Democracy Going Sideways in Sweden, AT&T Surveillance FirstNet, Project Veritas

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https://www.thelocal.se/20180807/support-for-democracy-weak-among-swedens-youngsters-survey
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/95c3tq/support_for_democracy_weak_among_swedens/


https://theintercept.com/2018/07/23/project-veritas-lawsuit-american-federation-of-teachers/


https://theintercept.com/2018/07/29/firstnet-att-surveillance/

"it’s more important that that network shut down every citizen"
FirstNet has its own “app store.”  These applications will incorporate
facial recognition, real-time video
For decades, local newsrooms and citizen watchdogs have relied on
police scanners to monitor first responders and track natural
disasters, protests, and emergencies. The migration to data-based
communications cuts down on what is communicated over these public
frequencies. As FirstNet and its competitors transition voice
communications to their encrypted broadband networks in the coming
years, even more will be kept from public oversight.
FirstNet is already the subject of a transparency lawsuit by two
Vermont men who claim that the U.S. government is legally required to
perform a Privacy Impact Assessment on the program, since the FirstNet
network will presumably be used to transmit personal information about
American citizens. The government has argued that this requirement
does not apply since the network itself is owned by AT&T, rather than
the government.
The program’s status as a public-private partnership has created other
transparency roadblocks as well: The federal government’s contract
with AT&T has not been made public.
FirstNet’s most lasting achievement may be the infrastructure it
provides for state-of-the-art surveillance technologies to be deployed
by law enforcement at every level.