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The Bulletin: June 19-25, 2025
The Bulletin: June 19-25, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950 A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. – The New York Times IEA Doubles Down On Peak Oil […]
The Bulletin: March 13-19, 2025
The Bulletin: March 13-19, 2025 CLICK HERE The Great Gas Pipeline Caper of 2025 – by Terry Cowan BlackRock CEO Says American ‘Practicalism’ Can ‘Make Energy Great’ | The Epoch Times Some Psychology for Responding To a World in Chaos Can We Feed Ourselves Just out of Our Vegetable Gardens? The Lost Art of […]
Doug Casey on the Death of Privacy… and What Comes Next
Doug Casey on the Death of Privacy… and What Comes Next International Man: In practically every country, the allowable limit for cash withdrawals and transactions continues to be lowered. Further, rampant currency debasement is lowering the real value of these ridiculous limits. Why are governments so intent on phasing out cash? What is really behind this […]
Gov’t Can’t Be Trusted With Cellphone Tracking Amid Pandemic: Former Ontario Privacy Commissioner
A cell tower in rural Ontario in a file photo. (The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick) Gov’t Can’t Be Trusted With Cellphone Tracking Amid Pandemic: Former Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ontario’s former privacy commissioner is sounding the alarm about the government’s tracking of cellphone data to inform policy, after it was revealed recently that a federal agency has […]
Government Surveillance with COVID Microchips
Government Surveillance with COVID Microchips A microchip implanted under the skin that relays your private information to the government seems like a dystopian nightmare. The South China Morning Post announced that a company in Sweden has created the technology and is ready to distribute it to governments worldwide. Around 6,000 people in Sweden have already […]
What to Do About a Government That’s Always Watching Us
What to Do About a Government That’s Always Watching Us Two University of Maryland professors recently announced they developed a software program called “Geneva” that can protect people from the pervasive surveillance of their online activities by repressive governments like the People’s Republic of China. This will help Chinese citizens, but it is no solution […]
Canada Admits To Secretly Tracking 33 Million Phones During Covid-19 Lockdown
Canada Admits To Secretly Tracking 33 Million Phones During Covid-19 Lockdown Canada – which has a population of 38 million – has admitted to secretly tracking 33 million phones during the Covid-19 lockown, according to the National Post, citing Blacklock’s Reporter which first noted the disclosure. The country’s Public Health Agency (PHAC) did so to assess “the public’s responsiveness during lockdown […]
Here’s what data the FBI can get from WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more
Here’s what data the FBI can get from WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more Not every secure messaging app is as safe as it would like us to think. And some are safer than others. A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law […]
The FBI Can Access Your Personal Data in 15 Minutes
The FBI Can Access Your Personal Data in 15 Minutes (Click on image for higher resolution) The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) can legally access your “secure messaging app content,” according to a new report by The Epoch Times. In fact, it would only take officers about 15 minutes to access the contents of iMessages to collect […]
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, […]
Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy
Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy With many focusing on tomorrow’s Cyber Polygon exercise, less attention has been paid to the World Economic Forum’s real ambitions in cybersecurity – to create a global organization aimed at gutting even the possibility of anonymity online. With the governments of the […]
RCMP Secret Facial Recognition Tool Looked for Matches with 700,000 ‘Terrorists’
RCMP Secret Facial Recognition Tool Looked for Matches with 700,000 ‘Terrorists’ Emails expose the BC force’s previously unknown purchase, which broke rules. Critics worry about privacy, racial profiling and false positives. Documents obtained by The Tyee identify the BC RCMP as IntelCenter’s first publicly revealed facial recognition service client. The firm’s military, intelligence and law […]
