To say that former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Director James Clapper has a credibility problem would be an understatement. Yet, the mainstream media and President Donald Trump’s Democratic Party opponents are blindly believing everything that Clapper utters without any direct challenges to his past fibs.
What happened with this privacy bill was unfortunate. What would be even more shameful would be for conservatives to line up in blind support. Agree with the GOP if you must, but at least take the time to form your own opinion first.
A host of companies and your own government are already spying on you, and have been for some time — but we continue to shrug it off. Maybe that’s because we simply don’t know about all the ways we’re being catalogued. Maybe we already know, somewhere in our heads, but we’ve gotten so used to the convenience that we have decided it’s a worthy trade. Either way, here are five ways you probably haven’t thought of yet.
If you haven’t seen this yet, you need to. Former NSA employee William Binney was on the Tucker Carlson Show Friday night to explain that yes, President Trump was under surveillance — just like everyone else in America.
Your weekly update on all things privacy, surveillance and tech.
Is your child’s information being leaked through their toys…again? Also, Republican lawmakers want advertisers to be able to buy your web history.
The NSA wiretaps foreigners — as it should — but it’s using that capability and legal ability to also collect the communications of everyday Americans as well; so much so, that their underlying reason to tap foreigners is to collect on Americans.
Warrants for political Facebook pages, more on Vault 7, and an update on the Amazon Echo case.
It turns out that complete government cyber surveillance isn’t a science fiction movie plot after all. Now it’s a verifiable fact, and people like former CIA agent Bill Binney are somewhere between screaming “I told you so!” and feeling the weight of this horrifying reality sink down deep onto their shoulders. YOU, Mr. and Ms. American, are under surveillance — even in your home.