Category Tech

Ranked: The World’s Most Surveilled Cities

The use of facial recognition and movement tracking is the part that is really sinister. It’s much worse than the Flock ALPR cameras that log your license plate when you drive by them, and they are tracking you personally with…

Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying

At the same time they’re floating laws to outlaw VPNs in some states, they’re trying to scare you away from using a VPN. VPNs mask your home IP address as well as concealing you by being mixed with a lot…

Bitcoin Core Panicking Over New Project

This is notable for a couple people involved, Samson Mow and Jimmy Song. And the philosophy of a conservative client that preserves Bitcoin as money is also good. Hopefully we’ll see three major implementations with good market share which will…

Amazon ID Verification is Here

This is disturbing. I’m probably grandfathered having used the service forever, even having ordered books when that was the first real online merchandise they sold. Though, I won’t upload my ID or face scan/image to Persona under any circumstances, so…