The National Enquirer has engaged in behavior so lowly and unscrupulous that it created a seemingly impossible storyline: the world’s richest billionaire and a notorious labor abuser, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, as a sympathetic victim. On Thursday, Bezos published emails in which the Enquirer’s parent company explicitly threatened to publish intimate photographs of Bezos and his mistress, […]
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Avoiding Social Media to Protect Your Privacy? Your Friends Still Put You at Risk, Study Finds…
“There’s no place to hide in a social network,” warns Lewis Mitchell, co-author of a new study which found that even if you don’t have a Facebook or Twitter account, your behavior can still be predicted with the online behavior of people you know. Many people haven’t signed up for Facebook or Twitter, or privacy fears […]
Huawei Tried to Steal His Technology, But He Was Working for the FBI All Along…
Adam Khan believed he had invented nearly indestructible glass that was going to revolutionize the technology industry. His “diamond glass” looked like ordinary glass, but was 6 times stronger than the industry standard. His plan, according to a new Bloomberg article? License the technology to phone manufacturers and turn a pretty penny for his company, Akhan Semiconductor, Inc. […]
Cisco Joins Other Tech Giants in Calling for a Federal Privacy Law…
Cisco yesterday “issued a call to governments and citizens around the world to establish privacy as a fundamental human right in the digital economy,” according to a Cisco press release. Other Big Tech companies have already endorsed drafting a federal privacy law, as reported by Ars Technica in Cisco, like Apple and other tech giants, […]
I’m Suing the Government. It Has a Problem With That…
A federal appeals court recently heard oral arguments in my lawsuit against former Attorney General Eric Holder, unnamed “John Doe” federal agents at the FBI and Justice Department, and others. At issue are the intrusions into my computers while I worked as an investigative reporter for CBS News, revealed by multiple forensic investigations showing use […]
FamilyTreeDNA Hands the FBI Access to Its Database…
There are plenty of reasons to be wary of at-home DNA testing, particularly if you’re concerned about genetic privacy. That’s especially true now that it’s come to light that FamilyTreeDNA, one of the largest private genetic testing companies, is cooperating with the FBI to give its agents access to its genealogy database. The partnership, first […]
Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts…
Sophisticated hackers have long exploited flaws in SS7, a protocol used by telecom companies to coordinate how they route texts and calls around the world. Those who exploit SS7 can potentially track phones across the other side of the planet, and intercept text messages and phone calls without hacking the phone itself. This activity was […]
Microsoft Blacklist: NewsGuard Warns Breitbart Is ‘Fake News’ 29 Times on Single Google Page…
NewsGuard, the browser extension that rates the “trustworthiness” of news outlets, and is run by establishment media figures along with former Clinton, Obama and Bush administration members, warns that Breitbart News is “Fake News” 29 times in one Google search. Newsguard, a news publication ranking extension endorsed by Microsoft and included as a standard extension […]
Illinois Homeowner’s Blood ‘Ran Cold’ as Smart Cameras, Thermostat Hacked…
A Lake Barrington homeowner hasn’t had a restful night’s sleep in 10 days, after he said his Nest home security cameras and thermostats were accessed by malicious hackers. “I couldn’t believe that these devices that I had put up in my home to watch over it, my family, were now being used against me,” said […]
Now Your Groceries See You, Too…
Walgreens is piloting a new line of “smart coolers”—fridges equipped with cameras that scan shoppers’ faces and make inferences on their age and gender. On January 14, the company announced its first trial at a store in Chicago in January, and plans to equip stores in New York and San Francisco with the tech. Demographic […]
Facebook and Twitter Removed Hundreds of Accounts Linked to Iran, Russia and Venezuela…
Facebook and Twitter both announced on Thursday they had taken down hundreds of accounts believed to have been part of coordinated influence operations from Iran, Russia and Venezuela. Facebook removed 783 pages, groups and accounts that it said posed as local actors in countries across Europe, the Middle East and south Asia and shared content […]
Facebook Pays Teens to Install VPN That Spies on Them…
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and […]
Another Apple Engineer Accused of Stealing Autonomous Vehicle Trade Secrets…
For the second time in six months, the FBI is accusing a Chinese national working for Apple of attempting to steal trade secrets related to the company’s secret autonomous vehicle program, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit learned Tuesday. Apple began investigating Jizhong Chen when another employee reported seeing the engineer taking photographs in a sensitive […]
Disastrous Apple’s FaceTime Bug Lets You Spy on Person You’re Calling…
Well this is a serious problem. A major bug has been discovered in iOS that lets a caller hear and see a person on the other end of a FaceTime call before the call has been answered. That’s right, this massive security screwup means you can take a digital peek into another person’s life — […]
Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools…
Our tool had let the public see exactly how users were being targeted by advertisers. The social media giant urged us to shut it down last year. A number of organizations, including ProPublica, have developed tools to let the public see exactly how Facebook users are being targeted by advertisers. Now, Facebook has quietly made […]
NewsGuard’s Advisory Board Has History of Fake News, Unethical Journalism…
NewsGuard, an anti-“fake news” service built into Microsoft’s Edge mobile browser, has an advisory board with a history of spreading inaccurate information, conspiracy theories, and engaging in unethical journalism. Four out of seven of the members on the advisory board are alumni from the presidential administrations of George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. […]
PayPal Blacklists Free Speech YouTube Alternative ‘BitChute’…
Payment processing service PayPal has blacklisted free speech YouTube alternative “BitChute,” stopping the platform from receiving or sending any money through its service, which BitChute used as its main payment processor. BitChute blames the action on its “stand against the current trend in censorship.” BitChute announced the blacklisting in a blog post, Wednesday, declaring, “A […]
Stone Indictment Underscores That There Was No Trump-Russia Conspiracy by Andrew C. McCarthy…
Roger Stone is the shiny object. The obstruction charges in his long-anticipated indictment, made public on Friday, are not the matter of consequence for the United States. Nor is the critical thing the indictment’s implicit confirmation that there was no criminal “collusion” conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. What matters is this: The indictment […]
Why Is This Man Spending a Single Day in Federal Prison: The E-Recycler…
It sounds like a scene straight out of the movies. Federal immigration and customs agents burst into an LA home, guns drawn. But the nature of the crime they were tracking will shock you. It doesn’t involve terrorism, murder, drugs or even illegal immigration. The target— was a recycling advocate. His incredible saga is today’s […]
Firefox Browser Introduces Anti-Tracking Privacy Settings…
In a blog post, Firefox’s Vice President of Product Strategy, Nick Nguyen, outlined the browser’s new privacy settings. “One of the features we outlined in our approach to anti-tracking was Enhanced Tracking Protection, otherwise known as ‘removing cross-site tracking’. We initially announced in October that we would roll out Enhanced Tracking Protection off-by-default. This was […]
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