Cambridge Analytica rejects the allegations made in tonight’s Channel 4 News story regarding its business practices. The Channel 4 News report contained conversations between Cambridge Analytica senior executives and an undercover reporter posing as a Sri Lankan businessman. The report is edited and scripted to grossly misrepresent the nature of those conversations and how the […]
Trump’s Election Consultants Filmed Saying They Use Bribes and Sex Workers to Entrap Politicians…
Cambridge Analytica Suspends CEO Alexander Nix Amid Scandals…
Report: iPhone X’s Face Scanning Data Being Shared with Apps…
Apple’s iPhone X shares face scan data with third-party app makers, prompting privacy concerns. “Beyond a photo, the iPhone X’s front sensors scan 30,000 points to make a 3D model of your face. That’s how the iPhone X unlocks and makes animations that might have once required a Hollywood studio,” reported the Washington Post. “Now […]
How Facebook Made Money Dividing the U.S. Into Adversarial Political Subgroups…
Earlier this month Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos threw a twittertantrum over accusations that Facebook’s algorithms promoted fake news in its users’ feeds: “I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy, strawman tech cos,” he wrote. “Nobody of substance…
Court Rules Facebook Can’t Challenge Demands for User Data (and Can’t Tell Users)…
Facebook is not exactly the champion of user privacy, but at least in one case, the company did go to bat for its users. Facebook took New York law enforcement to court over secret warrants that allowed authorities to collect user data. Unfortunately, Facebook just lost their case in the New York courts. The court […]
‘A Great Thing’: Hackers Take Down Fifth of Dark Web, Post User Data Online…
A hacking group allied with Anonymous has infiltrated and shut down the servers of Freedom Hosting II, a Tor web host favored by creators and distributors of child pornography – however, a cybersecurity expert has told Sputnik law enforcement agencies may attempt to crack down on hackers as a result…
The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance…
The UK is due to pass its controversial new surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act…The Act formally legalizes a number of mass surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013… introduces a new power which will force internet service providers to store browsing data on all customers for 12 months…
Top 0.7 Percent of World’s Population Controls $116.6 Trillion of Wealth…
The most recent review shows that nearly half the world’s wealth — or about $255 trillion, which makes up 45.6 percent of the world’s wealth — is owned by a mere 0.7 percent of the world’s population. Meanwhile, 73.2 percent of the world only holds about $6 trillion of the world’s wealth…
iPhones Secretly Send Call History to Apple, Security Firm Says…
Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in many instances without user choice or notification…