The pictures of Chloe and Jasper Papa as kids are typically goofy fare: grinning with their parents; sticking their tongues out; costumed for Halloween. Their mother, Dominique Allman Papa, uploaded them to Flickr after joining the photo-sharing site in 2005. None of them could have foreseen that 14 years later, those images would reside in […]
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Devin Nunes’ Lawsuit Against Twitter Could Turn into the Company’s Worst Nightmare…
When Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., sued Twitter in Virginia court in March for negligence over multiple cases of defamation and impersonation by the social media giant’s users, he was mocked and laughed at for thinking his case would accomplish anything. But following a Virginia judge’s ruling last week that Nunes’ suit could proceed to trial […]
BACKGROUNDER: Before Ousting Assange, Moreno Government Spied on the Journalist for Over a Year …
Like the proverbial “shot heard round the world,” the U.K.’s arrest and imprisonment of publisher and journalist Julian Assange officially signaled the Western world’s war on a free press. The Australian who founded WikiLeaks, but stepped down as editor-in-chief last year, was ousted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London last week after Ecuador President Lenin […]
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The “Safe Drivers Act” Is a Real-Time National Driver Surveillance Program…
A new Senate bill would create a real-time national driver surveillance program that would allow law enforcement to know anything and everything about a driver at the click of a button. A recent article in WCVB Channel 5 revealed that the “Safe Drivers Act” is designed for one purpose and that is to share everything […]
Dyson Scraps Electric Car Project
Dyson, the UK-based company best known for its vacuum cleaners, has scrapped a project to build electric cars. The firm, headed by inventor Sir James Dyson, said its engineers had developed a “fantastic electric car” but that it would not hit the roads because it was not “commercially viable”. In an email sent to all […]
Britain: NHS Opens Clinic to Help Child Addicts of Computer Games…
The NHS is opening the country’s first specialist clinic to treat children and young adults who are addicted to playing computer games such as Fortnite, Candy Crush and Call of Duty. Staff will help those aged 13 to 25 whose lives are being debilitated by spending countless hours playing games. From Tuesday GPs and other […]
CIA Had Access to Server Where Spanish Company Kept Profiles and Videos of Julian Assange’s Guests, Including Doctors, Diplomats, Lawyers, and Journalists…
A Spanish defense and security company that was spying on Julian Assange during his political asylum was sharing their server containing profiles and information about the WikiLeaks founder’s guests, including doctors, lawyers, and journalists, with the CIA. The company, Undercover Global SL, also recorded audio and video of all his visits in London’s Ecuadorian embassy […]
Saturn Dethrones Jupiter as King of the Moons as Astronomers Discover Bevy of New Rocks in its Orbit…
In July 2018, scientists announced the discovery of 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter, bringing the planet’s total number of known moons to an amazing 79—the most of any planet in our Solar System. A team of astronomers from the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center have discovered a host of 20 new moons orbiting the […]
UFO Investigations Expert Claims Group Could Have Physical Evidence to Make ‘Some Sort of Definitive Conclusion’…
A former Pentagon official who now works for a UFO investigations organization claimed some of the material his group has reviewed could be the real deal. “Our company over the last year and a half has actually obtained quite a bit of material,” Luis Elizondo of the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science […]
Forget Facial Recognition: DHS’s New Database, HART, Also Uses Scars, Tattoos, and Your VOICE to ID You. And Amazon Is Storing All the Data. …
These days, you can’t really go anywhere without encountering cameras. Going into a store? Chances are there are security cameras. Getting money at an ATM? More cameras. Driving through the streets of a city? More cameras still. Your neighbors may have those doorbells from Amazon that are surveilling the entire neighborhood. And many of these […]
Silicon Valley Billionaires Bankroll Mike Lee and His Green Card Giveaway…
Silicon Valley and California’s wealthiest tech billionaires are bankrolling Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) effort to allow India and China to monopolize the United States’ green card system. Lee’s S. 386 provides a massive giveaway to Big Tech corporations like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft — all of which are donors to the Utah Senator. The […]
Paralyzed Man Controls Exoskeleton Through Brain Computer Interface…
A PARALYSED man is able to walk and use his arms again after being fitted with a robotic suit he controls with his brainwaves. The patient, 30, called Thibault, was left with no movement from the shoulders down after breaking his back in a 50ft plunge. But after taking his first steps in two years, […]
Happy 70th Anniv of Commie Rule: Chinese Citizens Must Pass a Facial Recognition Test to Use the Internet…
China has stepped up its internet censorship by demanding its citizens pass a facial-recognition test to be able to use web services. People who want to have the internet installed at home or on their phones must have their faces scanned by the Chinese authority to prove their identities, according to a new regulation. The […]
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Biology: “Something that can be digitally manipulated”…
It’s easy to laugh at the barking insanity of these monsters, but at the same time, you probably know someone who spent their hard earned money to buy a “smart speaker” surveillance platform for their home. Via: CNBC: Brain inserts and carbon-absorbing bacteria aren’t just the fantasies of Silicon Valley’s richest executives, they’re also a […]
DC Circuit Hands FCC Partial Victory in Net Neutrality Fight…
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday largely upheld the Trump administration’s rollback of Obama-era net neutrality rules, saying the Federal Communications Commission was within its authority to redefine broadband internet services for regulatory purposes but cannot block states from implementing their own rules. In 2015, the FCC issued its so-called net neutrality order, classifying broadband internet […]
The Invisible Shackles of America’s Social Credit System…
The phrase “social credit system” or “social credit score” is relatively unknown to Americans. But in the People’s Republic of China, the communist government has been developing such a system for the last decade, and are looking to roll it out nationwide by 2020. The Chinese government intends to use social media data, surveillance, and […]
Watch Steve Jobs Assure Americans in 1981 That Computers Wouldn’t Be a Privacy Nightmare…
From the perspective of the early 21st century, it’s safe to say that computers have been a privacy nightmare. Our world is so interconnected by machines, that corporations, governments, and almost anyone can find out almost anything they want about an average citizen thanks to our digital footprints. But the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs […]
Police Drone Finds Fugitive Living in Cave After 17 Years on the Run…
Chinese police used a drone to track down a convicted human trafficker 17 years after he escaped from jail. As NBC News reported, in a statement published to WeChat on Thursday, Yongshan police said that authorities had attempted to find Song Moujiang several times over the last several years, and they obtained new tips on […]
5 Million DoorDash Customers Had Data Stolen in Hack Attack…
About 4.9 million customers, Dashers, and merchants who joined DoorDash, an on-demand food delivery service, before April 2018, had their personal information stolen from an “unauthorized third party,” otherwise known as a hacker. According to DoorDash’s blog, the breach was spotted earlier this month when the company “became aware of unusual activity involving a third-party […]
Coalition Calls for Congress to Reject Ban on Facial Recognition Technology…
The tech community is urging Congress to steer clear of enacting a blanket ban on facial recognition technology, warning doing so could rid law enforcement of a crucial tool to keep communities safe. In a letter to lawmakers on Thursday, more than three dozen technology trade associations, companies, research organizations, and individuals said Congress should […]