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Saudis Use Orwellian App to Identify Dissidents, Imprisoning Some for Decades
Saudis Use Orwellian App to Identify Dissidents, Imprisoning Some for Decades FILE PHOTOS. (Credit: Facebook / @kamnapp; Saudi Media Ministry) Saudi Arabians are using a mobile app sold by both Apple and Google to snitch on their fellow citizens for dissenting against government authorities. As a result, activists and others are going to prison for […]
The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy “Under His Eye,” she says. The right farewell. “Under His Eye,” I reply, and she gives a little nod. By now you’ve probably heard that Apple plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system out to many of the more than one billion iPhones it has sold, […]
Congressional Testimony: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists
Congressional Testimony: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists A hearing of the House Subcommittee focused on anti-trust and monopoly abuses examines the role of the corporate media in these growing pathologies. Hearing of the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, Mar. 12, 2021 There are not many Congressional committees regularly […]
Second Chinese City Bars Residents From Leaving Their Homes, Apple Closes All Offices & Stores In China
Second Chinese City Bars Residents From Leaving Their Homes, Apple Closes All Offices & Stores In China Since our last update Friday evening, the situation on the ground in China has reportedly gone from bad to worse. The true extent of Beijing’s ‘quarantine’ has been exposed – and not just the ridiculously oppressive tactics exercised […]
Second Chinese City Bars Residents From Leaving Their Homes, Apple Closes All Offices & Stores In China
Second Chinese City Bars Residents From Leaving Their Homes, Apple Closes All Offices & Stores In China Since our last update Friday evening, the situation on the ground in China has reportedly gone from bad to worse. The true extent of Beijing’s ‘quarantine’ has been exposed – and not just the ridiculously oppressive tactics exercised […]
Darn, This Is Inconvenient: Apple Is Destroying the Planet to Maximize Profits
Darn, This Is Inconvenient: Apple Is Destroying the Planet to Maximize Profits Stripmining the planet to maximize profits isn’t progressive or renewable–it’s just exploitive and destructive. How do we describe the finding that the planet’s most widely-owned super-corporation is destroying the planet to maximize its smartphone sales and profits? Shall we start with “inconvenient?” Yes, we’re […]
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 […]
China Won’t Be Taking Over
China Won’t Be Taking Over Pablo Picasso Massacre in Korea 1951 In the New Year, after a close to the old one that was sort of terrible for our zombie markets, do prepare for a whole lot of stories about China (on top of Brexit and Yellow Vests and many more windmills fighting the Donald). […]
Stock Market Crash: The Dow Has Fallen Nearly 2,500 Points And FAANG Stocks Have Lost A TRILLION Dollars In Value
Stock Market Crash: The Dow Has Fallen Nearly 2,500 Points And FAANG Stocks Have Lost A TRILLION Dollars In Value Thanksgiving week was not supposed to be like this. Normally things are slow in the days leading up to Thanksgiving as investors prepare to gorge themselves with turkey and stuffing as they gather with family […]
Listening In to Killings – and Everything Else
Listening In to Killings – and Everything Else It was intriguing that the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 was apparently recorded in some fashion. The BBC reported that “A Turkish security source has confirmed to BBC Arabic the existence of an audio and a video recording. What […]
This Stock Market Is “Gradually” Rotting Under the Covers
This Stock Market Is “Gradually” Rotting Under the Covers And some of the rot is oozing to the surface. The sell-off on Tuesday didn’t weigh on the scale of sell-offs: The Dow, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq were down only around 0.5%, give or take a little. But in the broader sense, declines of […]
Australia Turning Really Authoritative? Is this How a Dark Age Begins?
Australia Turning Really Authoritative? Is this How a Dark Age Begins? The greed of governments in their pursuit of money is the single greatest threat to creating a Dark Age. With New Zealand imposing a $5,000 fine for just landing there and you refuse to hand over your pen and passwords to your phone for […]
Three Phases of Surveillance to Totalitarianism: It is Happening Now
Three Phases of Surveillance to Totalitarianism: It is Happening Now Over the past year and a half, I’ve written many pieces on the surveillance state and how we are one step away from the inculcation of technological “omniscience” pertaining to control. The objective is not simply “control,” as they have already obtained that for the […]
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 […]
