“A handful of websites, including those of major news providers, went down in the EU. While it’s unclear how vigorously regulators will enforce the rules, the shutdowns show that many would rather go dark than take the risk.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/25/17393894/gdpr-news-websites-down-europe
“Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains.”
“Nearly every nation welcomes, encourages, and even battles for the import of barrels of oil. Yet every nation obstructs the ‘import’ of labor — the in-migration of human beings.”
Read more: https://liberty-intl.org/2018/05/open-borders-trade-migration-entrepreneurship-and-prosperity/
“Chicago required the use of lead service lines between street mains and homes until Congress banned the practice in 1986. Yet as Mayor Rahm Emanuel borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to overhaul the city’s public water system, Chicago is keeping lead service lines in the ground.”
“All of that [exculpatory] evidence was withheld by the same prosecutor who is now being hired to handle death penalty cases all over Louisiana.”
“He never thought the 911 call could have been fake, he said.”
Read more: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article211644279.html
“A private conversation was recorded by Amazon’s Alexa — the voice-controlled smart speaker — and the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list.”
“A staggering 95% of the facial recognition system’s ‘matches’ were actually wrongly identifying innocent people.”
Read more: https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/uk-police-facial-recognition-wrong,news-58429.html
“Data from more than 10,000 accounts were exposed. The unprotected servers were letting anybody see Apple user IDs, parents’ email addresses, unique phone IDs, users’ attempts to ‘find my iPhone’ and passwords stored in plaintext.”
“In February, the company insisted that all that stolen data didn’t include passport numbers. Except it did.”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2018/5/10/17337260/equifax-data-breach-passports
