Mariella Moon | Engadget | Source URL The House of Representatives has approved a piece of legislation (PDF) that makes it easier for law enforcement to get access to info even if it’s stored in other countries. Officially known as Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, the set of […]
Dawn Luger | The Daily Sheeple | Source URL | Blog Archive According to a new report, police don’t need consent nor even a living human to unlock an iPhone. FBI agents and local cops in the US are using the fingerprints of dead people to access their iPhones and smartphones. […]
Cheyenne Macdonald | The Daily Mail | Source URL | Blog Archive More and more key players in the tech industry are voicing their concerns over the use of personal data following Facebook‘s massive Cambridge Analytica scandal. Executives from Apple Inc and IBM Corp have called for more oversight on how personal data […]
Zack Whittaker | Zero Day via cNet | Source URL India’s national ID database has been hit by yet another major security lapse. Known as Aadhaar, the government ID database is packed with identity and biometric information — like fingerprints and iris scans — on more than 1.1 billion registered […]
Top scientists at Cambridge University have been working with Charles to find out if machines can respond to social cues as part of a ground-breaking project James Laybourn Jasmine Rapson | UK Mirror | Source URL A world dominated by Artificial Intelligence may be closer than we think after brain-box […]
JULIAN Assange today compared the EU to Hitler’s Nazis in a series of rambling tweets attacking the arrest of Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont. He bizarrely also claimed the use of the cross-border European Arrest Warrant – the method used to detain Assange – was one of the key reasons Britain […]
Source URL The Communist Party is reworking its ideological education efforts to make them more palatable to the current generation, while introducing classes on “Xi Jinping Thought.” The Wall Street Journal takes a look: Show less “Xi Jinping Thought is a 14-point theory that emphasizes the party’s “people-centric” approach to governance, […]
Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge | Source URL Just hours after the latest close military encounter between the US and China, when the US navy sailed a destroyer to within 12 nautical miles of the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea as a “freedom of navigation” operation – a move […]
Tom Warren | The Verge | Source URL Facebook has been collecting call records and SMS data from Android devices for years. Several Twitter users have reported finding months or years of call history data in their downloadable Facebook data file. A number of Facebook users have been spooked by […]
Mass Private I A company called Dataworks Plus has developed a portable facial and fingerprint biometric scanner for law enforcement. The ‘Evolution’ is a portable facial and fingerprint smartphone that police can use to identify everyone. “It is multi-modal and can capture fingerprint and facial images and is compatible with our RAPID-ID fingeprint recognition […]
Aaron Kesel | Activist Post | Source URL | Blog Archive A majority of Americans believe an unelected faction or cabal of officials is orchestrating policy in Washington, D.C., according to a new poll, Politico reported. The survey of 803 adults was conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute from March 2nd to 5th. The institute […]
Adan Salazar | Infowars | Source URL | Blog Archive ‘Unspoil me’ uses hypnosis to erase memories of show, allowing you to watch for the first time Samsung has launched a website promising to wipe your favorite TV series from your memory so you can watch it again seemingly […]
Ralph Peters | Op-Ed | The New York Post | Source URL | Blog Archive It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. After the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, democracy was supposed to be irresistible. While some of us were more skeptical than others, even cynics allowed that freedom seemed […]
Hugo Martin | Los Angeles Times | Source URL | Blog Archive The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that its airport security agents do not scan or review the data held on electronic devices carried by passengers on domestic flights. The statement came in a letter to the American Civil […]
The Associated Press via The Guardian | Source URL An administrative officer called the footage ‘extremely painful to watch’. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Deputies sometimes laughed as the man, who had been strapped naked to a chair for 46 hours, writhed on the floor of his cell A jailhouse video […]
Bloomberg | Source URL Facebook Inc. is drawing scrutiny from the main U.S. privacy watchdog and half a dozen congressional committees over how the personal data of 50 million users was obtained by a data analytics firm that helped elect President Donald Trump. Facebook said it would conduct staff-level briefings of six committees […]
Annie Palmer | The Daily Mail | Source URL | Blog Archive A company known for its noise-cancelling headphones wants to create a pair of augmented reality glasses that’s focused around sound. Bose is unveiling a pair of concept AR glasses at the South by Southwest conference in Austin this year that […]
Mariella Moon | Engadget | Source URL When the TSA launched stricter screening procedures for domestic passengers’ electronic devices last year, it didn’t reveal the whys and hows. That didn’t sit well with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, which has now filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the organization in an effort […]
Dahr Jamail | Truthout | Source URL | Blog Archive When one thinks of Washington State in the Pacific Northwest, visions of lush temperate Olympic rainforests or glacial glad mountains of North Cascades National Park might come to mind. Instead, what if you learned Washington State was allocating millions of […]
Rachel Blevins | The Free Thought Project | Source URL | Blog Archive Encinal, Texas – A landowner has filed a lawsuit after he discovered that Border Patrol agents had illegally placed a camera on his property that gave them access to 24/7 surveillance of his land, and they then […]
Rachel Blevins | The Free Thought Project | Source URL | Blog Archive State police are demanding that local media outlets must wait until they have received official press releases before reporting on ongoing investigations. Pikeville, Kentucky – Local media outlets are speaking out after they received emails from a […]
Brian S. Marks | The T.I. Chronicles On 2.27.18 seven heroic people from Florida (The Jacksonville Seven) went to an event at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. That event featured war criminal Michael Hayden, formerly of the CIA and the NSA. Watch as questions that were prepared by individuals […]
Nathan Vanderklippe | The Globe & Mail | Source URL | Blog Archive Barely seven months ago, a senior Chinese official promised that artificial intelligence could one day help authorities spot crime before it happens. In the country’s far western Xinjiang region, it’s already happening, with the establishment of a […]
Reuters | Source URL | Blog Archive BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian leader Viktor Orban called on Sunday for a global alliance against migration as his right-wing populist Fidesz party began campaigning for an April 8 election in which it is expected to win a third consecutive landslide victory. Popular at […]
Aaron KeselActivist Post (Source) (Blog Archive) Anytime a shooting happens, it’s a tragic event whether it was a false flag or a legitimate mass shooting by a lunatic; but just because people died doesn’t mean we shouldn’t question the veracity of the events reported. Here are 5 reasons why you […]
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars | Source URL | Blog Archive Having breathlessly reported that Florida gunman Nikolas Cruz was a member of a white supremacist group, media outlets across the world failed to issue retractions when it emerged that this story was completely fake news. The farce began when […]
Liam Deacon | Breitbart | Source URL | Blog Archive Billionaire open-borders activist George Soros has demanded the European Union (EU) regulate social media because voters’ minds are being controlled and “manipulated”. He claimed the size of social media firms made them a “public menace” and argued they had led people […]
Daniella Silva | NBC News | Source URL | Blog Archive The county sheriff in charge of investigating the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, pleaded with lawmakers on Thursday to give police and doctors more power to involuntarily hospitalize people for psychiatric evaluation over violent and threatening social media […]
Michael Hayden (War Criminal) | Op-Ed for The Hill | Source URL | Blog Archive There they were, the deepest representatives of the deep state, the director of National Intelligence (DNI) along with the heads of other three-letter agencies like CIA, NSA and the FBI. Except that they didn’t act or […]
