As the spy gear piles up on my desk, my 10-year-old son asks me what my mission is. “I’m hiding,” I whisper, pointing in the direction I think is north, which is something I should probably know as a spy. “From Silicon Valley.” It isn’t going to be easy. I use Google, Facebook, Amazon, Lyft, […]
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8chan: Another Mass Shooting, Another Internet Purge…
Last year, after the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the new social-media platform Gab was attacked in the press and bullied off the internet. Earlier this year, following the Christ Church mosque attack, New Zealand briefly totally blocked access to several websites. Yesterday, two men allegedly killed 30 people at a store in Dayton Ohio, […]
Texas Man Convicted of Stealing US Marine Tech to Benefit Beijing Regime…
A federal jury in Washington has convicted a Texas man of conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets in order to transfer dual-use marine technology to the Chinese regime and its state-owned companies. Shi Shan, 54, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Texas, was convicted following a nine-day trial, according to a July 29 press […]
Huawei and Google Have a Long History of Partnership…
Chinese tech giant Huawei has partnered with Google on several product development projects, according to U.S. tech news site The Information, citing several unnamed sources. The partnership came to a screeching halt in May this year, when the U.S. Department of Commerce added Huawei and 68 affiliate companies to its “Entity List,” which means U.S. […]
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Says He Is ‘Gravely Concerned’ About the Situation of Julian Assange…
“Gravely concerned”. The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, does not mince words in conveying his serious concerns about the situation of the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. Last May, Melzer visited Assange at the Belmarsh high-security prison in London assisted by two doctors who are experts on torture and inhuman or degrading treatment. At […]
Facebook Is Funding Brain Experiments to Create a Device That Reads Your Mind…
In 2017, Facebook announced that it wanted to create a headband that would let people type at a speed of 100 words per minute, just by thinking. Now, a little over two years later, the social-media giant is revealing that it has been financing extensive university research on human volunteers. Today, some of that research […]
Microsoft Is Investing $1B in OpenAI to Create Brain-Like Machines…
Microsoft says OpenAI will help it jointly develop and train new AI technologies for its Azure cloud computing service. It will also work with it to develop new supercomputing hardware to try to achieve AGI—machines with the capacity to learn tasks the way human beings do. That’s a holy grail of AI that still remains […]
Apple Contractors Hear Siri Recordings of Drug Deals, Personal Medical Details and Folks Having Sex…
Apple contractors regularly hear confidential medical information, drug deals, and recordings of couples having sex, as part of their job providing quality control, or “grading”, the company’s Siri voice assistant, the Guardian has learned. Although Apple does not explicitly disclose it in its consumer-facing privacy documentation, a small proportion of Siri recordings are passed on […]
6G Mobile Networks: “Real-Time Remote Access to Human Brain-Level AI”…
As 5G networks continue to expand in cities and countries across the globe, key researchers have already started to lay the foundation for 6G deployments roughly a decade from now. This time, they say, the key selling point won’t be faster phones or wireless home internet service, but rather a range of advanced industrial and […]
REP JOHN RATCLIFFE NOMINATED TO SERVE AS DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE…
Representative John Ratcliffe tweets a statement after President Trump announces his nomination for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI): “I am deeply grateful to President Trump for the opportunity to lead our Nation’s intelligence community and work on behalf of the public servants who are tirelessly devoted to defending the security and […]
Google Works on AI with Top Chinese University That Has Ties to Chinese Military…
Google has been cooperating with a leading artificial intelligence (AI) research body at Tsinghua University, a prestigious Chinese academic institution that also conducts AI research for the Chinese military. The American internet giant has been collaborating with Beijing’s Tsinghua University since June 2018, when it launched a new AI research body, the Tsinghua University Institute […]
Feds OK T-Mobile Buyout of Sprint for $26.5 Billion…
Sprint agreed Friday to divest parts of its prepaid wireless business for federal approval of its $26.5 billion merger plans with T-Mobile. The Justice Department announced the settlement this morning with five states, more than a year after the two telecom giants announced their plans to merge in April 2018. As part of the deal, […]
Oh Goodie: Satellites Could Soon Track Our Every Movement from Space…
Satellites could soon track our movements from space, allowing for surveillance on a mass scale that most people haven’t ever contemplated. Yet U.S. rules governing commercial satellite licenses require satellite companies to disclose the unenhanced data they collect to governments around the world. This week, EFF filed comments with the Department of Commerce and the […]
Facebook’s $5B Fine Blasted by Politicians and Consumer Advocates…
Politicians in both parties, technologists and even a former Facebook executive blasted the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday for its $5 billion settlement with the social media giant. Critics took aim at the size of the fine, the lack of personal accountability leveled at any Facebook executives, the decision to offer immunity to past privacy […]
Current Sr. Google Engineer Goes Public on Camera: Tech Is “dangerous,” “taking sides”…
Project Veritas has published an on-the-record interview with an insider who works at Google named Greg Coppola. This video interview follows a series of insider Google reports, including internal Google documents, recently published by Project Veritas which exposed political bias, “algorithmic unfairness,” and the use of “blacklists” at YouTube. Coppola is a senior software engineer […]
California Launches Creepy “Cradle-to-Career” Data System to Track Everything About Children…
What the heck is the “Cradle to Career Data System”? – Beginning at birth and stalking the child until he or she joins the workforce, California wants to keep on eye on all sorts of demographics and variables. They’ll do this by collecting information from “partner entities.” They’ll use this information, according to the Pasadena […]
Video Confirms Butowsky Lawsuit Claim: Julian Assange Told Ellen Ratner DNC Emails Received from Seth Rich – Not a Russian Hack…
A lawsuit filed a week ago by Businessman Ed Butowsky, alleged that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told Fox News analyst Ellen Ratner the DNC leaked emails were received from Seth Rich and his brother Aaron. Due to the scale of ramification, there was some valid skepticism about the Butowsky assertion. However, recently unearthed footage from […]
DOJ Opens Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies…
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a new and broad review of on-line tech companies to investigate if their activity is violating antitrust laws. The DOJ announcement explains: “Review Focuses on Practices that Create or Maintain Structural Impediments to Greater Competition and User Benefits.” According to the Wall Street Journal, “The new antitrust inquiry […]
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Equifax to Pay $700M in Data Breach Settlement …
Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people. The settlement with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission, as well as 48 states and the District […]
Former Facebook Security Chief: ‘Completely Reasonable’ to Believe Foreign Governments Have ‘Subverted’ Big Tech…
Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos recently backed billionaire investor and Trump supporter Peter Thiel on claims that foreign governments could have infiltrated the Masters of the Universe. Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos recently backed up Paypal co-founder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel on his comments relating to the influence of foreign governments […]
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