The Guardian reported Friday that the US military is conducting a surveillance exercise across six midwest states using surveillance radars attached to high-altitude balloons. Sierra Nevada Corporation, an aerospace and defense company, filed for a Special Temporary Authorization (through July 12 to Sept. 01) with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fly 25 solar-powered spy […]
Oh Goodie: Satellites Could Soon Track Our Every Movement from Space…
Satellites could soon track our movements from space, allowing for surveillance on a mass scale that most people haven’t ever contemplated. Yet U.S. rules governing commercial satellite licenses require satellite companies to disclose the unenhanced data they collect to governments around the world. This week, EFF filed comments with the Department of Commerce and the […]
How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State…
AN AMERICAN ORGANIZATION founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China’s authoritarian government conduct mass surveillance against its citizens, The Intercept can reveal. The OpenPower Foundation — a nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives with the aim of trying to “drive innovation” — has set up […]
The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn’t Want You to Know…
Silicon Valley. Nestled in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, the Valley is not just a geographical location. It’s an idea. It’s an expression of the urge to digitize all of the information in the world, and to database, track and store that information. And as we are now beginning to learn, […]
Is This The Huawei & Chinese Intelligence Smoking Gun?…
Some reports are already calling it the ‘smoking gun’ in the ongoing conflict between Washington and Beijing centered on Chinese telecom giant Huawei, and accusations that it’s tied closely to Chinese military and intelligence, as a way for Beijing to infiltrate and spy on western governments and US companies. Now, a “massive trove” of newly […]
The Corbett Report: The 5G Network…
Telecom companies are currently scrambling to implement fifth-generation cellular network technology. But the world of 5G is a world where all objects are wired and constantly communicating data to one another. The dark truth is that the development of 5G networks and the various networked products that they will give rise to in the global […]
Here We Go Yet Again: NSA Again Exposed for Unauthorized Collection of Americans’ Phone Records…
Yet again, the National Security Agency has been exposed for “accidentally overcollecting” call-record metadata of millions of Americans. According to a WSJ report that relied on documents obtained by the ACLU, the NSA received metadata records from an unnamed phone company that the agency hadn’t been authorized to collect. According to the report, it’s unclear […]
Assange Legal Advisor: Pentagon Spearheaded Pursuit of WikiLeaks Founder…
Further evidence has emerged that the American military is playing a central role in the US pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over his role in exposing its war crimes and neo-colonial operations in the Middle East and around the world. Geoffrey Robertson, a senior legal advisor to Assange, revealed in a radio interview that […]
The Unholy Alliance Between DNA Sites and Facial Recognition…
Technology that was once only seen in dystopian science fiction is rapidly infecting real life. Two means of collecting personal data – DNA databases and facial recognition software – are forming an unholy alliance, and the privacy implications could be devastating. Privacy concerns surrounding DNA and facial recognition aren’t anything new. As the popularity of […]
Amazon’s Helping Police Build a Surveillance Network with Ring Doorbells…
If you’re walking in Bloomfield, New Jersey, there’s a good chance you’re being recorded. But it’s not a corporate office or warehouse security camera capturing the footage — it’s likely a Ring doorbell made by Amazon. While residential neighborhoods aren’t usually lined with security cameras, the smart doorbell’s popularity has essentially created private surveillance networks […]
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