It looks scary and weird, and is designed to come knocking at your door. French carmaker Renault SA unveiled on Wednesday the EZ-Pro, an autonomous vehicle of the future that will deliver food to your place late at night or parcels to your office during the day. The massive, gray robot moving on square-looking wheels […]
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You Don’t Own What You’ve Bought: Apple Disappears Purchased Movies…
Once again, copyright and the digitization of everything means you no longer “own” what you’ve “bought.” I thought we’d covered all this a decade ago when Kindle owners discovered that, even though they’d “purchased” copies of the ebook of George Orwell’s 1984, their books had been memory holed, thanks to Amazon losing a license. After […]
GCHQ Data Collection Regime Violated Human Rights, Court Rules…
GCHQ’s methods for bulk interception of online communications violated privacy and failed to provide sufficient surveillance safeguards, the European court of human rights has ruled. But the ECHR found that GCHQ’s regime for sharing sensitive digital intelligence with foreign governments was not illegal, and it explicitly confirmed that bulk interception with tighter safeguards was permissible. […]
EU Continues to Kill the Open Web: Massive Fines for Sites That Don’t Censor Within an Hour…
The EU really seems quite hellbent on absolutely destroying the open internet. Just as the EU Parliament was voting to approve the EU Copyright Directive, requiring that much of the internet be licensed and curated, rather than open for anyone, the EU Commission decided to move forward with an awful idea that it had first […]
Leaked Video Shows Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Comparing Trump Voters to ‘Fascists’ As He Vows to Thwart Rise of Populism…
Leaked video from a Google conference held in the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election shows the company’s co-founder comparing Trump voters to ‘fascists’. The footage, obtained by Breitbart, also shows the company’s executives vowing to halt the rise of populism and urging employees to console one another after the election result. The damaging video […]
Edward Snowden Reconsidered…
This summer, the fifth anniversary of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance passed quietly, adrift on a tide of news that now daily sweeps the ground from under our feet. It has been a long five years, and not a period marked by increased understanding, transparency, or control of our personal data. In these years, […]
Cord-Cutters Beware: Streaming TV Prices Are Marching Higher…
The online-only television bundles that have lured away cable-TV customers with rock-bottom prices might not stay that low for long. AT&T Inc.’s DirecTV Now streaming service recently raised its basic channel plan by $5 over the summer, bringing its starting monthly cost to $40. Chief Executive Randall Stephenson this week said the company is considering […]
Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers…
Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users’ searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier for the Chinese government to monitor people’s queries, The Intercept can reveal. The search engine, codenamed Dragonfly, was designed for Android devices, and would remove content deemed sensitive by China’s ruling […]
LEAKED VIDEO: Google Leadership’s Dismayed Reaction to Trump Election…
The video is a full recording of Google’s first all-hands meeting following the 2016 election (these weekly meetings are known inside the company as “TGIF” or “Thank God It’s Friday” meetings). Sent to Breitbart News by an anonymous source, it features co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, VPs Kent Walker and Eileen Naughton, CFO Ruth […]
Who Knew?: ‘Illegal Alien’ Is Deemed ‘Hateful Content’ According to Twitter Police…
The federal government, U.S. Supreme Court, and lawyers across the country use the word “illegal alien” to describe immigrants who illegally enter the country, because that’s the definition in the law. But Twitter makes its own laws, and the social media giant is now blocking folks from promoting any messages with the phrase, which its […]
Damning Emails Show UK Corruption in Assange Case…
UK Prosecutors admitted to destroying significant documents pertaining to Assange’s case. This article will pick up from where Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi left off in her quest for documents using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) protocols. She obtained material from Sweden and the UK but noticed gaps and overlaps in the results when she compared […]
EU Approves Controversial Copyright Directive, Including Internet ‘Link Tax’ and ‘Upload Filter’…
The European Parliament has voted in favor of the Copyright Directive, a controversial piece of legislation intended to update online copyright laws for the internet age. The directive was originally rejected by MEPs in July following criticism of two key provisions: Articles 11 and 13, dubbed the “link tax” and “upload filter” by critics. However, […]
Google Was Working on Two Ethically Questionable Projects. It Quit the Wrong One…
Google recently pledged to stop using its technology to sort and classify information for the U.S. military, citing employees’ ethical concerns. Then the news broke that the company was quietly developing a censored search engine for China. The principles guiding Google’s use of artificial intelligence still hark back to its original mantra, “Don’t be evil” […]
The Anti-Spy Software That Actually Spies on You!!!…
A highly popular top-tier app in Apple’s Mac App Store that’s designed to protect its users from adware and malware threats has been, ironically, found surreptitiously stealing their browsing history without their consent, and sending it to a server in China. What’s more concerning? Even after Apple was warned a month ago, the company did […]
Google Was “Working to Get Hillary Clinton Elected” with “Silent Donation” According to Leaked Internal Email…
Tucker Carlson just blew the cover off the 2016 election influence charade, after he read an internal email on Monday night’s show from a senior Google employee who admitted to using company resources to make a “silent donation” to a liberal group that was creating ads and donating funds to bus Latinos to voting stations […]
Is It Social Media or Corporate Surveillance? Facebook’s Business Model…
It’s time to ask this question: is Facebook wearing the friendly façade of a social media company while actually operating as a high tech citizen surveillance center? We’ll get to that in a moment, but first a look at what an actual citizen surveillance center looks like in New York City. In 2012 we broke […]
Robo-Trousers to Give Elderly Bionic Strength…
Robo-trousers which help people stand up, walk upstairs and get out-and-about without wheelchairs, are being designed by British scientists in a government-funded scheme to help the elderly and disabled stay mobile. The University of Bristol is developing ‘smart trousers’ with artificial muscles which give frail people bionic strength so they can live independently for longer. […]
Twitter Exposes its Politically Motivated Censorship Policy in Banning of Alex Jones…
It has been a busy month for Twitter, and Alex Jones, with Jack Dorsey forced to defend the decision not to ban Jones early last month, only reverse course by suspending Jones shortly after a tense Senate hearing on social media. The Senate hearing, in which Dorsey spoke alongside Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, […]
Are New York’s Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks Tracking Your Movements?…
LinkNYC kiosks have become a familiar eyesore to New Yorkers. Over 1,600 of these towering, nine-and-a-half-foot monoliths — their double-sided screens festooned with ads and fun facts — have been installed across the city since early 2016. Mayor Bill de Blasio has celebrated their ability to provide “the fastest and largest municipal Wi-Fi network in […]
German Court Tells Facebook it Can’t Delete Comments, Even Though German Law Says it Must Delete Comments…
Earlier this year, we wrote about Germany’s free speech suppressing “hate speech” law, which required that social networks remove “hate speech” within 24 hours or face massive fines up to €50 million. Making it even more ridiculous, the law even provided for personal fines up to €5 million for EMPLOYEES at the social networks who […]
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