Two Senate Democrats seek regulation of smart TVs. Since this is unlikely to happen anytime soon, consumers are faced with not purchasing such devices in the first instance, or attempting to configure them to prevent them from hoovering up personal data.
Read more...California passes privacy legislation, which pre-empts a more sweeping ballot initiative previously scheduled for November.
Read more...The proliferation of military weapons and gear corresponds to that of para-militarized law enforcement officers.
Read more...Seyrmour Hersh’s retrospective demonstrates how much nerve it takes to do reporting, and how few reporters have it.
Read more...Police are casting their DNA-matching efforts wider via genealogy websites.
Read more...Apparently needing to justify spending and domestic surveillance, military exercises depict leftie future terrorists as official threats.
Read more...Some sleuthing into who might be backing the low-life hit men at PropOrNot, a group linked to Ukrainian fascists that defamed Naked Capitalism, ConsortiumNews, Counterpunch, the Ron Paul Institute, Paul Craig Roberts, Black Agenda Report, and other sites.
Read more...Assange’s luck in staying out of the hands of the US may be coming to an end.
Read more...Adding to the tally of how the UK will come out a loser thanks to Brexit.
Read more...The US press and punditry has been tip-toeing around the real problem with Facebook: that it has monopoly power.
Read more...Mexico will requires banks to collect biometric data from all their customers this year– a policy that will exacerbate economic crimes committed by hacking databases.
Read more...A how-to for people who can’t give up on Facebook but want to reduce their snooping exposure.
Read more...The outcry over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica conveniently ignores the real issues: the pervasiveness of surveillance and the need to insist on stronger privacy rights.
Read more...If you’ve created an account, you can never escape Facebook. But you can at least stop making things worse for yourself.
Read more...Creepy algos implement what sure looks like consumer fraud at Best Buy.
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