This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. According to Forbes, which spoke with sources close to local and federal investigations, it’s becoming standard operating procedure for cops to use dead people’s fingerprints to unlock their Apple iPhones. FBI...
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Senate Votes to Endanger Sex Workers and Censor the Internet
Today [March 21, 2018] was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. Senate just voted 97-2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users....
FB Is Sending Out Creepy Notifications About Using Face Recognition on You
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. San Francisco, CA — Stinging from a recent court decision, Facebook now appears to be making an effort toward self-preservation with regard to its users’ personal privacy. On Tuesday, many Facebookers noticed an...
The New National ID Systems
Americans have long rejected a national ID, but many U.S. state governments are quietly developing national ID systems in a variety of forms. One is the uniform identity card system envisioned by the REAL ID Act. That federal law, passed in 2005, seeks to subject...
Senate Votes to Trash Fourth Amendment
The U.S. Senate is no more inclined to stop warrantless surveillance of Americans than the House of Representatives was. Today the Senate voted to stop any attempt to limit the government's power to violate, under FISA Section 702, Americans' right to privacy as...
Your Secrets Are Not Safe With Anyone
Timothy Carpenter specialized in stealing cellphones, the same devices that betrayed him. Based on four months of cellphone location data from the companies that provided Carpenter's mobile phone service, the FBI placed him near four stores while they were being...
Journalist discovers the true cost of 'free' dating app Tinder is quite alarming
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. In a piece that speaks directly to life in the modern age, French journalist Judith Duportail just detailed for The Guardian what happened after she requested from dating app Tinder that she be sent all her...
Journalist discovers the true cost of ‘free’ dating app Tinder is quite alarming
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. In a piece that speaks directly to life in the modern age, French journalist Judith Duportail just detailed for The Guardian what happened after she requested from dating app Tinder that she be sent all her...
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