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Big Brother
Smart Faucets and Toilets Use Alexa to Listen to Your Conversations
It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone's conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done.Delta Faucet's "Voice IQ" takes advantage of where lots of people like to congregate and turns...
14 Billion Police License Plate Database, Knows Where You Are in Real-Time: Police to “Grid” Entire Neighborhoods
Forget everything you have ever heard about police license plate readers and public safety, because it is all a lie.Three major Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) companies have created a mind-boggling database of 14 billion license plates that allows law enforcement to track ...
Ex-Facebook Chief Sean Parker Warns Site Was Built To Exploit People’s Weaknesses
Facebook. It’s something that over 1.8 Billion people are using on a daily basis — can you believe that? For many of us, it’s the first thing we do when we wake up, and the last thing we do before we go to bed at night. Is this a healthy relationship?There is no doubt ...
Cameras On Nearly 3,000 Street Lights All Over San Diego
In December 2016, when the San Diego City Council approved a $30.3 million project to upgrade 14,000 street lights with sensors — and a portion of them with cameras — law-enforcement applications had not yet been considered.San Diegans are only just now coming to a wider unde...
New Jersey Cops Turn Citizens’ Phones into Surveillance Devices — They Can Watch Video from Your Phone’s Camera
A New Jersey police department has unveiled technology that allows 911 operators to stream video from callers’ smartphones. Sounds like a good idea, at first – but where does the surveillance stop? Gloucester Township Police’s new 911eye emergency dispatch system lets emerg...
1 in 2 American Adults is Already in the FBI’s Facial Recognition Database
A new report from Georgetown Law‘s Center on Privacy & Technology (CPT) suggests that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be using the rampant problem of illegal immigration as a type of cover to track and spy on Americans in violation of their Fourth Amendment ri...
California Is Launching a Creepy “Cradle to Career” Data System to Track EVERYTHING About Children
by Daisy Luther, guest author Just in case we haven’t provided you with enough creepy dystopian news lately, the nation’s leader in Creepy Dystopia, California, has a brand new program. The “Cradle to Career Data System” will study and document everything about a child bo...
Voice AI and the Quest to Spy on You, Censor Information and Re-write History
Voice AI is becoming a normal part of life for many people. Whether it’s a little cylinder of circle on your countertop (Amazon Echo/ Alexa, Google Home/ Google Assistant) or activated purely through your computer/smartphone (Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana), the Big Tech...
More US Cities Seek to ban Facial Recognition Technology
by JP BuntinxWhile it seems evident facial recognition technology will become mainstream in the very near future, there will be some bumps along the road. More and more US cities are effectively banning this technology as a statement against mass surveillance. A very interes...
FaceApp May Be Quietly Keeping All Your Data — Same As Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Everything Else You Use
FaceApp is suddenly everywhere. Everyone from your college roommate to your Uncle Rufus is posting photos of themselves looking decades older than they are, and you want to get in on the fun.So maybe you google "FaceApp," and that's when you get wary.Story after story about FaceA...
Wikipedia Co-Founder Slams Facebook and Twitter for “Appalling” Internet: “They Can Control What You See”
“They can control what you see”.Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has slammed Facebook and Twitter for abusing their power to create an “appalling” Internet while advocating “decentralized” social networks as the solution.“They can shape your experience, they can co...
Letter from Alleged Insider Claims Zuckerberg Did NOT Create Facebook and is a Frontman for Military Intelligence
Who created Facebook? Many people have wondered about the true origins of the social media giant which has gone from a Harvard startup to the company with almost the most users in the world – around 2.38 billion as of the first quarter of 2019.This is an astonishing figure whic...