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Wild Ride to Nowhere Since Jan 2018: What the US Stock Market Looks Like Minus APPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, FB
Wild Ride to Nowhere Since Jan 2018: What the US Stock Market Looks Like Minus APPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, FB Entire market of 3,451 stocks minus “Giant 5” is down 1% from Jan 2018. But wow, the volatility! You would have been better off with a despicable freaking savings account. The market capitalization of the […]
The Future is Up for Grabs
The Future is Up for Grabs When it comes to cashing in on Covid-19, the race has just begun. Whether you’re talking about education or contact tracing or medicine or mind control, an anti-democratic, dystopian future is being charted while we the people are locked down, locked up and locked out. Naomi Klein’s latest piece, […]
Big Tech & Big Brother Are Going to Join Forces to “Secure Elections”
BIG TECH & BIG BROTHER ARE GOING TO JOIN FORCES TO “SECURE ELECTIONS” Security teams for Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft met with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence’s office to coordinate a strategy to “secure” the 2020 elections. And by “secure” they mean to manipulate the results […]
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 […]
Social Media Titans Holding Private Meeting To Coordinate Strategy For 2018 Midterms
Social Media Titans Holding Private Meeting To Coordinate Strategy For 2018 Midterms Representatives from around a dozen US tech titans are holding a private Friday meeting at Twitter headquarters to coordinate their efforts ahead of the 2018 US midterm elections, reports BuzzFeed News. Last week, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited employees from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, and […]
Amazon’s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism’s Drift to Neo-Fascism
Amazon’s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism’s Drift to Neo-Fascism In Part 1 of our investigative series on Surveillance Capitalism, MPN spoke to author Yasha Levine and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster about the rise of the Amazon.com empire and its fusion with the U.S. state apparatus. In our next installments, we will continue […]
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 […]
Trump Administration Lobbying Hard for Sweeping Surveillance Law
Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOBBYING HARD FOR SWEEPING SURVEILLANCE LAW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is pushing hard for the reauthorization of a key 2008 surveillance law — section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA — three months before it sunsets in December. To persuade senators to reauthorize the law in full, […]
Recently Bought a Windows Computer? Microsoft Probably Has Your Encryption Key
RECENTLY BOUGHT A WINDOWS COMPUTER? MICROSOFT PROBABLY HAS YOUR ENCRYPTION KEY One of the excellent features of new Windows devices is that disk encryption is built-in and turned on by default, protecting your data in case your device is lost or stolen. But what is less well-known is that, if you are like most users and login […]
Why Big Tech May Be Getting Too Big
Why Big Tech May Be Getting Too Big Conservatives and liberals interminably debate the merits of “the free market” versus “the government.” Which one you trust more delineates the main ideological divide in America. In reality, they aren’t two separate things and there can’t be a market without government. Legislators, agency heads and judges decide […]
The Surveillance State Goes Mainstream: Windows 10 Is Watching (& Logging) Everything
The Surveillance State Goes Mainstream: Windows 10 Is Watching (& Logging) Everything If Edward Snowden’s patriotic exposure of all things ‘super secret surveillance state’ in America were not enough, Newsweek reports that, as 10s of millions of hungry PC users download the free upgrade, Windows 10 is watching – and logging and sharing – everything users do… and […]
Microsoft Gives Details About Its Controversial Disk Encryption
Microsoft Gives Details About Its Controversial Disk Encryption Recently, I wrote a guide explaining how to encrypt your laptop’s hard drive and why you should do so. For the benefit of Windows users, I gave instructions for turning on BitLocker, Microsoft’s disk encryption technology. This advice generated an immediate backlash in the comments section underneath the post, […]
