If you’ve watched the current impeachment proceedings with something beyond a passing interest, you might have heard the controversy over Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) secretly obtaining and then releasing phone records of political rival Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and journalist John Solomon. Critics say such an alleged invasion of citizens’ privacy and rights for political […]
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Over 267M Facebook Users’ Information Exposed…
The private information of more than 267 million Facebook users was reportedly exposed online for anyone to access. Approximately 267,140,436 users, most of whom reside in the United States, had their Facebook IDs, phone numbers and names exposed in an unsecured database, according to a report published Thursday by cybersecurity firm Comparitech and security researcher […]
Convenience Store Chain Wawa Hit by Data Security Breach at ‘Potentially All’ Stores…
A data security breach may have affected customers who used credit and debit cards at “potentially all” Wawa convenience stores in Virginia and other East Coast states during the past nine months, the company said Thursday. The retailer’s information security team discovered malware on Wawa payment processing servers on Dec. 10, Wawa’s CEO Chris Gheysens […]
Judge Rules Government Entitled to Snowden Book, Speech Proceeds…
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the US government is entitled to the proceeds from Edward Snowden’s memoir, as well as any money he earns from paid speeches, because the former National Security Agency employee disclosed classified information without approval, according to the Washington Post – “Snowden has been charged with espionage since 2013, […]
Warrant Not Always Needed for ‘Inadvertent’ NSA Surveillance of Americans: U.S. Court…
The U.S. government may collect information about U.S. citizens without obtaining a warrant if the information is gathered inadvertently while legally carrying out surveillance of non-nationals abroad, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled in an appeal by Agron Hasbajrami, a U.S. resident arrested […]
Silicon Valley Is Listening to Your Most Intimate Moments…
Ruthy Hope Slatis couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She’d been hired by a temp agency outside Boston for a vague job: transcribing audio files for Amazon.com Inc. For $12 an hour, she and her fellow contractors, or “data associates,” listened to snippets of random conversations and jotted down every word on their laptops. Amazon […]
The Terror Queue: These Moderators Help Keep Google and YouTube Free of Violent Extremism — and Now Some of Them Have PTSD…
Google and YouTube approach content moderation the same way all of the other tech giants do: paying a handful of other companies to do most of the work. One of those companies, Accenture, operates Google’s largest content moderation site in the United States: an office in Austin, Texas, where content moderators work around the clock […]
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Has Been Blocked from Seeing Key Evidence from U.S. Authorities…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is yet to be shown key evidence in the case brought against him by the American authorities, his extradition hearing was told today. The 48-year-old, faces accusations of leaking sensitive United States’ military material between January and May 2010. The Australian national appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court over video-link from HMP […]
Space Photos of the Week: NASA’s Curiosity Is a Salty Dog…
NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down on Mars in August 2012, and it’s been cruising around, shooting lasers at rocks, drilling into the ground, and performing science experiments ever since. Just last week, news came out that Curiosity had found something salty. The rover is driving across Gale Crater, an ancient Martian lake bed that was […]
Toys ‘R’ Us Is Open for Business Again, But There’s a Bizarre Catch…
Toys “R” Us has re-opened its doors, launching the first of two new stores planned for the holiday season after closing 800 of them last year. You might think, great, it’s time to become a Toys “R” Us kid again, but I’d keep thinking like a grownup for a bit longer. Something’s different about these […]
Doctors Intensify Pressure on Britain over Julian Assange…
More than 80 medical doctors who called on the UK home secretary to allow imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to be hospitalized have followed up their petition with an urgent appeal to the secretary of state for justice. Medical doctors who wrote to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel last month calling for urgent action to […]
Merck Cyberattack’s $1.3 Billion Question: Was It an Act of War?…
By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down. It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who were already at their desks at Merck offices across the U.S. were greeted by an even more […]
SOCIAL SCRUB: Google, YouTube Remove More than 300 Ads from Trump Re-Election Campaign…
A new report from CBS News and ’60 Minutes’ reveals social media platforms -including Google and YouTube- have removed more than 300 advertisements posted by President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. “How to handle political ads on social media has become a growing concern as the 2020 U.S. presidential election approaches,” reports CBS News. “Facebook has […]
Amazon Is Planning to Open Cashierless Supermarkets Next Year…
Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to open Amazon Go supermarkets and pop-up stores, an expansion of the company’s cashierless ambitions that includes the possibility of licensing the technology to other retailers. The new store formats and licensing initiative could launch as soon as the first quarter of 2020, according to a person familiar with the project. […]
Edward Snowden and Turnkey Tyranny…
Edward Snowden recently talked to Joe Rogan for nearly three hours. Snowden has a book out (“Permanent Record“) about his life and his decision to become a whistleblower who exposed lies and crimes by the U.S. national security state. As I watched Snowden’s interview, I jotted down notes and thoughts I had. (The interview itself […]
FCC Votes 5-0 to Bar China’s Huawei, ZTE from Government Subsidy Program…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 5-0 on Nov. 22 to designate China’s Huawei and ZTE as national security risks, barring their U.S. rural carrier customers from tapping an $8.5 billion government fund to purchase equipment. The U.S. telecommunications regulator also voted to propose requiring those carriers to remove and replace equipment from Huawei […]
The Rise of Tech Totalitarianism…
The Wall Street Journal just published a shocking expose, How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results, [by Kirsten Grind, Sam Schechner, Robert McMillan and John West , November 15, 2019], revealing not only that Google is exploiting its market power in ways the clearly raise anti-trust questions, but also that it […]
Amazon Agreement Allows Police to Keep and Share Ring Doorbell Footage Indefinitely…
Amazon has made an agreement with hundreds of law enforcement agencies to allow footage obtained through their home surveillance Ring doorbells to be stored and shared indefinitely with police, with or without legal cause. More than 600 police departments across the country are in an agreement with Ring to collect up to 12 hours of […]
Bi-Partisan Police State: While All Eyes Were on Impeachment Inquiry Hearing, House Democrats Quietly Re-Authorized PATRIOT Act…
House Democrats have slipped an unqualified renewal of the draconian PATRIOT Act into an emergency funding bill – voting near-unanimously for sweeping surveillance carte blanche that was the basis for the notorious NSA program. A three-month reauthorization of the notorious PATRIOT Act was shoehorned into a last-minute continuing resolution (CR) funding the US government, bundling […]
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DoorDash Being Sued by DC for Pocketing Millions in Tips from Delivery Drivers…
The attorney general for Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit against the food delivery company DoorDash, alleging that it is wrongfully taking tips customers intend for delivery drivers. “DoorDash misled consumers, who reasonably believed that their tips would go to workers, not the company’s bottom line,” Attorney General Karl Racine said in a Tuesday statement. “We […]
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