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Bill C-22 is a trojan horse for mass surveillance, demanding backdoors into every encrypted system. They claim “public safety,” but the infrastructure being built is for total state control. Tech giants like Apple, Meta, and Signal are sounding the alarm, but the machine is moving anyway. Once these backdoors are open, they’re for every hacker …
Mr. Clooney, who owns a farmhouse in France, has said that living there enabled him and his wife, a human rights lawyer, to pursue a quieter existence with their children. France has granted citizenship to Hollywood star George Clooney and his wife, the human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, according to government decrees issued over the …
PRIVACY, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Italy antitrust agency fines Apple $116 million over privacy feature; Apple announces appeal. Italy’s antitrust authority fined Apple 98.6 million euros ($116 million) on Monday after determining that operating one of its privacy features restricted App Store competition. Apple said it would appeal the sanction. Apple abused its dominant position with …
No…its totally ok!!! Dont let them liars makeup any kind of rules or laws they lie all the time!!!!! pic.twitter.com/6B0wgXaTw9 — The Ancient Ones (@orion311976) December 4, 2025 Gov. Hochul is trying to claim that handing over SNAP recipient lists to the federal government is a massive “privacy violation." Reality: – Every SNAP recipient already …
A Manhattan judge has ordered OpenAI to provide the Daily News and other news outlets with millions of anonymous chats between ChatGPT and its users in a major ongoing copyright infringement case. In a nine-page order made public Wednesday, Manhattan Magistrate Judge Ona Wang denied OpenAI’s request to reconsider her November ruling requiring the tech …
Elbows up pic.twitter.com/ZZ5T9YPz05 — DivineAxiom (@DivineAxiom) October 6, 2025 Bill C-2: Police and border agents could track everything you do. Your calls, your messages, even your movements could be collected and shared without anyone checking. Bill C-8: The government could decide what you are allowed to see online. Websites, apps, and tools could be blocked …
When the CIA is your first and only customer for three years, your mission is clear: bypass constitutional limits and normalize dragnet intelligence. This is how privacy dies, not with public debate but with quiet contracts and venture capital from Langley. If Palantir keeps expanding into policing, financial data, and even health records, the line …
1.5 million pages of police misconduct and use-of-force records. Twelve thousand cases. Nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies. https://filtermag.org/california-police-misconduct-database/ The Police Records Access Project is live. UC Berkeley and Stanford built it. CalMatters, LA Times, SF Chronicle, and KQED put it out. https://journalism.berkeley.edu/police-records-access/ You can search by officer name, agency, or case type. Shootings, beatings, …
YouTube will begin using AI to monitor user behavior and psychology to determine whether viewers in the U.S. are over or under the age. The system analyzes how people interact with content but details on its methods remain scarce. JUST IN – YouTube will begin using AI to monitor user behavior and psychology to determine …
On July 30 2025 the Trump administration held a White House event called “Make Health Tech Great Again” to unveil what is being billed as a digital health ecosystem. Over 60 organizations including Google, Amazon, Apple, Cleveland Clinic, UnitedHealth Group, Oracle and Anthropic signed on to voluntary data‑sharing and interoperability frameworks managed through CMS. The initiative promotes …
OpenAI’s top executive just confirmed what most users never considered. Sam Altman, speaking on Theo Von’s podcast in July 2025, said plainly: ChatGPT conversations can be subpoenaed. No legal shield. No confidentiality. No privilege. If you’ve used the chatbot like a therapist, a coach, or a confessional, your words are fair game in court. Altman …
Microsoft’s Recall feature on Windows 11 is raising serious concerns about privacy and security. The tool automatically captures and stores screenshots every three seconds, creating a searchable database of user activity. Cybersecurity experts warn that this feature could expose sensitive information, including financial records, medical details, passwords, emails, and video calls. Users must ask themselves …
The Department of Education’s “sanctuary program” for illegal immigrants is a blatant violation of trust and law. They’ve been using encrypted messaging apps like Signal to evade scrutiny, hiding their activities from Congress and the public. Travis Combs’ confession is chilling—federal employees deliberately bypassing citizenship checks to avoid accountability. They know it’s wrong, and yet …
On a rolling ninety day basis, Momentum Tech and Bitcoins are 95% correlated, the highest in history. Which means that while gamblers are watching Bitcoins implode over the holiday, we can be 95% certain of what will happen the day after. pic.twitter.com/yLcy44LcyX — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) December 23, 2024 Bitcoin is not fungible and also likely …
Hackers are using artificial intelligence to mine unprecedented troves of personal information dumped online in the past year, along with unregulated commercial databases, to trick American consumers and even sophisticated professionals into giving up control of bank and corporate accounts. Armed with sensitive health information, calling records and hundreds of millions of Social Security numbers, …
These hidden search engines empower users by enhancing privacy, offering diverse, specialized resources. They break away from conventional limitations, catering to academics, privacy seekers, and those pursuing untapped knowledge. via Mario Nawfal Yacy: A decentralized, peer-to-peer search engine you can host on your own server. Enhances privacy by avoiding centralized databases and allowing users to …
At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit at its Cupertino headquarters, cops from seven countries learned how to use a host of Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing work. Twice in the last five years, Apple hosted behind-closed-doors conferences for police agencies from across the world, bringing cops together …
The EU’s privacy watchdog is investigating how Google is using personal data in the development of one of its artificial intelligence models. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC)—the bloc’s regulatory body for companies headquartered in Ireland—announced on Sept. 12. that it was investigating compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules by Google’s Pathways Language Model …
A privacy tool developer has been sentenced to over 5 years in jail because someone misused their creation for illegal activities. This sets a disturbing precedent akin to holding a knife manufacturer accountable for a murder committed with their product. Criminalizing code development threatens digital freedoms, akin to declaring books or blogs illegal based on …
Senator Dick Durbin questions Mark Zuckerberg about his stance on privacy, highlighting the disparity between Zuckerberg’s willingness to share user information and his own privacy preferences. US Senator Dick Durbin Questions Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg is perfectly okay with you having no privacy and sharing all your information but when it comes to him, he …
Temeika Clay couldn’t understand why her car insurance premium shot up 80 percent. The Henry County, Georgia, resident did some digging and obtained the LexisNexis credit report for her Chevy Camaro. The credit report revealed GM had collected data about her driving tendencies and made the information available to insurance companies. “Never did I imagine …
https://apnews.com/article/ring-doorbell-camera-settlement-ftc-payments-658a3bae14c4744cf449932099dc4404 https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-sends-refunds-ring-customers-stemming-2023-settlement-over-charges-company-failed-block?utm_source=govdelivery https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/recent-ftc-cases-resulting-refunds/refund-programs-frequently-asked-questions In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contractors to access customers’ private videos. Ring allegedly used such footage to train algorithms without consent, among other purposes. Ring was also charged with failing to implement key security protections, which enabled hackers to …
🚨 Congress gives itself a carve out in the reauthorization of FISA 702 warrantless spying on Americans. The bill requires the FBI to notify and seek consent from Congress before violating the privacy of Congressmen. This will persuade many members of Congress to vote yes. pic.twitter.com/usKVeNnq3b — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 9, 2024
Police can traipse onto the vast majority of private property in the country without a warrant thanks to a century-old Supreme Court decision, according to a new study by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning public-interest law firm. In a study published in the spring 2024 issue of Regulation, a publication of the Cato Institute, Institute for …
Imagine you’re in a waiting room, and someone sits next to you with four iPhones strapped to their forehead. You might swiftly relocate. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening when someone straps on Apple’s new Vision Pro headset. Each of these goggles contains the rough equivalent to a head full of iPhones: 2 depth sensors, 6 microphones and …
Don’t use chrome. Don’t use Google. There are many better alternatives now. SAN FRANCISCO — Google has agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit alleging that it spied on people who used the “incognito” mode in its Chrome browser — along with similar “private” modes in other browsers — to track their internet use. The …
NEW YORK (AP) — Those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may notice an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police surveillance drone. The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, …
The passage of the Energy Act 2023 marks a significant development in the world of smart meters. Under this legislation, authorities gain the power to employ “reasonable force” to enter homes and install these meters, enabling them to exert control over energy consumption through a “load control system.” Non-compliance with this directive carries severe consequences, …
by UniversalSurvivalist UN – CYBER CRIME TREATY. Today, state representatives will meet in New York to discuss the draft text of the convention, which is the basis for the final treaty. Negotiations will continue into early 2024, with the aim of adopting the treaty during the UN General Assembly in September 2024 (Just in time for the implementation …