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
by EFF | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
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
by James Holbrooks | Mar 1, 2018 | Blog
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
by Jim Harper | Jan 30, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
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
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 17, 2018 | Blog, Justice
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
by Jacob Sullum | Nov 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
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
by James Holbrooks | Sep 27, 2017 | Blog
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
by James Holbrooks | Sep 27, 2017 | Blog
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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Simulacra World
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" Roy Batty played by Rutger Hauer said in his ‘Tears in the Rain’, speech at the end of Blade Runner. A film that grapples with the reality of biological and synthetic life, what is real and with the many versions of the...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Jon Hoffman: Did Trump Put Saudi on the Path to Nuclear Weapons?!
A nuclear power deal can sound like paperwork until the fine print turns into a proliferation crisis. We sit down with Jon Hoffman of the Cato Institute to unpack the reported US Saudi nuclear agreement and the real meaning of a “Section 123 agreement” under the...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest David Benner: Israel Stays on the Sidelines While Trump Fights Netanyahu’s War Against Iran
A single line in a must-pass defense bill can change U.S. foreign policy for years, and most people will never hear about it until it is too late. We dig into Section 219 of the NDAA and why critics say it moves beyond “supporting Israel” into something far more...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Larry Johnson: How Can Iran Keep Bombing US Bases
The story we’re being sold about Iran doesn’t survive contact with the facts: if Iran’s military is supposedly “obliterated,” why are US bases still getting hit and US troops still dying? We unpack that disconnect with Larry Johnson, walking through the mechanics of...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Michael Vlahos: Trump’s Iran Gamble: Will it Pay Off or Explode?
If you think the war is basically over because someone said Iran was “decimated,” slow down and do the math. We bring back author and longtime war and strategy teacher Michael Vlahos to dissect the claims coming out of Washington, including a clip of the Secretary of...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Tucker Blasts Trump as ‘Weak’ for Allowing Netanyahu to Drag Him to War
Trump’s posture on Iran is getting judged from an unexpected angle, and we dig into why. We react to Tucker Carlson calling Trump “weak” not for avoiding intervention, but for failing to stand up to allies, especially Israel, as the conflict widens. From there, we lay...
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