All posts tagged "privacy"
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Controlling the Herd
Idemia: The Corporation Building Spy Grid in China, National ID in India Also Creates Drivers Licenses in the U.S.
August 23, 2018We see the stories about the growing surveillance state, but we don’t hear about the gigantic...
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Crime/Police State
How to Protect Your Phone Against a SIM Swap Attack
August 20, 2018A spate of hacked Instagram accounts. A $220 million lawsuit against AT&T. A bustling underground crime...
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Controlling the Herd
‘Dystopian Screenplay’? Twitter Considers ‘Off-Platform Behavior’ When Banning Hate Speech
August 9, 2018Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that the company reviews real world activity when dealing with accounts...
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Controlling the Herd
The Wiretap Rooms: The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight US Cities
June 25, 2018Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. In each...
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Controlling the Herd
Government Eyes Are Watching You: We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State
June 19, 2018Consider that on any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be...
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Editor's Choice
In Latest Privacy Scandal, Facebook Gave Apple, Amazon And Others Unprecedented Access To User Data
June 4, 2018Facebook has been giving user data to at least 60 major device manufacturers over the last...
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Crime/Police State
This Is How Amazon’s Alexa Records And Shares Private Conversations Without Your Permission
May 25, 2018As it turns out, the scandal over Amazon's Alexa voice-controlled personal assistant recording and sharing private...
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Editor's Choice
Family Removes Alexa Devices After a Stranger in Another Town Heard Everything They Were Saying
May 24, 2018While there have been multiple reports of homeowners who are concerned about just how much their...
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Editor's Choice
Google Removes “Don’t Be Evil” From Its Conduct As Employees Quit In Droves Over Project Maven
May 22, 2018This newly leaked video and ongoing support for Project Maven certainly might explain why Google has...
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Controlling the Herd
Sacramento Residents Outraged By Secret Drone Program Spying on Neighborhood
May 18, 2018“It just doesn’t feel good,” said Ben Allen. “It hovers around. You don’t know what they’re...
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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
Facial Recognition For ALL International Inbound and Outbound Passengers Begins at Orlando Airport — Data Retained for “75 Years”
May 1, 2018In the name of convenience and the promise of security, we are being converted into digital...
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Agenda 21
How The Internet Tricks You Out Of Privacy Using ‘Dark Patterns’
April 30, 2018Apparently, there are several tricks the internet uses to get us to give up our privacy....
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Controlling the Herd
5 Privacies You Didn’t Know You Lost
April 9, 2018If you think you’ve heard it all when it comes to the obtrusive police state panopticon,...
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Controlling the Herd
Facebook Scans Your Photos And Links You Send In Its Messenger App
April 6, 2018Shockingly, Facebook has now admitted that it scans its users’ photos and links posted on the...
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Editor's Choice
Facebook Believes ‘Most’ of Its 2 Billion Users Had Their Data Improperly Mined & Misused
April 5, 2018The personal information of 87mn users was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, the social media giant...
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Controlling the Herd
‘Sinister Legislation’: Cloud Act Passes Without Fanfare
March 26, 2018President Trump on Friday prevented another government shutdown by signing a $1.3 trillion federal spending bill....
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Crime/Police State
Facebook Has Been Storing Logs Of Phone Calls, Text Messages For Years: Report
March 26, 2018A number of people have reported that Facebook has also maintained a comprehensive record of phone calls...
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Controlling the Herd
Federal Ruling Could Set Dangerous Precedent Allowing Law Enforcement Access to WhatsApp
March 23, 2018A recently unsealed ruling shows a federal judge granted the U.S. government permission to spy on...
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Controlling the Herd
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media”
March 19, 2018NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the...
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Controlling the Herd
Digital Papers Please: New Reports of TSA Searching Computers and Cellphones for DOMESTIC Flights
March 13, 2018Naturally, tyrants don’t know the definition of limits, so we are seeing the TSA embark on...
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Crime/Police State
FBI Has Been Paying Geek Squad To Spy On Customers For Over A Decade
March 8, 2018For over a decade, the FBI had been paying employees of Best Buy's Geek Squad to...
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Controlling the Herd
How Government Lost the Crypto Wars (At Least for Now)
March 5, 2018Public-key encryption has brought a drastic shift in power from the state to individuals.
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Controlling the Herd
New Orleans Residents Used As Secret Test Subjects For Pre-Crime Police Technology
March 1, 2018The concept of “policing in the 21st Century” is not only the implementation of a range...
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Controlling the Herd
Silent Spy: Amazon’s Alexa Can Listen for More Than Just Its Name Even While in Sleep Mode
February 27, 2018The silver lining in all of this is that it may be a while before the...
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Controlling the Herd
Newly Released Documents Prove FISA Surveillance Court Spying on Innocent Americans
February 26, 2018The FISA Court is a glaring example of The Deep State. A secret court run by...
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Controlling the Herd
State Assumes All Homeschool Parents are Child Abusers
February 6, 2018This is one of the most heinous intrusions of privacy and violations of our Constitutional rights...
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Controlling the Herd
Breaking: House Votes to Renew Controversial FISA Surveillance Program, Trump Contradicts Himself on Twitter
January 11, 2018In a victory for the Trump administration (and a devastating loss for liberty), the House on...
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Controlling the Herd
ID2020: What You Need To Know
January 4, 2018ID2020 will be the database of all databases as it pertains to the most personal of...
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Controlling the Herd
FISA Extension May Lead To Government Shutdown
December 15, 2017It is unclear what legislative language reauthorizing the program will be attached to appropriations bills, and...
