(Aaron Kesel) Airbnb is having more and more of its hosts hiding security cameras in rooms, and it doesn’t seem to be worried about the practice if innkeepers are disclosing the cameras and they aren’t in the bathrooms or bedrooms, according to a report by Fast Company.
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Google Quietly Records Your Voice: Here’s How to Listen to, Delete the Archive and other Possibilities
(Adam Goldberg) Welcome to the end of the 2010’s decade. In retrospect, can you believe how quickly it passed? It was back in 2013 that Edward Snowden leaked all that info about surveillance. It was the very beginning of this decade when both social media and smartphones really started popping, or the very end of the last decade if you get down to it.
The Modern Surveillance State (Documentary)
(Derrick Broze) The War on Terror
Immediately following the attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush promised Americans he would exact revenge on those who dare attack the empire. Dubya’s program of “Shock and Awe” gave the American public an upfront look at what the U.S. military was prepared to do to the enemies of “freedom and democracy.”
The Wiretap Rooms: The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight US Cities
(Ryan Gallagher, Henry Moltke) The secrets are hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers.
Eye Scans & Finger Prints Now Mandatory To Buy Food & Basic Services In India
(Arjun Walia) A new move out of India requires all citizens to have their fingers printed, and their eyes scanned in order to use public services like schools, grocery stores, the bank, or anything that fits in that same category.
“Want To Freak Yourself Out?” Here Is All The Personal Data That Facebook/Google Collect
(Zero Hedge) The Cambridge Analytica scandal was never really about Cambridge Analytica.
Police Are Creating A National Surveillance Network Using COMTEC, Project Green Light And More
(MassPrivateI) Detroit officials have been using the Macomb County Communications and Technology Center (COMTEC) to spy on everyone since 2013.
Surveillance on Steroids: New Device Covertly Scans You From a Distance With a Wifi Blast to Determine Your Emotional State, Without Your Consent
(Jayson Veley) Our society has reached a point where it is now more difficult to think of things that are truly private than it is to think of things that are not. Indeed, virtually every new piece of technology has the ability to infringe on your privacy rights to one degree or another. Now, it […]
Google’s True Origin Closely Tied to the Cia (Central Intelligence Agency)
(Carolanne Wright) “Google styles itself as a friendly, funky, user-friendly tech firm that rose to prominence through a combination of skill, luck, and genuine innovation. This is true. But it is a mere fragment of the story. In reality, Google is a smokescreen behind which lurks the US military-industrial complex.” ~ Nafeez Ahmed, “How the CIA […]
Facebook Dumps ‘Fake News’ Patrol After Spectacular Backfire
(ZeroPointNow) Facebook has abandoned it’s fake news ‘fact checkers‘ program to label articles reviewed by Snopes and Politifact as ‘disputed,’ after the program backfired a little over a year after inception. Related: Fact Check Fail or Deliberate Lie? Snopes Gets It Wrong on Story about Warrantless Searches Source – ZeroHedge by ZeroPointNow Te company pointed to a slowdown […]
The Deep State’s Christmas Present to America: Surveillance That Never Ends
(photo source: nymag) (John W. Whitehead) Just in time for Christmas, the Deep State wants to give America the gift that keeps on giving: never-ending mass surveillance. Related: Interview With Cypherpunk Privacy VPN – Protecting Internet Users Against Surveillance Source – ZeroHedge by John W. Whitehead, December 11th, 2017 I’m not referring to the kind of surveillance carried […]
Interview With Cypherpunk Privacy VPN – Protecting Internet Users Against Surveillance
(Aaron Kesel) I recently spoke with a representative from Cypherpunk Privacy about their Virtual Private Network (VPN) service and what separates them from other VPN companies; their answer was a passion for privacy, security and fighting against surveillance. Related: Here’s How to Protect Your Privacy From Your Internet Service Provider Source – Activist Post by Aaron Kesel, August […]
Your Bitcoin is NOT Anonymous: IRS Moves To Track Bitcoiners With New Chain Analysis Tools
(Mac Slavo) Last month Alt-Market.com founder Brandon Smith warned that Bitcoin may not be all that it’s cracked up to be in terms of its purported anonymity: Related Are the “Shadow Brokers” (Hacktivists) Exposing the Cabal’s Cashless Society Scam? Source – SHFT Plan by Mac Slavo, August 24th, 2017 For years, one of the major original selling points of bitcoin […]
Google Is About to Start Tracking Your Offline Behavior, Too
(Josie Wales) It’s no secret that Google already monitors its users’ online shopping activity, but now it will follow them out of their homes and keep a close eye on every interaction they make. The tech giant announced a new system to track users’ in-store credit card purchases Tuesday in a statement published on the […]
Here’s How to Protect Your Privacy From Your Internet Service Provider
Image Source. (Amul Kalia) We pay our monthly Internet bill to be able to access the Internet. We don’t pay it to give our Internet service provider (ISP) a chance to collect and sell our private data to make more money. This was apparently lost on congressional Republicans as they voted to strip their constituents […]