Posts Tagged ‘browsing’

US military bought mass monitoring tool that includes email and browsing data

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has revealed that the US Naval Investigative Service (NCIS) has a contract for “Augury” – a mass monitoring tool that reportedly covers 93% of the world’s internet traffic and provides access to petabytes of current and historical data. Wyden made the revelation in a recent letter that urged officials at the […]

A Known Side-Effect of browsing Conspiracy Websites

Regular readers to this website (as well as other conspiracy websites, and readers of conspiracy literature), have you noticed that TV no longer holds any appeal for you? Here are some snippets of a Reddit discussion on the same. To quote a user, Ive learnt through experience and overcoming cognitive dissonance that society doesn’t work […]

Dramatic Drone Footage Shows Syrian Army Advancing Toward Islamic State Capital

Starting about two weeks ago, a new campaign was launched to put the substantially weakened Islamic State on the defensive: in the south, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), Popular Mobilization, and Sunni tribal fighters have closed in on a multiple-axis assault to encircle the city of Fallujah. As we reported previously, Iraqi forces, together […]

“No Cost” License Plate Readers Are Turning Texas Police into Mobile Debt Collectors and Data Miners

“No Cost” License Plate Readers Are Turning Texas Police into Mobile Debt Collectors and Data Miners February 1st, 2016 Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: Vigilant Solutions, one of the country’s largest brokers of vehicle surveillance technology, is offering a hell of a deal to law […]

Report: UN Staff Transported 380 Pounds of Weed, Watched and Shared Child Porn

The report, carried out by the UN Secretariat, covers the period between July 2014 and June of this year. It does not name the staff involved, their nationalities, or where the offenses took place. Perhaps most alarmingly, four UN employees were dismissed for receiving, storing, and disseminating pornographic images of minors on their official […]

Report: UN Staff Transported 380 Pounds of Weed, Watched and Shared Child Porn

The report, carried out by the UN Secretariat, covers the period between July 2014 and June of this year. It does not name the staff involved, their nationalities, or where the offenses took place. Perhaps most alarmingly, four UN employees were dismissed for receiving, storing, and disseminating pornographic images of minors on their official […]

Facebook Reportedly Can Track Web Browsing Without Cookies

cryptogon.com October 14, 2011 This is related to browser uniqueness. See How Unique – and Trackable – Is Your Browser? and Network Device Fingerprinting for the background on how this works. Again, Facebook widgets must be blocked from loading by default, unless, of course, you’re ok with this nonsense. Ghostery is the easiest solution. AdBlock+ and NoScript […]

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