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Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies

Fernando Kaskais

Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with. Here’s how many of these third-party companies may get your data from some of the most popular sites online. Matt Burgess is a senior writer at WIRED focused on information security, privacy, and data regulation in Europe. He graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in journalism and now lives in London. Send tips to Matt_Burgess@wired.com. verywhere you go online, you’re being tracked. Almost every time you visit a website, trackers gather data about your browsing and funnel it back into targeted advertising systems, which build … Continue reading Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies

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Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records

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A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime. By DELL CAMERON and DHRUV MEHROTRA A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter WIRED obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality. According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more … Continue reading Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records

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Robot Police Dogs Are on Patrol, But Who’s Holding the Leash?

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Top: The robot named “Spot,” made by the company Boston Dynamics, is shown at the opening of a new police “Innovation Lab” in Germany. According to a blog post on the company’s website, there were more than 1,000 of its Spot robots operating in 35 countries in 2022. Visual: Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty Image Numerous cities have acquired dog-like robots for policing. Researchers say the lack of transparency is worrying. BY ROD MCCULLOM IN LATE MAY, after months of debate, the Los Angeles City Council approved the donation of a four-legged, doglike robot to the nation’s third-largest police department. The approval … Continue reading Robot Police Dogs Are on Patrol, But Who’s Holding the Leash?

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China develops porn-detection helmet that reads brain waves for censorship purposes

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Pornography has been illegal in China for over 70 years By Rob Thubron  WTF?! China, always at the forefront of Orwellian surveillance technology, has created a device that detects when someone is watching pornography, a pastime that has been illegal in the country since 1949. As reported by the SCMP (via Hackaday), China uses a combination of AI bots and human appraisers, called Jian Huang shi, most of whom are women, to search the web for images and decide if they contain explicit content deemed illegal. But tiredness and overexposure mean even these safeguards don’t stop every bit of x-rated material from slipping through the cracks. … Continue reading China develops porn-detection helmet that reads brain waves for censorship purposes

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A small short? The coming collapse of the air travel industry

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by ALEX KRAINER  Food production and the fossil fuel industries are not the only ones on the globalists’ chopping block. Last weekend I was invited to a zoom call with the German firebrand MEP Christine Anderson who gave us a brief report about the recent vote in the EU parliament to extend the Covid pass requirement for another year. The parliament voted in favor of the extension in plenary session in spite of the fact that the measure is wholly useless and unjustified – to say nothing of the fact that 99% of Europeans are opposed to it. Mrs. Anderson’s explicit assessment on the matter … Continue reading A small short? The coming collapse of the air travel industry

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UKRAINE: a parallax view of Zelensky, Biden, NATO, Covid19, graphene debris and the New World Order

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I sincerely hope that this seminal post will force a revision of how most observers view the recent history of Ukraine. Zelensky is not a hero, he’s a corrupt, nasty piece of work adopted by the usual suspects. Biden is not a democratic politician, he is a depraved old man with a greedy son. Putin is not a nice person, but he refuses to see his countrymen raped. EUNATO is an expansionist Empire with delusions of hegemony pushed from behind by the US Unelected State. Biolabs in Ukraine are inextricably linked to the origins of Covid19 and the contents of … Continue reading UKRAINE: a parallax view of Zelensky, Biden, NATO, Covid19, graphene debris and the New World Order

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Fringe theories stack

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Believe in the Loch Ness monster and you’re more likely to believe the Apollo missions were fake. How do weird beliefs work? by Michael D Gordin, is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and the director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University in New Jersey. His books include Einstein in Bohemia (2020) and On the Fringe (2021). Almost nobody holds to just one strange idea. By ‘strange’ here, I mean unconventional, unorthodox, contrary to conventional wisdom. (To attenuate some of the hostile judgment implied in those descriptions, from now on I will use the term ‘fringe’.) … Continue reading Fringe theories stack

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A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy

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Crowds arrive for the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation’s capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Social scientist Michael Bang Petersen on why people believe outrageous lies — as a tool in violent group conflict By PAUL ROSENBERG Political misinformation — whether “fake news,” conspiracy theories or outright lying — has often been attributed to widespread ignorance, even though there are numerous examples of 20th-century propaganda aimed at those most attentive to politics. Books … Continue reading A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy

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CHINA’S ‘SOCIAL CREDIT’ SYSTEM HAS ARRIVED TO AMERICA

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Simon Black, Sovereign Man Waking Times As a journalist in China, Liu Hu was no stranger to punishment. For reporting on corruption among government officials, Hu was arrested, accused of “fabricating and spreading rumours,” and fined. But then one day in 2017 he suddenly found that he was unable to buy a plane ticket. The system just rejected him. He also found he couldn’t purchase certain train tickets. Then he discovered that he was unable to acquire a loan from any bank, and even forbidden from buying property at all. Eventually Liu Hu discovered his name on a government “List of … Continue reading CHINA’S ‘SOCIAL CREDIT’ SYSTEM HAS ARRIVED TO AMERICA

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New study indicates conspiracy theory believers have less developed critical thinking abilities

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by Eric W. Dolan New research published in Applied Cognitive Psychology provides evidence that critical thinking skills are negatively related to belief in conspiracy theories. In other words, the study suggests that people with greater critical thinking skills are less likely to believe that terrorist attacks are being covertly directed by a country’s own government or that mind-control technology is secretly being used to control the population. “Regularly, different private and public actors provide homemade tools such as ‘critical thinking skills training programs’ that are supposed to be an effective way of reducing the spread of conspiracy theories,” said study author Anthony Lantian, an … Continue reading New study indicates conspiracy theory believers have less developed critical thinking abilities