A few years back, prison communications provider Securus was caught — via hacker-obtained data — recording privileged calls between inmates and their legal reps. Yes, ALL CALLS ARE RECORDED, as the sign says, but certain calls shouldn’t be. Securus did it en masse, hoovering up 14,000 privileged calls over an unspecified time period. The total […]
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Microchipping Employees, the Next Terrible Technology Wave…
Employees with the Wisconsin-based technology firm Three Square Market have been quietly, steadily inserting microchips into their own hands as a means of making it easier to pay for the likes of snacks from company vending machines or drinks from the cafeteria. Subtitle this: When Convenience Becomes Downright Creepy. Roughly 80 of the firm’s 250 […]
Google Sued Over Misleading Users About Location Tracking Feature…
Google was in the news last week for a misleading claim that “with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored,” which is not true. Now, the search engine giant is once again in the news after a San Diego man has filed the first lawsuit against Google over this issue. Last […]
SHOT: ‘Social Score’ Facebook Has ‘Trust’ Ratings for Users–But Refuses to Divulge Your Score…
FACEBOOK is rating users based on how “trustworthy” it thinks they are. Users receive a score on a scale from zero to one that determines if they have a good or bad reputation – but it’s completely hidden. The rating system was revealed in a report by the Washington Post – and later confirmed by […]
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Chinese Surveillance State Is Basically the U.S. Surveillance Apparatus Minus the Constitutional Rights…
Reuters has a long, detailed examination of the Chinese surveillance state. China’s intrusion into the lives of its citizens has never been minimal, but advances in technology have allowed the government to keep tabs on pretty much every aspect of citizens’ lives. Facial recognition has been deployed at scale and it’s not limited to finding […]
Internet Buzzing After Julian Assange’s Mother Implicates Seth Rich in DNC Leak…
The internet is buzzing with theories after Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange’s mother, Christine Assange, tweeted – and then deleted – what many believe to be a suggestion that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich “leaked docs proving corruption.” In response to the question “why did Julian publish damning docs against Hillary at such a crucial time […]
The Untold Story of Notpeya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History…
It was a perfect sunny summer afternoon in Copenhagen when the world’s largest shipping conglomerate began to lose its mind. The headquarters of A.P. Møller-Maersk sits beside the breezy, cobblestoned esplanade of Copenhagen’s harbor. A ship’s mast carrying the Danish flag is planted by the building’s northeastern corner, and six stories of blue-tinted windows look […]
How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web…
“I just came across this email,” began the message, a long overdue reply. But I knew the sender was lying. He’d opened my email nearly six months ago. On a Mac. In Palo Alto. At night. I knew this because I was running the email tracking service Streak, which notified me as soon as my […]
328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and A Fervor for Voice Matching Technology…
It began not by tapping enemy insurgents’ phones or capturing their emails, but by following the money. When the National Security Agency discovered that Iran may have been buying computer chips from the United States, routing them through a U.S. ally, and potentially supplying them to detonate bombs against U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, […]
Attorney: Former IT Aide Imran Awan Deserves No Jail Time Because Trump, Republicans Were Mean…
An attorney filed a sentencing memo on behalf of former House IT aide Imran Awan, claiming that President Donald Trump, other Republicans, and “conspiratorial media” attacks serve as a sufficient substitute for jail time for his client’s bank fraud conviction. Attorney Chris Gowen, a former aide to Hillary Clinton, argued to Judge Tanya Chutkan, a […]
Japan, U.S. Authorities Investigate Apple Under Anti-Monopoly Act…
Japanese and US authorities are investigating allegations that Apple pressured Yahoo Japan to pull back from a game platform which competes with the App store, according to Nikkei. The move is the latest effort by regulators to address suspected anti-competitive behavior by American tech titans – The Fair Trade Commission and the industry ministry began […]
After Suspending Personal Account of Alex Jones, Twitter Restricts Infowars As Well…
Following the suspension of Infowars founder Alex Jones, Twitter has restricted the Infowars account as well. The account will be restricted from tweeting, but will still be able to browse Twitter and send direct messages to other users, while users will still be able to view the account, reports BuzzFeed News…
Senator Mark Warner Proposes the End of Free Speech – The Revenge of Hillary…
Senate Democrats are circulating a proposal based upon their claim of Russian hacking that will completely takeover the internet and social media which has been leaked. They are adopting the EU approach to silence political criticism. They claim it is necessary, just as the EU argued, that they must act to prevent Russian hackers and […]
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Infowars Website Traffic Explodes After Silicon Valley Blacklists Alex Jones Empire…
Silicon Valley’s coordinated purge of all things Infowars from social media has had an unexpected result; website traffic to Infowars.com has soared in the past week, according to Amazon’s website ranking service Alexa. Infowars was recently banned by YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, Google Podcast, Spotify, iHeartRadio, MailChimp, Disqus, LinkedIn, Flickr, Pinterest and several others – leading […]
The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views…
Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting him on track to bring in more than $200,000, records show. Mr. Vassilev, 32, does not provide the views himself. His website, 500Views.com, connects customers with […]
Behind the Scenes at the Twitter Purge – With Peter Van Buren and Scott Horton (VIDEO)…
From Consortiumnews.com – “On the premiere edition of Consortium News Radio we speak with Peter Van Buren, a former State Department official, whistleblower and victim of Twitter censorship. Van Buren speaks about his experiences in Iraq, the critical book he wrote about those experiences and how the Obama State Department eventually attempted to have him […]
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DNC Serves WikiLeaks With Lawsuit Via Twitter…
The Democratic National Committee on Friday officially served its lawsuit to WikiLeaks via Twitter, employing a rare method to serve its suit to the elusive group that has thus far been unresponsive. As CBS News first reported last month, the DNC filed a motion with a federal court in Manhattan requesting permission to serve its […]
GAB Challenges Microsoft’s ’48 Hour’ Threat ‘to be pulled from its service’…
Hosting Provider Microsoft has given Twitter alternative “Gab” 48 hours to take action against two of its user posts or to be pulled from its service, according to a tweet from Gab. “Big Tech, stop trying to control what people are allowed to read on the Internet,” tweeted Preston Byrne, an Adam Smith Institute Fellow […]
Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship…
You may have seen a story this week detailing how Facebook shut down a series of accounts. As noted by Politico, Facebook claimed these accounts “sought to inflame social and political tensions in the United States, and said their activity was similar — and in some cases connected — to that of Russian accounts during […]
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Inside Google’s Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China…
Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google. Unlike Google.com and […]
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