Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri (R) and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut (R) are instructing the Justice Department to include Google’s search engine in its ongoing antitrust investigation of the tech giant Tuesday. “How Google operates its search engine warrants close scrutiny,” the senators wrote in a letter to Attorney General William Barr. “At more than […]
Google’s Creepy Line…
The Creepy Line is a particularly sinister term used in an unguarded remark by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in 2010. In hindsight, what is most disturbing about the comment is how casually he explained Google’s policy regarding invading the privacy of its customers and clients. “Google policy on a lot of these things,” Schmidt […]
Bad News for Silicon Valley: William Barr Is Taking Control of Antitrust Probes…
Attorney General William Barr has spent months taking greater control of the Justice Department’s antitrust probes into the big tech companies, a development that could increase the peril for major players like Google and Facebook. Barr has centralized oversight of antitrust matters under a handful of appointees in his office and that of his deputy […]
OPINION: Why Republicans Can’t Win in 2020 by Robert Epstein…
When it comes to election manipulation, left-leaning American technology companies make the Russians look like rank amateurs. No matter which weak candidate the Democrats ultimately nominate, and even with Russia’s help, President Donald Trump can’t win the 2020 election. For that matter, in races nationwide in which the projected winning margins are small—say, under 5 […]
Hackers Trick Tesla Cars into Speeding Up by 50 MPH with a Piece of Tape…
Researchers at McAfee reportedly used a 2-inch strip of tape on a 35-mph speed limit sign to trick two Tesla vehicles into misreading the signs as 85-mph and accelerating 50 mph to match the modified sign. The MIT Tech Review reports that two security researchers tricked two 2016 Tesla vehicles into accelerating 50 mph past […]
Why Did Twitter Just “Lockdown” WikiLeaks Account?…
Just hours after a secret meeting with Silicon Valley tech giants to discuss censorship of “misinformation” surrounding coronavirus, and just days before Julian Assange’s extradition hearings are set to continue, Kristin Hrafnsson – a WikiLeaks’ journalist – reports that the WikiLeaks’ Twitter account has been locked-down – WikiLeaks twitter account has been locked, shortly before […]
Your Phone Talks About You Behind Your Back. These Researchers Are Listening In…
When you download an app, the permissions requests and privacy policy are usually the only warnings you’ll get about the data it’s taking. Usually, you just have to take the app’s word that it’s grabbing only the data you’ve agreed to give it. Often, though, there’s more grabbing going on than you were led to […]
‘The Intelligence Coup of the Century’: For Decades, the CIA Read the Encrypted Communications of Allies and Adversaries…
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret. The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machines for U.S. troops during World War II. Flush with cash, it became a dominant […]
U.S. Warms up Its Own Old Spy Stories to Bash Putative Chinese Espionage…
40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition Is Threatening Democracy…
On Monday, forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on U.S. government use of facial recognition technology. The letter was drafted by the digital privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and signed by organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Color of Change, Fight for the […]
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