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Majority of Americans Don’t Trust Tech Companies with Contact-Tracing…

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With the idea of contact tracing as a plan to help re-open businesses and stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, many Americans are skeptical about their privacy and how much data these tracing tools will collect on their lives. In a joint survey between the Washington Post and the University of Maryland, only 43 […]

Bi-Partisan Police State: While All Eyes Were on Impeachment Inquiry Hearing, House Democrats Quietly Re-Authorized PATRIOT Act…

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House Democrats have slipped an unqualified renewal of the draconian PATRIOT Act into an emergency funding bill – voting near-unanimously for sweeping surveillance carte blanche that was the basis for the notorious NSA program. A three-month reauthorization of the notorious PATRIOT Act was shoehorned into a last-minute continuing resolution (CR) funding the US government, bundling […]

Edward Snowden: ‘It is not data that is being exploited, it’s people’…

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Edward Snowden urged tech companies to challenge the practice of widespread data collection by corporations in a speech on Monday, saying not enough progress has been made since he blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) data scrapping in 2013. Speaking via video link at the opening of the Web Summit conference in […]

Without Encryption, We Will Lose Privacy. This Is Our New Battleground by Edward Snowden…

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In every country of the world, the security of computers keeps the lights on, the shelves stocked, the dams closed, and transportation running. For more than half a decade, the vulnerability of our computers and computer networks has been ranked the number one risk in the US Intelligence Community’s Worldwide Threat Assessment – that’s higher […]

Watch Steve Jobs Assure Americans in 1981 That Computers Wouldn’t Be a Privacy Nightmare…

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From the perspective of the early 21st century, it’s safe to say that computers have been a privacy nightmare. Our world is so interconnected by machines, that corporations, governments, and almost anyone can find out almost anything they want about an average citizen thanks to our digital footprints. But the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs […]

Expert Warns Against Using Amazon Alexa to Make Donations to 2020 Candidates…

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Want to see your favorite 2020 candidate on the next debate stage? Now you have the option of donating to their campaign through e-commerce giant Amazon’s Alexa-enabled devices — but experts caution your privacy could be at risk. Under a new feature called Alexa Political Contributions, starting on Thursday Amazon will let Americans donate to […]

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