Did you submit your DNA? GlaxoSmithKline teams up with 23andMe
Popular spit-in-a-tube genetics-testing companies like Ancestry and 23andMe can — and frequently do — sell your data to drugmakers. But on Wednesday, one of those partnerships became much more...
View ArticleChina’s Orwellian Social Credit Score has already banned 11 million flights...
The “Beijing Further Optimization of the Business Environment Action Plan (2018-2020)” has just been distributed to all district committees, district governments, municipal party committees, local...
View ArticleInsurance companies are spying on patients through their sleep apnea machines...
Last March, Tony Schmidt discovered something unsettling about the machine that helps him breathe at night. Without his knowledge, it was spying on him. From his bedside, the device was tracking when...
View ArticleAmnesty International To Stage Worldwide Protests Against Google’s...
Amnesty International has announced a new protest campaign calling on Google to cancel its controversial plan to launch a censored search engine in China. The human rights group on Monday launched a...
View ArticleSurveillance cameras equipped with thermal imaging allow police to identify...
BriefCam’s “Transforming Video into Actionable Intelligence” allows law enforcement and retailers to secretly identify people by their gender, body size, color, direction, speed and more. BriefCam’s...
View ArticleSurveillance cameras equipped with thermal imaging allow police to identify...
BriefCam’s “Transforming Video into Actionable Intelligence” allows law enforcement and retailers to secretly identify people by their gender, body size, color, direction, speed and more. BriefCam’s...
View ArticleBillboards are using sensors to identify, target and track individuals
I can’t believe this has to be said (again), but cyberpunk was meant as a warning, not a business plan. It turns out that you need very few identifiers to make a guess about who…
View ArticleBusinesses using fingerprint scanners to monitor their workforce can legally...
Businesses using fingerprint scanners to monitor their workforce can legally sack employees who refuse to hand over biometric information on privacy grounds, the Fair Work Commission has ruled. The...
View ArticleScientists Urge World To Share DNA In Centralized Database “For Your Protection”
Between the ever-encroaching eye of Big Brother, the imminent events of pre-crime AI, the exposure of tech behemoth privacy contempt, and the inevitable ‘hack’ of any and everything online, it is...
View ArticleThe Elite Are Creating An Authoritarian ‘Beast System’, And Those That...
They are transforming the Internet into the greatest tool of surveillance that humanity has ever seen, and if we stay on the road that we are currently on it is only a matter of time until our society...
View ArticleMastercard and Microsoft have a frightening plan to create universal “digital...
Sometimes a business inadvertently drops the pretense and just tells the world its real intentions. We saw this yesterday, when Amazon bragged about how it “allowed” an employee to lose 100 pounds by...
View ArticleThis Anti-Gun Bill Would Require the Social Media History and Internet Search...
In New York (the state, not just the city) there’s a rather Orwellian gun bill on the table that would require would-be firearm purchasers to turn over 3 years of their social media history and one...
View ArticleFAA’s “Integration Pilot UAS Program” is really a national police...
This year was full of many disturbing stories, like the one about Bloomberg’s role-playing workshops being used to convince the public to accept police drones equipped with microphones. And another...
View ArticleHomeland Security creates exclusive “Platinum” spy on your neighbors...
Looking for that special gift for your family this holiday season? Why not signup for Homeland Security’s “Platinum” spy on your neighbors cam-share club. According to an article in the Advocate, DHS...
View ArticleFacebook Employees Are So Paranoid They’re Using Burner Phones to Talk to...
Facebook’s reputation has only continued to get more sullied in recent weeks, and it’s taking a toll on employees. According to a new report Wednesday from BuzzFeed News, things over at the old FB are,...
View Article“Blade Runner” Eye-Scanning Lie Detector May Be Coming To A Dystopian Future...
A futuristic eye-scanning lie detector reminiscent of the Voight-Kampff device in Blade Runner may be coming to a dystopian future near you. Funded by billionaire Mark Cuban and released in 2014 by...
View ArticleNew Documents Show That Facebook Has Never Deserved Your Trust
Another week, another set of reminders that, while Facebook likes to paint itself as an “optimistic” company that’s simply out to help users and connect the world, the reality is very different. This...
View ArticleMore Zuckerberg crimes EXPOSED: Internal documents prove that Facebook is a...
After weaseling his way through a series of congressional hearings this past spring, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is back in the news following the revelation that his social media empire...
View ArticleCustoms officers searching more mobile phones and computers
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are searching the electronic devices of travelers more often, and did not always follow proper protocol, a new watchdog report has found. The report made...
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