(Mis)Uses of Technology

by Tim Cushing

Mon, Jan 26th 2015 5:36am…

Nowhere To Hide As Minority Report-Style Facial Recognition Technology Spreads Across America…

Judge says government can access everything in a Gmail account — privacy warriors weep

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The reach of Google’s online empire is hard to overstate. In a sense, the Google search engine is the loom through which the entirety of the public internet is woven. With tools like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs, the company also handles many of our private online tasks. Using the data generated by these services to target online ads, Google has built a business that generates tens of billions of dollars a year.

Now, with the $500 million…

There is a new rage in the medical field; Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS). This 14 millimeter chip will act as a remote diagnostic tool within the human…

The CIA was just caught red-handed spying on staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee who were investigating the CIA's secret and highly controversial torture program.

This confirms some of our worst fears. It’s the ultimate abuse of power that calls our entire democracy into question. How screwed are we when the government has the power to intimidate or derail investigations into their own crimes?…

The prevalence and scope of camera surveillance seems to be rising with each passing day. A town in Michigan will soon have surveillance cameras in every neighborhood – and residents will be required to pay for the related ongoing operational expenses.

Infowars.com has recently reported that officials in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan are working with police to put surveillance cameras in every single neighborhood. Mike Radzik, the director of the Office of Community Standards,…

As the Amazon book store works for the CIA it is highly likely that the confidential customer information is leaked. It's time to start looking for an alternative book store that values their book buying client, and not the spying agencies.

"Amazon officially won a court battle with IBM over a cloud computing project for the CIA worth up to $600 million."…

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By Rick Falkvinge

The security services of the US, UK, and Sweden have been actively working…

Aren't we all fed up with the NSA and other intelligence disservices snooping our private lives and poking their noses to our private mail? Isn't it time that we do something about it? I don't want my private details; address, phone numbers, birthday, emails, cookie receipts or anything stored and snooped. There is commercially available encryption software that can be used for message encoding and decoding. However, it's 99% certain that they  have embedded back doors for the snooping…

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Our liberties are being eroded as well as our privacy. Our children are conditioned to being monitored by everyone at all times. We are now living in a world that is more rigidly monitored than any Orwellian dystopia. AT&T’s Digital Life further erodes our privacy.

I wrote in a …

Bruce Schneier says “we as a society are heading down a dangerous path”

Whenever I start pursuing a story about a technology that purports to make the Internet more secure, or about a privacy-protecting measure that an Internet company is promoting, I try to check in with the cryptologist and security expect Bruce Schneier. It’s always a good day when Schneier gets back to you–but what he says is usually sobering.

And lately, what he says is downright dystopian.…

The increasing amount of personal information that can be gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study.

Such programs can discern undisclosed private information such as Facebook users’ sexuality, drug-use habits and even whether their parents separated when they were young, according to the study by the University of Cambridge academics.

In one of the biggest studies of its kind, scientists from the…

For years we heard about the Mark of the Beast and I always discounted it.  However, the government has mandated the use of a Socialist Slave Number on all Americans just like the Nazis used on Jews and other concentration camp conscripts.

 Despite wording in the Privacy Act of 1974 which prevented the collection and use of a Social Security number to open…

With the sophistication of drone technology moving at a rapid pace, their size and prices are coming down just as fast, it’s likely that more drones will be filling the skies and pushing the limits of privacy. You need to understand just how much these drones can see and how easily and silently they can hover high above a location. Armed drones pose additional threats. Check out:…