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05/02/2018 / By Jayson Veley

YouTube is not safe for your children: The video platform “data mines” information from its young users

Facebook has been at the center of controversy lately for, among other things, acquiring the personal data of users without their knowledge or consent and then distributing that information to third parties. But as it turns out, Mark Zuckerberg and his team aren’t the only ones making headlines for illegal data-mining. According to multiple advocacy […]

04/14/2018 / By David Williams

China readying Social Credit System where citizens receive scores based on their online obedience to the state

China is planning to implement a system wherein its citizens will be ranked and given ratings based on a certain set of specified criteria, like social media activity and online obedience to the state. The system, called the Social Credit System, is said to be in place for a country-wide launch some time in 2020. […]

04/13/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Google Chrome browser scans all the files on your computer, including private photos, documents and spreadsheets

Google has come under fire for many questionable actions as of late — and the startling revelation that their widely used web browser, Google Chrome, is scanning personal computers around the world is nothing short of infuriating for its users. Big Brother is here — and countless numbers of people have invited this authoritarian presence […]

04/03/2018 / By Ethan Huff

How to ditch Google: Start using these Framasoft online apps instead

The hostile takeover of much of the web by tech giant Google has many people uneasy about the future of online free speech, especially as Google has increasingly engaged in rogue censorship tactics against independent media outlets that threaten the status quo. But the good news is that there are viable alternatives out there, at […]

03/24/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

Bitcoin users are systematically targeted by the NSA to track their computer activity and crypto transactions

According to an internal NSA memo dated March 2013, the National Security Administration (NSA) has been systematically targeting any Bitcoin users they want, by tricking them into giving up personal information through privacy protection software and by tracking their computer activity and financial transactions. People who want to preserve the privacy of their financial transactions gravitate toward cryptocurrencies […]

03/23/2018 / By JD Heyes

Social media is a “disease,” and Mark Zuckerberg a CANCER on society

Like his tech colleagues at Google, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg enjoyed ‘most-favored company’ status during the Obama administration. What a difference 12 months makes. Following a report by the Left-leaning Guardian over the weekend that a consulting firm called Cambridge Analytica, which was funded as a start-up by billionaire Trump supporter Robert Mercer, used a […]

03/23/2018 / By David Williams

Proven guilty before the crime? China using big data to detain “suspicious” individuals before any crime is even committed

Chinese citizens are already under an enormous amount of pressure to “fall in line” as it is, what with all of the surveillance going on inside of the country’s borders, but now the Chinese government have taken things one step further yet again. Based on a report unearthed by Human Rights Watch, China now has […]

03/22/2018 / By Jayson Veley

#DeleteFacebook and eliminate this social media “spy network” from your life… forever

It has recently been revealed that the research firm Cambridge Analytica secretly collected the private data and information of 50 million Facebook users in order to determine their voting patterns based on personality. The shocking revelation has prompted millions of Internet users to take to Twitter and participate in the #DeleteFacebook campaign, urging others to […]

03/04/2018 / By JD Heyes

YouTube-Google now mirroring the Communist Chinese govt. by censoring ALL content that goes against “the state”

The budding Marxists on American college campuses who are being propagandized by Alt-Left professors into believing that the First Amendment should not apply to ‘speech they dislike’ have no idea what real state-mandated censorship really is. Few, if any, of them have ever lived in a true authoritarian country like China or Cuba or Venezuela […]

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 […]

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