News & Articles By Arsenio Toledo
09/02/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Australia passes new controversial online surveillance bill
The Australian federal government passed a controversial new law that gives the country’s law enforcement agencies more online surveillance powers. Known as the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020 the bill was passed by both the federal House of Representatives and the Senate on Aug. 25. It is now awaiting Royal Assent, the final step […]
08/11/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
China has stolen enough data to have files on every single American, warns former deputy national security advisor
China has stolen enough data from the United States to effectively compile a “dossier” on every single adult in the United States. This revelation was uncovered by a Senate Intelligence Committee panel held on Wednesday, Aug. 4. During this panel, senators spoke with former Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger, who served during the administration of former […]
08/05/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
US military experimenting with artificial intelligence that can predict the future
The Department of Defense is testing artificial intelligence programs that could, if fully developed, “see days in advance.” United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) recently conducted a series of experiments with the Pentagon and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). These tests were known as the Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE). GIDE combined global sensor networks, artificial intelligence […]
07/27/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Facebook-owned apps can track and harvest your data even if you aren’t actively using them
Many smartphone apps track people’s data, including their current locations, even when they are not actively using them. Experts say one of the worst offenders is Facebook Messenger, the social media company’s dedicated messaging app. Experts are now encouraging people to do their research and think about what personal data they could be giving away […]
07/21/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
US and allies condemn China for massive cyberattack against Microsoft email servers
U.S. cyber officials, joined by many of the country’s major allies, blamed hackers with ties to the Chinese government for a massive cyberattack against the Microsoft Corporation’s email servers earlier this year. In spring, a cyberattack against the Microsoft Exchange email server hit over 30,000 American organizations and hundreds of thousands more groups around the world, rendering them […]
07/20/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Amazon using videos from Ring doorbell devices to create the largest civilian surveillance network in the US
Amazon is building the largest civilian surveillance network in the United States with the help of its signature home security product: the Ring doorbell. “Ring video doorbells … pose a serious threat to a free and democratic society.” This is the warning of Lauren Bridges, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. In an opinion […]
07/15/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Humanoid Japanese robot keeps getting fired for repeatedly malfunctioning and being incompetent
Pepper, a humanoid robot developed by Japanese technology investor SoftBank, keeps getting fired from its jobs. SoftBank unveiled Pepper, a child-sized robot, in 2014 and began selling it the next year. “Today might become a day that people 100, 200 or 300 years later would remember as a historic day,” said SoftBank chief executive officer […]
07/04/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Massive DATA BREACH exposes personal data of 700 million users of Microsoft-owned LinkedIn
For the second time this year, Microsoft-owned social networking and employment service LinkedIn has experienced a data breach. According to Ben Lovejoy, tech journalist for 9to5Mac, a hacker exposed the personal data of around 700 million users. This represents around 92 percent of the platform’s more than 756 million total users. The data breach was discovered on […]
06/22/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Amazon employees extremely mistreated, overworked during the height of the coronavirus pandemic
During the height of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States last year, Amazon made the equivalent of three years’ worth of profits in just one. But this growth came at the expense of its hundreds of thousands of workers, who were routinely mistreated and overworked. These revelations come from an examination of […]
06/09/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
TikTok quietly changed its privacy policy, giving itself permission to harvest biometric data of US users
On Wednesday, June 2, social media app TikTok quietly changed its privacy policy in the United States to permit itself to collect biometric data from its users. TikTok, which has over 100 million users in the U.S. alone, introduced a newly added section in its privacy policy titled “Image and Audio Information.” Under the heading […]
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