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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 […]

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 […]

02/26/2018 / By Mike Adams

98% of mass shootings occur in “gun-free zones” … why do gun control loonies refuse to protect their own children?

Abandoning all logic and reason, liberals have somehow convinced themselves that hanging “gun-free zone” signs in front of schools will somehow stop murderers from deploying guns there during mass shootings. Truly, you have to be completely disconnected from reality to believe that a silly sign is going to stop a murderer. Yet that’s exactly what […]

01/09/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

It’s not your imagination — your phone really is spying on you: Hundreds of Android apps use the microphone to secretly monitor and record your TV habits

Your phone is actually spying on you. They may not be listening to your conversations, but they are using your device’s microphone to gather information on the ads, TV shows, and movies you watch. A new report from The New York Times revealed that more than 250 gaming apps use the monitoring software called Alphonso, […]

01/01/2018 / By David Williams

“Big Data” police-state surveillance the new norm: Information from multiple sources (on any citizen) now being combined to generate a “criminal risk assessment algorithm”

The emergence of “big data” has been quite the revelation for many different industries. Whereas information used to be sparse and relatively hard to obtain, now it is available in such large quantities that specialized equipment and algorithms are needed to process them. The police industry is just one of the many industries that are […]

09/21/2017 / By Russel Davis

Biometric features on new iPhone spark safety and privacy concerns: Owners could be forced to open phones against their will

The iPhone X’s brand new Face ID recognition software has come under scrutiny as experts cautioned that the system might be used to compromise the user’s safety and privacy. The new feature enables users to open their phone by scanning their face. According to technology experts, the new software can be exploited by thieves by forcing users […]

07/04/2017 / By Vicki Batts

98% Of college students will divulge their friends’ emails for a piece of PIZZA

Nothing says friendship like pizza, or does it? A recent study of college students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that a staggering 98 percent were willing to give up their friends’ email addresses for a slice of pizza — not even a whole pizza, just one piece. Clearly, kids these days don’t have their priorities […]

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