Anna's Current Events Blog

        I was just reading an article from The New York Times about how the Chinese government is tracking their populations’ faces to increase security and enforce more government control. According to Martha Chorzempa, if people are unsure whether or not they are being watched, they are more likely to follow the rules, which is exactly what the Chinese government wants. They already have around 200 million cameras in use, which is 4 times the amount we have here in America, and they are expected to have 300 million by 2020. Technology used to be thought of as an asset to democracy, with many thinking it would give people more freedom by exposing them to the broader world. Surprisingly in China, it has done the opposite, giving the government more power and the public less freedom. One example of how this is working is how there was an intersection where people were always speeding, and jaywalkers were always walking past, but using their technology to display pictures and names on a

In summary of an article from The Washington Post, written by Eli Rosenberg and Abigail Hauslohner, 11 children ranging from ages 1 to 15 were found with Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, along with 4 other adults. They had already trained at least one of the minors to use an assault rifle to prepare for a school shooting. Siraj Wahhaj was suspected to be training the children for future acts of violence, and he was originally arrested on the suspicion that he had abducted his 3-year-old son. The police arrested him and the 4 other adults after raiding a barren property in scrubland, Amalia, New Mexico that they had been staying on. All 5 of the adults have been charged with 11 counts of felony child abuse, and are possibly being held without bail. Although the search for   Siraj Ibn Wahhaj’s son is what led to the arrest, he was not found with the other children, and they are currently investigating child remains found on the property suspected to be his. This article made me t