Facebook Wants A Facial Recognition Smart Home Device For Its Users
By Aaron Kesel Facebook is planning to announce a new home assistant device called “Portal” with a controversial facial recognition camera, Cheddar reported. This is…
Privacy
Apple Is Now Giving People “Trust Scores” Based on Their Calls and Emails
By Mac Slavo This information will likely not be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to Big Tech’s increasing propensity to violate…
Privacy Violation Alert: Google Admits To Changing Phone Settings Remotely
By Mac Slavo Google has apologized after admitting to changing the settings on Android users phones remotely and without the phone owners’ permission. Several Android…
New Mexico Suing Google & Twitter for Knowingly and Illegally Exploiting Children Online
By Matt Agorist As YouTube, Google, and Twitter crack down on peaceful channels, censor alternative media, and allow child exploitation videos to flourish, New Mexico has filed…
It’s Time to Break Up the Forced Child-Bride Marriage Between Solar, Sustainability, and Smart Meters
By Patricia Burke In 2009, utilities across the U.S. began installing new two-way wireless electric smart meters on homes. With economic stimulus funding from the…
Bulk Data Collection By NSA and GCHQ Violated Human Rights Charter, European Court Rules
By Aaron Kesel GCHQ surveillance revealed by Snowden breached privacy rights, according to Strasbourg judges. GCHQ’s methods for bulk interception of various online communications violated privacy…
New York City’s WiFi Hotspots Confirmed As Surveillance and Tracking Devices
By Kevin Samson Back in early 2016 I wrote about a plan for New York City to turn 7,500 payphones into WiFi hotspots. The program…
Privacy Concerns of “Mission Creep” with New Airport Facial Recognition Programs
By Nicholas West It’s a trend that is quickly becoming accepted reality – biometric identification at U.S. airports. So far, it has been marketed mainly…
The Future Of Mobile Drivers Licenses: Massive Profits And Loyalty Rewards
By MassPrivateI For years the mainstream media (MSM) has been pushing Mobile Drivers Licenses (MDL) on the American public. But now things are about to…
Responding to the “Nothing to Hide” Argument in Support of Mass Surveillance
By Michael Maharrey Whenever I talk about government surveillance, there is always “that guy” who claims if I’m not doing anything illegal I shouldn’t be…
Legal Circular Logic Prevails Regarding Utility Smart Meters In-home Searches
By Catherine J. Frompovich The residents of Naperville, Illinois, have been protesting the imposition of AMI Smart Meters and also have gone to court to…
Welcome To The Minority Report: Thousands Of Stores Plan Facial Recognition Use For Anti-Theft
By Aaron Kesel Hundreds of retail stores and soon thousands are investigating using biometric facial recognition software FaceFirst to build a database of shoplifters to…
Survey Says 66% of Americans Don’t Want to Live in “Smart Cities” Due to Cybersecurity and Privacy Concerns. So How Many Don’t Want to Be Exposed to Hundreds of Small Cell Towers, Wireless Sensors, etc.?
By B.N. Frank According to an August 13, 2018 guest post on SmartCitiesDive.com, 66% of Americans don’t want to live in a “Smart City” because…
Exposed: How Google Still Tracks You Even When “Location History” Is Turned Off
By Andrea Germanos (CD) — Android and iPhone users may be under the impression that Google is not tracking their location data if they’ve turned off “Location…