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Total population control concept with CCTV videocam and small figures of people

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Author
News
Date
June 19, 2021

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Surveillance

Tagged
“Boléro” (film), China, Sarah Gross}

A One-Girl War With the Total Surveillance State —Sci-fi Saturday

_{The acting, ambience, and special effects in “Bolero” are top quality} _{News

June 19, 2021

14

Arts & Culture, Surveillance}

“Boléro” at DUST by Sarah Gross (June 13, 2021, 17:24) In a future where telepaths are used by the government to monitor the public and root out insurgents, Maya, a non-speaking teen, witnesses her father’s brutal and unjust execution. Set on a path of revenge and destruction, Maya joins the Resistance, hellbent on tracking down Reader 8, the telepath responsible for her father’s death. However, when Maya finally locates her target after years of searching, she is confronted with a choice: either capture Reader 8 and deliver essential intelligence to the Resistance or take him out and fulfill her vengeful quest. Review: “Boléro” debuted at IMDB in 2019 and has deservedly won some industry awards. The acting, ambience, and special Read More ›

accurate facial recognition software detection technology. blur people with facial scan showing digital personal data and social credit

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Author
News
Date
June 15, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance

Tagged
ACLU, China, Comparitech, facial recognition technology, Portland, San Francisco}

U.S. Ranked #8 in Countries Using Facial Recognition Technology

_{7 in 10 governments widely use facial recognition technology} _{News

June 15, 2021

4

Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance}

A new report has ranked the United States #8 among 100 countries for widespread use of facial recognition technology (FRT). The report came out of Comparitech last week. A team evaluated the 100 most populated countries to compare their use of FRT. The study analyzed the use of FRT in governments, police departments, airports, schools, banks, workplaces, and on public transportation. The U.S. scored 18 on a scale of 0-40 (0 indicating an invasive use of FRT, and 40 indicating no evidence or an outright ban on the technology), pairing it with Mexico for the eighth ranking in the top 10 list. “There is…growing use of this technology within the US, but buses don’t appear to have FRT installed as Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
May 31, 2021

Categorized
Data Privacy, Ethics, Programming, Surveillance

Tagged
Big Tech (in culture wars), Big Tech corporate culture, Big Tech worldview, Calico (Google), Google search algorithms (bias), Self (as Big Tech's worldview), Worldview (of Big Tech companies)}

Does the Company Selling You Tech Have the Same Worldview As You?

_{A worldview is how we view the world and our place in it.} _{Andrew McDiarmid

May 31, 2021

5

Data Privacy, Ethics, Programming, Surveillance}

Much of the technology we interact with today is part of a larger group of ecosystems maintained by major tech companies. If you have an iPhone, for example, you’re often more likely to use a Macbook, watch AppleTV, or subscribe to Apple Music. If you shop on Amazon, you might also have their Echo digital assistant or a Ring video doorbell. And if you Chromebook, you’re likely to use Gmail and maybe have a Pixel. Fueled by brand loyalty, tech ecosystems are part of the workings of a healthy free market. But if you’re going to commit to a tech company by being part of their ecosystem, it’s important to compare the worldview of that company to your own and Read More ›

Divided young couple busy with their smartphones each

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
May 28, 2021

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Data Privacy, Surveillance

Tagged
Apple (company), Apple (sales strategy), Appropriate Technology, iPhone12, Magnetism (in phone chargers), Steve Jobs (aesthetic sense), Technology (lifestyle management)}

The (Magnetic) Force Is Strong With Apple — Here’s How to Resist

_{To keep the magnetic force in check between Big Tech and us, we must first establish who is boss over our technology} _{Andrew McDiarmid

May 28, 2021

5

Arts & Culture, Data Privacy, Surveillance}

With the iPhone 12, Apple has introduced a new line of accessories that use magnetism to quickly attach and charge the phone. The company has used magnets for years to connect charging adapters and cases. Now they’re adding it to more products with the bet that iPhone users will find the lure of magnetic connection irresistible. As a natural phenomenon, magnetism is as old as dirt and yet it still amazes us when we see it in action. There’s another kind of magnetism at work here, too. It’s the pull of attraction between Apple’s devices and the people who use them. Like many longtime Apple customers, I have felt this attraction since 2008 when I purchased my first iPhone, the 3G. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
May 26, 2021

Categorized
Data Privacy, Programming, Surveillance

Tagged
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Data (as form of control), Dell XPS 13, Google (aiming at students), Google (harvesting student data), Google Chromebook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Make it Stick (book), Pixelbook Go, Zenbook}

How Google’s Chromebook Erodes Your Digital Freedom

_{A Chromebook is designed to serve up Google services, allowing Google outsized control of your computing experience and your digital identity.} _{Andrew McDiarmid

May 26, 2021

6

Data Privacy, Programming, Surveillance}

This month, Chromebook turns ten years old. It’s a good time to take a look at Google’s latest Chromebook offering and show you why you can do better. Much better. Although the Pixelbook Go has a hefty price tag and is lighter, thinner, and faster than ever, it’s still just a Chromebook. Here’s why using a Chromebook weakens your computing power, erodes your digital freedom, and reduces your ability to learn and think. “I’ve got the power,” goes the famous 90’s song by Snap!, but you wouldn’t be able to sing that with confidence holding a Chromebook. Somewhere between netbook and notebook, the Chromebook is a physical manifestation of the Google ecosystem, giving customers who already use Google services a Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
May 24, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Religion, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Big Tech, Caitlin Bassett, China (crackdown on religions), Erik J. Larson, Heather Zeiger, John McCarthy, Live not by Lies (book), Myth of Artificial Intelligence (book), Norbert Wiener, Rod Dreher, Shoshan Zuboff, Surveillance Capitalism (book), United States (and mass surveillance)}

How Much of Your Income — and Life — Does Big Tech Control?

_{Erik J. Larson reviews the groundbreaking book Surveillance Capitalism, on how big corporations make money out of tracking your every move} _{News

May 24, 2021

7

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Religion, Surveillance, Technocracy}

In a review of Shoshana Zuboff’s groundbreaking Surveillance Capitalism (2019), computer science historian Erik J. Larson recounts a 1950s conflict of ideas between two pioneers, Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) and John McCarthy (1927–2011). Wiener warned, in his largely forgotten book The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), about “new forms of control made possible by the development of advancing technologies.” McCarthy, by contrast, coined the term “artificial intelligence” (1956), implying his belief in “the official effort to program computers to exhibit human-like intelligence.” His “AI Rules” view came to be expressed not in a mere book but in — probably — hundreds of thousands of media articles warning about or celebrating the triumph of AI over humanity. If you are skeptical Read More ›

conceptual image Chinese stock exchange with digital currency, devaluation of bitcoin or growth of Chinese e-rmb

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
May 12, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology, Surveillance

Tagged
Blockchain, Carrie Lam, China (digital currency), Controllable anonymity concept (China), Diem (formerly Libra), Digital Currency Electronic Payment System (China), e-CNY, e-RMB, Emily Jin, Facebook (Diem), Featured, Hester Pierce, Jerome Powell, Reserve currency, Sanctions (via currency restrictions), Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT), Stablecoins, U.S. dollar (as reserve currency), United States (and U.S. dollar)}

Will China’s Digital Yuan Displace the US Dollar in Global Trade?

_{The U.S. dollar became the world’s reserve currency because it was stable and easily transferable. It also enabled the U.S. to penalize sponsors of terrorism and genocide} _{Heather Zeiger

May 12, 2021

6

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology, Surveillance}

China has just launched its Digital Currency Electronic Payment System, called variously the electronic yuan or electronic renminbi (abbreviated e-CNY or e-RMB). It will likely thwart Alipay and WeChat Pay’s dominance in China’s financial tech market and allow the government to track almost all financial transactions in real time. There are, of course, international implications to China being the first country to roll out a digital currency backed by the central bank. Can the Digital Yuan Compete with the Dollar for Global Dominance? Some analysts now see China’s move to a digital currency based on blockchain technology as intended to displace the dollar. Right now, eighty-eight percent of global trade interactions are in U.S. dollars, followed by the euro, and Read More ›

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Author
Caitlin Cory
Date
April 30, 2021

Categorized
Social Media, Surveillance

Tagged
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Geoffrey Stone, Harmeet Dhillon, iCOP, Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP), Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Surveillance, United States Postal Service (USPS), USPIS, USPS}

U.S. Postal Service Secretly Monitoring Social Media Posts

_{Legal experts don't understand why the Post Office is involved in online government surveillance} _{Caitlin Cory

April 30, 2021

4

Social Media, Surveillance}

According to a government document obtained by Yahoo News, the U.S. Postal Service has been secretly monitoring the social media posts of American citizens. The covert operation, conspicuously known as the Internet Covert Operations Program (or iCOP), has been conducted by the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service. Normally, USPIS is responsible for protecting the functions of USPS as well as its employees. Branching out into online surveillance is both unexpected and surprising to many experts. “It’s a mystery,” University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone told Yahoo. “I don’t understand why the government would go to the Postal Service for examining the internet for security issues.” Likewise, Rachel Levinson-Waldman, deputy Read More ›

Face recognition and personal identification technologies in street surveillance cameras, law enforcement control.

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Author
Caitlin Cory
Date
April 28, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Law, Surveillance

Tagged
ACLU, Al Gidari, Canada, Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner, China, Clearview AI, Daniel Therrien, DHS, Doug Mitchell, Facebook, Facial Recognition, facial recognition technology, Fight for the Future, Google, Hoan Ton-That, Instagram, Kashmir Hill, Law enforcement, New York Times, OpenMedia, Richard Schwartz, Rudy Giuliani, Surveillance, Twitter, VEnmo, Woodrow Hartzog, YouTube}

Canada Orders Facial Recognition App to Cease and Desist

_{Your face is likely already stored in this app's database} _{Caitlin Cory

April 28, 2021

9

Artificial Intelligence, Law, Surveillance}

In February, Canada released the findings of a year-long investigation into the US-based facial recognition app, Clearview AI. The investigation declared Clearview’s actions illegal within Canada and ordered the company to cease operations within the country and to remove all Canadian citizens from its database. “What Clearview does is mass surveillance, and it is illegal,” said Canadian Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien. So what is Clearview AI? And why has it raised the ire of our neighbors to the North? Clearview AI, Inc. Clearview AI is a facial recognition company marketed primarily to law enforcement agencies. It boasts a database of over 3 billion facial images “scraped” from public sources online such as news articles and social media sites. In other Read More ›

Collage of portraits of young emotional people on multicolored background in neon. Concept of human emotions, facial expression, sales. Listening to music, delighted, winner, shocked. Flyer for ad

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Author
News
Date
April 26, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Education, Ethics, Science, Surveillance, Work

Tagged
Atlas of AI (book), COVID-19 (and AI), Emotional recognition technology (ERT), Emotional recognition technology (regulation), emotions, Human emotions, Kate Crawford, Paul Ekman, Universal human emotions (Ekman)}

AI Prof Sounds Alarm: AI “Emotion Detectors” Are Faulty Science

_{An industry worth over $30 billion uses emotion recognition technology (ERT) on school children and potential hires} _{News

April 26, 2021

4

Business and Finance, Education, Ethics, Science, Surveillance, Work}

Kate Crawford, a principal researcher at Microsoft, and author of Atlas of AI (2021), is warning at Nature that the COVID-19 pandemic “is being used as a pretext to push unproven artificial-intelligence tools into workplaces and schools.” The software is touted as able to read the “six basic emotions” via analysis of facial expressions: During the pandemic, technology companies have been pitching their emotion-recognition software for monitoring workers and even children remotely. Take, for example, a system named 4 Little Trees. Developed in Hong Kong, the program claims to assess children’s emotions while they do classwork. It maps facial features to assign each pupil’s emotional state into a category such as happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise and fear. It also Read More ›

Spiral aloe vera with water drops, closeup

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
April 25, 2021

Categorized
Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Religion, Surveillance

Tagged
Alger Hiss (book), Communism, design in nature, God (Whittaker Chambers's account), Terror, Whittaker Chambers, Witness (book)}

How Did One Man Gain the Strength to Turn Away From Nihilism?

_{Chambers was quite willing to accept that he had joined, essentially, a terrorist organization, so long as he could see it as for the greater good} _{Eric Holloway

April 25, 2021

5

Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Religion, Surveillance}

American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961) sparked McCarthyism (a witch hunt against suspected Communists at high levels in the U.S. government in the early 1950s), during the trial of State Department official Alger Hiss. Senator Joseph McCarthy began his eponymous crusade against communists largely because Chambers had exposed Hiss as a Communist spy. Chambers, a senior editor at Time Magazine, knew that Hiss was a spy because Chambers himself was a spy who worked closely with Hiss and was in fact a very close friend. Which begs the question, why would a spy turn in his closest friend, as well as imperil himself? To understand the question and provide an answer, Chambers wrote an account of his conversion experience, and the Read More ›

Businessman hand holding tablet and Yuan currency sign on digital map backgroung.Chinese Yuan digital currency and circuit background.Technology digital Financial and china cryptocurrency concept.

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
April 20, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Ant Group, Bitcoin (and China), China, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Controllable anonymity concept (China), cryptocurrencies, David Pan, Digital currency, Digital Currency Electronics Payment (DCEP), Digital payments, Digital wallets, e-CNY, Fintechs, Jack Ma, People's Central Bank (China), Social Credit (China), Sweden (and digital currency)}

Why China Is Making a Bold Gamble With Digital Currency

_{“Controllable anonymity” means that all transactions between individuals are visible to the People’s Bank and trackable by the Chinese government} _{Heather Zeiger

April 20, 2021

8

Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

Last week, China announced the national rollout of the electronic yuan, a plan in the works since 2014. The e-CNY* or Digital Currency Electronics Payment (DCEP) was piloted last year in four major Chinese cities: The digital yuan resides in cyberspace, available on the owner’s mobile phone — or on a card for the less tech-savvy — and spending it doesn’t strictly require an online connection. It appears on a screen with a silhouette of Mao Zedong, looking just like the paper money. In tests in recent months, more than 100,000 people in China have downloaded a mobile-phone app from the central bank enabling them to spend small government handouts of digital cash with merchants, including Chinese outlets of Starbucks Read More ›

Electronics Engineer Works with Robot Checking Voltage and Program Response time. Computer Science Research Laboratory with Specialists Working.

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 5, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Military, Surveillance

Tagged
Ashton Carter, Big Data, Bureaucracy (and science advances), China, China (competitiveness in AI), Great Reset, Gregory Chaitin, Patent filings, Silicon Valley, U. S. Department of Defense, United States (competitiveness in AI), Walter Isaacson}

Has the United States Lost Silicon Valley?

_{Once on friendly terms with the U,S, Department of Defense, Silicon Valley must consider the views of its friends in China} _{Denyse O'Leary

April 5, 2021

8

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Military, Surveillance}

Recently, we learned that China had, for the first time, surpassed the United States in AI patent filings: The development was revealed by Li Yuxiao, Deputy Head of the Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies at the 7th World Internet Conference (WIC), reports SCMP. With this, China is now bolstering its position of being a leader in AI. As per the report, China had filed more than 110,000 artificial intelligence patents last year, more than the patents filed by the United States but the number of patents filed by the country has not been disclosed. “China surpasses US for the first time in artificial intelligence patent filings” at TECHregister (November 27, 2020) Now, people have been claiming that innovative competitiveness is Read More ›

Young Man Identified by Biometric Facial Recognition Scanning Process from His Smartphone. Futuristic Concept: Projector Identifies Individual by Illuminating Face by Dots and Scanning with Laser

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Author
News
Date
March 29, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Surveillance

Tagged
biometrics, COVID-19, Identification (biometrics), Retail sector, Russia (biometrics)}

The New Retail: Cash or Face Scan? Is This Safe?

_{Retailers, anxious to speed up checkout lineups tend to brush off privacy and security concerns about payment by face recognition} _{News

March 29, 2021

6

Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Surveillance}

The new face of retail is yours, according to a latest trend — paying with your face via biometric scanning. Russia’s largest food retailer, X5 Retail Group, in partnership with VISA and Sber (a bank), is introducing payment via facial recognition (face scanning) at the checkout counters of supermarkets and convenience stores. The trial at 52 stores succeeded well enough that the firm hopes to institute “facepay” (?) at 3000 stores. It works, at least technically, because we are more unique than we think: With the huge rise in digital wallets, biometrics – face or hand recognition – has started to become more popular as the safest means of protecting customers from identity fraud. Because nobody can replicate or guess Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
March 26, 2021

Categorized
Data Privacy, Ethics, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Big Tech, Cell phones, Elizabeth Kolbert, Karl D. Stephan, Liquid modernity, Zygmunt Bauman}

Getting Used to Liquid Modernity

_{The only constant of liquid modernity is change, chiefly of the self, but also of the self's surroundings} _{News

March 26, 2021

7

Data Privacy, Ethics, Surveillance, Technocracy}

(Reprinted with permission from the Engineering Ethics Blog of Karl Stephan (pictured) of the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University) I do not own a conventional smart phone. Instead, I intentionally use a style of flip phone whose rugged case and physical numeric keypad buttons won’t be injured by a drop of three or four feet to a concrete surface. It can receive some texts on its small screen, and I can even send texts after a fashion with the twelve numeric keys, tapping them rapidly one to four times to select the correct letter or punctuation mark. It won’t do capitals, but you can read texts from me without capitals and still get the message. It took me a while to Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 16, 2021

Categorized
Data Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance

Tagged
Anti-trust laws, Benny Thomas, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg, Project Veritas, Racism, Singularity, Super-intelligent AI}

Facebook Exec Admits the Company Has Too Much Power

_{He worries, talking with an undercover reporter, that Zuckerberg is 36 and is “the ruler” of two billion people} _{Denyse O'Leary

March 16, 2021

6

Data Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance}

In a video titled “KING ZUCK: Facebook Global Planning Lead Reveals Dire Need For Government Intervention In Facebook” (March 15, 2021), we hear an insider’s view from Benny Thomas, Facebook’s Global Planning Lead— who told what he knew to a Project Veritas undercover reporter. From the undercover interview: Benny Thomas: I’ll make less money but it will be a better thing for the world. Facebook and Google are too powerful and they need to be made less powerful … It needs to be broken up the way the telecom companies were broken up and the oil companies were broken up.” No king in the history of the world has been the ruler of two billion people. And he’s 36. [a Read More ›

Finger touching phone with social media concept and dark background

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Author
News
Date
March 11, 2021

Categorized
Data Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance

Tagged
Ad Nauseam, Big Tech, Conscious data contribution, Data poisoning, Data poisoning by internet users, Data strikes, Hanlin Li, Microsoft (Tay), Nicholas Vincent, Tay (chatbot)}

Why Do Some People Try To Poison Big Tech’s Data Well?

_{Some social media users confuse Big Tech about their interests so as to preserve privacy and rein in relentless marketing campaigns} _{News

March 11, 2021

5

Data Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance}

Here’s an article on a theme you probably didn’t expect to read about in a top tier tech magazine: How to poison the data Big Tech collects about you. It’s certainly evidence of the growing discontent with Monopoly Power and Big Surveillance: Now researchers at Northwestern University are suggesting new ways to redress this power imbalance by treating our collective data as a bargaining chip. Tech giants may have fancy algorithms at their disposal, but they are meaningless without enough of the right data to train on. Karen Hao, “How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you” at Technology Review (March 5, 2021) Researchers Nicholas Vincent and Hanlin Li presented a paper at the recent Association Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
March 9, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Surveillance

Tagged
Bernard Fickser, Cash, Cashless society, cryptocurrencies, Kenneth Rogoff, Social Credit (China), Social credit score}

What If Government Knows You Ate a Big Mac — and Doesn’t Approve?

_{One spur to the development of cryptocurrencies is a desire for privacy. And a growing number of citizens of societies dominated by Big Tech feel the need for privacy} _{News

March 9, 2021

6

Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Surveillance}

That title question is not a crazy notion. It’s already happening in mostly cashless China. The Constitution and the law may not be the barrier that many suppose in America if your personal choices make it possible. We need to talk about the unpublicized implications of a cashless society. Bernard Fickser, whose work we profiled yesterday, thinks that surveillance creep is one of the factors driving the growing interest in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Yesterday we talked about the increasing popularity of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) — government should just print money to satisfy social demands and then raise taxes to pay for the choices made. A triumph of MMT would intensify the competition between government-issued currencies and cryptocurrencies Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
March 2, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Surveillance

Tagged
Asen Genov, Bulgaria tax agency hack, COVID-19 and hacks, COVID-19 vaccines, hacking, Hacking for espionage, Hacking prevention, Hacking private companies, Hospitals and ransomware attacks, Parler hack, Ransomware attacks, Solar Winds hack, Twitter Bitcoin hack}

Computer Hacks of Governments, Hospitals, Firms Increase

_{Even the ones we depend on are vulnerable. They’re not always anxious to talk about it} _{News

March 2, 2021

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Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Surveillance}

It’s not just companies, it’s countries that get hacked these days. Here are some examples from the United States: ➤ The big story was the Solar Winds case last month. One version is that an intern thought that SolarWinds123 was a safe password: At this point though, it’s still uncertain whether the password leak played a role in the SolarWinds hack, CNN noted, which is believed to be the largest foreign intrusion campaign in U.S. history. This month, White House national security adviser Anne Neuberger stated that approximately 100 different companies and nine federal agencies, including the one that oversees the country’s nuclear weapons, had been compromised by foreign hackers. Jody Serrano, “SolarWinds Officials Throw Intern Under the Bus for Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
February 28, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Religion, Surveillance

Tagged
1984 (book), 2084 (book), Atheism, C. S. Lewis, Featured, George Orwell, God's existence, immortality, John Lennox, Revelation (book in Bible), Robert J. Marks, Techno-immortality, That Hideous Strength (book), transhumanism}

Why Oxford’s John Lennox Wrote a Book on AI Promises and Threats

_{His book 2084 leans on George Orwell’s 1984 but takes its inspiration from C. S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength} _{News

February 28, 2021

12

Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Religion, Surveillance}

Recently, Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed Oxford mathematician John Lennox on his latest book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (2020). He focused on why Lennox chose that theme and how far we have caught up with George Orwell’s 1984. Here are some excerpts from the combined interviews in “John Lennox on Artificial Intelligence and Humanity”: https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-123-John-Lennox.mp3 A partial transcript follows, along with highlights, Show Notes, and Resources: Robert J. Marks (starting at roughly 1:40 min): Many of Orwell’s predictions about communism were proven. So what will be the effects of AI a century later in the year 2084? Replacing George Orwell is Dr. John Lennox who has written 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future Read More ›