An Israeli government contractor founded by a former Israeli spy has partnered with one U.S. state and is set to announce a series of new partnerships with other states and U.S. healthcare providers to monitor civilian health and use an IDF-designed AI system to profile Americans likely to contract coronavirus and to inform U.S. government […]
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Bill Making It Illegal to Forcefully Microchip Employees Passes in Michigan House…
Lawmakers in Michigan have passed a bill that would make it illegal for employers to force their workers to be tagged with microchips in a bid to preemptively thwart companies who seek to make it mandatory to wear the productivity-tracking devices. The Michigan House passed the bill on Wednesday, which would make acceptance of the […]
Facebook Removes ‘Violent’ Groups Amid Boycott from Corporate Interests – Antifa Groups Remain…
Facebook has banned of hundreds of accounts across its platform including accounts of groups considered violent; however, domestic terrorist Antifa accounts remain. Despite these bans, hundreds of companies enacting a boycott on Facebook advertising, under the direction of activist groups. This sweeping move came only four days after a Justice Department task force was enacted […]
Reddit Openly Proclaims It Will Discriminate Based on Race in Content Policing…
Social media platform Reddit adopted new rules against “hate speech” that discriminate against certain people based on their race, gender, religion, and other characteristics. Reddit seems to be the first tech company to do so openly, though there’s evidence that other companies have done so surreptitiously. Reddit used to have no hate speech policy. The […]
University of California Pays Over $1M to Ransomware Gang…
A ransomware gang has struck gold again, this time for more than $1 million. The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) announced on June 26 that it paid $1.14 million to a ransomware group. “We … made the difficult decision to pay some portion of the ransom, approximately $1.14 million, to the individuals behind the […]
FCC Blocks Huawei, ZTE From Lucrative American Markets…
In a move that will essentially cut Huawei off from a critical US market: the smaller, more rural-focused telecoms providers who rely on cheap Huawei components to maintain its wireless infrastructure. According to Bloomberg, the FCC has designated Huawei and ZTE, two Chinese telecoms giants, as national security threats. The renewed pressure on both Huawei […]
TikTok is Controlled By the Chinese Communist Party – Delete It…
One of the side effects of the coronavirus pandemic has been a multitude of viral videos showing hospital nurses singing and dancing. For some, these “TikTok nurses” have brought joy in dark times, while others say that these videos are demeaning to the medical profession. Lost in the discussion, however, is the dark side of […]
India Bans 59 Chinese Apps Including TikTok Over “Privacy & Sovereignty” Violations…
Despite a round three of border deescalation talks between Indian and Chinese military delegations scheduled for Tuesday, there’s yet more significant fallout following the June 15 border clash which left 20 Indian troops dead, also with an unknown number of PLA casualties. India is moving to ban up to 59 Chinese apps in the country, […]
Your Objections to the Google-Fitbit Merger…
When Google announced its intention to buy Fitbit in April, we had deep concerns. Google, a notoriously data-hungry company with a track record of reneging on its privacy policies, was about to buy one of the most successful wearables company in the world —after Google had repeatedly tried to launch a competing product, only to […]
Unilever Halts Advertising on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter…
Shares of both Facebook and Twitter were down more than 7% in mid-day trading Friday after Unilever said it would pull its advertising from the social media companies for the rest of the year. “Given our Responsibility Framework and the polarized atmosphere in the U.S., we have decided that starting now through at least the […]
FBI Expands Ability to Collect Cellphone Location Data, Monitor Social Media, Recent Contracts Show…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation may be watching what you tweet and where people gather. The federal law enforcement agency’s records show a growing focus on harnessing the latest private sector tools for mass surveillance, including recent contracts with companies that monitor social media posts and collect cellphone location data. On May 26, as demonstrations […]
Senators Move to Make UFO Data Public…
Lawmakers in the Senate Intelligence Committee are moving forward with a request that would order the Defense Department and U.S. Intelligence agencies to create a public, unclassified, collection of all information and data on “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” also known as unidentified flying objects, UFOs. According to The NY Post, Senators recognized the existence of a […]
Media Executive Warns Big Tech Is Secretively Seizing “All the Power” over Information…
Newspaper executive Peter Wright has slammed big tech for secretively developing and changing algorithms for news distribution without giving the industry any indication whatsoever of what they are doing. Wright of DMG Media, which is the parent company of The Daily Mail, was testifying before the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee Tuesday. He […]
Project Veritas Catches Facebook Employees, Contractors Admitting to Political Censorship…
James O’Keefe’s team of undercover journalists Project Veritas have released hidden camera footage of Facebook employees admitting to deliberate political bias, censorship of Trump supporters, as well as discrimination against conservative and white male employees. A Facebook insider, Ryan Hartwig, has also come forward to Project Veritas to give his account of bias and discrimination […]
BlueLeaks: Anonymous Leaks ‘Megatrove’ of Sensitive Documents from 200 Police Departments…
As the United States continues to experience unrest following the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Andres Guardado, and dozens of others in the past month, the anger over police brutality and racism continues to remain palpable across the country. And with protests continuing across the country and the world, hacktivist […]
Big Tech’s War on Speech Is a War on You… And You’re Losing…
I would love to say that the video footage, internal Facebook documents, and testimonials featured in Project Veritas’s latest undercover investigation of the Big Tech giant were “shocking” or “unprecedented,” but they are neither. Rather, the revelations are an utterly unsurprising glimpse into the reality of online censorship and the bureaucratic machinery of the massive […]
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FCC Approves Ligado Plan to Deploy Mobile Broadband Network…
The five-member Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to approve an order to allow Ligado Networks[MOSAV.UL] to deploy a low-power nationwide 5G network despite objections from the U.S. Defense Department, other federal agencies and major U.S. airlines. The telecommunications regulator said on Monday the approval order included stringent conditions aimed at ensuring global positioning systems would […]
WikiLeaks Founder Charged in Superseding Indictment: New Allegations Assert Assange Conspired with “Anonymous” Affiliated Hackers, Among Others…
A federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment today charging Julian P. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, with offenses that relate to Assange’s alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States. The new indictment does not add additional counts to the prior 18-count superseding […]
Expect More Interstellar Visitors Like ’Oumuamua…
It sounds almost like science fiction: a tiny world that formed around another star, visiting our cosmic neighborhood for us to study. And yet that’s exactly what has happened, twice now as of the last few months. It will only happen more often this decade. The first known interstellar object—meaning it formed outside of our […]
‘Lost Memories’: War Crimes Evidence Threatened by AI Moderation…
From bombings and protests to the opening of a new health centre, student journalist Baraa Razzouk has been documenting daily life in Idlib, Syria, for years, and posting the videos to his YouTube account. But this month, the 21-year-old started getting automated emails from YouTube alerting him that his videos violated its policy, and that […]
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