(Natural News) Experts are deeply concerned about the effects of end-to-end encryption on public safety online, according to a recently published statement, and a shocking statistic is being used to support their position. Facebook was responsible for a remarkable 94 percent of the 69 million images of child sex abuse that were reported by American […]

(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) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently raised a lot of eyebrows when he revealed that his company would like to develop a wearable device that is capable of reading people’s brains. In Facebook’s ongoing discussion series, Zuckerberg mentioned the concept of technology translating brain signals into information that could be useful to machines. “The […]

(Natural News) The Department of Justice has indicted five Chinese nationals, as well as two Malaysians, on charges relating to a massive hacking campaign to steal sensitive information and trade secrets from more than 100 companies and entities around the world. The five Chinese nationals are part of a hacker group known as “Advanced Persistent Threat 41” […]

(Natural News) China is known for exercising extreme amounts of internet censorship and surveillance, but the situation recently grew even more outrageous as a new requirement kicked in for Chinese people to scan their faces for internet access. Under the previous rules, Chinese people were required to show an identification card before getting internet installed […]

(Natural News) The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced that it would begin pilot testing of a new biometric identification and tracking scheme for domestic travelers at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Aug. 2. Travelers who “volunteer” for the new scheme are instructed to insert their driver’s license or ID card into a magnetic stripe reader or place their […]

(Natural News) Have you spotted an unusual balloon hovering overhead recently and wondered why it was there? If you live in the central part of the U.S., it may have been spying on you. The U.S. military has been testing balloons that can spy on people and track their movement. According to documents filed with […]

(Natural News) Wi-Fi signals can be found everywhere these days, and while that may be good when you’re looking to check your email, all this connectivity is coming at the expense of personal privacy. The pervasiveness of Wi-Fi has spurred the development of new surveillance abilities that are as clever as they are concerning. For […]

(Natural News) Tesla’s Elon Musk has finally unveiled his long-dreaded Neuralink mind control technology, a microchip mechanism that when eventually implanted into human brains will “fuse humankind with artificial intelligence.” Right now Musk has only implanted Neuralink into a “pig named Gertrude,” which was recently paraded around in a shameless display of animal cruelty as […]

(Natural News) Earlier this month, Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan, hatched out a plan to require students to wear a “BioButton” while they are on campus to track whether or not they have the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). However, thanks to massive backlash from the student population, the plan to mandate the medical device’s use was scrapped. The BioButton, […]