(Natural News) The coming tsunami of devices equipped with “artificial intelligence” (AI) technology may seem like, to some, a welcome addition to all things that make life easier on planet Earth. But to a growing number of critics, AI represents the next opportunity for big government to encroach upon our lives daily, and even prosecute […]

(Natural News) Microsoft has been working with a Chinese military-run university on researching artificial intelligence that could be used for censorship and surveillance, according to a shocking new report from Financial Times. A series of scientific studies were co-authored by researchers from Microsoft Research Asia and scientists associated with China’s National University of Defense Technology […]

(Natural News) If you’re looking to make some positive changes for your health, you might enlist the help of an app. If, like many people, you already depend on your smartphone for managing many of your other daily tasks, it might seem logical to add health-related matters to the list. However, some people are quickly […]

(Natural News) Google and Amazon have filed patent applications for technology that moving forward will allegedly enable their digital assistants to spy on and collect data about consumer behavior even during sleep mode. That is the conclusion of nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Consumer Watchdog, which has called upon the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation […]

(Natural News) There are many reasons why the powers that be forced NSA (National Security Agency) whistleblower and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange into first becoming a prisoner of his own home, and later an asylum refugee who had to live seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London – perhaps the biggest reason having to […]

(Natural News) A leaked internal document from Google has reportedly been obtained by The Daily Caller, and what it reveals is that Google CEO Sundar Pichai knowingly lied to Congress back in December when he claimed that the search engine giant doesn’t “manually intervene” to skew search results against conservatives. The document contains a “blacklist” […]

(Natural News) Last week’s arrest of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange by the British government on a US extradition order is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the US Constitution. It is an attack on the free press. It is an attack on free speech. It is an attack on our […]

(Natural News) American consumers are becoming more aware of home “assistant” products offered by tech behemoths Amazon and Google that act as ready reference devices. No doubt you’ve seen the commercials: A guy in the kitchen asks his machine how much of an ingredient to use for a dish; a high school student asks a […]

(Natural News) Google was founded on the corporate motto, “Don’t be evil.” Since then, it seems like Google’s corporate direction has been to be evil in just about every way imaginable, and on a very personal level. There is nothing more valuable than our privacy and yet, in the tech age, that’s the first thing […]

(Natural News) Crisis after crisis has hit Facebook in the last few years, and almost all the issues have involved privacy. One of the storms the social media giant had to weather was when it was revealed that a data analytics company was able to collect information on 50 million people during the last election […]