Joseph Cox reports: The IRS was able to query a database of location data quietly harvested from ordinary smartphone apps over 10,000 times, according to a copy of the contract between IRS and the data provider obtained by Motherboard. The document provides more insight into what exactly the IRS wanted [Read More…]
We’ve all noted the increase in surveillance during the pandemic, especially with use of location data for track and trace. But while you were looking over THERE, the government is quietly looking to expand other surveillance systems. Felipe De La Hoz reports: Through a little-discussed potential bureaucratic rule change, the Department [Read More…]
The following is a statement from Senator Josh Hawley. It needs fact-checking: In a U.S. Senate Judiciary hearing today with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) revealed an internal tool used by Facebook, Google and Twitter to coordinate the censorship of users. Senator Hawley [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic writes about an issue that I have been blogging about for more than a decade now: government surveillance of our pharmacy records and prescriptions. Joe writes: Back in 2017 I reported on how the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Prescription Monitoring Program was tracking 60 percent of Americans personal information and [Read More…]