CIA Can Watch You While You Browse; How the CIA Can Hack Your Router
Wi-Fi routers typically sit in dusty corners of homes and offices, quietly transmitting internet accessibility to computers, tablets and phones in its immediate vicinity. However, these unpretentious devices are a goldmine for hackers – and were specifically targeted by the US Central Intelligence Agency, the latest Wikileaks release has revealed. The release is the latest instalment of Wikileaks’ “Vault7” series, … Continue reading
Researchers Build System to Detect Cell Phone Hacking
Security researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a new system called SeaGlass to detect anomalies in the cellular landscape that can indicate where and when cell phone surveillance devices are being used. Described in a paper published in the June 2017 issue of Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, the system was deployed during a two-month period with … Continue reading
Walmart Has Applied For Patent to Track How You Use Products at Home
An invisible eye may soon be tracking how much milk you’re drinking in your own home. Walmart, the world’s largest bricks-and-mortar retailer, is developing technology and has applied for a patent that will allow it to track the way products are used once consumers take them home. If implemented, use of the technology would be two-pronged. It will automatically re-order … Continue reading
Trump Signs Bill BLOCKING Online Privacy Regulation
Obama-era regulations preventing internet service providers from selling your web browsing history on the open market was reversed by a House of Representatives vote and has been signed by Donald Trump. He HAD pledged to do just the opposite, ABC reports: “The president pledged to reverse this type of federal overreach in which bureaucrats in Washington take the interest of … Continue reading
Everything You Type is Tracked by Windows 10 — Here’s How to Stop it
According to a startling new report, if you use Windows 10, every, single keystroke you’ve ever entered on your computer has been logged. If that weren’t alarming enough to the privacy-minded among us, all of that information is being sent directly to Microsoft. All of which begs the question, is this why Microsoft was so insistent its users download Windows … Continue reading
Alexa’s Devotion to Your Privacy Tested by a Murder Case
THE AMAZON ECHO can seem like your best friend—until it betrays you. That’s because this device is different from anything else in your house. Alexa, the voice assistant that powers Echo and more, is always listening, sending what you say after using a “wake” word to Amazon’s servers. Of course, Echo isn’t the only voice-assistant speaker on the market, but … Continue reading
Spy On The Inside: Nano-Robotics And The Invasion of Privacy
The National Health Federation was the first to alert the public and the health-freedom community about “the need for a Constitution for the Race of Mankind,” because of the invasion of privacy and increased vulnerability to outside control of internal bodily processes via monitoring by healthcare professionals. “Science is a double-edged sword; it creates as many problems as it solves, … Continue reading
iPhones Secretly Send Call History to Apple, Security Firm Says
APPLE EMERGED AS a guardian of user privacy this year after fighting FBI demands to help crack into San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone. The company has gone to great lengths to secure customer data in recent years, by implementing better encryption for all phones and refusing to undermine that encryption. But private information still escapes from Apple products … Continue reading
Snowden: Trump Presidency May Mean More US Government Spying on Americans
On Monday, whistleblower Edward Snowden warned that the election of Donald Trump to the White House could further erode citizen privacy and civil liberties. “We are starting to substitute open government for sheer authoritarianism, a government based not upon the principle of informed consent granted by people who understand its activities but rather a trust in personalities, a trust in … Continue reading
Spying Street Lights Equipped with Microphones, Wi-Fi Detectors and More Coming to a City Near You
Soon, spying street lights equipped with ShotSpotter microphones will be in every city and town, that’s because GE lighting and ShotSpotter (SST) are working together to spy on everyone. Last year, GE and SST announced they’re combining forces to put SST surveillance devices into street lights. A memorandum of understanding between GE Lighting and SST, Inc., developer of the ShotSpotter … Continue reading
