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10/04/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Facebook won’t tolerate “hate” or “fake” news, but they are FINE with judging you based on wealth – that’s just business

Facebook really needs to get its priorities straight. While the social media giant seems to be completely intolerant towards “hatred” and “fake news” (even though we have reason to believe that it’s really just conservatism that they hate more than anything else), they are apparently perfectly fine with judging you based on your wealth. It’s […]

06/11/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Monopolistic tech giants are really just an extension of the deep state, and they abuse their technology to wield power over the world

There is a very close (and, some would say, “concerning”) relationship forming between tech giants like Google and Amazon and the U.S. national security establishment. Both of these companies are currently in the process of expanding their presence within the intelligence community and building devices capable of everything from facial recognition to reading the moods […]

05/29/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Amazon devices RECORD your private conversations and surreptitiously send them to others

In yet another example of how technology can at times work against our best interests, a family in Portland felt compelled to contact Amazon recently after a private conversation was recorded by the voice-controlled smart speaker “Alexa” and subsequently sent out to a random person living in Seattle. “My husband and I would joke and […]

05/27/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Chinese journalist banned from buying a home due to his score in the “Social Credit System”

Imagine being told by the federal government that you’re not allowed to purchase a house based on your behavior and your societal status. While this thankfully has yet to happen in the United States, across the world in China, it is a reality that the country’s 1.4 billion citizens have to live with. When Chinese […]

05/25/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Convenient or sneaky? New Google feature of “expiring e-mails” can make important political evidence disappear on command

Fasten your seat belts – Google is about to make it much easier for politicians and bureaucrats to hide their corrupt ways from the public. As reported by LifeZette, a new Google feature called “expiring email” will make it so that government officials will be able to make important evidence simply disappear on command, almost […]

05/24/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Bezos the SPY master: Amazon now powering facial recognition surveillance technology for police

It’s time for Americans to stop what they’re doing, have a look around, and ask themselves the following question: Are we still living in the United States of America, or are we living in some kind of science fiction novel where the government knows more about us than we’d like them to know? At times, […]

05/02/2018 / By Jayson Veley

YouTube is not safe for your children: The video platform “data mines” information from its young users

Facebook has been at the center of controversy lately for, among other things, acquiring the personal data of users without their knowledge or consent and then distributing that information to third parties. But as it turns out, Mark Zuckerberg and his team aren’t the only ones making headlines for illegal data-mining. According to multiple advocacy […]

05/01/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Mark of the Beast now active in India as government requires biometric scanning for food purchases and government benefits

Even on the other side of the world, big brother is alive in well. In an unprecedented move that has civil libertarians horrified, India has created an identification system that scans the fingerprints, eyes and faces of its residents and connects the gathered information to everything from welfare benefits and entitlements to cell phones. The […]

04/25/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Whoops, sorry – Facebook didn’t mean it when they secretly kept all your deleted videos

Think back to the days when Facebook allowed users to film videos directly on the platform to post on a friend’s wall. If you ever recorded a video and then deleted it because you didn’t like the way it came out, there’s a chance that the clip was never actually gone. Late last month, an […]

04/12/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Civil rights vs. public safety: Police are using Google to acquire detailed records of your private activity

The debate over privacy versus security is one that dates back hundreds of years, really to the inception to the United States itself. Ben Franklin, for example, once famously declared that, those who would give up their liberty for some security deserve neither liberty nor security. Others strongly disagree, arguing that surrendering some liberty is […]

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