Cory Doctorow | Boing Boing | Source URL After decades of back-and-forth over internet freedom, China has figured out a method for allowing people to use the internet for social and business purposes, but not for political reform — a combination of huge boiler-rooms full of censors, centralization of internet […]
Networks of New York author Ingrid Burrington points out all the devices around us that are watching our every move. Samantha Cole | Motherboard | Source URL If you live in a major metropolitan area, the odds are good you’re being watched and listened to at all times. And even […]
Verizon and other telcos have been selling phone location data to companies catering to marketers and low level law enforcement. Now, Verizon says it is cutting ties with certain firms that abused that data access. Joseph Cox | Motherboard | Source URL Verizon says it will stop selling customers’ phone […]
Marc Slavo | SHTF Plan | Source URL A California judge has ruled that social media giant Twitter can be sued for falsely advertising free speech. The judge said that Twitter’s policy of banning users “at any time, for any reason or for no reason” may constitute an “unconscionable contract” for a […]
B.N. Frank | Activist Post | Source URL There are more reports coming out from a variety of sources that overusing technology can cause addiction and other mental health issues in kids and adults. This is not a new issue. The latest heartbreaking story involves a 9-year-old UK girl: “She was so hooked to the game she wouldn’t even go to […]
Michael Maharrey | Tenth Amendment Center | Source URL LANSING, Mich. (June 17, 2018) – A new law banning “material support or resources” for warrantless federal surveillance programs went into effect in Michigan. This is an essential step every state needs to take at a time when the federal government seems […]
Aaron Kesel | Acitivst Post | Source URL Elon Musk claims that universal basic income (UBI) — essentially, free cash handouts — “will be necessary over time if (AI) artificial intelligence takes over most human jobs.” Those who proclaim themselves “socialists” are usually depressing, have no sense of humor & […]
Who What Why | Source URL Back when the existential competition between the communist USSR and the capitalist USA was reaching its fevered pitch, the CIA published a report on Communist bloc interrogation techniques — which it denounced as “police tactics which would not be condoned in a democratic country.” The 1956 […]
Nextgov | Source URL The company may soon begin to turn its decades-long robotics research into an actual business. At a technology conference in Hannover, Germany, Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, outlined how his company may soon begin to turn its decades-long robotics research into an actual business. […]
Nextgov | Source URL You’re in search of your roots, on a quest to uncover your ancestors. You submit DNA to a public genealogy service and in exchange get information about your people. Success! But from a constitutional perspective, in the U.S., you’re also abandoning evidence, which means criminal investigators […]
The Daily Mail | Source URL An intelligent machine capable of anticipating your next move minutes in advance sounds like the stuff of nightmares – but is now a reality. Researchers have taught an AI to recognise patterns in people’s actions, allowing it to accurately predict the next move in a […]
Reginald Dawson | Golden Nest What is the ideal roommate? Before I answer that question the word ideal is rarely, if ever, connected to the life of a TI. We endure intrusive focus that is difficult for the “ideal’ mind to ever conceive. Many of us are gang stalked 24 […]
Reginald Dawson Golden Nest Golden Nest specializes in offering clean, quiet, comfortable, affordable and SAFE rooms to rent. I, Reginald Dawson am a TI and thru extension understand many details necessary for Targeted Individuals to consider in the selection process. My ultimate goal is to develop existing properties into TI […]
Doug Stanglin | USA Today | Source URL A number of U.S. personnel in China have been sent back to the U.S. for further tests after health screenings found symptoms similar to the mysterious “acoustic” illness experienced by some U..S. staffers in Cuba, according to the U.S. State Department. The medical teams were sent to the […]
AP | Source URL WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has pulled out two more of its workers from its embassy in Cuba and is testing them for possible brain injury, three U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Friday, amid concerns they may have been affected by mysterious health […]
Dave Gershgorn | Quartz | Source URL Affordable consumer technology has made surveillance cheap and commoditized AI software has made it automatic. Those two trends merged this week, when drone manufacturer DJI partnered June 5 with Axon, the company that makes Taser weapons and police body cameras, to sell drones to local police departments […]
Five years after historic NSA leaks, whistleblower tells the Guardian he has no regrets Ewen MacAskill & Alex Hern | The Guardian | Source URL Edward Snowden has no regrets five years on from leaking the biggest cache of top-secret documents in history. He is wanted by the US. He is […]
Gary Robbins | San Diego Union-Tribune | Source URL Feel like earning a little extra money and maybe improving your health at the same time? Consumers will soon be able to sell or rent their DNA to scientists who are trying to fight diseases as different as dementia, lupus and […]
Lee Fang | The Intercept | Source URL FOLLOWING THE REVELATION in March that Google had secretly signed an agreement with the Pentagon to provide cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology for drone warfare, the company faced an internal revolt. About a dozen Google employees have resigned in protest and thousands have signed a petition calling for […]
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | Source URL The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that a device used to eavesdrop on cell phones and other electronic devices was detected near the White House, prompting concerns that it may have been used to spy on key government officials – including President […]
Homeland Security Newswire | Source URL Last month at a cybersecurity conference, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen previewed the May unveiling of DHS’s new cybersecurity strategy and issued a stern warning to cybercriminals. The new DHSCybersecurity Strategy was released 15 May. Nielsen said: “I have a news flash for America’s adversaries: Complacency […]
Cory Doctorow | Boing Boing | Source URL Uganda’s social media tax may be an unenforceable mess, but that doesn’t make it harmless (it opens the door to selective enforcement and invites programs of censorship and mass surveillance in the name of fighting “tax evasion”) but that’s only half of dictator Yoweri […]
RT | Source URL Google decided not to renew a controversial AI contract with the Pentagon after receiving backlash from its employees, reports say. The company’s staff earlier said they didn’t want the product to be used for war. Diane Greene, the CEO of Google Cloud, said the tech giant […]
Millions of businesses across the UK and Ireland are unable to accept Visa card payments because of a “service disruption” Caroline Donnelly | Computerweekly | Source URL Millions of shops and businesses across the UK are unable to process Visa card payments due to a nationwide outage in the Visa […]
The Daily Star | Source URL POWERFUL lasers capable of destroying aircraft have been tested in an awe-inspiring test demonstration, it has been revealed. The “Silent Killer” laser is able to obliterate unmanned drones from about 328 yards away. It is, however, only able to target slow-moving, low-flying, and small-sized […]
Kevin Samson | The Activist Post | Source URL Most people who are at least aware of The Internet of Things are inclined to believe that it is purely about connecting smart gadgets and appliances to a localized home network. However, The Internet of Things itself is just one component […]
Cory Doctorow | Boing Boing | Source URL Senator Ron Wyden [D-OR] has sent a letter to the DHS with his view that “nefarious actors may have exploited” the cellular phone system “to target the communications of American citizens.” He’s referring to well-understood vulnerabilities in the ancient, creaking SS7 messaging […]
CBS Philadelphia | Source URL PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Constant interruptions from alerts and messages on your smartphone can impact brain chemistry. It can be hard to concentrate when you’re always being diverted by your phone. It’s a pattern that scientists say creates something they call the switch cost. Research shows […]
USNI News | Source URL The Navy’s acquisition chief disbanded his unmanned systems office, not as a sign of decreased focus on its mission, but to nudge unmanned systems into becoming part of everything the Navy does. “I don’t want it to be misconstrued that we don’t think unmanned is important; […]
Karl Bode | Techdirt | Source URL I’ll admit that I traditionally haven’t been as paranoid as many people in regards to the surveillance powers of digital assistants like Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home. Yes, putting an always-on microphone in your home likely provides a wonderful new target for intelligence agencies […]