Archive for February, 2019
Arizona: Jobs Requiring Fingerprinting by State Will Now Require DNA Sample
February 19th, 2019Via: AZ Central: Arizona could soon be one of the first states to maintain a massive statewide DNA database. And if the proposed legislation passes, many people — from parent school volunteers and teachers to real estate agents and foster parents — will have no choice but to give up their DNA. Under Senate Bill […]
Calling Your Bank? Be Prepared to Have Your Voice Biometrics Collected
February 19th, 2019Via: FastCompany: In Chase’s case, the biometric program was announced back in April, but there’s a good chance many customers missed the announcement. (I missed it, and I actually write about these topics for a living.) Now, when you call Chase, an automated recording informs you that your voice is being used to identify you […]
“Stop the Online Conspiracy Theorists Before They Break Democracy”
February 19th, 2019The conspiracy theorists are coming. Run for your lives!!! Via: Guardian: Organised conspiracy theorist networks have launched an all-out information war across Europe. At the heart of this is the QAnon movement. It expanded from the US to Europe and the UK at rapid speed, hijacking political debates on social media as well as mass […]
Americans Among Group Arrested in Haiti with Guns, Satellite Phones, Drones
February 19th, 2019Via: Reuters: Haitian police arrested a group of foreign nationals, including five Americans, armed with semi-automatic weapons, Haitian newspapers reported on Monday, adding to uncertainty in the impoverished Caribbean country after days of anti-government protests. The U.S. State Department was aware that Haitian police arrested a group that included U.S. citizens, an official at the […]
The Utterly Unbelievable Scale of U.S. Debt Right Now
February 18th, 2019Via: National Post: This week, the United States national debt ticked above US$22 trillion for the first time, an amount equivalent to $67,000 per U.S. citizen. The U.S. federal government owes more money than any other institution in the history of human civilization. And it’s just getting worse. According to the Congressional Budget Office, in […]
Neuroscientists Say They’ve Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication
February 18th, 2019Make sure everyone is bathed in directed energy weapon beams 5G network signals. Via: ScienceAlert: What they found was that slow periodic activity can generate electric fields which in turn activate neighbouring cells, constituting a form of neural communication without chemical synaptic transmission or gap junctions. “We’ve known about these waves for a long time, […]
Radiation From Smartphones May Impair Memory In Teens
February 18th, 2019Via: StudyFinds: Don’t want your child to have a cellphone? One recent study gives you good reason to make kids wait as long as possible for their first mobile device: it appears that radiation from phones can hurt a teenager’s memory. A research team at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute says that radio […]
Life Imitates Akira: The NSA’s Fear of Psychic Nukes
February 18th, 2019Via: Muckrock: Agency wondered if ten psychics could cause a chain reaction that would cause a city to become lost in time and space.
The New Totalitarianism
February 17th, 2019Via: Richard Dolan:
China Tracking Physical Locations of 2.5 Million People in Western Region of Country
February 17th, 2019Via: South China Morning Post: A Chinese surveillance firm is tracking the movements of more than 2.5 million people in the far-western Xinjiang region, according to a data leak flagged by a Dutch internet expert. An online database containing names, ID card numbers, birth dates and location data was left unprotected for months by Shenzhen-based […]
