The average car built in the last few years collects more data per mile than most drivers generate on their phone. Speed, position, hard braking, seatbelt status, steering angle, phone contacts beamed in over Bluetooth, voice commands spoken to the dashboard. Most of it sits on h...
Doorbell and dashcam footage is often the only neutral witness to an incident. It is also the evidence most likely to vanish before anyone thinks to ask for it, because consumer devices overwrite their own storage on a fixed loop and upload retention is governed by subscription s...
When a Company Deletes Its Own Safety Reports: Litigation Holds and the Evidence That Survives Regulators require companies to keep records of what went wrong. Incident reports, near-miss logs, internal audits, maintenance histories. Those documents exist because a rule somewhere...
Smart Meters and Opt-Out Fees: What Your Utility Contract Actually Says Utility companies across the UK, EU and several US states have spent the last decade replacing analogue meters with smart meters, and they rarely mention the fine print when the installer knocks. If you have ...
On Wednesday news broke that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — a department that didn’t exist 20 years ago but today spends $52 billion annually — had created a new “Disinformation Governance Board.” The news comes just days after Twitter accepted Tesla-founde...
“The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we’re part of the medium. The scary thing is, ...
Putting children under surveillance and limiting their access to information doesn’t make them safer — in fact, research suggests just the opposite. Unfortunately those tactics are the ones endorsed by the Kids Online Safety Act of 2022 (KOSA), introduced by Sens. Blumenthal ...
In October 1947 Eric Blair, known today by his pen name George Orwell, wrote a letter to the co-owner of the Secker & Warburg publishing house. In that letter, Orwell noted that he was in the “last lap” of the rough draft of a novel, describing it as “a most dreadful m...
The UK is stepping up its “war on encryption,” reports are saying, and like in any good old war, propaganda comes first to “prepare the ground.” And a new campaign is expected to launch as early as this month. In this case, they call it publicity, with the Home Office bei...
The developer of an implanted microchip that is linked to a COVID vaccine passport says that the mass chipping of humans as a means of verifying compliance is happening “whether we like it or not.” Speak for yourself. Dsruptive Subdermals developed a scannable implant about t...
Dr. Robert Malone, the virologist who invented the mRNA technology used in the COVID injection, spoke of a fascinating phenomenon while on Joe Rogan’s podcast regarding a large swath of humanity who have been induced into semi-permanent hysteria over the establishment’s const...
According to this entry over at Wikipedia on 'cognitive dissonance', in the field of psychology, 'cognitive dissonance' is the perception of contradictory information... two (or more) actions or ideas that are not consistent with each other... triggering discomfort within the ind...