt of the financial burden.

A system built to protect the business interests of  multinationals, protected corporations, like the banks and the corporation conglomerate commonly referred to as the 'Australian Government'.

Australian Government:1, Australian people:0

See article from the 3rd og May 2019, by the Herald Sun pulication:

The Australian Government's jobs farce

The Australian Government is well known for creating jobs in 'money for mates' scams, for example in politics (Barnaby Joyce's high price (to the taxpayer) whore) or high dollar falsified tenders (NBN, anyone?) or at a state level Tennix, Transurban, etc.

Highly polarised topics like immigration, refugees, student imports and jobs are excellent election campaign hooks.

The government falsifies jobless figures, as this statictic is used for economic purposes.

No doubt the serf population would have heard that the Australian Government will do this or that in order to boost or create jobs, but these claims could be an erroneous at the best of times.

See how the government falsely claims the creation of new jobs as a result of a penalty rate cut in the following article from The Age newspaper from the 26th of April 2019:

The corporation aggregate known as the Australian Government is illegal

From the video below:

In 2004 Ian Henke wins a court case in England that the Australian Government is 'illegal'.

In 2011 Ian Henke is incarcerated in Brisbane for tax fraud.

The Tax commissioner has stated that:

"... if you are participating in illegal schemes using overseas tax secrecy jurisdictions, it's only a matter of time before we find you..."

REALLY ??? !!! ??? Some 'persons' are deliberately not found.

Some 'minorities' are allowed to get away with fraud.

Do you know of any politicians that are using tax havens to invest their ill gotten gains?


See video:



This above video (from 2011) has been uploaded on the 6th of May 2018, and as of this post has (only) been viewed 95 times.

Let's make Australia(n government) legit, again.

Australia uses China's enslaving technology on its citizens

From the inception of this colony, the general population are seen as a threat to those in authority and  therefore treated as such, i.e. enemies of the state.

The people being the enemy of those in government is not a new concept or even remotely a 'conspiracy theory' but rather a fact throughout the ages, which is documented by scholars like Noam Chomsky.

Irrespective of Australia being an island or continent, or allegedly unmanned land mass before the colonialist's arrival, it is a colony where those in government have the serfs sorted out into blind subservience within a totalitarian government, corporatocracy, fascist régime, police state or (hidden) dictatorship (depending on one's point of view).

As other scholars and Chomsky point out, governments use the lastest technology available to them (which differs from the technology given to the masses / 'consumers') to be used against the people.

While the Black Mirror episode Nosedive may be a fictional description of events, its idea or implemention is a reality in China and also the colony called Australia.

Note that Australia has implemented various forms of 'social control', which may not be that obvious to the average 'Joe'.

See article from 30 Apr 2019 by Real News Australia of the headline:

China’s Big Brother Social Control Goes to Australia

Australia is preparing to debut its version of the Chinese regime’s high-tech system for monitoring and controlling its citizens. The launch, to take place in the northern city of Darwin, will include systems to monitor people’s activity via their cell phones.

The new system is based on monitoring programs in Shenzhen, China, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is testing its Social Credit System. Officials on the Darwin council traveled to Shenzhen, according to NT News, to “have a chance to see exactly how their Smart Technology works prior to being fully rolled out.”

In Darwin, they’ve already constructed “poles, fitted with speakers, cameras and Wi-Fi,” according to NT News, to monitor people, their movements around the city, the websites they visit, and what apps they use. The monitoring will be done mainly by artificial intelligence, but will alert authorities based on set triggers.

Just as in China, the surveillance system is being branded as a “smart city” program, and while Australian officials claim its operations are benign, they’ve announced it functions to monitor cell phone activity and “virtual fences” that will trigger alerts if people cross them.

“We’ll be getting sent an alarm saying, ‘There’s a person in this area that you’ve put a virtual fence around.’ … Boom, an alert goes out to whatever authority, whether it’s us or police to say ‘look at camera five,’” said Josh Sattler, the Darwin council’s general manager for innovation, growth, and development services, according to NT News.

The nature of the “virtual fences” and what type of activity will sound an alarm still isn’t being made clear.

The system is being promoted as mostly benign. Sattler said it will tell the government “where people are using Wi-Fi, what they’re using Wi-Fi for, are they watching YouTube, etc. All these bits of information we can share with businesses. … We can let businesses know, ‘Hey, 80 percent of people actually use Instagram within this area of the city, between these hours.’”

The CCP’s smart city Social Credit System is able to monitor each person in the society, tracking every element of their lives—including their friends, online purchases, daily behavior, and other information—and assigns each person a citizen score that determines their level of freedom in society.

The tool is a core piece of the CCP’s programs to monitor and persecute dissidents, including religious believers and people who oppose the ruling communist system.

Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao, a visiting scholar at New York University, described the Social Credit System as a new form of tyranny, meant to reactivate the CCP’s totalitarian hold on society.

“In the past, there was the Nazi totalitarianism and Mao Zedong’s totalitarian system, but a totalitarian system powered by the internet and contemporary technology has not existed before,” Teng said in a recent interview with The Epoch Times.

“The CCP is now taking the first step to build such a high-tech totalitarian system, by using credit ratings and monitoring and recording every detail in people’s daily life, which is very frightening.”

The regime also isn’t interested in keeping the technology within its own borders. It’s exporting the system, and its “China model” of totalitarian government, as a service of its “One Belt, One Road” program. When the CCP builds its infrastructure abroad, its surveillance and social control programs are part of the package.

In Darwin, there has been a push to jump aboard the CCP’s program. The local officials made a “friendship” deal with Yuexiu District, in Guangzhou, China, in 2018. According to John Garrick, a senior lecturer at Charles Darwin University, the deal was branded by Chinese media as “part of President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative.”

That followed a previous deal between Darwin and the CCP, in which the city signed a 99-year lease of the Port of Darwin to a Chinese company and the CCP. The Chinese owner, Ye Cheng, had referred to the deal as being part of One Belt, One Road.

The deals also should raise concern for U.S. Marines stationed in Darwin, under the Obama-era pivot to the Pacific, about whether the CCP is able to monitor data collected on cell phones from its systems in the area. Under a 2011 deal between the United States and Australia, the U.S. troops will be there until 2040.

And of similar concern, the decision of Australia to begin implementing the CCP’s programs for totalitarian social control represents a major development in the CCP’s China model push.

As The Epoch Times has reported, the CCP views Australia as a testing ground for programs it wants to spread to the West. After Australia comes Canada, then the United States—in an apparent imitation of Mao Zedong’s strategy to “surround the cities with the countryside.”

Dole bludging network publishes social security recipient's details in 'horrendous breach of privacy'

Contrary to government propaganda, social security recipients are not dole bludgers but rather the companies called Job Network Providers that are supposed to serve / help / provide employment to those who need or want to work.

These companies have been setup in a 'money for mates' scam that the Australian taxpayers are being rorted, but as usual this escapes scrutiny or mainstream media exposé.

MANY employment 'businesses' falsely declare that they have found employment for their 'customers' where they also force the young jobseeker to state that the employment agency provided the lead when they did not so they can get paid by Centrelink or rather defraud the Australian taxpayer.

Due to the substandard quality of staff and resources, Centrelink recipients have now been exposed in a 'horrendous breach of privacy', where as usual the government denies any such responbility or such action ever occurring.

See article from 27 April 2019 by dailmail of the headline:

Centrelink recipients' details are posted publicly on FACEBOOK in 'horrendous breach of privacy'

• Work-for-dole services provider posts details of Centrelink clients on Facebook
• The service provider is part of the Government's remote employment scheme  
• Labor's Linda Burney calls the The publication 'an horrendous breach of privacy'
• Ms Burney argues Government needs to verify if clients have been put at risk

A remote Northern Territory work-for-the-dole services provider has published details of Centrelink clients on its Facebook page in what is being called 'a horrendous breach of privacy'.

Dozens of names of those required to attend client meetings were uploaded by the job service provider, the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation (ALPA), to a public Facebook page.

The ALPA which is part of the Government's remote employment scheme, the Community Development Program (CDP), set up the page apparently with the intention of uploading such lists. 

The names of nearly 50 people from the remote NT community of Galiwinku (pictured) were shared on a Facebook page by a work-for-the-dole service provider

Labor's social services spokesperson, Linda Burney (pictured) has called the incident 'an horrendous breach of privacy' 

The posts, which were also uploaded to another local Facebook page, have since been deleted.

Nearly 50 people from the remote community of Galiwinku, located 500 kilometres east of Darwin, in the Northern Territory, were affected.

The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, responsible for the Community Development Program, said it was 'satisfied' privacy responsibilities had been met by the ALPA.

An ALPA spokeswoman told ABC.net that they did not believe 'this is a breach of confidentiality' and that all the CDP participants 'give… media consent when they commence as a participant.'

But Labor's social services spokesperson Linda Burney called it 'a horrendous breach of privacy' that 'has serious implications for participants.'

 'The reality is that the government's cruel and chaotic mismanagement of this broken and discriminatory program has made incidences such as this inevitable.'

'The government needs to urgently verify whether anyone had been placed at risk,' she said in a statement.

The ABC reported that a CDP 'insider' had also denounced the uploads, and like Ms Burney, has said the lists could place job seekers at risk.

'If a person has a family violence order in place to protect them, then perhaps the perpetrator would know where she was,' the source, who requested anonymity, told the ABC.

'It advertised a person is accessing welfare services, and unfortunately in Australia there's discrimination against people accessing welfare services.'

'People can be bullied for being unemployed,' they said.

Chair of the Electronic frontiers Australia, Lyndsey Jackson said the situation was 'extraordinary.'

'Extraordinary on two levels - that the organisation thought this was acceptable and that the department doubled down in their response,' she told AAP.

She said there was a disregard about how putting information in the public domain could have a lasting effect and asked why it was not a breach of the privacy act.

Members of the the union movement, which strongly opposes the current remote, work for the dole model, have also criticised the breach of privacy incident.

Union official, Lara Watson, from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said: 'We are at a loss as to why anyone would post about workers' appointments online.'

'We were shocked at the publication of names on a social media platform.' she said.

The CDP operates across most of Australia's land mass at a cost of about $300 million annually and has already come under fire for its operations.  

The ABC reported earlier this month on claims of safety breaches by a West Australian provider, while the scheme has also been slammed because participants are forced to work more hours than non-remote job-seekers.

Hollywood movie machine promoting debt slavery

It is truly unfortunate that many Americans look for 'guidance' from celebrities, where in reality many of those celebrities would have a far less than ideal take on life.

So now, in comes the Hollywood influencing machine, where in this case it has given a message to the general population that it's acceptable/preferable/desirable to enslave your partner to the banks for 'love' or rather as a token that you love each other consummating your marriage vowels.

In the colony called Australia, as a result of the royal commission into banking with regards to just one sector, there has been (only) a 'recommendation' of criminal charges as a result of approximately 14,000 breaches in the law, as opposed to actual charges being laid and the 'banksters' being physically incarcerated as a result.

If a serf had a driving record of similar calibre, would that 'person' not be allowed to conduct commerce on our roads?

Also in Australia, could it be that because it was 'in your face' (rather than something a little more hidden) that the herd population gathered in unity and decided to take action against the ANZ bank in the High Court of Australia in 2012, under the label of Andrews v ANZ [2012] HCA 30.

So, in general we can say that (retail) banks do not act for the benefit of the depositor or so called 'customer'.

Please note that when you give 'your' cash (or rather fiat currency) to a bank it's no longer yours.

On Australian television, an episode of the popular series The King of Queens was aired, where a major life changing decision was portrayed to be made nonchalantly, without any real thought, based on the advice of mortgage broker, which would be to his benefit and not the couple's.

Carrie and Doug apparently had 7 years left on the mortgage (a word play on engagement until death), where Doug presented the 'facts' i.e. brochures which he did not even read, to further enslave the couple for 30 years, but rather went on the advice of the broker.

The episode focused on other 'important' matters like a work 'wife' or 'husband' rather than a life changing decision, that was done and dusted with the stroke of a pen without any real consideration.

Such an important topic was 'covered up' (oops not quite, they did mention it in the trivia section further down the page) by the popular site IMDb, where all that was stated with regards to the episode was:

"Carrie and a guy (Curt) from her office get along well and when Doug finds out people at Carrie's office call Curt Carrie's 'work husband' he feels threatened. Even though he knows Curt is gay."

Reference: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0620033/?ref_=ttep_ep6

This is a classic example of The Dumbing Down of America 101.

Movie Moguls: 1,000 (trillion bucks) Debt slaves: -1,000 (trillion bucks)

Corrupt banks supported by the courts unaccountable to their customers

In this case the example is the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

The average Australian 'John Citizen' would most likely be unaware that the recent royal commission into banking etc, was a farce and a waste of taxpayer's blood sweat and tears.

While there may have been many thousand 'recommendations' for criminal charges in just one aspect of banking none have come into fruition so far.

In reality Australia's legal system is rigged against the serf, where corporate criminal activity truly flourishes, especially when one is supported within the 'brotherhood' one belongs to.

Here is just one example as reported within Tuesday's Herald Sun publication:

Dodgy Huawei spies on its ally with hidden Wi-Fi cards in city cameras

Something that has been known in the industry for quite some time, yet just only now has made it out into the public arena.

Note: Huawei is at the disposal of the Chinese government, even though it may seem as an independent entity.

See article from 9 April 2019 by techjuice.pk of the headline:

Huawei asked to remove Wi-Fi transmitting cards from CCTV cameras installed in Lahore

The second largest phone maker and top telecom equipment manufacturer in the world, Huawei was asked by Punjab Safe City Authority (PSCA) to remove all ‘extra’ wi-fi cards that were installed in CCTV camera cabinets in Lahore city “due to [a] potential of misuse”, as reported by BBC.

The PSCA’s safe city project in Lahore is a surveillance program that was launched to combat terrorism following serial blasts in 2016. Huawei had installed 1,800 CCTV cameras with cabinets in the city. But, the worrying factor with Pakistani authorities was that the tech giant had placed wi-fi modules hidden behind the circuitry.

The Wi-Fi signal transmitting cards were discovered by the staff of PSCA and authorities asked the firm to remove the modules in 2017. In any case, Huawei may have removed wi-fi modules by this point.

Meanwhile, PSCA officials have acknowledged that the inclusion of wi-fi transmitting cards was mentioned in the bidding documents, but according to a source linked with the project, the reference to this was unclear, the media report added.

A Huawei spokesperson in firm’s defense said that a misunderstanding has prompted, but refused to comment further on the matter except stating that the cards were installed to provide diagnostics without requiring physical access to the CCTV camera cabinets.

It is preeminent to note here that no evidence has been found that the cards created a vulnerability in the systems. Sources have also affirmed BBC that there had not been an opportunity to test the CCTV systems if they could be exploited before the wi-fi kit was removed.

While it is understandable that wi-fi card installation makes it easier for engineers to track down malfunctions or other operational problems without opening the CCTV cabinets, the PSCA authorities cited that Huawei had not provided an app to make use of the wi-fi link. This means that the CCTV cabinets already could be managed by the surveillance system’s main control. The chief operating officer of the PSCA, Akbar Nasir Khan told BBC;

“Huawei responded to the request for their removal with promptness and has fully complied with our directions. It is always [the] choice of the parties in a contract to finalize the technical details and modules as per their requirements and local conditions. PSCA denies that there are any threats to the security of the project [and the] system was continuously checked by our consultants, including reputed firms from [the] UK.”

On the other hand, security experts are of the view that whenever remote connectivity is granted to someone for the ‘benefit of convenience’, there are always dangers of opening up doors for cyber attack. And Huawei’s reputation in the US and other European countries, who consider it as a Chinese tool of spying, is the bone of contention for Pakistani authorities to trust it with CCTV systems.

news.com.au a trash rag riddled with click bait

It seems that Australian advertising standards are either not followed or they have hit rock bottom.

Sure we can go and fish out the relevant legislation, but it really does not matter how rigged it is for corporations to profit from the slaves in the (penal) colony we call Australia.

The Rupert Murdoch site is becoming a dumping ground for click bait or rather false information that is 'promoted' by the media mogul.

A screen capture below shows content that states: 

"New WiFi Booster Has Internet Providers Running Scared in Australia".

When we asked an ISP (Internet Service Provider) whether or not a Wi-Fi signal boosting product has them worried, we were met with a response of laughter and confusion.

A Wi-Fi booster, amplifies the signals from your internet connected Wi-Fi modem/router, which may allow an otherwise weak signal to penetrate the furthest rooms in a two storey residence or allows you to browse the internet from your device from further points outside of your residence, like the neighbour's swimming pool.

At no point does this device have the ISP "running scared".

Upon a refresh of a page within the news.com.au site, the corporate slave/data provider/user is greeted with another new false headline generated message promoted by Rupert Murdoch.

This time the claim is that the new Wi-Fi booster "Stops Expensive Internet in Australia", as seen within the screen capture below:

News Flash: The ONLY way to "stop expensive internet in Australia" is to disconnect from it and find a better deal yourself, something your Wi-Fi 'booster' is incapable of doing, well today anyway.

You never know, in the future your internet connected scissors may tell you that they're feeling homicidal and need to slice some paper up. 

But then some retarded group of humans might get together and claim that paper has feelings too you know, where by that stage Victoria Police will have the authority to incarcerate you for breathing too much oxygen for that particular minute, as reported by your mobile phone to them, but that's a digression.

In the good ol' days promoted or sponsored content had a label affixed to the illustration that clearly marked it as "promoted", whereas now this can be quite easily overlooked by the serf.

Kudos to you Mr. Rupert Murdoch in your offshore tax havens for your deception.

So what's ACMA going to do about it?

Probably diddly squat as usual