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‘City of Surveillance’: Google-Backed Smart City Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare…

A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven ‘city of the future’ sounds like all George Orwell’s nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – […]

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The NEW Social Media: Alternatives to Facebook, YouTube,Twitter, and Other Big Tech Platforms…

Lately, I’ve written a lot about the alternative media purge and how Big Tech social media platforms are attempting to control the narrative, the elections, and public perception through censorship and financial blacklisting. Lots of people are ready to leave websites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for less-censored pastures. But what are the social media […]

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Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them…

If it seems as though the app you deleted last week is suddenly popping up everywhere, it may not be mere coincidence. Companies that cater to app makers have found ways to game both iOS and Android, enabling them to figure out which users have uninstalled a given piece of software lately—and making it easy […]

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Smile! The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores…

Have you been to Madison Square Garden recently? Or Kennedy International Airport? If so, there’s a good chance that you were photographed by a security camera. Depending on where you were and the technology being used, your face may have been analyzed by bots and checked against a database of criminals and “known shoplifters.” It […]

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From “Soft” Tyranny to Totalitarian Rule: America’s Unrelenting Data Collection…

We have almost reached the point where the country can be referred to as “totalitarian” in accordance with the definition provided. Incrementally, it creeps forward: the “soft” tyranny. Curing, refining itself, and hardening, there will be a point of no return that is reached… a point where it has metastasized until it is both all […]

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Julian Assange Sues Ecuador for ‘Violating His Rights’…

Julian Assange took legal action against Ecuador on Friday for violating his “fundamental rights” and limiting his access to the outside world. The move comes in response to a new policy governing Assange’s stay at the South American nation’s London embassy. Earlier this week, Ecuador threatened Assange with expulsion if he kept “interfering in the […]

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Inside Facebook’s Stormy Debate Over ‘Political Diversity’…

At one point this summer, Brian Amerige seemed destined to become the next James Damore. Like Damore, the Google engineer who wrote a manifesto protesting the company’s “ideological echo-chamber” last year, Amerige also authored a controversial memo accusing his employer, Facebook, of being a “political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views.” Like Damore, who argued […]

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Twitter Releases Large Datasets of Troll Farms to Further Research Efforts by Independent Researchers…

Today we are releasing all the accounts and related content associated with potential information operations that we have found on our service since 2016. We had previously disclosed these activities, but are now releasing substantially more information about them to enable independent academic research and investigation. This is the continuation of our overarching mission to […]

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Newly Published Files Confirm Plan to Move Julian Assange to Russia…

Julian Assange: Hacker. Journalist. Diplomat? Newly released Ecuadorean government documents have laid bare an unorthodox attempt to extricate the WikiLeaks founder from his embassy hideaway in London by naming him as a political counselor to the country’s embassy in Moscow. But the 47-year-old Australian’s new career in international affairs was nipped in the bud when […]

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Meet Helm, the Startup Taking on Gmail with a Server That Runs in Your Home…

There’s no doubt that Gmail has changed the way we consume email. It’s free, it gives most of us all the storage we’ll ever need, and it does a better job than most in weeding out spam and malware. But there’s a cost to all of this. The advertising model that makes this cost-free service […]

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Internet Censorship Just Took an Unprecedented Leap Forward, and Hardly Anyone Noticed…

While most indie media was focused on debating the way people talk about Kanye West and the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an unprecedented escalation in internet censorship took place which threatens everything we all care about. It received frighteningly little attention. After a massive purge of hundreds of politically oriented pages and personal […]

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Were You One of the 30 Million Hacked Facebook Users? Here’s How to Check…

On September 28, Facebook announced that as many as 90 million users may have had their “access tokens” – which keep people logged into their account, stolen by hackers. On Friday, the company reduced that figure to 30 million accounts whose phone numbers and email addresses were accessed in the largest security breach in the […]

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Facebook, Twitter Purge 800 More Dissident Media Pages in Latest Escalation…

Facebook has purged more dissident political media pages today, this time under the pretense of protecting its users from “inauthentic activity”. In a statement co-authored by Facebook Head of Cybersecurity Nathaniel Gleicher (who also happens to be the former White House National Security Council Director of Cybersecurity Policy), the massive social media platform explained that […]

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Soyuz Rocket Failure: Booster Separation Was to Blame for Botched Launch…

Russia says that a problem with the separation of first and second stage booster rockets was to blame for Thursday’s failed Soyuz launch. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin made a dramatic escape shortly after Thursday’s launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Sergei Krikalyov, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos’ […]

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Miracle Escape for Space Station Astronauts As Rocket Fails Mid-Launch…

Two astronauts are alive after dramatically aborting their voyage to the International Space Station when their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned while it carried them into orbit at 4,970mph. American Nick Hague and Russian Aleksey Ovchinin were forced to abort their mission on the cusp of space, at an altitude of approximately 50km (164,000ft). They landed […]

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