On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch released a troubling report about a phone application made by the Chinese government. The app provides law enforcement with easy, daily access to data detailing the religious activity, blood type, and even the amount of electricity used by ethnic minority Muslims living in the western province of Xinjiang. The app […]
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Alexa Has Been Eavesdropping on You This Whole Time, and Storing Your Data…
Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, “Are you crazy?” Yet that’s essentially what Amazon has been doing to millions of us with its assistant Alexa in microphone-equipped Echo speakers. And it’s hardly alone: Bugging our homes is Silicon Valley’s next frontier. Many […]
Day of the Long Knives by Raheem Kassam…
Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer and Milo Yiannopoulos have been unpersonned by the digital tech giant Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram. They’re coming for you, next. Or more likely, for us. Human Events stands shoulder-to-shoulder with those being routinely targeted by the would-be ‘Masters of the Universe’, no matter if we agree with […]
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Platform Access Is a Civil Right…
When Lyndon Johnson was in Congress in the 1950s he had three of his employees drive his car back from Washington to Austin at the end of every legislative session. That trip took his employees through the deep south. In Johnson’s telling, this went on for years without incident and he was unaware of any […]
Julian Assange Doesn’t Consent to U.S. Extradition…
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has said he does not consent to being extradited to the US over charges related to leaking government secrets. His extradition hearing came a day after he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching the Bail Act following his arrest last month. The 47-year-old appeared by video link at […]
3 Germans Who Allegedly Operated Dark Web Marketplace with Over 1 Million Users Face U.S. Narcotics and Money Laundering Charges…
Following a nearly two-year international investigation involving U.S. law enforcement and authorities in Germany and the Netherlands, federal prosecutors have charged three German nationals with being the administrators of Wall Street Market (WSM), which was one of the world’s largest dark web marketplaces that allowed vendors to sell a wide variety of contraband, including an […]
Avoid Surveillance with Helm, a Home Server Anyone Can Use to Keep Emails Truly Private…
During a group dinner in a small town in Norway in 2015, at an international conference for investigative journalists, a Ukrainian reporter told me that he used both Gmail and Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email provider. “Every time I write an email,” he said, “I have to decide if I want Obama to read it, […]
Homeland Security Used a Private Intelligence Firm to Monitor Family Separation Protests…
The calls for action were mounting. It was mid-June, and the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which saw thousands of migrant children separated from their parents, was producing waves of outrage. By the end of the month, hundreds of protests were planned in towns and cities across the country. As the plans moved forward, others […]
Hacker Finds He Can Remotely Kill Car Engines After Breaking Into GPS Tracking Apps…
A hacker broke into thousands of accounts belonging to users of two GPS tracker apps, giving him the ability to monitor the locations of tens of thousands of vehicles and even turn off the engines for some of them while they were in motion, Motherboard has learned. The hacker, who goes by the name L&M, […]
National Security Agency ‘Unmaskings’ Skyrocketed Last Year…
The National Security Agency (NSA) disclosed the identities of nearly 17,000 U.S. residents and businesses to American intelligence officials last year through a legal — but controversial — practice known as “unmasking,” according to a report released Tuesday. The number of unmaskings — 16,721 to be exact — marks a 75 percent increase from 2017, […]
Amazon Employees Hired and Fired by Robots…
Software and algorithms are used to screen, hire, assign and now terminate workers at Amazon. For lower-paid employees, the Robot Overlords Have Arrived. “Millions of low-paid workers’ lives are increasingly governed by software and algorithms. This was starkly illustrated by a report last week that Amazon.com tracks the productivity of its employees and regularly fires […]
Google Preps New Privacy Controls to Let You Delete Your Location Data…
Google is preparing new privacy controls that can periodically erase your location history from the company’s servers. They will be three options: Erase the data every three months, every 18 months, or keep the data until you delete it manually. “You should always be able to manage your data in a way that works best […]
Silicon Valley Is Awash in Chinese and Saudi Cash – And No One Is Paying Attention (Except Trump)…
Mohammed bin Salman knows how to command an audience. One year ago, the charismatic 32-year-old heir to the Saudi throne had four of Silicon Valley’s biggest celebrity investors — Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and Vinod Khosla — seated couchside around him discussing potential “partnerships” with his country as he invited the foursome to […]
More Evidence That Guccifer 2 Planted His Russian Breadcrumbs…
Newly discovered evidence suggests that Guccifer 2 deliberately planted Russian (and Romanian) language indications, but mistakenly left his system’s US/UK decimal point style settings in force. This argues against Guccifer 2 being either a native Russian (or a native Romanian). In a previous report, Guccifer 2’s Russian Breadcrumbs, we analyzed the 40/so documents that Guccifer […]
JULIAN ASSANGE SENTENCED TO 50 WEEKS IN PRISON, DAY BEFORE EXTRADITION HEARING…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for violating his bail and going into hiding at the Ecuadorian embassy, seven years ago, a sentence that comes just a day before a hearing is set to take place concerning his extradition to the U.S. Assange was sentenced on Wednesday after his […]
WikiLeaks Cites Evidence U.S. Seeking Capital Offense Case Against Assange
A letter sent by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to a former WikiLeaks staff member reveals US officials are attempting to put together a case against Julian Assange based on the Espionage Act. Crucially, conviction under the 1917 law geared toward protecting the nation’s military secrets and most sensitive security matters could result in […]
Trump Administration Identifies 36 Countries That Fail to Guard Intellectual Property, Emphasises China…
The Trump administration placed three dozen countries on an annual list of trading partners that “present the most significant concerns” regarding the lack of intellectual property (IP) rights protections. Among the worst, placed on the “Priority Watch List,” are Algeria, Argentina, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and Venezuela, according to a […]
Amazon’s Alexa Team Can Access Users’ Home Addresses…
An Amazon.com Inc. team auditing Alexa users’ commands has access to location data and can, in some cases, easily find a customer’s home address, according to five employees familiar with the program. The team, spread across three continents, transcribes, annotates and analyzes a portion of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa. The program, whose […]
Student Slaps Apple with $1B Lawsuit, Blames Facial Recognition Software for False Report…
A college student filed a lawsuit against Apple on Monday, alleging that the tech giant’s facial recognition software led to the teen’s arrest for crimes he didn’t commit. Ousmane Bah, 18, filed a lawsuit Monday for $1 billion, alleging that facial recognition software in the company’s stores falsely identified him as the criminal responsible for […]
I Used to Work for Google. I Am a Conscientious Objector…
“We can forgive your politics and focus on your technical contributions as long as you don’t do something unforgivable, like speaking to the press.” This was the parting advice given to me during my exit interview from Google after spending a month internally arguing, resignation letter in hand, for the company to clarify its ethical […]
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