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 […]
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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 […]
If You’ve Given Your DNA to a DNA Database, U.S. Police May Now Have Access to It…
In the past week, news has spread of a Florida judge’s decision to grant a warrant allowing police to search one of the world’s largest online DNA databases, for leads in a criminal case. The warrant reportedly approved the search of open source genealogy database GEDMatch. An estimated 1.3 million users have uploaded their DNA […]
U.S. Manufacturing Group Hacked by China as Trade Talks Intensified…
As trade talks between Washington and Beijing intensified earlier this year, suspected Chinese hackers broke into an industry group for U.S. manufacturers that has helped shape President Donald Trump’s trade policies, according to two people familiar with the matter. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) was hacked over the summer and hired a cybersecurity firm, […]
Twitter Rolls Out Ban on Political Ads Covering Candidates, Elections and Legislation…
On Friday, Twitter released details of its global ban on political advertising. The ban will go into effect on November 22 and prohibits any ads that mention specific candidates, elections or legislation. Also included under the ban are ads from PACs or 501(c)(4) nonprofits, a category that includes political messaging groups. However, Twitter will allow […]
How Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep Into Our Lives…
Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications – against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted. Israel’s status as a “startup nation” was established decades ago. But its reputation for hi-tech innovation always depended on a dark side, one that is becoming […]
‘China is building database on vulnerabilities of hundreds of millions of Americans’…
China is creating databases on the behavior, preferences, and vulnerabilities of hundreds of millions of Americans to use for intelligence purposes. Whether by hacking the US government or infiltrating American tech companies to harvest their data, China is taking all that it steals to learn everything it can about the behavior of Americans. On Tuesday […]
NSA Wants Option to Restart FISA Phone Metadata Collection, Despite All of Its Problems…
The National Security Agency (NSA) wants to keep the authority to collect phone records of international terrorism suspects and of the people the suspects call, despite having shut down the program due to multiple issues. Moreover, recent NSA testimony to Congress indicated that those issues may well reemerge if the agency decides to restart the […]
Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans…
Google is engaged in a secret project with one of the country’s largest health-care systems to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states, according to people familiar with the matter and internal documents. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the largest in a series of […]
5 Things You’re Downloading That Bog Down Your PC…
There’s no doubting the benefits of keeping your important files stored digitally on your computer, as opposed to papers scattered throughout the house. But that added convenience doesn’t necessarily make those files any safer — even if you have them password-protected. Not protecting your files is just one way you’re putting your computer at risk. […]
Charges: Chinese Surveillance Goods Illegally Sold to U.S….
A Long Island firm sold tens of millions of dollars in Chinese-made surveillance and other sensitive security equipment to customers, including the U.S. military to use on aircraft carriers, by falsely claiming the goods were manufactured in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The fraud that prosecutors allege by Aventura Technologies Inc. raised “a grave concern” […]
Inside Amazon’s Plan for Alexa to Run Your Entire Life…
The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need…The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions. Rather than wait for and respond to requests, Alexa will anticipate what the user might want. The idea is to […]
House Dems Deal Death Blow to Domestic NSA Phone Spying…
Eighteen years after George W. Bush and the National Security Agency began secretly and warrantlessly collecting the phone records of every American, the House of Representatives is taking a major step to kill the vestige of one of the most controversial domestic surveillance programs in American history. That step, The Daily Beast has learned, is: […]
The Next Freakout: Foreign Spies in Surveillance Valley!…
I’m back in New York for now and am working on a longer letter about my recent trip to Israel and Palestine. In the meantime, I want to flag a piece of news that sits at the intersection of a few issues that are close to my heart: immigrants, xenophobic national security panics, and Silicon […]
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