Amazon’s Ring Neighbors App Exposed Users’ Precise Locations and Home Addresses
A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.
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Ashton Kutcher’s NGO Supplies Police with ‘Free’ CIA-linked Surveillance Tool to ‘Protect Kids’
A suspect NGO claiming to combat child trafficking by providing surveillance tech to US police has allowed Amazon to continue supplying U.S. law enforcement with facial recognition software despite the tech giant’s moratorium on its sale to police.
Police Use of Facial Recognition Violates Human Rights, UK Court Rules
Use of the tech needs to be narrower to conform to human rights law, court held.
Sanders Bill to Tax ‘Obscene’ Pandemic Windfall of Billionaires Would Empower Medicare to Cover Every American for One Year
“By taxing 60% of the wealth gains made by just 467 billionaires during this horrific pandemic, we could guarantee healthcare as a right for an entire year.”
As One of the Largest Bailouts in History Looms, “Crisis-Ridden” Corporations Reap Record Profits
Once again it appears that big business will get bailed out while the American people get sold out.
Report: Bezos phone uploaded GBs of personal data after getting Saudi prince’s WhatsApp message
The gigabytes-big data grab allegedly came over WhatsApp text from Mohammed bin Salman.
Fueling Concerns of Approaching Catastrophic ‘Tipping Point,’ Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon Hit Highest Level in Decade
“These figures confirm what we feared, namely that 2019 has been a dark year for the rainforest in Brazil.”
Western Regime-Change Operatives Launch Campaign to Blame Bolivia’s Evo Morales for Amazon Fires
As Brazil’s Bolsonaro allows elite landowners to incinerate the Amazon, professional regime-change operatives like Jhanisse V. Daza seek to redirect blame for the fires onto the leftist government of Bolivia, whose President Evo Morales faces elections in October.
Amazon’s Ring Is A Perfect Storm of Privacy Threats
Doorbell-camera firm Ring has partnered with 400 police forces, extending surveillance concerns.
On the Front Lines of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon, Brazil’s Forest Communities Fight Against Climate Catastrophe
The catastrophic loss of another fifth of Brazil’s rainforest could happen within one generation. It’s happened before. It’s happening now.
Amazon, Netflix, IBM Among 60 Profitable Fortune 500 Companies That Avoided All Federal Income Taxes in 2018 Under Trump’s Tax Law
At least 60 companies reported 2018 federal tax rates amounting to effectively zero, or even less than zero, on U.S. pretax income, more than twice as many compared to previous years — a partial result of the 2017 Trump tax law — according to a new report.
Welfare, But for CEOs
A new report shows how the United States is lining corporate executives’ pockets with tax dollars.
A Marx-Quoting “Father, Anarchist, Veteran” Castigates Seattle City Council After Repeal of Homeless Tax (VIDEO)
“I’m a father, I’m a veteran and I’m an anarchist. Those are three people you don’t want to piss off.”