TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
For the second year in a row, arrests for cannabis in the United States have gone up, also dwarfing the number of arrests for violent crime. The increases have come in the form of arrests for possession, not manufacture and sales. According to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report, out of 1,632,921 arrests for “drug abuse Read More…
Apple has rolled out a new policy to analyze your data and determine a “trust score” based on what it finds, Venture Beat reported this week. In an update to its privacy policy issued last week, the company warned users it would be tracking emails and calls in order to prevent fraud. “To help identify and prevent fraud, information about Read More…
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the U.K.’s GCHQ spy agency is in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights with its mass surveillance programs. The court ultimately found that these activities violate the family and privacy rights of British and European citizens, and this assertion ultimately includes a rejection of the United States’ activities Read More…
On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released a grand jury report detailing over 300 clergyman accused of misconduct over 70 years, including abuses against at least 1,000 children. State Attorney General Josh Shapiro said during a press conference that the report shows a “systematic cover-up by senior church officials in Pennsylvania and at the Vatican,” the Washington Post reported. “The abuse Read More…
Editor’s Note: While this is one step that can be taken to minimize the data exposed on Facebook, it will by no means completely eliminate the tracking and invasiveness of Facebook. So if one truly wishes to stop such tracking, exposure and sales of personal data to third-parties and government agencies, the most effective step is Read More…
Very silently — and very temporarily — this week Google appeared to have chosen a side in the gun control debate in the wake of the recent school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead. Disappointingly, that stance involved censorship of what shoppers using the corporation’s search engine could find online. On Tuesday morning, people shopping Read More…