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Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers Intercept Text Messages Worldwide…

U.S.-based cybersecurity firm FireEye revealed that a state-backed Chinese hacker group APT41 has compromised several major telecom firms and retrieved call records from the carriers’ customers whom they deemed as targets, intercepting text messages as well as call records worldwide. The report did not name the telecom companies. The hackers searched call and text records […]

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CrowdTangle?: State Dept. Used Soros-Linked Media Tracking Tool to Monitor Journalists, Trump Allies…

The State Department utilized a powerful Facebook-owned social media tracking tool linked to leftist billionaire George Soros to unlawfully monitor prominent U.S. conservative figures, journalists and persons with ties to President Donald Trump, according to an agency source. The State Department veteran identified Crowdtangle as the tool used to closely watch more than a dozen […]

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Cognizant, a Facebook Content Moderation Vendor, Is Reportedly Quitting the Business…

The professional services firm Cognizant will exit the content moderation business in the wake of investigations into poor working conditions at sites dedicated to Facebook, the company confirmed to The Verge. Thousands of moderators worldwide worked for Cognizant to remove hate speech, terrorism and other content that violates Facebook’s policies. “We have determined that certain […]

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Secretive Military Spaceplane Lands in Florida After Record-Long Orbital Flight…

The Pentagon’s secretive X-37B spaceplane landed in Florida on Sunday after a record-long orbital flight lasting more than two years, the U.S. Air Force said, capping the latest test mission for an array of military technologies. The unpiloted X-37B, built by Boeing Co., touched down on an air strip at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at […]

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Assange in Court…

I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was […]

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FISA Court Ruled That FBI Improperly Used NSA Surveillance Data to Snoop on Americans…

According to a new declassified ruling from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), FBI personnel systematically abused National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance data in both 2017 and 2018. The 138-page ruling, which dates back to October 2018, was only unsealed 12 months later in October 2019. It offers a rare look at how […]

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Without Encryption, We Will Lose Privacy. This Is Our New Battleground by Edward Snowden…

In every country of the world, the security of computers keeps the lights on, the shelves stocked, the dams closed, and transportation running. For more than half a decade, the vulnerability of our computers and computer networks has been ranked the number one risk in the US Intelligence Community’s Worldwide Threat Assessment – that’s higher […]

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FISA Judges Collyer and Boasberg Both Identified NSA Databases Used for Political Surveillance…

FISA Court judges Rosemary Collyer (declassified 2017) and James Boasberg (declassified 2019) both identified issues with the NSA database being exploited for unauthorized reasons. We have a large amount of supplemental research to see through most of Collyer’s report and we are now starting the same process for Boasberg. However, an alarming possibility makes it […]

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Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Defamatory Content Worldwide, Top EU Court Rules…

Europe’s highest court ruled Thursday that Facebook could be ordered to track down and remove content globally if it was found to be illegal in one EU country. The decision represents a major step toward forcing social media companies to take greater responsibility for what is posted on their networks, and will likely support efforts […]

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Fitbit to Move Production Out of China…

The fitness tracker and smartwatch maker Fitbit announced it will move manufacturing operations out of China to avoid tariffs as President Donald Trump’s trade war continues to sow uncertainty for many U.S. businesses. “In 2018, in response to the ongoing threat of tariffs, we began exploring potential alternatives to China,” Ron Kisling, the chief financial […]

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How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology…

The pictures of Chloe and Jasper Papa as kids are typically goofy fare: grinning with their parents; sticking their tongues out; costumed for Halloween. Their mother, Dominique Allman Papa, uploaded them to Flickr after joining the photo-sharing site in 2005. None of them could have foreseen that 14 years later, those images would reside in […]

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Devin Nunes’ Lawsuit Against Twitter Could Turn into the Company’s Worst Nightmare…

When Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., sued Twitter in Virginia court in March for negligence over multiple cases of defamation and impersonation by the social media giant’s users, he was mocked and laughed at for thinking his case would accomplish anything. But following a Virginia judge’s ruling last week that Nunes’ suit could proceed to trial […]

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BACKGROUNDER: Before Ousting Assange, Moreno Government Spied on the Journalist for Over a Year …

Like the proverbial “shot heard round the world,” the U.K.’s arrest and imprisonment of publisher and journalist Julian Assange officially signaled the Western world’s war on a free press. The Australian who founded WikiLeaks, but stepped down as editor-in-chief last year, was ousted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London last week after Ecuador President Lenin […]

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The “Safe Drivers Act” Is a Real-Time National Driver Surveillance Program…

A new Senate bill would create a real-time national driver surveillance program that would allow law enforcement to know anything and everything about a driver at the click of a button. A recent article in WCVB Channel 5 revealed that the “Safe Drivers Act” is designed for one purpose and that is to share everything […]

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Dyson Scraps Electric Car Project

Dyson, the UK-based company best known for its vacuum cleaners, has scrapped a project to build electric cars. The firm, headed by inventor Sir James Dyson, said its engineers had developed a “fantastic electric car” but that it would not hit the roads because it was not “commercially viable”. In an email sent to all […]

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Britain: NHS Opens Clinic to Help Child Addicts of Computer Games…

The NHS is opening the country’s first specialist clinic to treat children and young adults who are addicted to playing computer games such as Fortnite, Candy Crush and Call of Duty. Staff will help those aged 13 to 25 whose lives are being debilitated by spending countless hours playing games. From Tuesday GPs and other […]

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CIA Had Access to Server Where Spanish Company Kept Profiles and Videos of Julian Assange’s Guests, Including Doctors, Diplomats, Lawyers, and Journalists…

A Spanish defense and security company that was spying on Julian Assange during his political asylum was sharing their server containing profiles and information about the WikiLeaks founder’s guests, including doctors, lawyers, and journalists, with the CIA. The company, Undercover Global SL, also recorded audio and video of all his visits in London’s Ecuadorian embassy […]

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