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Apple’s Mysterious New ‘Trust Score’ For iPhone Users Leaves Many Unanswered Questions
Apple’s Mysterious New ‘Trust Score’ For iPhone Users Leaves Many Unanswered Questions Like Facebook (and the Chinese Communist Party) before it, Apple is now assigning users of its products a “trust” score that is based on users’ call and email habits, the Sun reports. The new ratings were added as part of the latest iOS […]
Apple Is Now Giving People “Trust Scores” Based on Their Calls and Emails
Apple Is Now Giving People “Trust Scores” Based on Their Calls and Emails This information will likely not be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to Big Tech’s increasing propensity to violate the privacy of users and use their data for questionable reasons, but here we are. Two days ago, the tech […]
5 Articles Show How TPTB “Fix” You As Staked Goats
5 Articles Show How TPTB “Fix” You As Staked Goats Five recent articles exemplify the ever-increasing surveillance by TPTB (The Powers That Be) to “fix” you and I…in the manner of goats staked out to lure in the lion. In this case, the lion is a ravening wolf, performing his own staking in the guise […]
Living in a World Bereft of Privacy
Living in a World Bereft of Privacy As Edward Snowden confirmed beyond doubt, we live in a world where our most intimate moments can be seen by would-be extortioners and, more alarmingly, by our governments, says Annie Machon. A few days ago I first received a menacing email from someone calling herself Susana Peritz. She […]
Big Brother Surveillance Begins: Cuomo Unveils Facial Scanning At New York Toll Plazas
Big Brother Surveillance Begins: Cuomo Unveils Facial Scanning At New York Toll Plazas New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed on Friday that facial recognition cameras installed at bridge and tunnel toll plazas across New York City are scanning every driver’s face and feeding them into a massive database designed to catch suspected criminals. “When it […]
First of Its Kind University Study Proves Without a Doubt that Your Phone is Spying On You
First of Its Kind University Study Proves Without a Doubt that Your Phone is Spying On You For years, conspiracy theories about smart phones listening to users without their permission to show them advertisements have abounded. While some researchers have shown this could happen, a first of its kind study just found something far more […]
Google and Facebook Are Quietly Fighting California’s Privacy Rights Initiative, Emails Reveal
Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK ARE QUIETLY FIGHTING CALIFORNIA’S PRIVACY RIGHTS INITIATIVE, EMAILS REVEAL LOBBYISTS FOR THE largest technology and telecommunications firms have only three days to prevent the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, a ballot initiative that would usher in the strongest consumer privacy standards in the country, from going before state voters […]
How To Almost Completely Erase Your Digital Footprint
How To Almost Completely Erase Your Digital Footprint Although its almost impossible to completely wipe out your entire digital footprint as if you’ve never had access to the internet, but you can get close. If you’d like to make an attempt to completely remove yourself from the internet, we’ve got a few tips and tricks […]
In Latest Privacy Scandal, Facebook Gave Apple, Amazon And Others Unprecedented Access To User Data
In Latest Privacy Scandal, Facebook Gave Apple, Amazon And Others Unprecedented Access To User Data Facebook has been giving user data to at least 60 major device manufacturers over the last decade – including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung – as part of a data-sharing partnership program which allowed the companies to integrate various features such as […]
Edward Snowden on Privacy in the Age of Trump and Facebook
Photo: Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times/Redux EDWARD SNOWDEN ON PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF TRUMP AND FACEBOOK EXACTLY FIVE YEARS ago this week, Edward Snowden absconded to Hong Kong with a trove of documents detailing the extent of the U.S. government’s global and domestic surveillance programs. He soon found himself in exile in Russia and […]
Thousands In Sweden Have Implanted Microchips Under Their Skin
Thousands In Sweden Have Implanted Microchips Under Their Skin More than 3,000 people in Sweden have implanted tiny microchips beneath their skin to replace their credit card information, identification, keys, train tickets, among other everyday items, Agence France-Press announced Sunday. The implant, which is about the size of a grain of rice, utilizes Near Field Communication (NFC) […]
Is Social Media Destroying Humanity on Purpose?
Is Social Media Destroying Humanity on Purpose? You may not be on social media yourself, but chances are your friends and family are. Some of us are on there for work purposes and some so we can keep in touch with loved ones who live far away. There are valid reasons we have accounts on […]
Your Privacy Is Over
Your Privacy Is Over A plausible case for a future with no privacy, and why it should concern you Three Things Should Frighten You In China, the government is using data to control the country’s population. By building a firewall around China and then replacing the blocked global tech services with locally owned versions it can […]
