Coronavirus Could Infect Privacy And Civil Liberties Forever

03-29-2020 • https://www.forbes.com, Simon Chandler

Coronavirus has infected more than just individuals and their bodies.

Privacy Advocates Sound Alarms Over Coronavirus Surveillance

03-24-2020 • https://www.technocracy.news, Benjamin Powers

When public-private partnerships are created around sensitive public data, the public will always lose because the private company is not limited by the expected ethics of government to protect and defend. The only way to stop this practice is to sto

New web threat: Government plan to scan online messages

03-22-2020 • https://www.wnd.com, By WND Staff

Privacy group warns of danger from strategy to eliminate encryption

Governments Using Coronavirus To Break Down Privacy

03-21-2020 • https://www.technocracy.news by BENJAMIN POWERS

After 9/11 and the Patriot Act, privacy at airports became a thing of the past as the TSA insured that all travelers were searched, prodded, x-rayed and intimidated. The war on viruses will exacerbate that trend by an order of magnitude. ? TN Edito

Danger: US Census Forms Are Being Mailed This Week

03-15-2020 • Ron Paul Institute - Adam Dick

Could census information be similarly used again to facilitate widespread repression? Certainly.

If You're Close To The Scene Of A Crime, Police Can Demand Google Hand Over Your Data

03-13-2020 • https://www.zerohedge.com by Aaron Kesel

The Gainesville Police Department suspected an innocent man was involved in a burglary so naturally they requested that Google give them all of his location data.

Real ID Act: The Death of our Liberty

03-11-2020 • American Policy Center -Tom DeWeese

Most people have been led to believe that Real ID and E-Verify are the answers to controlling illegal immigration and make us safer from fraud, and even terrorist attacks. Not so.

Top cellphone carriers will be hit with $200 MILLION in fines...

02-28-2020 • https://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Rachel Sharp

The US Federal Communications Commission is planning to impose fines of at least $200 million on four of the biggest US mobile phone companies for selling consumer location data, two sources close to the matter said Thursday.

Clearview AI says the First Amendment lets it scrape the internet. Lawyers disagree

02-06-2020 • CNET

Hoan Ton-That said his company had a First Amendment right to access public data, including photos from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Venmo. It uses those photos for a controversial database primarily used by law enforcement.

Google says it accidentally sent some users' private videos to strangers

02-05-2020 • CNBC

Google offers an option for people to download a copy of their private data, called Google Takeout. But, when people used Google Takeout to download their own content, they were accidentally given, in some cases, videos uploaded by people they don'

DNA Collection at the Border Threatens the Privacy of All Americans

01-26-2020 • New York Times

On January 6, the federal government began collecting DNA from any person in immigration custody -- previously, it had required only fingerprints. With this move, the federal government took a decisive step toward collecting and tracking large numbe

Ring Ukraine News Suppressed at Amazon's Request, Journalists Say

01-24-2020 • https://theintercept.com, Sam Biddle

On November 21, the Ukrainian business publication Vector published a genuine regional success story: An Amazon research lab in Kyiv, affiliated with the company's Ring home security division, was receiving a "rebrand" makeover and a broader ne

New Bill To Allow Cops To Detain Citizens, Force Them To Explain Who They Are, What They're Doin

01-23-2020 • LewRockwell.Com - By Matt Agorist

An ominous bill that is currently making its way through the Kentucky Senate aims to give police unprecedented unconstitutional powers. These new powers will allow cops to stop anyone they want and demand that person tell them who they are, where the

Fireside Chat Ep. 117 - What Have You Said in Private?

01-21-2020 • Dennis Prager - Fireside Chat

No one wants to be judged by the remarks they have made in private. Yet many people judge (if not obsess over) the private remarks of others. Let's talk about this.

Clearview app lets strangers find your name, info with snap of a photo, report says

01-21-2020 • CNET.com

It may not be long before you'll have to forget about walking down the street anonymously, says a New York Times report.

Episode 359 " The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know

01-02-2020 • https://www.corbettreport.com, Corbett

Once a sleepy farming region, Silicon Valley is now the hub of a global industry that is transforming the economy, shaping our political discourse, and changing the very nature of our society.

How The FBI (Or Congress) Can Use Warrant Surveilling One American To Spy On Many More

12-20-2019 • https://www.zerohedge.com by Sharyl Attkisson

If you've watched the current impeachment proceedings with something beyond a passing interest, you might have heard the controversy over Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) secretly obtaining and then releasing phone records of political rival Rep. Devin

Facebook says it can locate users who opt out of tracking

12-18-2019 • https://news.yahoo.com by AFP

Facebook can determine where users are even if they opt out of having their whereabouts tracked, the company revealed in a letter sent to US senators.

Permanent Record: A Book Anyone Who Uses the Internet MUST Read

12-17-2019 • The Organic Prepper by Daisy Luther

If you're wondering what the NSA stores, the answer is "everything." No matter who you are or where you are, every email, phone call, text message, social media post, photograph, journal entry, and search you've ever performed is logged some

Harry Halpin on Crypto-Anarchism, NYM, and Monero!

12-15-2019 • Monero Talk via YouTube.com

Harry Halpin on Crypto-Anarchism, NYM, and Monero! Maintaining Privacy at the network level for crypto currencies, messages and everything else. This might be the "Pirate" solution to money.

Banks Now Selling Your Transaction Data For Big Bucks

12-04-2019 • https://www.technocracy.news by Fox5NY

If data is the new oil of the 21st century, then banks have more than anyone… on your purchases, travels, habits, etc. Now they are figuring out ways to sell your data to the highest bidder, paying you nothing in return. ? TN Editor

Ring let police view map of video doorbell installations for over a year

12-03-2019 • CNET.com

The company once offered a map, now withdrawn, that allowed police to zoom in to see the specific location of Ring customers.

Google's entry into the electronic medical records biz has put data of 50 million Americans at

11-27-2019 • Natural News by: Ethan Huff

...whistleblower warns

COLLECTING KOMPROMAT Jeffrey Epstein's A-list guests were secretly filmed...

11-20-2019 • https://www.thesun.co.uk, Alahna Kindred

Maria Farmer alleges she was abused by the disgraced paedo when she was a 26-year-old aspiring model in 1996.

DHS Database To Hold Biometric Data On 220 Million… By 2022

11-20-2019 • https://www.technocracy.news, Mac Salvo

Total surveillance is the dystopian harbinger of Technocracy, and make no doubt that our own government is leading us straight into it. Agencies like DHS should be dismantled and terminated. No citizen can or will see the danger of total surveilla

Uber will reportedly audio-record US rides for safety

11-20-2019 • CNET.com

People will apparently be able to opt to have their journey recorded.

Former Google Engineer Uncovers 96% Of Privacy Altcoin Addresses

11-19-2019 • News BTC

The developer claims that GRIN's protocol, Mimblewimble, is "fundamentally flawed," and unfixable, even going as far to say that the Mimblewimble-based cryptocurrency "should no longer be considered a viable alternative to Zcash or Monero whe

"This Benefits Nobody, Except Them"...

11-14-2019 • https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden

Google and its parent Alphabet have become embroiled in so many legal disputes with regulators pertaining to the company's handling of private user data, it's become difficult to keep track.

Court Rules Government Can't Search Your Phone at the Airport for No Reason

11-13-2019 • vice.com, by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

The ruling is a significant win for privacy rights of Americans and tourists traveling to the United States.