(Natural News) YouTube banned news channel Sky News Australia for allegedly violating Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) misinformation guidelines. The channel’s temporary ban stemmed from videos questioning the effectiveness of face masks and lockdowns in stopping the spread of the highly infectious B16172 delta variant. The channel called the Google-owned video platform’s move an attack on press […]

(Natural News) A former home security technician was sentenced by a U.S. district judge to 52 months in federal prison for repeatedly hacking into customers’ video feeds in North Texas. Telesforo Aviles, a 35-year old former ADT employee, pleaded guilty to computer fraud in January. He was sentenced on Thursday, June 9, by U.S. District Judge Brantley […]

(Natural News) Amazon’s customers in the United States have until June 8 to opt out Amazon Sidewalk, a plan that would turn every Echo speaker and Ring security camera in the country into a shared wireless network. Amazon Sidewalk is part of the company’s plan to supposedly fix connection problems for its smart home devices. When it […]

(Natural News) Electric automaker Tesla has started using cabin cameras in some of its vehicles to spy on its own drivers in an effort to ensure that drivers are paying attention to the road when using the company’s Autopilot technology. Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y vehicles already featured driver-facing cameras. But according to the […]

(Natural News) The question of who is to blame when a fully autonomous vehicle crashes is holding up legislation that the auto industry says it needs to advance. In a normal crash involving only human-operated vehicles, it’s much more straightforward who is to blame. The vehicle or vehicles involved have human drivers after all. “If another driver […]

(Natural News) A self-driving taxi from Google’s Waymo went rogue while ferrying a passenger in Chandler, Arizona recently. The incident was recorded by Joel Johnson who was riding in the vehicle. The vehicle halted after encountering a range of orange safety cones, which confused it enough to stop it entirely. But things got worse when Waymo’s roadside […]

(Natural News) Attorneys general in 48 states, as well as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), have filed two separate lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday, Dec. 9 that seek to break up the social media giant and address years of complaints about its online practices. Both suits are asking a judge to break the company down into its […]

(Natural News) NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden recently criticized Facebook, Amazon and Google for abusing people’s personal data and insisted that people need to understand the threat to privacy that these social media platforms pose. He made the comments when he appeared via video link at Web Summit in Lisbon on Monday. He said that Big […]

(Natural News) Police are now using location data from people’s smart devices to get warrants to arrest people for simply being close to a crime scene. Called a “geofence warrant,” the system represents a virtual dragnet over crime scenes where police request to sweep up Google location data from users’ GPS, WiFi and cellular connections […]

(Natural News) Twitter is under fire for its supposed double standards as it continues to flag posts by President Donald Trump while letting even more incendiary tweets from Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei slide. The social media giant stated that the Iranian leader’s anti-Semitic tweet, which referred to Israel as a “cancerous growth” and called for “genocide” against the Israeli people, […]