Vienna-based privacy non-profit noyb (short for None Of Your Business) has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority (DPA) against Firefox maker Mozilla for enabling a new feature called Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA) without explicitly seeking users’ consent…
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Ford Is Filing for a Patent to Eavesdrop on Passenger Conversations…
Car manufacturer Ford Motor Company has filed a patent application for an in-vehicle advertisement presentation system based on information derived from several trip and driver characteristics. Among those characteristics—human conversations…
New Report: State Department Funded Fact-Checkers to Censor ‘Lawful Speech’…
The U.S. government’s actions fueled “a censorship ecosystem” that suppressed people’s First Amendment rights and made it difficult for some certain small independent media outlets to compete online…
23andMe Board Resigns in New Blow to DNA-Testing Company…
CEO Anne Wojcicki ‘surprised and disappointed’ after independent directors say she failed to produce ‘actionable’ buyout proposal…
LONG READ: The Chain of Consensus — The Cartel Behind the Blockchain…
While often pitched as decentralized, the key infrastructure upholding consensus on Ethereum has been dollarized by stablecoin issuers. These same entities, in addition to the currency speculators behind Block.One, were willing partners in the set up and take down of Terra-LUNA and FTX…
Google Trial 2.0: Second Antitrust Case Against Internet Giant Kicks Off…
Google is set to face another significant legal challenge as the Justice Department’s antitrust case against the company’s ad-tech practices heads to trial…
Popular YouTuber Dies at 58 after Apologizing to Fans in Heartbreaking Clip…
This is a story that truly shows how much this YouTuber cared for his 1.14 million subscribers leaving behind his final message to them following his passing…
Privacy Concerns Escalate with Launch of New Facial Search Engine…
Lenso.ai and fellow EyeMatch.ai machine learning (“AI”) company have announced the launch of a new facial recognition tool – specifically, a search engine based on facial recognition…
Robert Reich’s Call to Arrest Musk Is “Siren’s Call of Every Authoritarian”…
Jonathan Turley takes on Robert Reich writing “Robert Reich, who has tried to sell citizens on the perfectly Orwellian view that more freedom means tyranny when it comes to the freedom of expression.”…
Amazon’s Alexa Gives Two Entirely Different Answers When Asked “Why should I vote for Donald Trump?” or When Asked “Why should I vote for Kamala Harris?”
Amazon’s tech team appears to have scripted Alexa with totally different answers when asked “Why should I vote for Donald Trump?” or asked “Why should I vote for Kamala Harris?” The answers given apparently are not the same on all of the devices with Harris getting rave reviews…
Adding Insult to Margin Calls, Nvidia Receives DOJ Subpoena Making Record Price Drop Even Worse…
In what may be described as an attempt to sabotage her own election odds, moments after the close Bloomberg reported that Kamala Harris’ Justice Department – because let’s be honest, Joe Biden is officially a vegetable – sent subpoenas to Nvidia and other companies as it seeks evidence that the chipmaker violated antitrust laws, an escalation of its investigation into the dominant provider of AI processors, in the process sending the stock prices sliding even more…
OpenAI Agrees to Run GPT Models Past U.S. Government to ‘Evaluate’ for Safety…
AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to run their new AI models past the US government’s AI Safety Institute to evaluate their ‘capabilities and risks,’ as well as ‘collaborate on methods to mitigate potential issues,’ Bloomberg reports…
Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov Hit with Criminal Charges in France After Refusing to Help Authorities Wiretap Users…
French authorities on behalf of Israel are demanding Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov wiretap users aka the hackers who hacked into Israel’s Ministry of Justice who were uploading hacked files on Telegram the Friday night before his arrest. Durov is refusing to do so…
Turns Out Emmanuel Macron of France Lured Telegram’s Pavel Durov to France Who Was Met by French Authorities and Arrested on the Tarmac…
What a snake. President Emmanuel Macron lured Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov to France through an invitation to dine with him…
Mark Zuckerberg Admits to Congress He Worked with Joe Biden and White House to Control Speech in America – Says, He “Regrets” Doing It…
Yes, Facebook has admitted they censored the Hunter Biden laptop story already, but this is a letter written by CEO Mark Zuckerberg taking responsibility for agreeing with the FBI to censor the story to begin with…
New Twitter Files Raise Question of How Independent Pre-Musk Company Was from Biden Administration…
House Weaponization Subcommittee’s top Democrat claimed “real evidence showed” no coordination between Twitter and the feds, which is “just laughable” in light of internal emails, Twitter Files journalist Paul Thacker says…
SHOT: “Musk Should Be Nervous” – Deep State Lackey Admits Real Target Following Telegram Founder’s Arrest…
Let’s talk about why Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov was arrested by France over the weekend. Israel’s Justice of Ministry was hacked a couple of months ago. Some of those files were posted on Telegram and quickly removed. Israel, like any other nation whose national security is breached, does not want those records to be seen. So, to learn who downloaded the documents to Telegram it needs to start with the guy that owns it…
CHASER: After Iran Steals Sensitive Israeli Data, Israel Tries to Censor the Internet…
Anti-Israel hackers stole troves of sensitive Israeli data and are now publishing gigabytes of secret and classified information. Unable to stop the hacks, Israel is waging a futile war to against the leaks…
Ford Ditches Plans for Electric SUV as Industry Continues to Backpedal from EVs…
It appears cramming Electric Vehicles down consumers proverbial throat didn’t work…
Report: Biden Administration Rushes Digital ID Plans…
The last thing Americans need is a Digital ID. It’s surveillance on steroids. If you like your privacy then a Digital ID is a big fat no. If you don’t appreciate the web of surveillance that already surrounds you then it is no biggie. Pick your poison wisely…