Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Chicago: Police Build Profiles on People Who Speak at Public Board Meetings
July 24th, 2019Via: Chicago Tribune: Chicago police have for years compiled profiles on every citizen who spoke at public meetings of the city’s police disciplinary panel, a process that included running criminal background checks and internet searches on activists, a police union official and even relatives of an innocent woman killed in a high-profile police shooting, the […]
Russia’s Secret Intelligence Agency Hacked: ‘Largest Data Breach In Its History’
July 21st, 2019Via: Forbes: Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers have successfully targeted FSB—Russia’s Federal Security Service. The hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of data from a major contractor, exposing secret FSB projects to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape social media, and help the state split its internet off from the rest […]
U.S. Fast-Food Drive-Thrus Will Soon Use License Plate And Facial Recognition Technology
July 13th, 2019I like the picture at ZeroHedge of a morbidly obese person ordering slop at the drive-thru. Wow. Via: ZeroHedge: License plate recognition could be the new big thing at American drive-thrus, according to FT. Chains are now looking to deploy cameras that recognize license plates and help identify customers, personalizing digital menus and speeding up […]
How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox
July 6th, 2019Via: ZDNet: A step by step guide to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) support in the Firefox browser.
List of Alternatives to All Google Products
July 4th, 2019Via: TechSpot: With growing concerns over online privacy and securing personal data, more people than ever are considering alternatives to Google products.
Amazon Stores Alexa Transcripts Indefinitely, Unless Customers Manually Delete Them
July 3rd, 2019I wouldn’t believe that anything can actually be deleted from that thing. Via: IAfrikan: Amazon has confirmed that it keeps transcripts of users’ Alexa voice recordings indefinitely on its servers. The company also keeps Alexa voice recordings indefinitely. According to Amazon, customers customers do have an option to delete both the transcripts and voice recordings.
Trump Administration Considering Encryption Crackdown
June 28th, 2019pic.twitter.com/YMODD0Ffal — John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 28, 2019 Via: Cnet: As tech companies double down on promises to better protect users’ privacy, the US government may have other ideas. Senior Trump officials reportedly met Wednesday to discuss asking Congress to pass legislation that would stop tech companies from using encryption that law enforcement can’t break, […]
Google Struggling to Ban Video Exposing Use of AI for Social Engineering and U.S. Election Tampering
June 26th, 2019Google removed it from YouTube within hours. Then they got it removed from Vimeo. BREAKING UPDATE: @Vimeo has BANNED our account days after @YouTube PULLED our video. They keep citing "privacy violations." BEING EMBARRASSED BY LEGITIMATE INVESTIGATE JOURNALISM is not a "privacy violation." Video STILL ON BITCHUTE. DOWNLOAD + SHARE: https://t.co/chDsGF0QCk pic.twitter.com/HSrcJjaZ4H — James O'Keefe […]
Soon, Satellites Will be Able to Watch You Everywhere All the Time
June 26th, 2019Via: MIT Technology Review: Every year, commercially available satellite images are becoming sharper and taken more frequently. In 2008, there were 150 Earth observation satellites in orbit; by now there are 768. Satellite companies don’t offer 24-hour real-time surveillance, but if the hype is to be believed, they’re getting close. Privacy advocates warn that innovation […]
Alexa, Eavesdrop On My House All Day Under The Guise Of Protecting Me From A Heart Attack
June 24th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: Today in “Amazon’s reasons to listen to everything that’s going on inside your household” news, its being reported that products like the Amazon Echo could one day be used to detect signs of cardiac arrest, according to Bloomberg. The first signs of cardiac arrest are usually irregular gasps of breath, and researchers at […]
