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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 […]
While Fighting the Virus, We Must Fight for Our Rights
While Fighting the Virus, We Must Fight for Our Rights These governments around the world are trying to use the pandemic to smother freedoms. Don’t let democracy sicken and die. ‘The pandemic is killing more than people and economies. It has also come for our freedom.’ Photo via Shutterstock. Twenty-two million human beings have had COVID-19 […]
Government Can Already Track You Without Apps
Government Can Already Track You Without Apps People have no idea that the government can already track your movement and can determine if you are a protestor or not. A company named Mobilewalla released a report titled, “George Floyd Protester Demographics: Insights Across 4 Major US Cities.” It produced 60 pie charts detailing what percent […]
Taxing and Tracking the Independent Media: Censorship and Control
Taxing and Tracking the Independent Media: Censorship and Control One of the most heinous things about taxes is that they support the very “organs” (to quote a Soviet-era term) of government that crush the people…even further. The taxes are weapons used by the authorities…and all authority comes from the barrel of a gun (to paraphrase […]
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 […]
How to See the Apps Tracking You on Facebook — and Block Them
How to See the Apps Tracking You on Facebook — and Block Them (ANTIMEDIA) — Following a lengthy silence in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where it was revealed that a data firm was able to obtain personal information from over 50 million Facebook accounts, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally spoke out on Wednesday. “We have a responsibility to protect […]
Facebook Can STILL TRACK YOU Even If You Delete Your Account
Facebook Can STILL TRACK YOU Even If You Delete Your Account Facebook’s latest scandals involving Cambridge Analytica and Barack Obama’s campaign team allowed to break the user rules is prompting many to ponder whether deleting their Facebook account is the right move. But Facebook can still track you even if you delete your account. By connecting […]
The NSA Worked to ‘Track Down’ Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
Illustration: Tyler Comrie for The Intercept THE NSA WORKED TO “TRACK DOWN” BITCOIN USERS, SNOWDEN DOCUMENTS REVEAL INTERNET PARANOIACS DRAWN to bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency. Increasingly popular among get-rich-quick speculators, bitcoin started out as a high-minded project to make financial transactions public and mathematically verifiable — while […]
Staggering Variety of Clandestine Trackers Found in Popular Android Apps
Photo: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images STAGGERING VARIETY OF CLANDESTINE TRACKERS FOUND IN POPULAR ANDROID APPS RESEARCHERS AT YALE Privacy Lab and French nonprofit Exodus Privacy have documented the proliferation of tracking software on smartphones, finding that weather, flashlight, rideshare, and dating apps, among others, are infested with dozens of different types of trackers collecting vast […]
If You Care About Privacy, You Should Change Your Twitter Settings Right Now
If You Care About Privacy, You Should Change Your Twitter Settings Right Now (ANTIMEDIA) Since Wednesday, Twitter has been sending out emails and notifications to its over 300 million monthly users to inform them of changes to their privacy policy. The new policy, which goes into effect on June 18, includes changes to data collection, […]
House Passes Bill To “Microchip Citizens With ‘Mental Disabilities'” – Who’s Next?
House Passes Bill To “Microchip Citizens With ‘Mental Disabilities'” – Who’s Next? We’ve all been warned that it is coming, but as SHTFPlan.com’s Mac Slavo notes,what is disturbing is that while technology surrounds us and *some* have concerns about privacy, most shrug at the massive amounts of data they are collecting about our lives, and the incredible level […]
Privacy Concerns for ClassDojo and Other Tracking Apps for Schoolchildren – NYTimes.com
Privacy Concerns for ClassDojo and Other Tracking Apps for Schoolchildren – NYTimes.com. HUNTER, N.Y. — For better or for worse, the third graders in Greg Fletcher’s class at Hunter Elementary School always know where they stand. One morning in mid-October, Mr. Fletcher walked to the front of the classroom where an interactive white board displayed […]
