Amazon Working With Landlords To Put Alexa In Your Apartment Before You Move In
By John Vibes Amazon’s Alexa smart home gadgets are becoming more popular by the day, but there are still many people holding out on buying…
Privacy
“The Spark” Redefines Living in a Surveillance Society
By Janet Phelan In a quietly remarkable film, Stephen Shellenberger has opened up for us a wormhole into a subterranean world which few know exist….
Privacy Reset: UK Readies Digital ID Cards For British Citizens
COVID hysteria is being used to complete a system of total control. The UK’s ID system will be used as a COVID-19 passport as well…
Amazon Drone Deliveries: The Greatest Threat To Privacy Americans Have Ever Seen
Op-Ed by MassPrivateI Americans have not seen a greater threat to our privacy than the move towards drone deliveries. This includes Amazon Ring doorbells surveilling…
Judge Rules NSA Spying Program Revealed By Snowden Was Illegal, Useless Against Terrorists
By John Vibes This week, a federal appeals court ruled that the NSA’s controversial spying program was illegal – the same program Edward Snowden released…
FLASHBACK 2016: Privacy Invasion and Security Risks from Internet of Things (IoT) Eclipsed by Current Events
By B.N. Frank IBM recently warned about a flaw in millions of wireless Internet of Things (IoT) modules that can severely compromise medical devices and…
New Federal Court Rulings Find Geofence Warrants Unconstitutional
By Jennifer Lynch and Nathaniel Sobel Two federal magistrate judges in three separate opinions have ruled that a geofence warrant violates the Fourth Amendment’s probable cause…
Robocop Is Here — New Police Helmet Scans For Signs of COVID-19 and Uses Facial Recognition
By Jack Burns It took 33 years but Robocop is now here. Well, not exactly, but the rise of the police state fueled by advancements…
Sewage Surveillance of Students Helped Prevent COVID Outbreak Says University of Arizona
By B.N. Frank Scientists worldwide have been collecting and analyzing sewage in order to track the coronavirus through human waste. This now includes at the…
California: Tell Your Senators That Ill-Conceived “Immunity Passports” Won’t Help Us
By Hayley Tsukayama Californians should not be forced to present their smartphones to enter public places. But that’s exactly what A.B. 2004 would do, by…
Police Requests To Access Smart Speakers Are Up 72% Since 2016
By Tyler Durden Amazon said it had received more than 3,000 requests for smart speaker user data from police earlier this year, according to a…
If Privacy Dies In VR, It Dies In Real Life
By Rory Mir and Katitza Rodriguez If you aren’t an enthusiast, chances are you haven’t used a Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR) headset….
College Student Contact Tracing App Already Leaking Personal Data
By B.N. Frank Countless reports and expert warnings all seem to indicate that wireless and “smart” devices are vulnerable to surveillance and data collection by…
TikTok Secretly Gathered Android Users’ Device Addresses for Over a Year
By B.N. Frank U.S. cybersecurity risks do include A LOT more than TikTok. Nevertheless, some TikTok users now have plenty to worry about too. From…