Author name: Elizabeth Melton

Elizabeth Melton is a founding member of Banish Big Brother, focusing on education and strategy against government surveillance—a passion ignited after attending a shocking local smart city meeting. She is also the founder of The Gray Matter Project, producing documentaries on critical issues that deserve greater attention.

Palantir: Efficiency or Surveillance?

Recent announcements that the federal government is enlisting the services of data-integration and analytics company, Palantir, are raising eyebrows across the political spectrum. Depicted as a tool through which to fulfill Donald Trump’s executive order entitled “Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos,” the partnership would realize this goal by merging disparate databases […]

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Hidden Dangers: The True Cost of ‘Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear’

“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about” is a common retort from the average citizen that supports government surveillance. While many think that “having something to hide” equates to immoral or unethical activity, the fact is that many people do have things to hide, and there is not necessarily anything

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