Mass Private I | Source URL Sometimes I have trouble coming up with a title for one of my articles, but this one came easy because the two companies involved in this article helped create it. A New York based company called Vuzix along with a UAE software company called NNTC, […]
New York Daily News | Source URL A Bronx teen says two NYPD cops roughed him up and then stalked him after a judge dismissed and sealed his arrest. Kymani Johnson’s ordeal prompted his attorney to send a letter on Wednesday to Police Commissioner James O’Neill demanding the two officers […]
Stephen L. Carter | Bloomberg Op-ed | Source URL Amazon’s patent application for an always-on feature for Alexa, its popular voice-activated personal assistant, has raised a lot of concern. “If you’re already freaked out by the privacy implications of smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo,” says Gizmodo, “we have some bad […]
Mike Adams | Natural News | Source URL When Google croaked over the weekend, a cascading tidal wave of web services came crashing down, including the Google cloud, Gmail, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and even portions of Amazon. Google owns the “Nest” brand which promises “smart home” functionality to control your […]
Tim Cushing | TechDirt | Source URL To go to school is to be surveilled, on campus and off. The average school hosts a number of cameras, and the average school administration is always looking for more ways to keep tabs on students, even after they’ve gone home. The move […]
Aaron Kesel | Activist Post | Source URL The Customs And Border Protection (CBP) has hilariously claimed that its facial recognition in airports across the U.S. isn’t a surveillance program, Nextgov reported. Meanwhile, a government watchdog organization has made the horrifying claim that the FBI has 640 million photographs it can rummage through […]
Laura Valkovic | Liberty Nation | Source URL Such a benign and banal part of the urban landscape that city-dwellers may not even notice them, street lights are useful for brightening up a road and not much else – or so you might think. People these days are used to […]
James Pero | The Daily Mail | Source URL In some neighborhoods across the U.S., police are leveraging the growth of home security devices like cameras sold by the Amazon-owned Ring to establish vast surveillance networks. According to a report from CNET, more than 50 local police departments across the […]
Matthew Nelson | ExecutiveBiz | Source URL The Department of Homeland Security has selected eight companies to further develop unmanned aerial system, in-building sensor and communications technology prototypes under the second phase of the Smart Cities Internet of Things Innovation Labs initiative. DHS said Wednesday its operational units, industry partners and first […]
Mass Private I | Source URL Have you ever had too much to drink at a bar or nightclub and been asked to leave? Have you or your friends ever mouthed off to the staff or been hit on by a bartender? Have you ever Yelped or Tweeted about bad […]
AP News | Source URL MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is requiring dating app Tinder to hand over data on its users — including messages — to the national intelligence agencies, part of the country’s widening crackdown on internet freedoms. The communications regulator said Monday that Tinder was included on a […]
Marc Slavo | SHTFPlan.com | Source URL We are staring our Orwellian future right in the face. Beginning in New York, facial recognition is coming to schools in the United States and it’ll be switched on for testing next week. The dystopian future George Orwell warned about in his accidental […]
