GADGETS to help you lose weight are being used by private companies to track you and could have terrible consequences in the future, experts have warned. They claim companies’ unprecedented access to smartwatches and fitness band data could eventually bump up your insurance premium, affect your job and even lead to your identity being stolen…
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House Report Claims Snowden ‘has contact’ with Russia Spy Agencies…
Edward Snowden has reacted to a damning House Intelligence report analyzing his life and possible motives for revealing NSA surveillance. The 37-page review with 237 footnotes goes through some episodes of Snowden’s focusing on his incompetencies and disagreements with supervisors…
The Shadow Brokers: “A Nice Little NSA You’ve Got Here; It’d Be a Shame If…”…
When President Obama discussed how to retaliate against Russia for hacking the DNC last Friday, he described the trick of finding “an appropriate response that increases costs for them for behavior like this in the future, but does not create problems for us.” Aside from questions of efficacy, Obama raised something that…
California DMV Rescinds Registration of 16 Uber Driverless Cars, Halts Pilot Program in San Francisco…
One week after the test was launched, Uber sent out a statement that said: “We have stopped our self-driving pilot in California as the DMV has revoked the registrations for our self-driving cars. We’re now looking at where we can redeploy these cars but remain 100 percent committed to…
7-Eleven Convenience Stores Deliver Items by Drone…
US drone delivery service Flirtey on Monday announced that its self-piloting flying machines have whisked flu medicine, hot food and more from 7-Eleven convenience stores to customers’ homes…
Internal Documents Reveal Bizarre Facebook Rules for Censorship of ‘Hate Speech’…
Facebook has come under fire after German Newspaper SZ-Magazin revealed internal secret rules of deletion that show the platform flagging up the content as hate speech if it doesn’t abide to bizarre mathematical formulas. The newspaper has acquired internal documents created by the department at Facebook that sets the rules of deletion…
Whistleblower John Kiriakou Critiques the CIA’s Behavior Following the 2016 U.S. Election (AUDIO & Transcript)…
Kiriakou discusses President-Elect Trump’s refusal to receive daily intelligence briefings, the relationship between the CIA and the White House and how it may change under Trump, and the condition of fellow CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling…
NSA Inspector General Facing Termination For Whistleblower Retaliation…
“This is a man, who runs an office that is supposed to protect whistleblowers, yet he described them as manic thieves and other such terminology and was quite hostile and intimidating”…
FacebookTwitterGoogle Sued by Orlando Shooting Victims Families…
Facebook, Google and Twitter are being sued by the families of three victims slain in the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub for allegedly providing “material support” to the Islamic State. The lawsuit is the latest to target popular Internet services for making it too easy for the Islamic State to spread its message…
Federal Agencies Can Spy on Phones with 400 Cell-Site Simulators…
The Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department have spent collectively more than $95 million on secret cellphone tracking technology and own more than 400 cell-site simulators that can be used to zero in covertly on the locations of cellphones…
Ray McGovern on the CIA Led-Media Blitz & McCarthy-Type Fake News Lists (AUDIO)…
The late Michael Ratner’s colleague attorneys who host the radio talk show Law and Disorder, Heidi Boghosian and Michael Steven Smith, interview Ray Dec. 14 regarding the CIA-led media blitz in Washington…
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Kentucky and West Virginia Confirm Suspected Cyberattacks Sourced to Dept of Homeland Security…
The two states reporting the suspected cyberattacks were West Virginia and Kentucky. “We need somebody to dig down into this story and figure out exactly what happened,” said Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp…
The Five Guiding Principles for Facebook’s ‘Fake News Censorship’ Project…
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) drafted a code of five principles for news websites to accept, and Facebook yesterday announced it will work with “third-party fact checking organizations” that are signatories to the code of principles…
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‘Furious’ German Spies Frozen Out by UK Intelligence after ‘Leaking to WikiLeaks’…
British spies are refusing to share secret information with their German counterparts because they believe Berlin’s leaky data servers have provided rich pickings for WikiLeaks. Politicians in Berlin are said to be furious about the intelligence blockade, which has seen German spy agency BND cut off from US and British secret data…
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Trump Tells Tech Leaders ‘There’s nobody like you in the world’…
Ringed by tech’s elite, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to do “anything we can do” to help the industry he often baited during the presidential campaign. “This is truly an amazing group of people,” Trump said at Trump Tower to kick off a meeting with Silicon Valley’s top leaders. “I want to add that […]
Former Disney IT Workers’ File Lawsuit Based on Discrimination in Favor of Foreign Workers…
Former IT workers at Disney have filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming that American workers are being discriminated against in favour of hiring H-1B visa workers from overseas…
150 Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras…
In the summer of 2013, when documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras was shooting a still-secret NSA leaker named Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room, she took security seriously. She’d periodically transfer her footage to encrypted hard drives, and would later go so far as to destroy the SD cards onto which her camera recorded…
Three Years Later Yahoo! Account Subscribers Learn More Than One-Billion Accounts Were Hacked…
Yahoo! says it believes hackers stole data from more than one billion user accounts in August 2013. The Sunnyvale, California, company says it’s a different breach from the one it disclosed in September, when it said 500 million accounts were exposed…
They Have, Right Now, Another You…
A few months ago The Washington Post reported that Facebook collects ninety-eight data points on each of its nearly two billion users. Among this ninety-eight are ethnicity, income, net worth, home value, if you are a mom, if you are a soccer mom, if you are married, the number of lines of credit you have, […]
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Google Publishes Eight Secret FBI Requests…
Google revealed in October it had been freed from a gag order preventing it from talking about a secret FBI request for customer data made in 2015. The internet search company chose at the time not to publish the actual subpoena, but it is now releasing redacted versions of that letter and seven others…
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