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Google Is Constantly Tracking, Even If You Turn Off Device ‘Location History’
Google Is Constantly Tracking, Even If You Turn Off Device ‘Location History’ Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Google is actually tracking you even when you switch your device settings to Location History “off”. As journalist Mark Ames comments in response to a new Associated Press story exposing Google’s ability to track people at all […]
A New Broadband Network is Pitching Surveillance Enhancements to Cops Across the Country
Photo: Erin Hooley A NEW BROADBAND NETWORK IS PITCHING SURVEILLANCE ENHANCEMENTS TO COPS ACROSS THE COUNTRY THE LATEST TECHNOLOGIES promise cops the ability to whip out a smartphone, take a snapshot of a passerby, and instantly learn if that person is in an immigration or gang database. A federal broadband program, designed after 9/11 to […]
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 […]
Silicon Valley Will Not Save You from the Surveillance State
Silicon Valley Will Not Save You from the Surveillance State There was something quite odd about the very welcome news that some Google employees were objecting to a military contract, namely all the other Google military contracts. My sense of the oddness of this was heightened by reading Yasha Levine’s new book, Surveillance Valley: The […]
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 […]
China Using Bird Drones To Spy On Border Muslims
China Using Bird Drones To Spy On Border Muslims Over 30 Chinese military and government agencies have been using robotic bird drones to spy on the population – particularly in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region which borders several countries and has a large Muslim population, reports the South China Morning Post. One part of the country […]
The Police State Takes A Giant Leap Towards Pre-Crime
The Police State Takes A Giant Leap Towards Pre-Crime If you think we still have privacy rights or a 4th Amendment you are living in the past. Technology has moved past our individual rights and technology is now determining what day and time a crime will be committed in your neighborhood and produce a list […]
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 […]
Congressional Democrats Demand Answers About Amazon’s Facial Recognition Technology
Photo illustration: Getty Images CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS DEMAND ANSWERS ABOUT AMAZON’S FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY REPS. KEITH ELLISON, D-Minn., and Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Friday morning, demanding answers about how the tech giant’s facial recognition technology is being used by law enforcement agencies around the country. The letter, provided […]
Rulers, ‘Foolers,’ and Shooters: They’re Closing the Cage in Plain Sight
Rulers, ‘Foolers,’ and Shooters: They’re Closing the Cage in Plain Sight A picture that has been around awhile depicts Homo sapiens society at its finest…as it truly is. There are four “tiers,” so to speak, with the politicians, royalty, and rulers occupying the uppermost level, followed by the clergymen and religious swamis on tier two, […]
Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score”
Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score” China is creating Kafka’s nightmare world as the perfection of centralized control of its citizenry. China is rapidly building out a Total Surveillance State on a scale that far surpasses any government surveillance program in the West. The scope of this surveillance is so broad and pervasive that […]
Tripling Its Collection, NSA Sucked Up Over 530 Million US Phone Records in 2017
Tripling Its Collection, NSA Sucked Up Over 530 Million US Phone Records in 2017 “Overall, the numbers show that the scale of warrantless surveillance is growing at a significant rate,” says POGO’s Jake Laperruque. In 2017, the NSA tripled the amount of data it collected from U.S. phones. (Image EFF Photos/flickr/cc) The National Security Agency […]
Why We Have a Surveillance State
Why We Have a Surveillance State It is the inevitable consequence of our prevailing governing philosophy. “Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.” Henry Stimson, Secretary of State, 1929 I was upbraided recently by a dear friend for my frequent praise of outcast investor Peter Thiel over Thiel’s involvement with big data company Palantir. He […]
