Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Starlink Mini
June 21st, 2024SpaceX is rolling out the Starlink Mini; a portable Starlink groundstation roughly the size of a laptop computer. Musk said, “This product will change the world.” I can see how that could be true in some ways, in theory. But here’s the unpleasant part: This will enable the fielding of a wide variety of autonomous […]
Migration 5: Five Eyes Biometric Data Sharing, “Known to One, Known to All”
June 20th, 2024“They are locking this place down, and it’s going to be for everyone.” Via: Radio New Zealand: What started as a scheme to check the identities of a few thousand asylum seekers has spiraled into a vast network of data about everyone who comes and goes from the ‘Five Eyes’ nations. … Instead of keeping […]
Former NSA Director Joins OpenAI; Will Serve On Board And “Security” Committee
June 14th, 2024Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model: This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial. OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible. OpenAI is probably able to review […]
Apple Intelligence
June 10th, 2024“Your requests and information will not be logged.” Mmm hmm. pic.twitter.com/KEH013QA8Y — cryptogon (@cryptogon) June 11, 2024 Via: The Verge: Apple announced “Apple Intelligence” at WWDC 2024, its name for a new suite of AI features for the iPhone, Mac, and more. Starting later this year, Apple is rolling out what it says is a […]
Adobe: “We May Access Your Content Through Both Automated and Manual Methods, Such as for Content Review”
June 7th, 2024Madness. Via: Venture Beat: In particular, users have objected to Adobe’s claims that it “may access, view, or listen to your Content through both automated and manual methods…using techniques such as machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software and the user experience,” which many took to be a tacit admission both of […]
Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash
June 7th, 2024Via: Wired: When Microsoft named its new Windows feature Recall, the company intended the word to refer to a kind of perfect, AI-enabled memory for your device. Today, the other, unintended definition of “recall”—a company’s admission that a product is too dangerous or defective to be left on the market in its current form—seems more […]
Want to Pay Cash? That’ll Cost You Extra
June 6th, 2024Via: Wall Street Journal: Paying with cash used to be a way to get a discount. These days it can often cost an extra $1 to $6—the sort of transaction fees once limited to swiping a credit card or using an out-of-network ATM. Reverse ATMs like those at Yankee Stadium are now common at cashless […]
Windows AI Feature that Screenshots Everything: A Security ‘Disaster’
June 3rd, 2024My commentary from from last month sums it up: This looks like a built-in retroactive surveillance feature that law enforcement and intelligence agencies will love. The article indicates that the “Recall” feature is activated by default, but also that it can apparently be turned off. Via: The Verge: Microsoft is about to launch a new […]
Brain Damage from Smartphones
June 1st, 2024This isn’t news to any of you at this point, but maybe it could come in handy if you’re trying to help someone deal with this, or warning someone with young children about the dangers of social media. I love the snowflakes going to “dumbphones” in an attempt to heal their dopamine addled brains. haha […]
Von der Leyen Vows To ‘Vaccinate’ EU Population Against Disinformation
May 28th, 2024Via: The People’s Voice: Von der Leyen Vows To ‘Vaccinate’ EU Population Against ‘Wrongthink’People in society who hold views that contradict the globalist narrative must have their minds “inoculated” against “wrongthink” according to European Commission President Ursula Von der LeyenSpeaking at the… pic.twitter.com/qICbZY8y6n — Camus (@newstart_2024) May 28, 2024 As technology evolves, we need to […]
