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Mind-Controlled Drones Are Already A Reality
Researchers are now using US Department of Defense funding to explore what could be the next big step in drone technology: mind control. Daniel Pack, who manages the Unmanned Systems Laboratory at the University of
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FBI director wants access to encrypt Apple, Google users’ data, demands law ‘fix’
The FBI director has slammed Apple and Google for offering their customers encryption technology that protects users’ privacy. “Deeply concerned” James Comey wants to push on Congress to “fix” laws to ensure police can
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Twitter Opens Entire Database to MIT – How Will It Be Used?
Predictive technology is exploding, in stealth, across the virtual landscape. The arrival of Big Data initiatives by government, as well as a massive industry of data brokers is not only putting privacy at risk,
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World’s First Wearable Drone Takes Flight
As Congress and the FAA continue to discuss the parameters of drone use, a widening array of them are already taking flight. A new exemption has been granted for Hollywood , only the second
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Larry Page wants a Google 2.0 that will build cities and airports, report says
As if self-driving cars, balloon-carried internet, or the eradication of death weren't ambitious enough projects, Google CEO Larry Page has apparently been working behind the scenes to set up even bolder tasks for his
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Pocket-Sized Surveillance Drone Can Fly Through Windows
A new pocket-sized surveillance drone endorsed by the US Air Force which could ultimately end up in the hands of law enforcement can fly through open windows and reach other confined spaces
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$250K-a-day for NSA PRISM refusal – Yahoo
The US government threatened to fine Yahoo 250k a day for not complying with NSA demands for PRISM data. Ron Bell, Yahoo’s general counsel, said in a blog post, that the company “refused to comply
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Google Reads Your Email Before You Do
Once the fact was out, the internet giant tried to get a judge to help them hide it again. Back in February, in a San Jose courtroom, a bombshell was dropped that could have been
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This Google Glass App That Measures Human Emotions Is So, So Creepy
It's not like we need any more reminders about how creepy Google Glass can be, but developers never stop surprising us. An new app from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute that uses facial tracking, proprietary tools
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UN Grabs for the Internet: CFR, Chatham House Lead Toward “Global Governance”
In a recent essay entitled, “The Strategic Significance of the Internet Commons,” former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff describes cyberspace and the Internet as a “global commons” that must come under “global governance.”
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools To Track and Kill Activists, Part I
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is funding a multimillion dollar university research program to develop new data mining and analysis tools for the U.S. military intelligence community to track political radicalism among British
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School Kid Suspended And ARRESTED For Imagining Shooting A Dinosaur
In another case of school officials adhering to ridiculous zero tolerance policies, a student from South Carolina was suspended and arrested by police recently after writing an imaginative story about using a gun to
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Google Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
Predictive analysis combs through calendars and search histories—and gets in the way of routine self-deception. Every weekday at 3:40 p.m., the message popped up on my phone: 22 mins to Work. Google Now was doing
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Google Maps Has Been Tracking Your Every Move, And There’s A Website To Prove It
Remember that scene in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise is on the run from the law, but is unable to avoid detection because everywhere he goes there are constant retina scans feeding his location
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Google Is Following You: This Is How To Turn It Off
Google's location data from my move to New York. If you have a Gmail account or use any of Google's apps, there's a good chance Google has some of your location data stored in its
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‘Pocket drones’: U.S. Army developing tiny surveillance tools for the next big war
Future U.S. Army soldiers sent into combat may have a brand new tool at their disposal: the pocket drone. The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center in Massachusetts is developing a “pocket-sized
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CISA threat: How cybersecurity may harm Americans privacy and hit whistleblowers
Two years after CISPA, the controversial bill allowing govt access to corporate customer data, was defeated its new incarnation hit the senate. Critics say CISA lost not only one letter in the name but
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Man finds FBI tracking device on car, posts online, gets visit from FBI
Silicon Valley resident Yasir Afifi recently discovered an FBI tracking device on his car when he took it for an oil change. Alarmed and curious about what it might be, Yasir posted photos of the
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FEDS Set Up Tiny Free Speech Zones Once Again – Are They Insane?
Almost hysterically, the Federal government has once again set up TINY ‘free speech zones’ in Murrietta, Texas, despicably forgetting that THE ENTIRE COUNTRY is a ‘free speech zone’ in accordance with the 1st Amendment
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Tiny Flying Robots Are Being Built To Pollinate Crops Instead Of Real Bees
The RoboBee demonstrates a successful flight next to a quarter for scale. Honeybees, which pollinate nearly one-third of the food we eat, have been dying at unprecedented rates because of a mysterious phenomenon known as
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