An interesting new study has revealed that exposure to electromagnetic frequencies, or EMFs, from cell phones, has a significant effect on human blood…
Big Data Knows ALL About You…
Privacy specialist Naomi Brockwell takes a look at John Stossel’s iPhone and tells him to delete many of his apps. Why? Because they spy on you….
There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data…
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’smovements…
Don’t Let Apple Off the Hook: The Big Tech Censor Nobody Talks About…
There are effectively only two players in the app store space: Apple, and Google, which operates Google Play on its Android devices. Apple is notorious for exerting significant editorial control over the content in its app store, while Google tends to be more permissive…
9 Android Apps On Google Play Caught Distributing AlienBot Banker and MRAT Malware…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malware dropper contained in as many as 9 Android apps distributed via Google Play Store that deploys a second stage malware capable of gaining intrusive access to the financial accounts of victims as well as full control of their devices…
Mystery ‘COVID-19 Exposure Logging’ Function ‘Appears in Settings on iPhones and Android Devices’…
The features allow for contact tracing when the connecting phone apps are downloaded. To access the COVID logging feature on iPhones, users must go under “settings,” then click on “privacy,” and lastly “health.” Android users can reportedly access the secretive feature by clicking “settings,” then google, and then “settings” again. According to the feature: “When […]
Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You Closer Than Ever…
Among the mega-corporations that surveil you, your cellphone carrier has always been one of the keenest monitors, in constant contact with the one small device you keep on you at almost every moment. A confidential Facebook document reviewed by The Intercept shows that the social network courts carriers, along with phone makers — some 100 […]
I Spy: How Android Phones Keep Tabs on Our Every Move…
As a consumer, you buy a new Android cellphone. It could be any brand, but it is likely to be an Android as they account for more than 80% of today’s cellphone market. You open the box, press the “On” button and the phone connects to the internet. Without further ado, you have just triggered […]
Your Phone and TV Are Tracking You, and Political Campaigns are Listening In…
It was a crowded primary field and Tony Evers, running for governor, was eager to win the support of officials gathered at a Wisconsin state Democratic Party meeting, so the candidate did all the usual things: He read the room, he shook hands, he networked. Then he put an electronic fence around everyone there. The […]
Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers…
Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users’ searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier for the Chinese government to monitor people’s queries, The Intercept can reveal. The search engine, codenamed Dragonfly, was designed for Android devices, and would remove content deemed sensitive by China’s ruling […]