All posts tagged "data mining"
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Controlling the Herd
Is Social Media Destroying Humanity on Purpose?
May 8, 2018Things are getting ugly out there in Internetland and it begs the question of whether social...
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Controlling the Herd
The Blowback Against Facebook, Google and Amazon Is Just Beginning
April 27, 2018The typical corporation can buy political influence, but Facebook and Google are manipulating the machinery of...
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Controlling the Herd
Connecting the Dots of Big Data, Soaring Corporate Profits and Trade Wars
April 23, 2018It's self-evident that we cannot possibly understand trade, soaring corporate profits, Facebook's data collection or the...
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Controlling the Herd
Is Profit-Maximizing Data-Mining Undermining Democracy?
March 19, 2018If targeting political extremes generates the most profit, then that's what these corporations will pursue. It's...
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Controlling the Herd
Facebook’s ‘Secret’ File on You Is Bigger Than You Think — Here’s How to View It
March 6, 2018Facebook’s user data gathering prowess has been common knowledge for some time now, but one journalist’s...
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Crime/Police State
School-Issued Computers Spy on Children in US Without Parental Consent – Digital Rights Group
April 18, 2017School-issued computer devices – provided to one-third of school children across the US – collect excessive...
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Controlling the Herd
Judge Orders U.S. Government To Release Classified Surveillance Files
December 28, 2016Proponents of digital privacy and government transparency scored a victory on Thursday as a federal judge...
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Camps and Detainment
TOTAL FASCISM: “No Cost” License Plate Readers Are Turning Texas Police into Mobile Debt Collectors, Data Miners
January 26, 2016In other words, the driver is paying Vigilant to provide the local police with the technology...
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Armageddon Scenarios
Google Accused of Spying on Schoolchildren, Data-Mining on 7 Year Olds in FTC Complaint
December 3, 2015"Minors shouldn’t be tracked or used as guinea pigs, with their data treated as a profit...
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Controlling the Herd
The Wolf Is Guarding the Hen House: The Government’s War on Cyberterrorism
March 21, 2015Nothing you write, say, text, tweet or share via phone or computer is private anymore. Surveillance...
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Controlling the Herd
Apple Admits Siri Voice Data is Being Sent to Third Parties
March 12, 2015Following controversy last month about Samsung transmitting spoken words to a third party, Apple’s terms of...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
Who Is Behind All These Fake ‘Interceptor’ Cell Phone Towers Being Found All Over the U.S.?
September 18, 2014Now several of these "rogue towers" have been located in D.C. around the capitol. Will anyone...
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Controlling the Herd
NY State Hires Bill Gates Firm to Collect Data on Children
February 22, 2014New York state authorities are outsourcing data collection on school kids. The program, which is to...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
White House Rejects Gov’t Report that NSA Bulk Data Grab Is Illegal and Useless
January 23, 2014So even the government's own board says the NSA's data stealing program is essentially useless, illegal...
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Controlling the Herd
Common Core scandal: Medical and disciplinary reports on children hacked
December 3, 2013As the Florida Department of Education and key Florida legislators move forward to implement Common Core...
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Controlling the Herd
Stanford researchers conducting study to find out what metadata can show NSA about your personal life
December 2, 2013Stanford researchers have launched a crowdsourced study relying on volunteers to hand over their data in...
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Controlling the Herd
Federal agency seeks to monitor 80 percent of U.S. consumer credit card transactions in 2013
September 14, 2013If accomplished, this would be yet another massive federal database containing the private information of Americans.
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Controlling the Herd
‘EvilOlive, Transient Thurible, MoonLightPath…”: The NSA’s Active Internet Spy Programs
June 28, 2013Almost half of those trillion pieces of internet metadata were processed in 2012, the document detailed:
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Controlling the Herd
Data mining firms admit to legislators that personal info is collected from social networks then sold
November 15, 2012The data mining industry is booming with no signs of slowing down thanks to increasing integration...