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08/17/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

BOMBSHELL: Google tracks your physical location even if you turn off location data on your mobile device

By now, most people realize that Google profits by collecting as much information as it can about everybody and selling it to advertisers – information that many of us willingly hand over in exchange for the use of free services like their search engine and Gmail. It’s very invasive, but those of us who don’t […]

08/16/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Scott from MFA TV News exposes social media SPYING through smartphones – WATCH at Brighteon.com

While sitting before the Senate’s Commerce and Judiciary committees earlier this year to answer questions about his company’s alleged involvement in illegal spying and tracking of users, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked something along the lines of: do you have the ability to basically “listen” to what your users do outside of the social […]

04/09/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

AI is the “enabling technology” for the coming global surveillance state… you will be watched by artificial intelligence

By the end of 2018, police departments across the United States will begin to use body cameras equipped with facial recognition, artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The technology is intended to scan all the faces in a crowd of people to help identify suspects and missing persons. The algorithm notifies an officer when their body camera […]

03/23/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Facebook has a file on you: Even if you don’t have an account, if you’re online, they track you through third-party activity

It seems as though the more we find out about Facebook and how the company operates behind closed doors, the more America resembles the fictional world created by George Orwell in his famous book 1984. In addition to seeking out conservative users and censoring their content, Facebook also collects personal information from everyone on the […]

03/01/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Drugs as edible bar codes? Big Pharma is set to make billions more off our suffering

It apparently isn’t enough for the pharmaceutical cartels to hold a total monopoly on all things medicine. Emerging pharmaceutical research is now trying to embed QR codes inside drug pills that are capable of tracking whether or not people take their prescriptions – which means billions of dollars in new profits for drug companies. They’re […]

02/28/2018 / By David Williams

You are being watched: Many apps can still track you, even if you turn off location services

Mobile phones, particularly of the smart variety, often come equipped with location tracking sensors that are used mainly for on-device navigation. These sensors enable phones to make full use of apps meant for maps, ride-sharing, and even simple web browsing, so most users tend leave them on all the time as they are often used. […]

01/16/2018 / By Ethan Huff

CONFIRMED: Twitter collects all your nude pics and private photos, builds a profile and sells your data for profit

If it exists online and it’s “free,” chances are whoever owns it is collecting data points on how you use it and selling this information to third parties for profit. That’s the case with the social media platform Twitter, anyway, which Project Veritas recently exposed as a data-mining Trojan Horse that collects, analyzes, and exploits […]

09/11/2017 / By Ethan Huff

IRS now cracking down on Bitcoin with tools that eliminate transaction anonymity

Questions continue to arise about the true anonymity of the popular online cryptocurrency Bitcoin. While many assume (or have been told by others) that Bitcoin is completely untraceable, new reports indicate that this may not actually be the case, as the blockchain ledgers are public and technically available to anyone who knows how to break […]

08/29/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Bitcoin transactions NOT anonymous, Princeton researchers discover; individual names can be linked to most payments

One of the benefits of cryptocurrency technologies like Bitcoin is that all transactions are supposed to be anonymous. But new evidence put forth by researchers from Princeton University suggests that hidden tracking cookies within the Bitcoin platform can actually link transactions directly to users via their activities across the rest of the web. Third-party tracking […]

05/28/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Twitter takes big step backward in new privacy policy rollout

A new update to Twitter’s privacy policy sees the end of a longstanding pledge to protect user privacy by the firm. Twitter, which has never been profitable, is now taking a more proactive approach toward boosting revenue and it’s coming at the expense of its loyal users. In an effort to improve the reach of […]

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