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12/27/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

PROVEN: LSD to produce “higher” state of consciousness… no wonder governments want to keep it criminalized

Science has just recently validated what our parents knew in their teenage years: LSD can trigger a “higher state” of consciousness. Neuroscientists from the University of Sussex supplied new evidence that suggests taking psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin, ketamin, and LSD, increases neural signal diversity (the complexity of brain activity) compared to a normal waking […]

12/01/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

The next step in surveillance: “Smart” cameras violate your privacy in the form of AI dashcams for police, threat monitoring for retailers

For Vice President of Marketing of COBAN Technologies David Hinojosa, their new AI software is a “dashcam on steroids.” Such a description may elicit a smile or two but it does call to question just how rapidly we are transitioning to the virtual world. Many privacy and civil liberties activists believe that this new software […]

08/14/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Walmart to unveil face-monitoring video spy system that identifies unhappy customers in their stores

In a weird attempt to improve its customer relations, Walmart is developing a device equipped with facial recognition technology that would detect frustrated or unhappy shoppers in their stores. The software would be installed in the various cameras around the Walmart store and scan each customer’s face for any facial movement or expression that would […]

07/26/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Uber violates your privacy by permanently storing all the locations where you were picked up and dropped off

A glitch in the latest iteration of the Uber app permanently stores pick-up and drop-off locations on the user’s mobile phone, with updates being continually sent to the device even without inputting a password. This bug has been implicated in the dozens of divorce cases now being filed across Europe. According to litigation specialists and […]

07/12/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Google will soon obtain private genetic data on hundreds of thousands of medical patients… without their consent

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently ruled that the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust broke the law, as it failed to comply with the Data Protection Act when it transferred 1.6 million patient records to DeepMind, an artificial intelligence research group owned by Google. In response to the ruling, NHS signed an undertaking to […]

07/10/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Freedom has died in Canada: Christian school ordered to stop teaching parts of the “offensive” Bible

A public, K-12 Christian Academy in Alberta, Canada, has been told to stop teaching certain parts of the Bible, which can be deemed as “offensive” by certain groups of people. Cornerstone Christian Academy (CCA) received a warning from the Battle River School Division (BRSD) to discontinue referring to various parts of Scripture in the Bible, […]

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