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Amazon’s Ring Neighbors App Exposed Users’ Precise Locations and Home Addresses

January 14, 2021 Syndicated 0

A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.

Hackers Are Selling More Than 85,000 MySQL Databases On a Dark Web Portal

December 13, 2020 Syndicated 0

Hackers break into databases, steal their content, hold it for ransom for 9 days, and then sell to the highest bidder if the DB owner doesn’t want to pay the ransom demand.

New Lawsuit: Why Do Android Phones Mysteriously Exchange 260mb A Month With Google Via Cellular Data When They’re Not Even In Use?

November 18, 2020 Syndicated 0

Ad giant sued after mobile allowances eaten by hidden transfers.

Bot Generated Fake Nudes of Over 100,000 Women Without Their Knowledge, Says Report

October 23, 2020 Syndicated 0

Around 104,852 women had their photos uploaded to a bot, on the WhatsApp-like text messaging app Telegram, which were then used to generate computer-generated fake nudes of them without their knowledge or consent, researchers revealed on Tuesday.

Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras

September 19, 2020 Syndicated 0

Facebook Inc. is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their mobile phone cameras.

‘Stalkerware’ Phone Spying Apps Have Escaped Google’s Ad Ban

August 12, 2020 Syndicated 0

Several companies offering phone-spying apps — known as “stalkerware” — are still advertising in Google search results, despite the search giant’s ban that took effect today, TechCrunch has found.

Police Use of Facial Recognition Violates Human Rights, UK Court Rules

August 11, 2020 Syndicated 0

Use of the tech needs to be narrower to conform to human rights law, court held.

Twitter Faces FTC Probe, Likely Fine Over Use of Phone Numbers For Ads

August 5, 2020 Syndicated 0

Twitter’s use of the data for advertising purposes was discovered in 2019.

Texting App with Ties to Trump Campaign to Be Repurposed for Contact Tracing

July 15, 2020 Syndicated 0

A mobile app once used by the Trump campaign and other partisan interests has been rebranded and is now part of an “approved” national app database specifically designed for use by public health and safety agencies.

Why Did a Tech Executive Install 1,000 Security Cameras Around San Francisco?

July 12, 2020 Syndicated 0

Chris Larsen knows that a crypto mogul spending his own money for a city’s camera surveillance system might sound creepy. He’s here to explain why it’s not.

Police Are Buying Access To Hacked Website Data

July 9, 2020 Syndicated 0

The sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.”

US Senate Amends EARN IT Act — To Transfer the Fight Over Section 230 to the States to Let Them Restrict Encryption

July 6, 2020 Syndicated 0

The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the amended version on July 2.

IBM’s New Differential Privacy Library Works With Just a Single Line of Code

June 28, 2020 Syndicated 0

On Friday, IBM Research updated their open source “IBM Differential Privacy Library,” a suite of new lightweight tools offering “an array of functionality to extract insight and knowledge from data with robust privacy guarantees.”

Facial Recognition Bill Would Ban Use By Federal Law Enforcement (VIDEO)

June 26, 2020 Syndicated 0

The bill would also make federal funding for state and local law enforcement contingent on the enactment of similar bans.

Congress Has No Idea How Much Web Browsing Data the FBI Collects

May 22, 2020 Syndicated 0

The Patriot Act is about to be reauthorized, but we still don’t know basic facts about how our web browsing habits are being collected.

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Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat Participated in Covert UK Foreign Office-Funded Programs to “Weaken Russia,” Leaked Docs Reveal

February 21, 2021 0

New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat.

Coup Caught on Camera: Fitness Instructor Unwittingly Captures Myanmar Coup In Background of Dance Video (VIDEO)

February 2, 2021 0

In extraordinary footage, a dance instructor carries out her aerobics routine, oblivious to the military coup unfolding as a convoy of SUVs approach the parliament complex in the background right behind her.

Smooshy-Faced Cats Can’t Show Emotion Thanks To Inbreeding

January 19, 2021 0

Those moonface kitties are captivatingly cute, but their flattened features belie the feline’s true feelings.

Criminal Justice
  • Ex-Michigan governor indicted for “willful neglect” in Flint water crisis

    January 14, 2021 0
  • UK Judge Justifies CIA Spying On Assange Citing Debunked CNN Report Based On… CIA Spying

    January 6, 2021 0
  • Zoom Executive Allegedly Doctored Child Porn to Smear Tiananmen Square Memorial Activists

    December 19, 2020 0
War
  • As ‘Fury of Virus Illustrates Folly of War,’ UN Chief Calls for Global Ceasefire

    March 24, 2020 0
  • Iran Warns US Over ‘Dangerous’ Claims After Iraq Base Attack

    March 13, 2020 0
  • New OPCW Whistleblower Slams ‘Abhorrent Mistreatment’ of Douma Investigators

    March 13, 2020 0
Health
  • ‘AeroNabs’ promise powerful, inhalable protection against COVID-19

    August 12, 2020 0
  • How COVID-19 Causes Smell Loss

    July 27, 2020 0
  • Texting App with Ties to Trump Campaign to Be Repurposed for Contact Tracing

    July 15, 2020 0
Business & Economy
  • 250 Million Indian Workers And Farmers Strike, Breaking World Record

    December 4, 2020 0
  • 15 Asia-Pacific Countries Form World’s Largest Trade Bloc, Exclude the US

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Chaos Agent: Right-wing Blames US Capitol Riot On Notorious Instigator Banished By Black Lives Matter (VIDEO)

January 15, 2021 0

John Sullivan was at the front of the Trumpist mob in the Capitol, egging it on as he recorded the rampage. The far-right is pointing to him as proof of Antifa’s role in the riot. But leftist activists call him a dangerous provocateur and have banished him.

Amazon’s Ring Neighbors App Exposed Users’ Precise Locations and Home Addresses

January 14, 2021 0

A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.

Ex-Michigan governor indicted for “willful neglect” in Flint water crisis

January 14, 2021 0

Public officials “evaded accountability for far too long,” prosecutor says.

Activism
  • Chaos Agent: Right-wing Blames US Capitol Riot On Notorious Instigator Banished By Black Lives Matter (VIDEO)

    January 15, 2021 0
  • 250 Million Indian Workers And Farmers Strike, Breaking World Record

    December 4, 2020 0
  • Homeland Security Justifies Invasion of Portland by Claiming Shields and Gas Masks are Weapons

    July 24, 2020 0
Environment
  • With NEPA Changes, Trump Administration Puts Public Health at Risk for Private Gain

    July 15, 2020 0
  • Bees using secret trick to make plants flower, leaving scientists baffled

    May 22, 2020 0
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    April 21, 2020 0
Strange/Unusual
  • Watch the Trippy, First-Ever Footage of a Time Crystal (VIDEO)

    February 26, 2021 0
  • Coup Caught on Camera: Fitness Instructor Unwittingly Captures Myanmar Coup In Background of Dance Video (VIDEO)

    February 2, 2021 0
  • Scientists Found Creatures So Inactive They Expanded Our Idea of Life Itself

    August 5, 2020 0
Arts
  • In Memory of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Immortal Beat (AUDIO, VIDEO)

    February 23, 2021 0
  • Surprisingly Dense Exoplanet Challenges Planet Formation Theories (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

    August 4, 2020 0
  • First Ever Image Of A Multi-Planet System Around A Sun-like Star Captured By ESO Telescope (VIDEO)

    July 23, 2020 0
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