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Life inside China's Total Surveillance State. China is tracking people by installing QR codes on their homes in order to get instant access to the personal details of people living there. You need to tell police first if your friend wants to sleep at your home for one night.… pic.twitter.com/nzdOid0eMe — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December …
12 hours ago, Google confirmed that the company is removing real-time crowding data in Israel and Gaza at the request of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), noting that live traffic information could previously reveal the movements of Israeli armed forces. Google’s actions will restrict info on its Google Maps and Waze products. Apple Inc.’s own …
via theconservativetreehouse: You might ask, why is the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) in the business of conducting widescale surveillance, monitoring and tracking of American citizens. Unfortunately, if you are asking that question, then you likely don’t know the first, fourth and fifth amendment to the U.S. constitution were usurped by the 2001 Patriot Act. …
Coles is “aggressively” rolling out new technology that will track shoppers’ every move from the moment they walk into a store. Overhead cameras, trolley locks, smart gates and, perhaps most bizarrely, fog machines will be introduced in a desperate bid to tackle rising theft. The changes are set to leave your average supermarket feeling more …
The social media platform formerly known as Twitter can now harvest your biometric data and DNA. A new update quietly added to the platform’s privacy policy says that X now has permission to harvest its users’ fingerprints, retinal scans, voice and face recognition and keystroke patterns. The update would mean that anyone who uses fingerprint …
Eastern Tropical Atlantic: Cloudiness and showers over the eastern tropical Atlantic centered a few hundred miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands are associated with a tropical wave. While dry air should prevent significant organization during the next few days, environmental conditions could become more conducive for some development by this weekend while the wave …