Facebook on Sunday faced a backlash about how it protects user data, as American and British lawmakers demanded that it explain how a political data firm with links to President Trump’s 2016 campaign was able to harvest private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the social network’s alerting users. Senator Amy Klobuchar […]
Surveillance & Technology
Latest News
CYBER WAR: Trump Admin Accuses RUSSIA of ATTACKING American Energy Grid…
The Trump administration publicly accused the Russian government of orchestrating coordinated attacks against the American energy grid Thursday; marking the first time the US government has blamed the Kremlin for intentionally hacking the United States’ infrastructure. According to Reuters, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI believe Moscow was behind a sophisticated cyber-attack as […]
Facebook Forced To Apologize After “Video Of…” Autocomplete Search Result Stuns Users
Facebook has been forced to apologize after it spent hours suggesting bizarre, disturbing, and upsetting searches to users on Thursday night. Typing “video of” into the Facebook search bar yielded disturbing results. Multiple users posted examples on Twitter, with the site proposing searches including “video of girl sucking dick under water”, “videos of sexuals” and […]
FBI Supervisor Warned Comey in 2014 That Warrantless Surveillance Program Was Ineffective…
An official who supervised the FBI’s Section 215 warrantless phone surveillance program revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013 says he warned then-Director James Comey it was woefully ineffective in catching terrorists and needed to be modified. Retired Special Agent Bassem Youssef, the chief of the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit, said in an exclusive interview with […]
America’s Troll Farm Media…
Despite all the smoke and mirrors, most Americans seem to see where the stenographers of corporate capitalism are taking us. A recent Gallup poll found that while 84% of Americans see media as “critical” or “very important” to democracy, only 28% see the corporatist mainstream news media (MSM) as actually supporting democracy. They’re right on […]
Internet Inventor Warns “Regulate Tech Firms Now Or Risk A Weaponized Web”
The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (not Al Gore), has a dire warning over the concentration of power among a few companies on the internet “controlling which ideas are shared.” In an open letter to mark the 29th anniversary of his invention, Berners-Lee calls for powerful “new gatekeepers” – internet platforms […]
Twitter’s Censorship May Be Unconstitutional…
Does Milo Yiannopoulos have a constitutional right to tweet? Most Americans know they can speak their mind in the public square, thanks to the First Amendment. Speech on social media, however, can be censored because private companies own those cyber spaces. But a recent Supreme Court oral argument suggests Twitter’s practice of banning controversial right-wing […]
Dear Journalists: Here Are the Bots You’re Looking For..
Dear confused journalists: I found the bots you have been looking for. They amplify trolls. They impersonate. They spam. They are funded by oligarchs. What more could you want in a story? And unlike @SecureDemocracy, I have actually shown my work. Gather round. First things first. Here are the accounts in question. They posted nearly […]
Trump: NASA Bringing Back ‘Space Flight’ Program and Going to Mars ‘In the very near future’…
President Donald Trump announced during a Thursday cabinet meeting that NASA is “bringing back that whole space flight” program and would be sending “something very beautiful to Mars in the very near future.” Before pivoting to Mars, POTUS praised the recent work of Elon Musk and SpaceX on the Falcon rocket program. “Before me are […]
Equifax Breach Worsens, Sparking More Concerns about Consumers’ Data…
Equifax has confirmed that the massive data breach it announced last year is larger than previously thought, affecting an additional 2.4 million U.S. consumers. New details of the breach were announced by the credit reporting company Thursday, taking the total number of victims to 147.9 million. The company says the additional consumers only had their […]
Documents Show FBI Paid Geek Squad Staff to Be Informants…
FBI agents paid employees in Best Buy’s Geek Squad unit to act as informants, documents published Tuesday reveal. Agents paid managers in the retailer’s device repair unit to pass along information about illegal content discovered on customers’ devices, according to documents posted online by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The digital rights group sued the FBI […]
Tech Moguls Driving Mass Layoffs in the Economy Want Universal Basic Income As a Cure…
Driverless cars! IBM Watson! News-writing robots! Amazon Go! The future is here, friends, and it apparently excludes humans. People are preparing for the next mass extinction — an evaporation, if you will — not of humans, polar bears or other creatures, but of jobs. This prospect has been sending shivers through humanity, from New York […]
Flippy the Burger Flipping Robot Is Now Cooking at the CaliBurger Fast Food Chain…
A robot named Flippy is now in the kitchen at a fast food restaurant called CaliBurger in Pasadena. We were there for a preview event where Flippy made us some lunch. Your next fast food burger might be cooked by a robot! Flippy is a brand new, burger flipping robot now cooking at a chain […]
The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model in Existence…
In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement, and a possible privacy problem for Apple customers, a major U.S. government contractor claims to have found a way to unlock pretty much every iPhone on the market. Cellebrite, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based vendor that’s become the U.S. government’s company of choice when it […]
InfoWars Blacklisted By Major Advertisers After CNN’s Guerrilla Activism…
CNN has taken it upon themselves to contact companies whose advertisements have been played on the InfoWars-linked Alex Jones Channel on YouTube, resulting in a flood of major brands blacklisting the channels for future ad spending –CNN has discovered ads on InfoWars’ channels from companies and organizations such as Nike (NKE), Acer, 20th Century Fox, […]
Related
Is Amazon Too Big to Tax???
This year, like every other year, is shaping up to be a triumphant one for Amazon. It is on the cusp of becoming the first trillion dollar company ever. In the coming months it will announce the opening of a second headquarters—and likely bank billions in tax breaks and other incentives from the lucky city […]
Sharyl Attkisson Accuses Obama DOJ of Secretly Swapping Out Her Computer Hard Drive…
Former CBS correspondent Sharyl Attkisson accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) of monkeying around with her hard drive while her computer was in their possession. She tweeted on Thursday, “What would you think if I told you the hard drive of one of my personal computers was secretly switched out w/another while in custody of […]
InfoWars’ Bureau Chief YouTube Account Terminated with No Explanation, Reinstated Hours Later…
InfoWars’ Washington D.C. bureau chief, Jerome Corsi, was temporarily kicked off of YouTube Thursday after receiving two warnings under the platform’s bullying and harassment policy. The account was restored hours later with no explanation – similar to the Alex Jones Channel’s second strike last week. Dr. Jerome Corsi, the 71-year-old Harvard PhD who has become […]
Facebook Keeps Secret Files on Intimate Habits of Internet Users Even If They Don’t Have an Account…
Facebook may be tracking your every move online even if you have never been on the site. Not content with monitoring the movements of its own users, the largest social network in the world is building secret files on the activities of billions of people. Mark Zuckerburg’s company says that is uses this information to […]
YouTube Secretly Using SPLC To Police Videos…
The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting YouTube in policing content on their platform, The Daily Caller has learned. The left-wing nonprofit — which has more recently come under fire for labeling legitimate conservative organizations as “hate groups” — is one of the more than 100 nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and government agencies in YouTube’s “Trusted […]
Related
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 108
- 109
- 110
- 111
- 112
- …
- 156
- Next Page »