Apple can now track you indoors
Still recovering from the backlash to its flawed Maps app, Apple is looking to beef up the iPhone’s indoor location capabilities by acquiring WiFiSlam. According to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the deal, Apple paid $20 million to scoop up the two-year-old startup based in Silicon Valley. As per usual for Apple, which [...]
In the online world – for now, at least – it’s the advertisers that make the world go round. If you’re Google, they represent more than 90% of your revenue and without them you would cease to exist. So how do you reconcile the fact that there is a finite amount of data to be [...]
Yale will train US Special Forces in interrogation techniques using immigrants as guinea pigs
February 19, 2013 No Comment
Yale University is planning to train US Special Forces to detect lies by practicing on immigrants. The program strives to provide soldiers with such interview tactics by practicing on “someone they can’t necessarily identify with”. Starting as early as April, the university will launch a new training center on its campus for interrogators to practice [...]
EVERY time you purchase an app on Google Play, your name, address and email is passed on to the developer, it has been revealed today. The “flaw” – which appears to be by design – was discovered this morning by Sydney app developer, Dan Nolan who told news.com.au that he was uncomfortable being the custodian [...]
CO Gov. Hickenlooper admits to ‘ritual-like’ drinking of fracking fluid
February 13, 2013 No Comment
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) told a Senate committee that he drank a glass of fracking fluid as a way to illustrate safety advances by the oil and gas industry, the Washington Times reported on Tuesday. “We did drink it around the table, almost ritual-like, in a funny way,” Hickenlooper said at a Senate Committee [...]
One sheriff’s deputy died and another was wounded Tuesday afternoon during a dramatic gunfight with the man authorities believe to be Christopher Dorner, the fugitive former Los Angeles cop wanted in three murders and a revenge shooting rampage across Southern California. SWAT team later stormed a cabin near the community of Seven Oak, in the [...]
Super Bowl Is Single Largest Human Trafficking Incident In U.S.: Attorney General
February 4, 2013 No Comment
When it came time for the Super Bowl, Clemmie Greenlee was expected to sleep with anywhere from 25 to 50 men a day. It’s a staggering figure, but it doesn’t shock advocates who say that the sporting event attracts more traffickers than any other in the U.S. “The Super Bowl is the greatest show on [...]
PARK CITY, Utah—As President Barack Obama prepared to be sworn in for his second term as the 44th president of the United States, two courageous journalists premiered a documentary at the annual Sundance Film Festival. “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield” reaffirms the critical role played by independent journalists like the film’s director, Rick [...]
Stop-And-Frisks In Bronx Buildings To Resume: Judge Temporarily Lifts ‘Operation Clean Halls’ Decision
January 22, 2013 2 Comments
NEW YORK — A federal judge let the New York Police Department on Tuesday temporarily resume stop-and-frisk stops she believes are unconstitutional while she decides what permanent remedies are necessary to prevent illegal stops in thousands of privately owned buildings. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan lifted immediate implementation of the order she issued [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration confirms that it is getting rid of airport body scanners that produce a naked image of travelers. Right now the TSA uses two types of scanners. One makes a generic image showing where agents should look for an object on the traveler’s body. Those scanners are staying. The [...]
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to [...]
UPPER EAST SIDE — Drones might eventually be used for surveillance in New York City, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly revealed Thursday. Kelly said the eyes in the sky — which have worried civil rights activists — could prove useful when sizing-up demonstrations, adding to an NYPD arsenal that already includes 3,000 cameras and high-powered anti-aircraft [...]
(NaturalNews) I’ve been listening to a stream of police dept. audio during the initial response to the Sandy Hook shooting. This link has most of its action in the first four minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8uVR7TifS At roughly 2:38, a police voice says: “Party in custody.” Then at 3:49, “We have a suspect down.” This next link, for [...]
Jason Leopold, an investigative journalist for Truth-Out, has obtained FBI documents – through the Freedom of Information Act – relating to Occupy Wall Street. Most of the pages in the documents are redacted, and show concerns of cyber threats against the financial sector. However, there are questions of assassination plots against Occupy activists in Houston, [...]
AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to record and store information about Americans’ private text messages for at least two years, according to a proposal that police have submitted to the U.S. Congress. CNET has learned a constellation of law enforcement groups has asked the U.S. Senate to require that [...]
