Catherine J. Frompovich | Activist Post | Source URL | Blog Archive Have you ever wondered about that, or even questioned why, in reality, that’s been going on DELIBERATELY since the end of World War II? It’s a fact! Man-made-chemicals, most of which are poisons, have been added to the three essential […]
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 […]
Reuters | Source URL | Blog Archive KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government tabled a bill in parliament on Monday outlawing “fake news”, with hefty fines and up to 10 years in jail, raising more concern about media freedom in the wake of a multi-billion dollar […]
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 […]
B.N. Frank | Activist Post | Source URL Tech inventors have been limiting their own kids’ exposure to new technology for many yearsalready – even sending them to private low-tech schools. Due to the increase in “Digital Addiction” among children, tech inventors and investors have been speaking out promoting technology use by children. “Digital Addiction” isn’t the only reason […]
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 […]
Silvia Amaro | CNBC | Source URL | Blog Archive EU tax change could increase amount paid by digital firms from CNBC. Tech giants including Google, Amazon and Facebook could soon face higher taxes in Europe. The European Commission — the executive arm of the European Union (EU) — unveiled […]
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | Source URL | Blog Archive Update 2: Minutes after Stamos’ tweet statubg he was still “fully engaged” at Facebook, Reuters ‘sources’ reported that he will leave the firm effective in August, and has already has responsibilities for countering government-sponsored disinformation taken away from him. FACEBOOK […]
Jonathan Shieber | Tech Crunch via Yahoo News | Source URL Tech hath no fury like a multi-billion dollar social media giant scorned. In the latest turn of the developing scandal around how Facebook’s user data wound up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica — for use in the in development in psychographic […]
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 […]
Cristiano Lima | Politico | Source URL | Blog Archive A protester who filmed the violent clashes at a white supremacist rally last year in Virginia sued far-right news site InfoWars and its leader Alex Jones on Tuesday, saying the site stoked conspiracy theories that he was working as a […]
Associated Press ROME – The surviving daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has had a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican. The Vatican made a video of the Monday meeting public. Bernice King presented the pontiff with the sixth volume of her late father’s published […]
Greg Miller & Shane Harris | The Washington Post | Source URL | Blog Archive President Trump on Tuesday nominated CIA veteran Gina Haspel to be the spy agency’s next director, tapping a woman who spent multiple tours overseas and is respected by the workforce but is deeply tied to […]
Adam Sabes | Campus Reform | Source URL Michigan lawmakers have proposed an amendment to the state’s Constitution that would enable the State Legislature to pass legislation protecting free speech on college campuses. Currently, Michigan’s constitution grants oversight of Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University […]
Chris Tomlinson | Breitbart | Source URL | Blog Archive Swedish Justice Minister Morgan Johansson has promised to put more pressure on social media giants Facebook and YouTube owner Google to remove illegal “hate speech” material. The Minister’s remarks come after many in the Swedish media railed against YouTube over right-wing channels that […]
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 […]
David Lumb | Engadget | Source URL | Blog Archive Today is the World Wide Web’s 29th birthday, and to celebrate the occasion, its creator has told us how bad it’s become. In an open letterappearing in The Guardian, Tim Berners-Lee painted a bleak picture of the current internet — one dominated by a […]
