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Tech Giants Rely on Big Lies — and We Fall for Them
Tech Giants Rely on Big Lies — and We Fall for Them From ‘the cloud’ to ‘free’ services, we’ve been conned by tech babble. Remember when we spent our days “surfing” the “information superhighway?” The 1990s dotcom bubble, when some tech companies spent as much as 90 per cent of their budgets on advertising, brought a flood […]
Privacy Advocates Celebrate as Massachusetts City Becomes Second in US to Ban Facial Recognition Technology
Privacy Advocates Celebrate as Massachusetts City Becomes Second in US to Ban Facial Recognition Technology “The city is sending a bold statement that it won’t sit by idly while the dystopian technology further outpaces our civil liberties protections and harms privacy, racial and gender justice, and freedom of speech.” A display shows a facial recognition […]
Is Facial Recognition Destroying our Right to Privacy?
Is Facial Recognition Destroying our Right to Privacy? The recent Financial Times investigation revealed that Microsoft had collected discreetly a facial recognition database of some 10 million images of some 100,000 people. They apparently used it for facial recognition software. When the FT began investigating, Microsoft discretely deleted the database. The public dataset, called ‘MS Celeb,’ included […]
The Price of Participating in Society is the Sacrifice of Privacy and Self
The Price of Participating in Society is the Sacrifice of Privacy and Self In what is arguably one of the most craven opportunistic moves by a business/media group to increase its circulation/profitability, on 10 April the New York Times (NYT) embarked on what it describes as its Privacy Project. A day later on 11 April, no doubt […]
RCMP Has Yet to Complete Privacy Assessment on Social Media Surveillance Tech
RCMP Has Yet to Complete Privacy Assessment on Social Media Surveillance Tech Calling ‘Project Wide Awake’ a test lets police dodge assessments, says BCCLA. An RCMP spokesperson said the “Project Wide Awake” program is still in the design stage — which is short of “official” implementation that requires a report on effects to personal privacy. Micheal […]
RCMP’s Social Media Surveillance Symptom of Broad Threat to Privacy, Says BCCLA
RCMP’s Social Media Surveillance Symptom of Broad Threat to Privacy, Says BCCLA Micheal Vonn isn’t surprised by RCMP’s ‘Project Wide Awake’ — but she’s worried. It’s not surprising the RCMP is using sophisticated software to monitor the social media activities of Canadians, said Micheal Vonn, policy director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. But it […]
Apple has disabled group FaceTime calls after it was humiliated on Data Privacy Day by a bug that lets people listen in on you
Apple has disabled group FaceTime calls after it was humiliated on Data Privacy Day by a bug that lets people listen in on you Apple temporarily disabled group FaceTime calls after it was alerted to a major bug, which allows iPhone or iPad users to secretly hear what someone is saying before they answer the […]
How To Be Invisible On The Internet
How To Be Invisible On The Internet Everywhere you look, concerns are mounting about internet privacy. Although giving up your data was once an afterthought when gaining access to the newest internet services such as Facebook and Uber, as Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes, many people have had their perspective altered by various recent scandals, […]
Here’s Facebook’s Former “Privacy Sherpa” Discussing How to Harm Your Facebook Privacy
HERE’S FACEBOOK’S FORMER “PRIVACY SHERPA” DISCUSSING HOW TO HARM YOUR FACEBOOK PRIVACY IN 2015, RISING star, Stanford University graduate, winner of the 13th season of “Survivor,” and Facebook executive Yul Kwon was profiled by the news outlet Fusion, which described him as “the guy standing between Facebook and its next privacy disaster,” guiding the company’s […]
Surveillance Cameras Equipped With Thermal Imaging Allow Police To Identify People By Their Gender, Body Size And Skin Color
Surveillance Cameras Equipped With Thermal Imaging Allow Police To Identify People By Their Gender, Body Size And Skin Color BriefCam’s “Transforming Video into Actionable Intelligence” allows law enforcement and retailers to secretly identify people by their gender, body size, color, direction, speed and more. BriefCam’s Video Synopsis version V allows police and retail stores to use surveillance cameras […]
Canada Secretly Collected Banking Information From 500,000 Canadians Without Their Knowledge
Canada Secretly Collected Banking Information From 500,000 Canadians Without Their Knowledge As it turns out, Silicon Valley tech giants aren’t the only institutions surreptitiously collecting massive troves of sensitive data from unsuspecting consumers. On Friday, Canada’s the Global Times published a report exposing a recently launched data collection program adopted by StatCan, the Canadian government’s […]
The Future of Privacy
The Future of Privacy Roughly one hundred years ago, the people who “ran things,” – the drivers behind governments, big business and banking – formulated a concept which became known by a number of names, but, predominantly, as the “New World Order.” The concept was to put an end to unnecessary competition and warfare and […]
Empire of Lies: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
Empire of Lies: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age? “Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist utopia. The phrase was “useful idiots” and it […]
Freedom Where Did You Go?
Freedom Where Did You Go? My Generation is the last one to have known privacy and to have lived out most of our lives in freedom. I remember when driving licenses did not have photos and most certainly not fingerprints. A driving license was issued on proof of birth date alone. Prior to the appearance […]
Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
Illustration: Soohee Cho/The Intercept GOOGLE SUPPRESSES MEMO REVEALING PLANS TO CLOSELY TRACK SEARCH USERS IN CHINA GOOGLE BOSSES HAVE forced employees to delete a confidential memo circulating inside the company that revealed explosive details about a plan to launch a censored search engine in China, The Intercept has learned. The memo, authored by a Google […]
