Earlier today, CIA whistleblower and member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) John Kiriakou personally delivered a letter to the Ecuadorian embassy in Washington, DC, which was addressed to Ecuadorian Ambassador, Francisco Jose Borja Cevallos. The document calls for the immediate restoration of communications for Wikileaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange. One week ago, Julian Assange’s […]
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Homeland Security Finds Suspected Listening Devices in Washington…
For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track individual cellphones and intercept calls and messages. The use of what are known as cellphone-site simulators by foreign powers has long been a concern, […]
Sandberg: Facebook Users Would Have to Pay to Opt Out of Sharing Data…
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that while Facebook doesn’t sell or give away its users’ information (it just allows third party apps to do that), the company still “depends on your data,” and if users wanted to completely opt out of all of the platform’s data-driven advertising, they would have to pay for it. Sandberg […]
What Is Mark Zuckerberg Hiding? Facebook Secretly Deletes Some of Its Founders Private Messages Over Fears Sensitive Data May Be Leaked…
Facebook has deleted some of Mark Zuckerberg’s private messages over fears sensitive data could be leaked. Three sources claim old Facebook messages from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their inbox. The recipients were not notified – raising concerns about what the Facebook CEO could be hiding. Facebook claims the change was made after the 2014 Sony […]
Facebook Backs Off Its Creepy Plans to Secretly Access Private Medical Records…
Facebook has been in talks with high profile US hospitals in an attempt to obtain patient data about illnesses and prescriptions. The project was being led by a Stanford cardiologist called Freddy Abnousi who claims to lead ‘top-secret projects’ on his LinkedIn. The project aimed to build profiles of people that combined their medical conditions […]
3,000 Google Workers Sign Letter Demanding End Involvement with the Pentagon…
Revelations last month that Google was designing software for the US military’s illegal drone warfare program have sparked outrage among employees. More than 3,000 Google workers have signed a letter to executives demanding that it end its involvement with the Pentagon. The program, known as “Project Maven,” involves the use of artificial intelligence systems to […]
Can We Be Saved From Facebook? by Matt Taibbi…
We shouldn’t be asking Facebook to fix the problem. We should be fixing Facebook. It’s our collective misfortune that this perhaps silliest-in-history supercorporation – a tossed-off hookup site turned international cat-video vault turned Orwellian surveillance megavillain – has dragged us all to the very cliff edge of modern technological capitalism. We’ve reached a moment in […]
Facebook Bans Image of Jesus for ‘Excessively Violent Content’…
Facebook has rejected an advertisement by a Catholic college for an online theology program, declaring that the ad contained “shocking, sensational, or excessively violent content” because of the image of a medieval crucifix. On Good Friday, the Franciscan University of Steubenville tried to publish a series of Facebook advertisements for an online program in theology, […]
The High-Definition, Artificially Intelligent, All-Seeing Future of Big Data Policing…
Predictive analytics and new surveillance technologies are already transforming policing, helping prioritize who police target, where they patrol, and how they investigate. But police practices will be entirely revolutionized when video surveillance cameras gain new artificial intelligence capabilities. AI will soon allow for new forms of tracking and monitoring in ways that could reshape the […]
Ouch!: Amazon Stock Drops $260B Following Trump’s Tweets…
Who says name-calling doesn’t hurt? Amazon investors can measure the pain of President Trump’s Twitter attacks over the past three trading days in dollars. They’ve lost a collective $260 billion as the e-commerce giant’s shares tumbled 2.8 percent since the president’s March 29 renewal of his social-media onslaught against the company run by Washington Post […]
New Android Malware Secretly Records Phone Calls and Steals Private Data…
Security researchers at Cisco Talos have uncovered variants of a new Android Trojan that are being distributed in the wild disguising as a fake anti-virus application, dubbed “Naver Defender.” Dubbed KevDroid, the malware is a remote administration tool (RAT) designed to steal sensitive information from compromised Android devices, as well as capable of recording phone […]
Mystery of How Birds Navigate Is Solved: Scientists Discover Eye Proteins That Allow Them to See the Earth’s Magnetic Field…
Migrating birds appear to have a ‘sixth sense’ which means they always manage to find their nesting grounds – a talent that has long mystified scientists. Now researchers have found the secret to this skill is down to a protein in the bird’s eyes that is sensitive to blue light. This protein lets them ‘see’ […]
Facebook Said the Personal Data of Most Its 2B Users Has Been Collected and Shared with Outsiders…
Facebook said Wednesday that most of its 2 billion users likely have had their personal information scraped by outsiders without the users’ explicit permission, dramatically raising the stakes in a privacy controversy that has dogged the company for weeks, spurred investigations in the United States and Europe and sent the company’s stock price tumbling. The […]
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President Trump, Here’s Why the Postal Service Is Charging Amazon ‘So Little’…
In a Twitter blast this morning, President Trump said, “Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!” There may well be […]
Local Police Questioned YouTube Shooter Prior to Rampage…
The night before Nasim Aghdam opened fire in a courtyard at YouTube’s headquarters Tuesday afternoon, Mountain View police found the San Diego woman sleeping in her car. She had been reported missing by her family in Southern California, and her father Ismail Aghdam told police she might be going to YouTube because she “hated” the […]
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How Apple Dropping Intel Would Change the Future of Technology…
A report this week said Apple plans to make processors for its notebook and PC designs, replacing Intel, whose stock tanked on the news. Bloomberg’s report suggests that Apple’s AAPL, +1.03% move mirrors its development and integration with silicon chip design for its mobile products including iPhone and iPad. Apple would apparently begin the rollout […]
San Bruno Sheriff Reports One Person Deceased, Believed to Be the Shooter…
A woman opened fire inside YouTube headquarters in California on Tuesday — sparking chaos and confusion on the campus, according to multiple reports. The shooter is dead at the scene, NBC News reported. It’s unclear if there were any other fatalities. Multiple victims were rushed to Stanford University Medical Center, though the extent of their […]
Mark Zuckerberg Explains How Facebook Will Try to Kill Alternative Media…
In his recent interview with the far-left online publication Vox, Mark Zuckerberg explained Facebook’s new system of favoring “broadly trusted” news sources, via a mechanism designed to favor established outlets and crush new media. Facebook introduced its new system in January, and the results were immediately apparent. Facebook traffic to establishment outlets including CNN and […]
Concerned About What Facebook Knows About You? Check Out What Google Knows…
Many users have been dropping Facebook, ceasing to use social media, or looking into the data that’s been collected about them. But if you think that what Facebook knows about you is scary, check out what Google knows about you. Dylan Curran, an information technology consultant, took a look at just what Google knew about […]
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