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Online news sites to be blacked out during next major catastrophic event?
According to what I'm hearing from several sources in my network of contacts, the U.S. government is putting systems in place to black out online news sites like Natural News, Drudge Report, The Blaze
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New ‘Artificial Intelligence Software’ Capable of ‘Near Human-Level’ Image-Recognition
Censorship concerns raised over Google and Stanford programs that translate complex images into written text Scientists with Stanford University and Google have developed two new artificially intelligent software programs capable of describing images with near
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Three Spooky Ways You’re Being Spied on This Halloween
It’s that time of year when people don sinister masks, spray themselves with fake blood, and generally go all out for a good fright. But here at EFF, we think there are plenty of
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You’re Being Watched: Online Stores Know Your Habits
Booking travel or buying something online? There's a good chance you aren't paying the same price as the next guy. New research reveals what some buyers have suspected and some companies even confirm: Online travel
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Free apps used to spy on millions of phones: Flashlight program can be used to secretly record location of phone and content of text messages
Millions of people are being spied on by free apps they have installed on their mobile phones, security experts have warned. Many flashlight apps which allow a device to be used as a torch
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State Sponsored Assassination Culture
The ongoing failures of the Secret Service to provide proper protection for the President have political careerists in a tizzy. Scares that harm could come to the commander-in-chief, also worries the press. Ordinary citizens
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iPhone? It’s a spyphone: Apple devices can record your every movement
It is tracking your every move – recording the exact time you left for work, where you bought your coffee and where you like to shop. But this isn’t a futuristic spy drone or some
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Big Brother Is Watching You: Paranoia, Surveillance, and the Drug War
Police have new tech to help them predict and enforce the law better than ever—but that also means enforcing the racial bias of drug arrests faster than ever, too. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean
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Is Big Brother spying on your computer – with your own cell phone?
As you know if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, I’ve written several articles on OPSEC. This one hits a lot closer to home. In order to live in a technological society, you
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5 Big Brother Technologies for Tracking and Surveilling Children
Without much of a mentionable public debate about the implementation of police state surveillance and tracking technologies in our society, we are quickly moving into an era where personal liberty and privacy do not
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NULLIFICATION: GET TO YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS NOW
With more than half of the primaries over and nearly every single incumbent, both parties, having won, if the trend continues, we will end up with virtually the same U.S. House of Representatives. The
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The Secret To Staying Hidden In A Digital World
In today’s ever-evolving digital world, protecting your privacy may seem like an impossible task. But before you begin incorporating methods that will help protect your personal privacy, it is important to note the stark differences
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Five Computer Security Myths, Debunked by Experts
We're no strangers to helping you secure your computer, but there are some computer security myths and stories that keep getting passed around, even though they're clearly not true. We sat down with a
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The Obama Administration Is Forcing Local Cops To Stay Silent On Surveillance
The Obama Administration is Forcing Local Cops to Stay Silent on Surveillance The criminality of the Obama Administration is at this point almost beyond description. Earlier this week I highlighted a shocking discovery in my
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State Legislators Discussing Laws That Will Put Law Enforcement Surveillance Cameras Inside Private Businesses
from the because-no-square-footage-can-go-unsurveilled dept The government does enjoy installing cameras pretty much everywhere it can do so with a minimum of complaints. If it thinks there might be some controversy, it just buries the details
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Anti-surveillance mask lets you pass as someone else
Uncomfortable with surveillance cameras? "Identity replacement tech" in the form of the Personal Surveillance Identity Prosthetic gives you a whole new face. If the world starts looking like a scene from "Matrix 3" where everyone
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10 Examples Of How “Big Brother” Is Steadily Creeping Into Our Daily Lives
Virtually everything that you do is being watched. Do you drive a car? Do you watch television? Do you use a cell phone? As you do any of those things,
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Putting Big Brother in the Driver’s Seat: V2V Transmitters, Black Boxes & Drones
“It’s a future where you don’t forget anything…In this new future you’re never lost…We will know your position down to the foot and down to the inch over time…Your car will drive itself, it’s
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Slightly Scary CCTV Network Completely Run By AI
Imagine a major city completely covered by a video surveillance system designed to monitor the every move of its citizens. Now imagine that the system is run by a fast-learning machine intelligence, that's designed
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Yes, you are under surveillance
In "private" online forums, at malls, and even at home, someone is tracking you SHARON AND BILAL couldn't be more different. Sharon Gill is a 42-year-old single mother who lives in a small town in
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