Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor
February 7th, 2025Via: MacRumors: The British government has secretly demanded that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud, reports The Washington Post. The undisclosed order is said to have been issued last month, and requires that Apple creates a back door that allows UK security officials unencumbered access to encrypted […]
RC-135 Rivet Joint Surveillance Jet Just Flew Unprecedented Mission Off Mexico
February 6th, 2025Via: The War Zone: A U.S. Air Force RC-135V Rivet Joint conducted a highly unusual flight in the Gulf of California yesterday, between Mexico’s Baja Peninsula and the rest of that country, according to online flight tracking data. The strategic intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) plane looks to have done the same today. The Rivet […]
OpenAI Debuts ChatGPT Gov for U.S. Federal Agency Use
January 28th, 2025Via: NextGov: OpenAI unveiled a new chatbot service specifically tailored to federal agency workloads, announcing ChatGPT Gov on Tuesday as the latest artificial intelligence solution intended for government operations. ChatGPT Gov, a large language model similar to the company’s original ChatGPT software, specializes in providing U.S. government agencies with a chatbot service specifically tailored to […]
Trump Signs Executive Order To Ban Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)
January 24th, 2025Except to the extent required by law… [???] Via: Bitcoin Magazine: Today, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, titled “Strengthening American Leadership In Digital Financial Technology”. This EO officially banned the creation and issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States, defining a […]
Trump Announces $500 Billion AI “Stargate” Plan for Texas
January 21st, 2025But wait, there’s more. Here’s Larry Ellison, standing next to Trump, talking about how they’ll use AI to make custom mRNA cancer vaccines: Larry Ellison, standing next to Trump: We'll use AI to make custom mRNA cancer vaccines pic.twitter.com/REOG6PWWP2 — cryptogon (@cryptogon) January 22, 2025 Mmm hmm. Also, Larry Ellison: Omnipresent AI Cameras Will Ensure […]
Zuckerberg Tells Rogan Biden Admin Would ‘Scream’ and ‘Curse’, Demanding Vaccine Information Censorship
January 10th, 2025And he did it, like a good Kapo: A kapo (German: Kapo) was one of the prisoner functionaries (German: Funktionshäftlinge), a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks. How many are dead because of this censorship? Never forget Zuckerberg’s participation in […]
Zuckerberg Ends “Fact Checking” on Facebook
January 7th, 2025Mmm hmm. Via: Fox: In a new video, Meta’s CEO announced that the company would adopt X standards and restore free speech protections across Facebook, Instagram, and Meta platforms. Meta will also end its third-party fact-checking program, introduce a ‘community notes’ system, and focus on removing criminal and fraudulent material—the very guidelines proposed by some […]
Orbit by Mozilla: “AI You Can Trust”
December 31st, 2024“Easily summarize emails, docs, articles, and videos across the web — without sacrificing your privacy.” Mmm hmm. In the first entry of Orbit’s frequently asked questions, “How does Orbit work?” we read: For the current version, we are using a Mistral LLM (Mistral 7B) hosted within Mozilla’s GCP instance. In case you don’t know, and […]
Apple Photos Phones Home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
December 28th, 2024Apple privacy: In case anyone thinks this is somehow an endorsement of Windows, see: Pointless Rant About Hopeless Situation. Via: Jeff Johnson: From my own perspective, computing privacy is simple: if something happens entirely on my computer, then it’s private, whereas if my computer sends data to the manufacturer of the computer, then it’s not […]
“The Paper Passport’s Days Are Numbered – Despite New Privacy Risks”
December 27th, 2024Via: Wired: In a matter of years, no matter where you live or travel, your face will likely be your new passport. For centuries, people have used some form of passport while moving from place to place. But the widespread standardization of passports as we know them today didn’t really begin until after World War […]
