Category Archives: Big Brother

Cia Tech Boss: ‘We Try To Collect Everything and Hang onto It Forever’
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March 26, 2013 posted by Amundsen

Cia Tech Boss: ‘We Try To Collect Everything and Hang onto It Forever’

Discussing the goldmine of data that today’s technology has created, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Chief Technology Officer Ira “Gus” Hunt on Wednesday said the spy agency tries to “collect everything we can and hang onto it forever.”

Hunt was speaking at GigaOM’s Structure: Data conference in New York City when he openly admitted the CIA is compiling everyone’s tweets, messages, videos and more. And yes, it’s on purpose.

  • Say NO to Google Glass: ‘Stop the Cyborgs’ website goes viral
  • Say NO to Google Glass: ‘Stop the Cyborgs’ website goes viral
  • Say NO to Google Glass: ‘Stop the Cyborgs’ website goes viral
Big Brother
March 22, 2013 posted by Joseph Candel

Say NO to Google Glass: ‘Stop the Cyborgs’ website goes viral

A website designed to draw attention to a new technological development by Internet search giant Google is going viral, thanks in large part to a growing wave of concern over personal privacy.

The site, called StopTheCyborgs.org, was established “in response to the Google Glass project and other technology trends. The aim of the movement is to stop a future in which privacy is impossible and corporate control total,” say developers in a post describing the site’s intent.

Study: Facebook Likes Can Be Used to Determine Intelligence, Sexuality
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March 15, 2013 posted by Thea

Study: Facebook Likes Can Be Used to Determine Intelligence, Sexuality

If you like thunderstorms, The Colbert Report or curly fries on Facebook, you’re a genius. If you like Sephora, Harley-Davidson or the country-western band Lady Antebellum, you’re not.

That might go without saying, but the brainiacs at the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Center and Microsoft Research Cambridge have the data to prove it – and a lot of other things about you, too.

Katherine Albrecht about RFID tagging and surveillance
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March 3, 2013 posted by Thea

Katherine Albrecht about RFID tagging and surveillance

There have been numerous articles on the Texas school district which has come under legal fire after a student was expelled for failure to comply with the “School Locator Project,” an RFID chip tracking program currently being piloted in a San Antonio middle and high school. Katherine has first hand information on what this program is really about and where it could lead if people will allow the authorities to have their way.

Tech Guru Warns Of Internet “Disaster”
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March 1, 2013 posted by Amundsen

Tech Guru Warns Of Internet “Disaster”

Inventor and scientist Danny Hillis warns that the Internet has “expanded it way beyond its limits,” and is set for a “disaster,” calling for an ‘Internet Plan B’ that would operate in times of emergency. Speaking to Wired’s Michael V. Copeland at the TED 2013 conference, Hillis argues that because so many interconnected systems are now reliant on the world wide web, “We’re setting ourselves up for disaster, like we did with the financial system.”

A cashless society and fingerprint payments are on the horizon
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February 5, 2013 posted by Joseph Candel

A cashless society and fingerprint payments are on the horizon

The programme makes South Dakota School of Mines & Technology the first in the world to test life as a biometrics campus using foil-proof biocryptology that goes beyond a fingerprint to read multiple layers into the skin and detect haemoglobin in the blood.

Reuters Spins Flu Story
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January 15, 2013 posted by Thea

Reuters Spins Flu Story

In an article entitled, “Flu reaches epidemic level in U.S., says CDC”, reporter Sharon Begley pumps up alarm concerning the virulent and epidemic nature of the current flu sweeping the country.

Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit
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January 12, 2013 posted by Thea

Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit

A Texas high school student who claimed her student identification was the “Mark of the Beast” because it was implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip has lost her federal court bid Tuesday challenging her suspension for refusing to wear the card around her neck.