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Google Has Been Tracking Your Every Move, And There’s A Website To Prove It
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 back to a central database? That’s…
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The NSA project “Treasure Map”, and why it should alarm you
Newly exposed Snowden documents reveal the NSA’s in-depth plan to “map the entire Internet — any device, anywhere, all the time.” According to a report published today by German news publication Der Spiegel, the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, “[aim] to map the Internet, and not just the large traffic channels, such as telecommunications cables. It also seeks to identify…
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5 Facebook settings to change NOW!
If you missed the news, Facebook was recently valued at $201.6 billion. That’s enough to slip it in at number 22 on the list of the largest companies in the world. The dirty secret is that most of that value comes from ads, and to attract advertisers, Facebook sells them your information. It also adds…
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Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250,000/Day for Not Turning Over User Data
A 1,500-page court document unsealed today revealed that back in 2007, the federal government demanded that Yahoo! turn over private user data and join PRISM — and, if they did not comply, would fine the company $250,000 per day until they gave in. According to the documents viewed by the Washington Post, Yahoo! secretly waged…
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Battle for the Net: ‘Neutrality’ is fundamental basis of the Internet
Battle for the Net, an internet freedom campaign joined by heavyweights of the internet industry, has succeeded in sending millions of public comments to US authorities criticizing the two-tiered internet speed system that threatens net neutrality. According to the organizers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and members of Congress were receiving an average of 1,000…
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Google, Yahoo, Apple urge US govt to protect email privacy
Dozens of tech giants, including Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook and Twitter, have written to the US government urging ‘to bring to the floor’ a bill which gives more privacy protection to their users’ emails and other information stored on their servers. The companies want Email Privacy Act to be approved by the authorities. It was…
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DATA BREACH: 5 million ‘compromised’ Google accounts leaked
A database of what appears to be some 5 million login and password pairs for Google accounts has been leaked to a Russian cyber security internet forum. It follows similar leaks of account data for popular Russian web services. The text file containing the alleged compromised accounts data was published late on Tuesday on the…
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SPIES OFF-LINE: New gadget to thwart unwanted wireless snooping
A new surveillance device has been developed that has the potential to stop drones and Google Glass wearers from hacking into one’s Wi-Fi network. Cyborg Unplug works by sending de-authentication signals to unwanted monitoring or spying devices. The device is the size of a computer adaptor, so it can be transported anywhere and can be…
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Cars in the US might soon be mandated to broadcast speed and location data
The United States Department of Transportation is taking the next step towards creating a “vehicle-to-vehicle” communications system that will allow light autos on the road to receive and broadcast critical information to one another. Last week, the DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, published an “advance notice of proposed rulemaking” in the Federal Register announcing…
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Welcome to George Orwell’s 1984
Many of our followers know of the George Orwell novel titled “1984”, and many of you have read it. It has been said time and again during the Obama presidency that Orwell’s novel was meant to serve as a warning, not an instruction booklet. Virtually all cell phones on Earth can be geographically pinpointed with…
