Surveillance

In addition to all your personal communications, your Amazon.com orders, Google searches and even bank records are being captured and stored in this remote desert data center. STORY AT-A-GLANCE “CITIZENFOUR” is a documentary about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. It came out in 2014, but it’s even more pertinent today than it was then In January 2013, when … [Read more...] about The End of Privacy Is Near

Millennials and Gen Z have grown up watching politicians saddle them with economic hardships and make a mockery of their right to privacy. Now, the Biden administration wants to double down and rob young Americans of their economic privacy. Alongside the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill is a provision that would force banks to report the transaction details of all accounts … [Read more...] about Young Americans Have Good Reasons to Dread Biden’s Plan to Expand the IRS

(Natural News) Under the guise of “protecting children” – a classic excuse – tech giant Apple has decided to scan everyone’s iPhones without their permission to allegedly search for images of child abuse. According to reports, Apple is planning to automatically scan people’s iPhones and iCloud storage accounts to identify child pornography content in order to report it to … [Read more...] about Apple now scanning iPhones without permission to supposedly look for child pornography

Remote workers at one of the world’s largest call center firms are reportedly being pressured to allow AI-powered camera surveillance to monitor their workspaces at home – even in bedrooms. In March, Teleperformance issued an addendum to its employment contracts that required workers to let the company put in cameras – apparently to record and track their work performance at … [Read more...] about Call center company used by Apple, Amazon & Uber wants to force workers to install AI-powered cameras in their BEDROOMS – reports

France’s National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI) has confirmed that three French journalists had their devices infected with the Israeli spyware Pegasus. Iconic whistleblower Edward Snowden called the development “enormous.” Traces of the Israeli NSO Group’s spyware were found by ANSSI on the phones of Mediapart co-founder and president Edwy … [Read more...] about ‘Shut them down’: Snowden responds after French intelligence confirms 3 journalists targeted with Israeli Pegasus spyware

Although wars have increasingly moved into cyberspace in recent years, the leading players remain the same, with the United States “leading the way.” This is confirmed by the occasional scandals with unauthorized control of the phones and emails of political leaders, with the U.S. always holding the “palm.” Of course, the U.S., through its media and its allies who are still … [Read more...] about Is the U.S. eavesdropping on E.U. leaders again?

Police in Taiwan confirmed on Wednesday that they are investigating reports that more than 100 messaging app accounts used by “high ranking officials” were hacked after LINE messenger stated it had detected “abnormal activities.” The Criminal Investigation Bureau in Taipei launched the investigation after LINE, the company behind the messaging app, formally reported concerns … [Read more...] about Taiwanese police launch investigation into reports that over 100 ‘high ranking officials’ had messaging app accounts hacked

Warning that companies that claim to protect national security are the “greatest danger” to it, Edward Snowden has urged the dismantling of this ‘Insecurity Industry’ by banning trade in intrusive software and penalizing enablers. In a searing post on his blog, ‘Continuing Ed’, the NSA whistleblower pointed to the Pegasus scandal as a “turning point” that exposed the … [Read more...] about Snowden skewers Big Tech, ‘amoral’ capital firms for enabling ‘Insecurity Industry’ & calls for urgent action before it’s too late

Edward Snowden has called it “the story of the year.” An Israeli spying company has been caught selling software to authoritarian regimes that have used it to surveil more than 50,000 people worldwide. That company is NSO, founded in 2010 by former members of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s notorious intelligence squad. Their product is called Pegasus, and it was sold to … [Read more...] about Pegasus is Just the Tip of the Israeli Cyber Spying Iceberg, with Whitney Webb

LONDON – This past Sunday, an investigation into the global abuse of spyware developed by veterans of Israeli intelligence Unit 8200 gained widespread attention, as it was revealed that the software – sold to democratic and authoritarian governments alike – had been used to illegally spy on an estimated 50,000 individuals. Among those who had their communications and devices … [Read more...] about Meet Toka, the Most Dangerous Israeli Spyware Firm You’ve Never Heard Of

They keep insisting they don’t do it. But companies such as the Israeli NSO Group are global vendors for regimes, whatever stripe or colour, for surveillance tools to spy on those they deem of interest.  The 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden that exposed the warrantless world of mass surveillance by entities such as the US National Security Agency and Britain’s GCHQ caused a … [Read more...] about Pegasus Rides Again: The NSO Group, Spyware and Human Rights

(Natural News) Amazon is building the largest civilian surveillance network in the United States with the help of its signature home security product: the Ring doorbell. “Ring video doorbells … pose a serious threat to a free and democratic society.” This is the warning of Lauren Bridges, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. In an opinion piece she wrote … [Read more...] about Amazon using videos from Ring doorbell devices to create the largest civilian surveillance network in the US

(Natural News) On Wednesday, June 2, social media app TikTok quietly changed its privacy policy in the United States to permit itself to collect biometric data from its users. TikTok, which has over 100 million users in the U.S. alone, introduced a newly added section in its privacy policy titled “Image and Audio Information.” Under the heading of “Information we collect … [Read more...] about TikTok quietly changed its privacy policy, giving itself permission to harvest biometric data of US users

(Natural News) In an update on a lawsuit against tech giant Google, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich says that the tech giant continues to collect location data even after users turn off tracking on their smartphones and other devices. Documents recently submitted in court by Brnovich’s office revealed that Google engineers sent emails expressing concerns about the … [Read more...] about Google continues to track users even after location tracking is turned off

Millions of us have already scanned our face into facial recognition software utilized by our mobile devices to conveniently unlock them without requiring a passcode. However, there's a hidden cost for that convenience as those scans are being used by our government to track us wherever we go. A new study by The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace shows an alarming … [Read more...] about New study reveals 64 nations now using facial recognition software for government surveillance.