China’s Huawei Technologies acted to cover up its relationship with a firm that had tried to sell prohibited U.S. computer gear to Iran, after Reuters in 2013 reported deep links between the firm and the telecom-equipment giant’s chief financial officer, newly obtained internal Huawei documents show. Huawei has long described the firm—Skycom Tech Co Ltd—as […]
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Google Sued for Secretly Amassing Vast Trove of User Data…
Google surreptitiously amasses billions of bits of information –every day — about internet users even if they opt out of sharing their information, three consumers alleged in a proposed class action lawsuit. “Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy,” […]
Facebook Placing Labels on Chinese, Russian State Media Amid Concerns Over Foreign Influence…
Facebook said June 4 it would start labeling state-controlled media outlets on its platform amid intensifying concern over foreign actors using social media to shift public opinion to advance their own agendas. The company said it would start labeling Facebook pages of state-run outlets, and from next week would start labeling posts from such outlets […]
Federal Judge Orders National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence to Open Meetings and Records to Public…
In a victory for government transparency advocates, a federal judge on Monday ordered the government commission responsible for developing policy recommendations on the use of artificial intelligence in U.S. national security and defense to begin opening up its operation to scrutiny by making its meetings and records available to the public. U.S. District Judge Trevor […]
Apple Tracking iPhones Stotlen During Riots…
Apple is tracking the iPhones that have been stolen from its stores during the recent riots across the U.S., the New York Post reports. Citing a message from Twitter, the Post reports the stolen devices show a message on the screen saying the device should be returned to where it was stolen from and that […]
PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER – DIRECTING EFFORTS TO PREVENT SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP…
This afternoon President Trump held a press availability in the oval office answering questions from the media as he signed an executive order [Available Here] directing the prevention of on-line censorship in social media platforms. The president was joined by Attorney General Bill Barr, and both leaders delivered remarks and answered questions from the media. […]
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Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network…
In the summer of 2013, I spent my days sifting through the most extensive archive of top-secret files that had ever reached the hands of an American journalist. In a spectacular act of transgression against the National Security Agency, where he worked as a contractor, Edward Snowden had transmitted tens of thousands of classified documents […]
Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance…
Surveillance firms around the world are licking their lips at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in on the coronavirus by repositioning one of their most invasive products: the tracking bracelet. Body monitors are associated with criminality and guilt in the popular imagination, the accessories of Wall Street crooks under house arrest and menace-to-society parolees. Unlike […]
Report: Teens Spend Seven Hours a Day Staring at Their Phones…
A recent report revealed that teenagers spend an average of seven hours each day on their smartphones. The report suggests that 70 percent of teenagers conceal a portion of their online activity from their parents. According to a recent report, teenagers spend an average of seven hours each day on their smartphones, outside of hours […]
House Pulls Vote on FISA Reauthorization Bill After Trump Threatens Veto…
The House of Representatives canceled its plans on Wednesday to vote on the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) after President Donald Trump threatened to veto the bill, and Republican leaders and top liberal Democrats said they would oppose it. House Democratic leaders abruptly adjourned Wednesday evening, saying that a vote on the […]
Trump Preparing Executive Order to Address Perceived Bias at Social Media Giants…
President Trump is preparing executive order, aimed for release Thursday, to address perceived anti-conservative bias at social media giants. White House spokeswomen Kayleigh McEnany and Alyssa Farah told reporters aboard Air Force Once that the president will be signing an executive order “pertaining to social media” but gave no additional details on what it would […]
Twitter Intervenes to Control Speech of The President…
Many people foresaw this likely happening and today it begins. Twitter has intervened in the tweets and speech of the President of the United States to review, censor and use their own perspectives to countermand the opinions of President Donald Trump. By taking this position Twitter has put themselves into the position of arbitrating the […]
OPPOSITION TO FISA SURVEILLANCE RENEWAL GAINING STEAM IN THE HOUSE…
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats are making a last-ditch attempt to salvage a bill to renew expired surveillance tools Wednesday amid mounting opposition from Republicans and liberals in their own party, but it’s still unclear whether the gamble will succeed. Hours ahead of the scheduled floor vote, Pelosi and her top deputies were still […]
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Weather Delays the SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch…
On Wednesday afternoon, veteran astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were scheduled to fly to the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. The Demo-2 mission was going to be the first crewed mission for SpaceX and the first time NASA astronauts have launched from the US in nine years. But the world […]
YouTube Took Down Michael Moore’s Film Attacking Renewable Energy…
The controversial film Planet of the Humans, produced by Michael Moore, was taken down from YouTube on Monday because of a copyright infringement claim. The complaint was filed by photographer Toby Smith, who was alarmed that his work was used in a film that he doesn’t support, The Guardian reports. “I don’t agree with its […]
Local News Stations Run Propaganda Segment Scripted and Produced by Amazon…
Local news stations across the U.S. aired a segment produced and scripted by Amazon which touts the company’s role in delivering essential groceries and cleaning products during the COVID-19 pandemic, and its ability to do so while “keeping its employees safe and healthy.” The segment, which was aired by at least 11 local TV stations, […]
NASA’s “Launch America” Sign Up and Be Their Guest…
For the first time since 2011, we’re sending American astronauts back to space, on an American rocket, from American soil. And we would like you to join us for launch – at a safe virtual distance of course. As part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on […]
SpaceX to Make History with Crewed International Space Station Mission. Here’s How to Watch…
SpaceX is poised to ignite a new era of human spaceflight next week when its Crew Dragon capsule carries two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The Demo-2 test flight, scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. ET on May 27, marks the first time in nearly a decade that a crewed journey into […]
YouTube Censors Video in Which Medical Doctors Said Hydroxychloroquine Might Help Treat Wuhan Virus…
YouTube on Wednesday reinstated a video it has previously censored in which several medical doctors suggested that the drug hydroxychloroquine might be useful in treating coronavirus, with the company reportedly claiming at the time of censorship that the presentation was “dangerous.” The video report, presented by Sharyl Attkisson at Full Measure News, examined the possible […]
‘The American Friends’: New Court Files Expose Sheldon Adelson’s Security Team in U.S. Spy Operation Against Julian Assange…
As the co-founder of a small security consulting firm called UC Global, David Morales spent years slogging through the minor leagues of the private mercenary world. A former Spanish special forces officer, Morales yearned to be the next Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder who leveraged his army-for-hire into high-level political connections across the globe. But […]