Big Tech
01/20/2023
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By Ramon Tomey
UT Austin bans TikTok on campus, citing security concerns
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) has banned the use of Chinese video app TikTok on campus networks, following security concerns brought up by state and federal officials. UT Austin announced in Jan. 17 that it is permanently blocking TikTok’s access on its systems. Devices connected to the campus network via Wi-Fi or […]
01/20/2023
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By News Editors
FBI director tells WEF the future of national security is in partnership between tech companies and government
FBI Director Christopher Wray spoke at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos on Tuesday, accompanying his private meeting with banking leaders with a panel on cybersecurity. The panel on national security and cybersecurity focused on the conflict in Ukraine, using that war as a lens through which to discuss partnerships between tech companies and government, AI, and autonomous vehicles. (Article by […]
01/19/2023
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By News Editors
Davos: Gates, Schwab, global elites face growing criticism of their ‘master the future’ agenda
Thousands of prominent political and business figures are congregating in Davos, Switzerland, this week for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), whose theme, “Cooperation in a Fragmented World,” focuses on the “cost of living crisis.” (Article by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. republished from ChildrensHealthDefense.org) In recent years, the WEF and its founder and chairperson, German engineer […]
01/13/2023
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By JD Heyes
JPMorgan Chase burned! Buys college financial aid platform for a fortune then learns most users were fake
When billionaire Elon Musk initially balked at buying Twitter after making a $44 billion bid on the platform last spring because he was concerned that an inordinate amount of users were fake, he was on to something. In September, for instance, according to an analysis by leading cyber security specialist Dan Woods, who formerly worked […]
01/11/2023
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By S.D. Wells
Social media is the JUNK FOOD of human connection: Looks and feels like connection, but leaves you empty, just like junk food
Today, most children and teens have limited social skills and a warped view of society in general, thanks to the lies and deception purported by every major social media platform available. Just as the kids, teens, and young adults who were raised on fast food, soda, and junk science snacks are the ones who mainly […]
01/04/2023
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By News Editors
New browser extension replaces Wikipedia pages in search results with Encyclosphere pages
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has announced the launch of a browser plugin that adds Encyclosphere results, while offering the possibility to remove those from Wikipedia – when performing a search using Google or DuckDuckGo. (Article by Didi Rankovic republished from ReclaimTheNet.org) Other search engines will be added soon, according to the plugin’s page on Chrome Web Store (also works with Brave). The […]
01/03/2023
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By Arsenio Toledo
Apple gathers user data and sells it to advertisers
Your iPhone is listening in on your conversations, letting it know when you mention a certain product or service. And then, as if on cue, an ad for the exact thing you talked about will pop up on your device. Users of iPhones can use voice assistant apps like Siri. For these apps to work, they […]
12/29/2022
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By Ethan Huff
Amazon’s iRobot Roomba vacuums caught spying on users, taking photos of them on the toilet and posting to social media
MIT Technology Review published a report recently addressing the fact that Amazon’s iRobot Roomba vacuums are actually secret spy devices that map out users’ homes and even take private photos of their families without their knowledge or permission. As these robot vacuums scour people’s homes in search of crumbs and pet fur, they also secretly […]
12/29/2022
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By Kevin Hughes
Age of surveillance: Authorities now have even more control over ordinary people
The world is now living in the “age of surveillance.” Cameras with facial recognition systems, satellites, street sensors, license plate readers, drones, credit cards, computers, phones, televisions, smart devices and other technologies are already watching every move that people are making. And companies are utilizing this cascade of data to earn more money. Way back in […]
12/24/2022
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By Belle Carter
Shoshana Zuboff: Big Tech companies hijack personal data to control people’s lives
Social psychologist and Harvard University professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote in her book titled “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” that Big Tech companies Google and Facebook take control of their users’ lives by hijacking personal data. In a review of the book, renowned alternative medicine proponent Dr. Joseph Mercola said the information – also called “behavioral surplus […]
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