According to the Levy Journal Online the driver was Brown, an Ohio man who had been saved by his Tesla Autopilot system and recorded it on YouTube…
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On Second Thought, Facebook Doesn’t Care So Much About News Publishers…
If content is posted by a news outlet, a restaurant, or another establishment with its own “page” presence on Facebook, those posts will officially see “less of an impact”…
Google Launches Giant Undersea Internet Cable Linking U.S. to Japan…
The world’s highest-capacity undersea internet cable, a 5,600-mile link between the US and Japan backed by Google has been activated…
154M Records Exposed, Including Gun Ownership, FB Profiles and More…
A database with 154 million US voter registration records has been leaking information on a dizzying array of intimate [private] details, including gun ownership…
Speaking of Zuck: Facebook is Quietly Chipping Away at Your Privacy…
My secret account is now not so private after Facebook updated its search engine without warning, and there’s nothing I can do about it…
Hypocrite of the Day: Zuck Is Building Himself a 6 Foot High ‘Privacy’ Wall Around His $100M Property in Hawaii…
Guessing he is protective of his PRIVACY…Imagine that!…
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The Hunter: He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I Was Willing to Listen…
The message arrived at night and consisted of three words: “Good evening sir!”…
Texas Judge Indicted For Making Secret 10-Year Deal With Red Light Camera Company…
A Texas judge arrested for making a secret deal committing his county to a 10-year contract with a red-light camera company was suspended Tuesday…
Terrorism Database Used by Governments and Banks Leaked Online…
A researcher has obtained a copy of Thomson Reuters’ ”World-Check” confidential intelligence database, which is used by governments, intelligence agencies, banks, law firms and more…
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Facebook Hack Shows It’s Time to Upgrade Our Method of Verifying Identity…
The hacker tricked Facebook’s customer support into resetting the victim’s password and disable the account’s security mechanisms by pretending to be his victim…
Cops Getting Free License Plate Readers In Exchange For 25% Of The ‘Take’ And All The Driver Data Vigilant Can Slurp…
Vigilant Solutions in Texas is offering ‘a whole suite of automated license plate reader (ALPR) equipment and access to the company’s massive databases and analytical tools…
FBI’s Secret Surveillance Tech Budget Is ‘Hundreds of Millions’…
The FBI has “hundreds of millions of dollars” to spend on developing technology for use in both national security and domestic law enforcement investigations…
Are You Obsessed With Your Phone? Researchers Reveal Addicts Touch Their Handset a Whopping 5,400 Times a DAY!…
The study found that the average person swipes, taps and pinches their display about 2,617 times a day, for a grand total of one million times per year…
Europe’s Robots Would Become ‘Electronic Persons’ Under Draft Plan…
Good luck with that. What about the rest of the world, where automation is rolling out without restriction?…
Senate Falls 1 Vote Short of Giving FBI Access to Browser Histories Without Court Order…
Privacy-minded senators on Wednesday blocked an amendment that would give the FBI power to take internet records, including browser histories and email metadata, without a court order…
DOJ Insists That Rule 41 Change Is Not Important, Nothing To See Here, Move On Annoying Privacy Activist People…
A judicial panel approved the DOJ’s proposed changes, and the Supreme Court gave its blessing a month later. The rule changes are set to go into effect on December 1st if…
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Long-Awaited Domestic Drone Rules Won’t Stop Peeping Drones…
Despite recognizing that drones “pose risks to individual privacy,” the FAA declined to issue any privacy regulations at all…
Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged With Secret FBI Requests…
The FBI’s effort has been prompted not by DOJ concerns, but by Silicon Valley companies refusing to share anything beyond the basic subscriber information…
How the Internet Works: Submarine Fibre, Brains in Jars, and Coaxial Cables…
A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a rare visit to a subsea cable landing site…
Ransomware ‘Flocker’ Capable of Locking Smart TVs…
If a malware affects one of these devices, the said malware may eventually affect the others, too…