Facebook Inc is considering incorporating most of its 1 billion-plus members' profile photos into its growing facial recognition database...
Well, fully understandable of course, they have to keep track of the slaves somehow.
Facebook may add user photos into facial recognition database.
Well, fully understandable of course, they have to keep track of the slaves somehow.
Well, fully understandable of course, they have to keep track of the slaves somehow.
Facebook, Twitter and Google crawl links in private email and messages.
Data privacy is fast becoming a running joke, and users are the punchline. Following the hoopla surrounding NSA's PRISM program, there's evidence to suggest that even link crawling robots can (and do) violate user privacy by sniffing out URLs included in private messages and emails. Not all sites are guilty of this behavior, but of the few that are, they're pretty popular portals.
High-Tech Bridge, an information security solutions provider, conducted a simple experiment to verify how the 50 largest social networks, web services, and free email systems respect (or abuse) the privacy of their users. The company deployed a dedicated web server and created secret URLs on it for each tested service. During the 10 days of the experiment, High-Tech Bridge used the tested services to transmit the secret URLs while carefully monitoring its web server logs for all incoming HTTP requests.
"We trapped only six services out of the 50. However, among those six were four of the biggest and most used social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Formspring," High-Tech Bridge said. "The remaining two were URL shortening services: bit.ly and goo.gl."
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Google in lawsuit over a Gmail scanning scandal.
They are all in it...
Google attorneys argue for right to continue scanning your email, Yahoo! wants in too.
Google is being sued by Gmail users in California for breach of privacy that allowed the company to scan people's Gmail accounts in order to deliver relevant ads.
They are all in it...
Google attorneys argue for right to continue scanning your email, Yahoo! wants in too.
Google has continued to fight for its right to party continue scanning user email in a Californian court this week, with it seeming rather obvious that it's doing little to sway public opinion. The company, as you might recall, has been trying to prove its case that it must scan user email - it's all part of its ability to serve email. Of course, this is absolutely untrue, as many email providers don't make it a point to scan user email. Yahoo! used to be one of those, but through a recent service agreement, it states that it's begun scanning email much like Google does, and for the same purpose.
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Apple's fingerprint ID may mean that you can't use your Fifth amendment.
Because the constitutional protection of the Fifth Amendment, which guarantees that "no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself," may not apply when it comes to biometric-based fingerprints (things that reflect who we are) as opposed to memory-based passwords and PINs (things we need to know and remember).
The privilege against self-incrimination is an important check on the government's ability to collect evidence directly from a witness. The Supreme Court has made it clear that the Fifth Amendment broadly applies not only during a criminal prosecution, but also to any other proceeding "civil or criminal, formal or informal," where answers might tend to incriminate us. It's a constitutional guarantee deeply rooted in English law dating back to the 1600s, when it was used to protect people from being tortured by inquisitors to force them to divulge information that could be used against them.
For the privilege to apply, however, the government must try to compel a person to make a "testimonial" statement that would tend to incriminate him or her. When a person has a valid privilege against self-incrimination, nobody - not even a judge - can force the witness to give that information to the government.
But a communication is "testimonial" only when it reveals the contents of your mind. We can't invoke the privilege against self-incrimination to prevent the government from collecting biometrics like fingerprints, DNA samples, or voice exemplars. Why? Because the courts have decided that this evidence doesn't reveal anything you know. It's not testimonial.
It was never about security of the users anyway. It was about collecting their fingerprints! Entering the invisible prison.
CCC says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID is broken.
CCC says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID is broken.
"managed to break Apple's TouchID using everyday material and methods available on the web. Explaining their method on their website, the CCC hackers have claimed that all they did was photograph a fingerprint from a glass surface, ramped up the resolution of the photographed fingerprint, inverted and printed it using thick toner settings, smeared pink latex milk or white woodglue onto the pattern, lifted the latex sheet, moistened it a little and then placed it on the iPhone 5S's fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone."
"Popular Science" magazine is getting rid of the comments below their articles.
Got to love the Orwellian double speak in action:
...but awww, those pesky "trolls":
...and they also seem to dislike open debate:
...in other words, they do not want any kind of debate in order for the comments to dilute the agenda of the article which they are pushing. You may "debate" the article, as long as it is not heard or seen by anyone and of course, as long as you do not disagree with the article's agenda.
"In Soviet Russia, this is how we did it."
Reading shit like this is not funny. Not funny at all but very very scary.
This comes alongside news that Google is trying to "clean up" YouTube comments by adding integration with Google+. Remember folks! There are no coincidences.
They are ALL in it, closing the Internet down, one little step at a time, helping you enter the invisible prison.
Got to love the Orwellian double speak in action:
...As the news arm of a 141-year-old science and technology magazine, we are as committed to fostering lively, intellectual debate as we are to spreading the word of science far and wide...
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...but awww, those pesky "trolls":
The problem is when trolls and spambots overwhelm the former, diminishing our ability to do the latter. ... even a fractious minority wields enough power to skew a reader's perception of a story...
...and they also seem to dislike open debate:
...Scientific certainty is just another thing for two people to "debate" on television.... And because comments sections tend to be a grotesque reflection of the media culture surrounding them, the cynical work of undermining bedrock scientific doctrine is now being done beneath our own stories, within a website devoted to championing science.'
...in other words, they do not want any kind of debate in order for the comments to dilute the agenda of the article which they are pushing. You may "debate" the article, as long as it is not heard or seen by anyone and of course, as long as you do not disagree with the article's agenda.
"In Soviet Russia, this is how we did it."
Reading shit like this is not funny. Not funny at all but very very scary.
This comes alongside news that Google is trying to "clean up" YouTube comments by adding integration with Google+. Remember folks! There are no coincidences.
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At first seconds, it seems as if it's something good... but then you realize... FUCK! THIS IS WORSE THAN COOKIES. With this one, you can't delete or disable it!
Google is developing an anonymous identifier for advertising, or AdID, that would replace third-party cookies as the way advertisers track people's Internet browsing activity for marketing purposes.
Do you see it?
No? Well, look again:
...and still, people didn't give a damn.
Google is developing an anonymous identifier for advertising, or AdID, that would replace third-party cookies as the way advertisers track people's Internet browsing activity for marketing purposes.
Do you see it?
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No? Well, look again:
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...and still, people didn't give a damn.
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There is a word for this kind of thing: Slaves.
"Company town".
Amazing how you can make servitude sound good if you omit enough. They were also "provided" with constantly mounting debt and money unusable anywhere else to make them docile, servile, and put them at the bosses' mercy.
"Company town".
Facebook Inc.'s sprawling campus in Menlo Park, Calif., is so full of cushy perks that some employees may never want to go home. Soon, they'll have that option.
The social network said this week it is working with a local developer to build a $120 million, 394-unit housing community within walking distance of its offices. Called Anton Menlo, the 630,000 square-foot rental property will include everything from a sports bar to a doggy day care.
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The development conjures up memories of so-called "company towns" at the turn of the 20th century, where American factory workers lived in communities owned by their employer and were provided housing, health care, law enforcement, church and just about every other service necessary.
Amazing how you can make servitude sound good if you omit enough. They were also "provided" with constantly mounting debt and money unusable anywhere else to make them docile, servile, and put them at the bosses' mercy.
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Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong
You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said "Well, a-bless my soul"
You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion
Cain't no-a high-toned woman make me walk the line
You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't a-get you then the left one will
You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
- Merle Travis.
by cervesaebraciator (2352888) on Thursday October 03, 2013 @07:52PM (#45031383) wrote:I owe info to the company store
Some people say a man is made outta mud
A code monkey's got Mountain Dew for his blood
Dew in the blood and Cheeto bones
A bad back and carpal tunnel syndrome
You click 16 likes and whaddaya get?
Another ad targeted to your regret
Can't get a new job for what my profile showed
I owe info to the company store
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my laptop and I coded a line
I coded PHP and in Javascript
And off to Menlo Park then I was shipped
You click 16 likes and whaddaya get?
Another ad targeted to your regret
Can't get a new job for what my profile showed
I owe info to the company store
If you see me comin', better step aside
The Dew and Cheetos made me a little too wide
A little too wide and a little too old
But for Facebook's perks my soul I've sold
You click 16 likes and whaddaya get?
Another ad targeted to your regret
Can't get a new job for what my profile showed
I owe info to the company store
All for your security, of course. 
MasterCard also wants your fingerprints, joins FIDO alliance.
MasterCard also wants your fingerprints, joins FIDO alliance.
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FIDO is currently at work developing technical specifications for an open standard that includes biometric data such as fingerprint scanning, which would be used to replace passwords when shopping online or logging into a website.
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