While their appetite for information is high, a historic low percentage of Americans are paying for news as they turn ever increasingly to digital providers of free media. The latest Pew Research Center survey found that just 1-in-10 have coughed up a cent for any kind of news in the last year. “When it comes […]
LEAKED AUDIO: Google Discusses ‘Steering’ the Conservative Movement…
Google’s senior director of U.S. public policy, Adam Kovacevich appeared to describe the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a “sideshow Circus,” in a leaked audio recording in which he also argued that Google should remain a sponsor of the conference to “steer” the conservative movement “away from nationalistic and incendiary comments.” The comments came […]
Internal Facebook Document Leak Shows How Company Planned to Sell User Data…
Leaked Facebook documents including court filings and internal discussions by Facebook employees reveal how the company planned to sell user data for profit. In 2018, the U.K. Parliament used its legal powers to obtain a number of internal Facebook documents as it attempted to hold the social media giant accountable for the Cambridge Analytica data scandal which saw […]
Huawei Tried to Steal His Technology, But He Was Working for the FBI All Along…
Adam Khan believed he had invented nearly indestructible glass that was going to revolutionize the technology industry. His “diamond glass” looked like ordinary glass, but was 6 times stronger than the industry standard. His plan, according to a new Bloomberg article? License the technology to phone manufacturers and turn a pretty penny for his company, Akhan Semiconductor, Inc. […]
Cisco Joins Other Tech Giants in Calling for a Federal Privacy Law…
Cisco yesterday “issued a call to governments and citizens around the world to establish privacy as a fundamental human right in the digital economy,” according to a Cisco press release. Other Big Tech companies have already endorsed drafting a federal privacy law, as reported by Ars Technica in Cisco, like Apple and other tech giants, […]
Prisons Across the U.S. Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints…
Roughly six months ago at New York’s Sing Sing prison, John Dukes says he was brought out with cellmates to meet a corrections counselor. He recalls her giving him a paper with some phrases, and offering him a strange choice: He could go up to the phone and utter the phrases that an automated voice […]
Microsoft Blacklist: NewsGuard Warns Breitbart Is ‘Fake News’ 29 Times on Single Google Page…
NewsGuard, the browser extension that rates the “trustworthiness” of news outlets, and is run by establishment media figures along with former Clinton, Obama and Bush administration members, warns that Breitbart News is “Fake News” 29 times in one Google search. Newsguard, a news publication ranking extension endorsed by Microsoft and included as a standard extension […]
Illinois Homeowner’s Blood ‘Ran Cold’ as Smart Cameras, Thermostat Hacked…
A Lake Barrington homeowner hasn’t had a restful night’s sleep in 10 days, after he said his Nest home security cameras and thermostats were accessed by malicious hackers. “I couldn’t believe that these devices that I had put up in my home to watch over it, my family, were now being used against me,” said […]
Now Your Groceries See You, Too…
Walgreens is piloting a new line of “smart coolers”—fridges equipped with cameras that scan shoppers’ faces and make inferences on their age and gender. On January 14, the company announced its first trial at a store in Chicago in January, and plans to equip stores in New York and San Francisco with the tech. Demographic […]
Disastrous Apple’s FaceTime Bug Lets You Spy on Person You’re Calling…
Well this is a serious problem. A major bug has been discovered in iOS that lets a caller hear and see a person on the other end of a FaceTime call before the call has been answered. That’s right, this massive security screwup means you can take a digital peek into another person’s life — […]
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