Don’t be too social: As few as 8 tweets a day can pinpoint your location, even to low-tech snoopers
(Cyberwar.news) You may love your social media but a new study shows that relatively few posts a day on Twitter can reveal your physical location in as little as eight tweets per day. As reported by Homeland Security Newswire, researchers at MIT and Oxford University have shown that the location stamps on just a few Read More
Leaked document reveals Google has access to millions of patient records
A leaked document has revealed that Google’s London-based company, DeepMind, was given access to 1.6 million patient records by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), including a list of patient names and medical history. The records were disclosed as part of a collaboration with DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence company, which will enable them to create Read More
America’s police state citizen surveillance modeled after communist China’s citizen reputation scores
Police in the United States are increasingly using a “scoring” technique to assess citizens’ potential threat levels, with critics of the assessment methodology seeing little difference between them and police in communist China. As reported by the Washington Post, a recent scenario that played out in Fresno, Calif., is indicative of just how pervasive America’s Read More
Wyden pledging to fight legislation to limit encryption
(Cyberwar.news) SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden pledged last week to fight legislation expected shortly in Congress that would limit encryption protection in American technology products. The proposal by Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, would give federal judges authority to order technology companies Read More
FBI drops case against Apple as the agency mysteriously gains access to terrorist iPhone
(Cyberwar.news) After a tense month-long standoff with Apple, the FBI has dropped its case against the tech giant after mysteriously gaining access to an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. As reported by Wired, the Justice Department filed a motion on Monday asking a California court to vacate its earlier decision ordering Read More
Facebook secretly supporting privacy-destroying Cybersecurity Act
Several tech companies have publicly come out against the Cybersecurity Information Act (CISA) — a bill that aims to destroy our privacy by nullifying company privacy policies, allowing government access to private data and giving immunity to companies that disclose such information. From among the tech giants that took up arms against the bill, one Read More
Google timeline feature tracks your every movement while spying on your photos
Just when you thought the surveillance state couldn’t get any more intrusive, reports of Google’s new location tracking software began to surface, invoking fear and anxiety among its users. A new feature in Google Maps called “Your Timeline” tracks the locations a user has visited. It works by connecting to an individual’s mobile phone, before Read More
How long before the Pentagon arms the drones now flying over America? Police state drone strikes on citizens now inevitable…
In recent days the Pentagon made a startling admission: Between 2006 and 2015, it had deployed drones in spying roles over U.S. soil nearly 20 times, in what appears on the surface to be a blatant violation of existing U.S. statutes and constitutional privacy protections. As reported by USA Today: The report by a Pentagon Read More
Apple: Founders ‘would be appalled’ by Justice Dept. demand to crack iPhone
(Cyberwar.news) In Apple Inc’s final brief before a court hearing next week in its clash with the U.S. government over an encrypted iPhone, the company on Tuesday said the U.S. founding fathers “would be appalled” by the Department of Justice’s request. The dispute between Apple and the government burst into the open last month when Read More
Obama Set To Put In New Law That Can Put Everyone In Jail (Video)
In this video Luke Rudkowski documents the biggest legal change in privacy law that will have a profound affect on the American way of life. We go over Obama’s new guidelines that will allow the NSA to share all of your private information with other federal agencies for domestic policing. This means the IRS, DEA, Read More
