David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, was fined $90,000 by the Chicago Board of Ethics in a 5-0 vote for improperly lobbying Mayor Rahm Emanuel on behalf of Uber Technologies. The San Francisco resident was fined $1,000 a day for the 90 days he used personal email accounts without being a registered lobbyist to […]
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AI-Powered Body Cams Give Cops the Power to Google Everything They See…
The police body camera industry is the latest to jump on the artificial intelligence bandwagon, bringing new powers and privacy concerns to a controversial technology bolstered by the need to hold police accountable after numerous high-profile killings of unarmed black citizens. Now, that tech is about to get smarter. Last week, Taser, the stun gun […]
Now Half of Families Text Each Other in Same House…
Some will find it depressing. Others will recognise an all-too familiar snapshot of tech-obsessed modern life. But nearly half of families with children now text each other when they are in the same house. Just under a third of us (32 per cent) are guilty of tapping out messages on mobiles when we want to […]
Former Twitter Engineer: ‘Making it Difficult to Be a Conservative’ Important for Professional Communities to Do…
A former Twitter engineer recently tweeted his belief that the most important thing professional communities can do is to make it difficult to be a conservative. Travis Brown, a former open source engineer at Twitter, recently tweeted his disapproval of the tech conference LambdaConf following the announcement that computer scientist Curtis Yarvin would be speaking […]
WikiLeaks Releases ‘CIA Espionage Orders’ for 2012 French Presidential Election…
WikiLeaks has released three classified CIA espionage orders revealing details of an alleged seven-month long spying campaign by the agency ahead of the 2012 French presidential election. The documents disclose that all of France’s major political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA’s human (“HUMINT”) and electronic (“SIGINT”) spies…
NSA Whistleblower: Agency ‘Absolutely’ Tapping Trump’s Calls…
William Binney, a former highly placed NSA official turned whistleblower, contended in an exclusive interview today that the National Security Agency (NSA) is “absolutely” monitoring the phone calls of President Donald Trump. Binney was an architect of the NSA’s surveillance program. He became a famed whistleblower when he resigned on October 31, 2001 after spending […]
Outlawing Microchipping Humans Not So Far-Fetched…
State Sen. Becky Harris said a bill to prohibit forced microchipping of people is not as far-fetched as it might seem, because it happens in some places around the world. Senate Bill 109 would make it a Class C felony to require someone to be implanted with a radio frequency identifier, such as microchips placed […]
The Folks That Started the Fake News Meme Now Suggest Shutting Down Fake News to Move Closer to a Modern-Day ‘1984’…
Remember George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth? In his dystopian novel “1984,” its purpose was to dictate and protect the government’s version of reality. During the Cold War, Orwell’s book was banned behind the Iron Curtain, because readers perceived the novel as an allegory for their own repressive regimes. It was a serious crime to distribute […]
This Blog Is Republishing All the Animal Welfare Records the USDA Deleted…
It’s a well known edict that once something has been posted online, it can never be removed. That’s turning out to be the case for thousands of animal welfare records that the Department of Agriculture removed from the web last week. Now, a government transparency blog is on a mission to recover, and republish, as […]
The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet. It’s the End of the Middle Class
In February 1975, a group of geneticists gathered in a tiny town on the central coast of California to decide if their work would bring about the end of the world. These researchers were just beginning to explore the science of genetic engineering, manipulating DNA to create organisms that didn’t exist in nature, and they […]
Why on Earth Would Anyone Believe Putin Would ‘Gift’ Snowden to Trump?!?
T-Room here: When have you even heard such nonsense? Right. NEVER! So why should any believe this fairy tale now? Because NBC reported it? Puhleeze, give me a break. NBC has proven to be competing with the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN for some sort of grand prize as to who could dupe […]
NSA Veteran Bill Binney Spreads Some Truth Around…
Former NSA Technical Director William Binney gave an excellent interview to WBAI radio’s Randy Credico on January 31. What Bill has to say should be REQUIRED LISTENING for those who feel a need for a cogent explanation, in understandable, non-technical language, of how NSA has been playing fast and loose with the Bill of Rights. […]
Here’s How to Avoid Being Placed on FBI’s Watch List — And What It Means…
Created in 2003, the Terrorist Screening Database was intended to help the US track terrorists and prevent any further terror attacks in the US. Despite the best intentions of the list, however, the system has proven to be confusing and flawed. On numerous occassions, the watch list has failed to prevent attacks — Omar Mateen…
Lessons on Aging Well, From a 105-Year-Old Cyclist…
At the age of 105, the French amateur cyclist and world-record holder Robert Marchand is more aerobically fit than most 50-year-olds — and appears to be getting even fitter as he ages, according to a revelatory new study of his physiology. The study, which appeared in December in the Journal of Applied Physiology, may help […]
Robots Are Being Programmed to Fly Drones That Can Kill People?…What Could Possibly Go Wrong?!?…
Could this small robot piloting a drone be the next stage in artificial intelligence? An amusing video shows an Aldebaran Robotics Nao V5 asking its ‘papa’ if it can play with the drone. The man agrees and the robot sets to its task but all does not go to plan as it proceeds to fly […]
Ireland Challenges Facebook in What Could Become a Landmark Data Case…
Ireland’s privacy watchdog has launched a bid to refer Facebook’s data transfer mechanism to the European Union’s top court in a landmark case that could put the shifting of data across the Atlantic under renewed legal threat. The move is the latest challenge to the various methods by which large tech firms such as Google […]
Judge Sides with Microsoft, Allows “Gag Order” Challenge to Advance…
On Wednesday, a federal judge in Seattle allowed Microsoft’s lawsuit against the government to go forward. US District Judge James Robart ruled that the company does, in fact, have standing to sue the Department of Justice on behalf of its customers. Microsoft’s case has drawn support from a number of major tech companies, including Apple, […]
DOJ Indicts Former NSA Contractor…
After David Petraeus shared notebooks full of code word intelligence with his girlfriend (and boxes of other classified information), then lied about it to the FBI, the government let Petraeus off with two years of probation. DOJ just indicted Hal Martin — the Booz Allen contractor who allegedly stole terabytes of NSA information — with […]
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A Billion Dollars of Federally Funded Paranoia…
The Senate report laid out a cavalcade of fusion-center snafus. The New York Times summarized one case: “An Illinois [fusion] center reported that Russian hackers had broken into the computer system of a local water district in Springfield and sent computer commands that triggered a water pump to burn out. But it turned out that […]
Actual Hacking: Every Reporter Needs To Understand Sharyl Attkisson’s Case Against The US Government…
Sharyl Attkisson was a star investigative reporter for CBS News. After two decades at the network, she resigned on March 10, 2014. Among the controversial stories she covered: the Fast and Furious gun-walking program, in which the government “purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns […]
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