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08/17/2018 / By David Williams

750 U.S. communities have successfully built their own private internet networks to avoid big telecom monopoly

The internet situation in the U.S. is becoming more desperate every single day. Between the seemingly unlimited rights of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to do pretty much anything they want with their customers to the unbelievable lack of choices in many locations and the horrendously slow service and after-sales support being offered to paying users, […]

08/02/2018 / By David Williams

Did YOU fall for it? Privacy watchdogs warn selfie lovers that Google’s “art doppelganger” app isn’t just for fun – they are building facial recognition database

People love taking pictures. Whether it’s of food, places, their pets, and especially themselves, most people just can’t help but press the shutter button on cameras and capture images that they’ll review once or twice later but inevitably forget about. The point is, photos, and especially selfies, are a big deal in modern culture. So […]

08/01/2018 / By David Williams

Data is wealth: Your personal info is now worth so much that it’s a mistake to give it away to corporate America for free

Your personal data is extremely valuable. In fact, it is so valuable that social media companies – which largely control the flow of all data from pretty much everyone – are now worth billions of dollars. The industry itself has been highly lucrative for the better part of the last decade, and it doesn’t look like […]

06/30/2018 / By David Williams

Researchers have developed a new, easy way to tell if you are being recorded

Cybersecurity researchers over at the Ben-Gurion University of Negev (BGU) and the Weizmann Institute of Science have developed a new technique to detect if a drone-mounted camera is recording a targeted house or subject. The study, titled “Game of Drones — Detecting Streamed PO from Encrypted FPV Channel,” shows a definitive method that would allow […]

06/06/2018 / By David Williams

26 global experts on AI ring the alarm bells: Dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity in the next 10 years revealed

To date, humanity has been able to advance the field of artificial intelligence (AI) a great deal. The field may have been developed far too quickly, however. Soon, humans could end up being helpless in a fight against highly intelligent, well-connected, and possibly all-knowing robot beings. That’s just one of the many possible threats to […]

06/06/2018 / By David Williams

Almost 1 out of every 10 Americans have deleted their Facebook account since the #DeleteFacebook movement started

Facebook is currently embroiled in an unprecedented data scandal that has caused the whole world to react. Sure, the social media giant has been through a number of different scandals in the past, but this time, the stakes are much higher. Facebook’s current predicament due to the Cambridge Analytica data breach, which exposed the information […]

05/25/2018 / By David Williams

Researchers discover more than 3,300 Android apps used to track children improperly

In the hands of someone who knows how to use them, smartphones can be some of the most versatile kinds of devices ever created. Indeed, with their many different built-in features, and options for added functionality through downloadable and installable apps, smartphones can be used for a wide variety of uses. With that said, they […]

05/23/2018 / By David Williams

British doctors angry after finding out that their bosses secretly placed monitoring devices under their desks under the pretense of “space utilization”

How would you feel if you found out that your workplace was spying on you? Would you be reasonable about it in your reaction, and simply demand a proper explanation from upper management? Or would you just pretend that you didn’t see anything and carry on as if nothing bad is going on? For doctors […]

05/22/2018 / By David Williams

Open-source alternative to Facebook called Scuttlebutt gaining prominence

While Facebook may not be the literal scum of the internet, it has been cutting it real close. The data and privacy breaches that have recently happened and the subsequent non-apology issued by its founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, paint a not-so-bright future for the social media giant. Since it doesn’t look like the […]

05/18/2018 / By David Williams

Chinese fugitive arrested after being identified in concert crowd by facial recognition tech

Facial recognition technology is now being applied to all sorts of things. Recently, a fugitive was arrested for unspecified economic crimes in China through the use of this technology, but the interesting thing was that he was caught while he was in the middle of a crowded concert – meaning his face was scoped out despite […]

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