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Google tipped off police over emailed child abuse images
Google’s system to automatically scan for child abuse images extends to email, a US detective has revealed, using it to help police arrest a man in Houston A tip-off from Google about the contents of
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Yes, Google works with “former military operations people.” But they won’t tell us who, or from where
Last week, I wrote about how Google’s working with a mysterious set of “former military operations people” on Project Loon — the company’s zany and rather frightening attempt to have an army of
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Facecrook: NSA storing your facial web images, millions intercepted daily
The National Security Agency is collecting millions of images of people through its international surveillance network to be implemented in a number of other facial recognition programs, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Thanks
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Obama Directive Makes Mere Citing of Snowden Leaks Punishable Offense
Once promising the most transparent administration in history, White House reins in free speech of employees In a new policy directive from the Obama administrative, national security and other government officials will no longer be
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Hillary Clinton Says Snowden “Helped Terrorists”
Defending the nation's mass surveillance programs because "people were desperate to avoid another [9/11] attack," Hillary Clinton, speaking at University of Connecticut on Wednesday night, noted that a balance must be found to "make
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Knowing How the Global Internet Works – And How It Can Crash
We all know about websites crashing, or institutional infrastructure crashing, but can the Internet crash? The answer is ‘yes’. As we’ve pointed out before to 21WIRE readers, roughly 99% of TED Talks are pretty useless
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Elon Musk And Mark Zuckerberg Have Invested $40 Million In A Mysterious Artificial Intelligence Company
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla's Elon Musk are investing $40 million into an artificial intelligence company called Vicarious alongside actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher, reports the Wall Street Journal
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg lashes out at Obama over NSA spy program
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg shared harsh words for United States President Barack Obama on Thursday amid ongoing complaints from the tech community about the administration’s role with regards to the internet
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Reddit Passionately Wants to Discuss Censorship, But Moderators Keep Censoring Such a Discussion
Washington’s Blog The giant r/Worldnews and r/News Reddits (5 million and 2 million subscribed readers, respectively) still haven’t allowed links to Glenn Greenwald’s report on government control, infiltration, manipulation and warping of online discourse.
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Reddit Censors Big Story About Government Manipulation and Disruption of the Internet
Reddit Moderators Go to Extreme Lengths to Censor the Most Important Story of the Year The moderators at the giant r/news reddit (with over 2 million subscribed readers) repeatedly killed the Greenwald/Snowden story on government
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Video: What The Rest Of The World Heard Snowden Say Last Week That US Censored
Media in the U.S. has censored a recent globally hailed interview with former NSA contractor whistleblower Edward Snowden, provided in the YouTube video below. Last Sunday evening, Snowden was interviewed by a German television network
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60% of Americans Value Privacy Over Anti-Terror Protections
The Founding Fathers valued privacy over safety. Indeed, the Revolutionary War was largely started to stop the use of spying by the British. Background here. In other words, the Founding Fathers gave up their
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US Media Blacks out Snowden Interview Exposing Death Threats
The former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden appeared Sunday night in his first extended television interview. Citing published statements by unnamed US intelligence and military operatives calling for his assassination, he warned that
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Google will soon put your face, name, and content in its ads
If you always wanted to see your shining face next to Google ads, your wish will soon be granted. Today Google announced plans to roll out “shared endorsements,” which will augment its own advertisements
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Obama Administration Proposes 2,300-Page “New Constitution”
The U.S. Constitution leaves too many areas open to interpretation; a New Constituion of 2,300 pages (+ 200 redacted secret pages) is the solution. The Obama Administration has proposed replacing the current U.S. Constitution (4,543
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Video: Zuckerberg Lap Dog for Surveillance State
Once again Abbey Martin lets it rip in her unique style and calls out Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the questionable practices that make Facebook another “arm of the surveillance state. Specifically the data
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A face in a billion: Facebook to include profile pix in facial recognition database
Facebook says it will expand its facial recognition database to include over 1 billion extra faces as it incorporates users’ profile pictures into its database, thereby increasing the scope of its existing, highly controversial
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US Military Caught Manipulating Social Media, Running Mass Propaganda Accounts
It has been common knowledge to anyone paying attention within the alternative news community for years, but once again the media is now admitting that the US military and intelligence agencies are indeed running
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Scare Tactics: Family Misled by Local Cops During Questioning About Google Searches
As it turns out, there is more to the story about the anti-terrorism task force’s visit to the family who was suspiciously Googling backpacks and pressure cookers. The Google searches were the basis for the
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Yes, They Are Watching: Online Search for Pressure Cooker Sparks Chilling Police Visit
Serious concerns, many questions follow visit by law enforcement The question is this: Who was monitoring the online Google searches of a Long Island, New York family in order to trigger a visit by six
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