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The Cloud's Not Fluffy, It's a Hot, Loud, Energy-Voracious Factory (December 2, 2025)
The Cloud” might be the greatest branding trick in history. It sounds fluffy, ethereal, and notably light. It implies that our digital lives…our emails, our crypto wallets, our endless scrolling…exist in some vaporous layer of the atmosphere, detached from earthly constraints. But if you actually drive out to Loudoun County, Virginia, or stare at the arid plains of Altoona, Iowa, you realize the Cloud is actually just a very big, very loud, and very hot factory.
Proof of AI Garbage In, Garbage Out (September 22, 2025)
We again exhort readers: do not use AI. Please discourage others from using AI. Large language models need so much content as training sets that they not only can’t afford to discriminate in terms of content, but they are even eating their bad output as part of their training sets. If you need remotely accurate answers, you need to opt out.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 21, 2025 (June 21, 2025)
What is artificial intelligence and and why does it exist? The marketing paints pictures of benefits of all kinds. Some of those benefits are real, but there are also substantial negatives. For example, there are massive environmental costs, and some profoundly concerning effects on education. Many of the cutting-edge developments in AI consist of developing new and more efficient ways to kill people (e.g. self-targeting drones, smart bombs) and increased surveillance in the interests of increased state control and suppression of dissent. This newsletter looks at some of the dimensions of artificial intelligence.
People Don't Realize Meta's AI App Is Publicly Blasting Their Humiliating Secrets to the World (June 14, 2025)
Users of Meta's AI app are inadvertently posting the most private queries imaginable to what they don't realize is showing up for anyone to see. Released in late April 2025, Meta's "AI assistant" app -- really just a flashy chatbot meant to harvest your data -- has quickly become a go-to virtual helper for many around the world. here's just one tiny problem: everything you ask Meta's AI is liable to wind up in a public feed for the whole world to laugh at.
Stanford Research Finds That "Therapist" Chatbots Are Encouraging Users' Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal Thoughts (June 12, 2025)
AI therapist chatbots are contributing to harmful mental health stigmas — and reacting in outright dangerous ways to users exhibiting signs of severe crises, including suicidality and schizophrenia-related psychosis and delusion.
Do AI Models Think? (June 11, 2025)
AI will bring nothing but harm. As I said earlier, AI is not just a disaster for our political health, though yes, it will be that (look for Cadwallader’s line “building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state”). But AI is also a disaster for the climate. It will hasten the collapse by decades as usage expands.
Your Smartphone Is a Parasite, According To Evolution (June 8, 2025)
Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal. Far from being benign tools, smartphones parasitise our time, our attention and our personal information, all in the interests of technology companies and their advertisers.
AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students (June 3, 2025)
If the testimony of beleaguered teachers is anything to go by -- as gathered in this extensive roundup of educator opinions by 404 Media -- it sure sounds like the explosion of the homeworking-cheating machines also known as AI models is obliterating the up and coming generation of students.
Richard Murphy Gets ChatGPT to Describe How It Inherently Makes Shit Up (June 2, 2025)
Many users seem to have lost sight as to how generative AI programs like ChatGPT work. They do not do research. They use the data in their training set and then give probabalistic responses based on that. Richard Murphy queried ChatGPT as to how it had delivered bogus results to a request he'd made. The response confirms that ChatGPT, and presumably other generative AI will often include garbage output, which means any user is always at risk of relying on bad information. Moreover, ChatGPT 'splaining itself is reminiscent of the scorpion tell the frog that his fatal behavior is in his nature.
Teachers are not OK (June 2, 2025)
Teachers comment on AI has impacted education.
AI Is Destroying Gen Z's Chances at a Stable Career (May 28, 2025)
There's reason to believe these buzzy tales of AI "innovation" and "workplace paradigm shifts" are really just cover for broader -- and more perfidious -- trends in the labor market, such as the "gigification" of labour. Meanwhile, researchers and labor organizers are sounding the alarm that the most vulnerable among us -- not just entry-level, but minority, immigrant, and elderly workers -- will be among the first to feel the rungs break as the "AI revolution" barrels on.
How Microsoft became a hub for Israeli intelligence (May 19, 2025)
Microsoft's close collaboration with Tel Aviv — including its employment of over 1,000 Israelis — strongly undermines the tech giant's claim that no Palestinians have been harmed by its services.
As History Erasure Intensifies, Independent Internet Archives Are Helping Fortify the Â'Digital Preservation Infrastructure' (April 25, 2025)
There is a difference between the government changing a policy and the government erasing information, but the line between those two has blurred in the digital age… In the digital age, government publishing has shifted from the distribution of unalterable printed books to digital posts on government websites. Such digital publications can be moved, altered, and withdrawn at the flick of a switch. Publishing agencies are not required to preserve their own information, nor to provide free access to it.
"You Can't Lick a Badger Twice": Google's AI Is Making Up Explanations for Nonexistent Folksy Sayings (April 23, 2025)
Google's AI readily makes up 'explanations' for sayings that don't exist. The bizarre replies are the perfect distillation of one of AI's biggest flaws: rampant hallucinations. Large language model-based AIs have a long and troubled history of rattling off made-up facts and even gaslighting users into thinking they were wrong all along.
State Department To Use AI To Revoke Visas of Students Who ‘Appear Pro-Hamas’ (March 7, 2025)
U.S. Secretary of State, Mark Rubio, announcs the use of AI to screen social media accounts of international students in effort to revoke visas of those expressing sympathy and support for Palestine.
Meta Steps Up Aggressive Censorship (October 9, 2024)
Meta has been ramping up censorship of speech that’s critical of Israel and its U.S.-backed atrocities for a while now, with a sharp increase that was anecdotally noticeable immediately after the company announced back in July that it would be instituting vague new censorship protocols against the word “Zionism." After that move, critics of U.S. foreign policy such as Aaron Maté, Jonathan Cook and Tadhg Hickey began reporting that their posts about Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza were being unexpectedly taken down on Facebook.
Ordinary People are absolutely repulsed by AI-powered customer service (July 13, 2024)
A survey suggests that people don't just dislike the idea of AI being used in customer service -- they're actively repulsed by it.
All Vivek Murthy Wants for Christmas is a Label Maker (June 20, 2024)
“It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms,” Vivek Murthy writes in a New York Times op-ed, “stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.”
'Orwellian': EU's push to mass scan private messages on WhatsApp, Signal (June 20, 2024)
EU member states to vote on controversial Chat Control 2 proposals to scan communications for child sex abuse material.
Assessing the Implications of Adtech for Terrorist and Counter-Terrorist Operations (May 29, 2024)
The February 27, 2024 article published in Wired -- How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets -- and Vladimir Putin -- is an excerpt from the book, Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State, by Byron Tau. Tau’s piece illuminates the tactics and methods intelligence agencies are using to track the activities and movements of individuals by using the data on their smart phones.
Are you chatting with a pro-Israeli AI-powered superbot? (May 22, 2024)
Smart bots have emerged as an unexpected weapon in Israel's war on Gaza.
Worried About AI Voice Clone Scams? Create a Family Password (January 31, 2024)
Your grandfather receives a call late at night from a person pretending to be you. The caller says that you are in jail or have been kidnapped and that they need money urgently to get you out of trouble. Perhaps they then bring on a fake police officer or kidnapper to heighten the tension. The money, of course, should be wired right away to an unfamiliar account at an unfamiliar bank.
'A mass assassination factory': Inside Israel's calculated bombing of Gaza (November 30, 2023)
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 14, 2023 (October 14, 2023)
Fading to silence, as well as the more active and deliberate silencing of dissenting views, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
The Need To Replace The Existing U.S.-Government-Controlled Web (September 21, 2023)
The U.S. Government controls the Web; and this means that it also indirectly controls the news-media.
The EU's best weapon against free speech isn't working (September 7, 2023)
The European Union has just realized that it can't rule the internet with an iron fist by throwing around the 'Kremlin propaganda' label.
Southfront blocked by U.S.-controlled global Internet supervisor (September 1, 2023)
On the night of 18 August [2023], the "international domain name registry" blocked southfront.org without any warning or explanation. Despite the fact that this organisation has been formally independent since 1998, it is actually controlled by the US Department of Commerce. What they have done is an unprecedented action in the history of modern information society. This is the American way of democracy, freedom of speech and the rule of law.
YouTube bans Scott Ritter (August 11, 2023)
YouTube has terminated the account of former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter and deleted all of his videos on the platform.
Leaks reveal FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info (June 7, 2023)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.
US Seizes Web Domains Related to Hezbollah (May 12, 2023)
The U.S. government has seized over a dozen web domains belonging to the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah and others. The U.S. Department of Justice said that the web domains were operated by persons or groups who had been sanctioned by the U.S. government.
Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know (May 10, 2023)
A citizen's starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel
The Curse of the Algorithm (December 26, 2022)
The existence of algorithms might be a sign of civilization, but it might also be a sign of madness. As human decision-making is handed over to machines, these machines can make rather irrational, discriminatory, and outright mad decisions.
Snowden says 'I told you so' (December 24, 2022)
Former CIA and National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has claimed vindication after a media report exposed how surveillance tools deployed to fight Covid-19 are now being abused by law enforcement and other authorities – as he predicted over two years ago.
Researchers Find Massive Anti-Russian 'Bot Army' (November 6, 2022)
An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war, Peter Cronau reports. The sample size dwarfs other studies of covert propaganda about the war on social media.
Is your boss tracking you while you work? (October 11, 2022)
In Ontario, employers must now disclose if they have been using productivity tracking software to keep tabs on their employees. Experts say while this may address transparency concerns, businesses should be tracking output instead.
Amazon wants surveillance robots in every home (October 10, 2022)
Amazon's new home robot is charged with privacy violations in line with the Roomba and the Ring.
Google is spying on your private conversations, manipulating search results (September 1, 2022)
Interview with Dr. Robert Epstein who has been conducting research on tech companies' roles in American politics.
Americans are being urged to delete period tracking apps. Should Canadians do the same? (July 5, 2022)
Health apps' promises to protect users' data should be taken with a grain of salt, privacy experts say.
The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents (June 21, 2022)
Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety and content.
How 'Virtual Crime Scenes' Became a Propaganda Tool in Nicaragua, Ukraine, and Syria (May 26, 2022)
Creating "virtual crime scenes" is a tool which enables establishment media such as the New York Times, the BBC or (in Spain) El Pais, to convey interpretations of the events which conveniently coincide with the way they are seen by the US government and its allies.
The Threat to Privacy in the Post-Roe Era (May 25, 2022)
Using a maps app to plan a route, sending terms to a search engine and chatting online are ways that people actively share their personal data. But mobile devices share far more data than just what their users say or type. They share information with the network about whom people contacted, when they did so, how long the communication lasted and what type of device was used.
Dear Al Gorithm (May 7, 2022)
A look at search engine optimization (SEO) spam and the algorithms behind them.
An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm (April 25, 2022)
Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Big Tech's 'Cancel Culture' Love Affair (April 21, 2022)
Cancel culture is inbuilt in the techno-feudalist project: conform to the hegemonic narrative, or else. Journalism that does not conform must be taken down. This month, several of us - Scott Ritter, myself, ASB Military News, among others - were canceled from Twitter. The - unstated - reason: we were debunking the officially approved narrative of the Russia/NATO/Ukraine war.
Twitter Wars: My Personal Experience in Twitter's Ongoing Assault on Free Speech (April 13, 2022)
Australian Government Sanctions People For Sharing Unauthorized Thoughts (March 8, 2022)
Stomping on speech which doesn't align with the authorized opinions of the government and the globe-spanning empire of which it is a member state.
Spotify Purges Dissident Voices In Latest Censorship Escalation (March 3, 2022)
Multiple American podcasters who speak critically of the political status quo in their country are reporting that their channels have been shut down as the censorship campaign against Russia-backed media continues to escalate.
Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship (January 24, 2022)
By mid-2017 independent media outlets were already reporting across ideological lines that algorithm changes from important sources of viewership like Google had suddenly begun hiding their content from people who were searching for the subjects they reported on.
Is it already too late to say goodbye? (January 22, 2022)
My blog posts once attracted tens of thousands of shares. Then, as the algorithms tightened, it became thousands. Now, as they throttle me further, shares can often be counted in the hundreds. "Going viral" is a distant memory.
Actual reality is infinitely preferable to the dystopian augmented reality of the Metaverse (2022)
After isolating lockdowns and other absurd anti-science measures that have made life hell for many for the past year-and-a-half, people are thirsty for real life interactions, not Zoom calls or other digital meet-ups.
Massive cyberattack disrupts petrol stations in Iran (October 26, 2021)
Public health or private wealth? (October 19, 2021)
Don't expect tech giants to build back better (September 1, 2021)
Tech giants need to quantify human behaviour to make money from it. The pandemic, by forcing much of our lives online, has shown just how much money they can make.
Canadian Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias, study finds (August 19, 2021)
Israeli spyware used to target journalists, activists (July 18, 2021)
Activists, politicians and journalists from around the world – including from Al Jazeera – were targeted in a surveillance operation using software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak by The Guardian, The Washington Post and 15 other media outlets.
Private moments captured on home security cameras being live streamed again on website (June 29, 2021)
Cybersecurity experts say with home security cameras becoming more popular and people working from home during the pandemic, it's vital the public is educated about how to keep their cameras secure.
US seizes three dozen websites used for 'Iranian disinformation' (June 23, 2021)
The Drone Revolution Comes to England (May 4, 2021)
As cities and towns are faced with rising poverty, homelessness and drug addiction, the authorities respond with more social control, using a technology that makes George Orwell’s 1984 seem tame.
Screened out by a computer? (March 7, 2021)
Experts predict "asynchronous" one-way interviews will outlast the COVID-19 pandemic.
Big Tech's Playing Monopoly. It's Going to Lose. (February 4, 2021)
Knapp critiques Big Tech, including Facebook and Twitter, as limiting freedom of speech in return for substantial revenue from government contracts.
US military buys location data of popular Muslim apps (November 17, 2020)
Social media's erasure of Palestinians is a grim warning for our future (October 26, 2020)
Nowhere are ties between tech and state officials more evident than in their dealings with Israel. This has led to starkly different treatment of digital rights for Israelis and Palestinians.
Wikipedia formally censors the Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing (June 10, 2020)
On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia’s guidelines.
Wikipedia formally censors the Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing (June 10, 2020)
On the blacklisting campaign of certain independent new sites launched by a small group of Wikipedia editors.
Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and WebEx are collecting more customer data than they appear to be (May 1, 2020)
Certain applications collecting more data from users than is immediately apparent.
Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex Privacy Issues - Consumer Reports (April 30, 2020)
CR evaluated videoconferencing privacy policies and found these services may collect more data than consumers realize.
The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here (April 30, 2020)
As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet.
They Are Rolling Out The Architecture of Oppression Now Because They Fear The People (April 11, 2020)
"As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world," NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said in a recent interview.
Big Tech Firms are Using Automation to Censor News About the Coronavirus (March 18, 2020)
Big tech is again attempting to define the range of acceptable political discussion on its platforms; this week YouTube announced a number of changes in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, chief among those being that automated systems, rather than humans, will predominantly be authorizing or removing content in the foreseeable future.
Cookie Monster: the Nuts and Bolts of Online Tracking (March 9, 2020)
Big Tech has become notorious for its hoarding of its users' personal data, collected with great breadth and down to minute details. Billions have been paid by online platforms to settle legal charges over their invasive and reckless privacy follies.
Even the Machines Are Racist. Facial Recognition Systems Threaten Black Lives. (March 4, 2020)
Politicians and companies pushing facial recognition technology say that, like the near-certainty of DNA and the exactness of fingerprint matches, the software is a precise, unbiased alternative to human bigotry in policing. Yet in reality, facial recognition technology is prone to false positives that target Black and Brown people, and then tracks them when they're on parole.
Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat? (March 3, 2020)
Emboldened by the citizenry's inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expands its powers. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state's hands.
Huawei fires back, points to US' history of spying on phone networks (February 12, 2020)
Chinese vendor Huawei has provided a longer response to US allegations of spying, claiming that it doesn't have the spying capability alleged by the US and pointing out that the US itself has a long history of spying on phone networks.
'Completely unsustainable': How streaming and other data demands take a toll on the environment (January 2, 2020)
"We are using an immense amount of energy to drive this data revolution," said Jane Kearns, an environment and technology expert at MaRS Discovery District, an innovation hub in Toronto. "It has real implications for our climate."
Amazon Alexa wants to save you from uncomfortable Christmas dinner talk. Be careful what you wish for. (December 19, 2019)
Amazon has introduced a feature for Alexa to introduce conversation topics at Christmas family dinners. Given the history of privacy breaches people should wary.
'Shadow banning' written into Twitter's new terms of service, may 'limit visibility' of some users (December 4, 2019)
With the addition of those four words, the company is telling users it reserves the right shadow ban or "throttle" certain accounts. On what basis will it make those decisions – or whether they will be made solely by an automated algorithm – remains unclear.
Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built on Facial Recognition (November 26, 2019)
Amazon's plan to create proactive "watch lists" based on supposed suspicious activity - including facial recognition software - seen by their Ring cameras should alarm anyone who cares about privacy.
Freedom, Valor, Love: On Snowden's Permanent Record (November 20, 2019)
Edward Snowden's life reveals it's not just "the computer guy" (or other non-male folks) at tech's helms, but the general U.S. public that bears witness to corporatized data surveillance state violations, or the data industrial complex. This secretive sprawling network is the invasive rule today; it involves regular media outlets, telecommunications, social media platforms, Internet service providers, and government agencies.
VAR, technology and human judgment (November 18, 2019)
VAR aims to eliminate 'clear and obvious errors' by referees by using TV replays to allow officials to view contentious incidents from different camera angles and by reconstructing the movement of the ball or players to check whether a goal was actually scored and whether a player was offside. The trouble is, what constitutes a 'clear and obvious error' is itself a judgment call.
How the Hand of Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep into our Lives (November 12, 2019)
Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications – against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted.
Here we go again: Amazon AI-powered Cloud Cam actually powered by unseen humans who watch you have sex (October 17, 2019)
Amazon’s AI-based home security system is sending footage of users' private moments to dozens of algorithm trainers halfway around the world, according to former employees - not unlike its Alexa "smart" speakers. Amazon’s Cloud Cam home security device regularly sends video clips to employees in Romania and India, who help "train" its AI algorithms, according to five current and former employees who spoke to Bloomberg.
Why deep-learning AIs are so easy to fool (October 9, 2019)
These problems are more concerning than idiosyncratic quirks in a not-quite-perfect technology, says Dan Hendrycks, a PhD student in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Like many scientists, he has come to see them as the most striking illustration that DNNs are fundamentally brittle: brilliant at what they do until, taken into unfamiliar territory, they break in unpredictable ways.
Robot Trolls on Amazon: How Fake Reviews Could Undermine Progressive Politics (October 4, 2019)
In the pursuit of profit, corporations appear to be using bots to undermine competitors on Amazon, as they do on Twitter and Facebook. This could have detrimental effects on progressive authors and filmmakers who, in the absence of major corporate backing, need the support of reviewers -- at least on Amazon -- in order to boost their marketability.
The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption (October 3, 2019)
Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor access to all encrypted messages sent on all its platforms. In an open letter, these governments called on Mark Zuckerberg to stop Facebook's plan to introduce end-to-end encryption on all of the company's messaging products and instead promise that it will "enable law enforcement to obtain lawful access to content in a readable and usable format."
Adversarial Interoperability (October 2, 2019)
A round-up of the EFF's writing on 'adverserial interoperabillity' which is necessary for creating a decentralized internet free from corporate monopolies.
Technology was supposed to make us more capable. Instead it has made us scarily dependent (September 24, 2019)
Technology has promised to make things easier and elevate the species. But much technology emerging today has only increased our dependence on technology by rendering obsolete many of the skills we once relied upon.
Banks tell dozens of customers they're to blame for thousands of dollars lost to e-transfer fraudsters (September 22, 2019)
Cybercrime detective says banks must do better job informing customers of risk. After Rene Trudeau of Île-des-Chênes, Man., e-transferred $3,000 to pay for a new front door and a fraudster stole the cash, TD Bank said it wasn't to blame and refused to reimburse the money.
Algorithms Are People (September 18, 2019)
Amazon, Google, and other tech platforms deny interfering with their respective search algorithms, to boost profits or sidestep regulations. Because of the murky mechanics of how search works, proving the allegations is nearly impossible.
Smart Faucets And Toilets Use Alexa To Listen To Your Conversations (September 17, 2019)
It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done. Delta Faucet's "Voice IQ" takes advantage of where lots of people like to congregate and turns it into an Alexa eavesdropping centre.
Facebook advertisers can write their own headlines for shared news stories (September 16, 2019)
Advertisers on Facebook are able to completely rewrite the displayed headline for news stories, CBC News has learned, opening the door for potential disinformation to spread on the platform while using news media branding as cover.
The Stupidity of Smart Devices and Smart Cities (August 29, 2019)
Smart phones, smart bombs, and, it follows, Smart Cities (capitalising such terms implies false authority), do not exist in that sense, whatever their cheer squad emissaries in High Tech land claim. They are merely a masterfully daft celebration of tactically deployed cults: there is a fad, a trend, and therefore, it must be smart, a model option to pursue.
Facebook had human contractors 'reviewing' users' Messenger voice chats (August 14, 2019)
Facebook has given contractors access to people's private voice chats for transcription purposes.
Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange (August 10, 2019)
Sources reveal new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times and refute lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm (August 6, 2019)
Many governments in Africa, threatened by the democracy of internet communication, are stifling it by imposing taxes and fees, throttling internet service itself and even arresting bloggers.
Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant (August 5, 2019)
Amazon's home surveillance company Ring is coaching police on how to use their technology which simultaneously provides a source of advertising for Amazon.
Are Israel's spies stealing your data? (August 5, 2019)
Many Israeli spies go into careers in surveillance software bringing techniques that are used to violate the privacy of Palestinians into everyday commercial software.
Another day, another data hack-- and truth is, there's not much you can do about it (July 31, 2019)
This week's Capital One hack is just yet another reminder of what cybersecurity experts have known for a while: you've probably already had your information stolen, and the only question is whether you know it.
'It was chaotic': National outage of passport kiosks causes major delays at Pearson (July 28, 2019)
A nationwide outage affecting the primary inspection kiosks and NEXUS of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) caused serious delays for passengers arriving on international flights.
'Algorithms don’t write themselves' (July 25, 2019)
ANYONE can be re-identified from 'anonymous data', researchers claim & let you TEST it (July 24, 2019)
Online services that claim to anonymize users’ personal data aren’t as secure as we think, according to researchers who found over 99 percent of people can be identified from a handful of supposedly anonymous data points. Using just three commonly-requested demographic attributes -- birthdate, zip code, and gender -- the program is able to successfully identify users about 83 percent of the time. And with 5 and more data points the machine-learning model gets it right over 99 percent of the time.

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