Privacy & surveillance
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As many as 120 Americans commit suicide every day, which translates to about 45,000 deaths per year. Now, a breakthrough project has shown that machine learning may prove to be an effective method in predicting suicide attempts. The groundbreaking findings by researchers at Florida State University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center may help clinicians identify patients […]
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On March 7, 2017, State Senator Patrick Colbeck testified before the Michigan State House Energy and Technology Committee regarding House Bill 4220 which would allow homeowners to opt-out of having to use Smart Meters without incurring fees. He is hoping to, at best, keep so-called smart meters from becoming mandatory in Michigan homes as they […]
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One of the most dangerous words in America today is the word “offensive,” not because it’s used to describe something that hurts one’s feelings, but because of how it is used by the progressive Left. It goes without saying that the word “offensive” is a subjective term that can mean many different things to many […]
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Like junior G-men, are geeks peeking inside your computer in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures by the government and requires a probable cause standard for search warrants. Even the president of the United States claims his predecessor secretly bugged Trump Tower during the […]
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Does the private status of companies like Google and Facebook give them the right to attack alternative news sites such as NaturalNews.com and Alex Jones’s Infowars under the guise of combating “fake news”? Some might argue that under the tenets of capitalism, Google and Facebook are private services that people can choose to use or […]
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Amazon’s voice-activated virtual assistant, Alexa, may soon have the capability to identify who is speaking to it – a feature that will push the technology even further into the Big Brother realm. Voice recognition technology is nothing new, but Alexa will be the first voice assistant on the market to offer this feature. Amazon developers […]
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Not everyone can put down cash for a used car, let alone the shiny new leather and chrome monster trucks that could put you back sixty or seventy thousand dollars. With poverty levels increasing, more people are struggling to get decent transportation, which means they take out loans at rates that may be much higher […]
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June of 2013 was the first time the media began reporting on Edward Snowden, then a 29-year-old employee of the Central Intelligence Agency and a computer professional who stole and leaked top secret documents from the NSA regarding government spying and surveillance. Since then, Snowden has left the country to avoid media scrutiny and any […]
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One of two meeting that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak was orchestrated by the Obama State Department. In another tedious example of faux outrage, unhinged Democrats started calling for Sessions to step down after the purveyor of fake news, the Washington Post, breathlessly published a misleading report that the […]
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Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7” by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency. Article by wikileaks.org The first full part of the series, “Year Zero”, comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, […]
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The Main Stream Media and other enemies of the current President are challenging the proposition that President Obama wire tapped President Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential race. President Trump started this discussion with his tweets over the weekend. (Article by Joe Hoft republished from TheGatewayPundit.com) In his first tweet President Trump tweeted: Terrible! Just […]
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According to a 2013 report from The Washington Times, it was predicted that by 2018 the skies over America would be populated with over 7500 commercial drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). At that time, the U.S. was just beginning to salivate over the imminent adaptation of the weapon dispensing military drone technology for less deadly civilian purposes, like monitoring the weather, agricultural assessments, assisting […]
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The commercial release of always-listening electronic devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home has sparked newfound outrage over the idea that corporations, and even the government, can now secretly listen in on people’s private conversations. But truth be told, Google has already been doing this type of thing for years with its popular search engine […]
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Juice jacking in public settings such as coffee shops or airports is another potentially malicious digital privacy hack in our smartphone-addicted world where the search for a quick source of electric power is a constant. Consumers are apparently at risk for juice jacking when they use a USB port charging station rather than an AC […]
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The San Diego Police Department is in hot water after they illegally profiled and intimidated five African American minors into giving up samples of their DNA via mouth swabs. On March 30, 2016, five minors were walking through a park in southeast San Diego when a group of San Diego police officers approached, suspecting them […]
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