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Ring: “We don’t use ****** recognition”; also Ring: “We have a head of ****** recognition research”

One of the most obvious facts I've learned in covering the unfolding scandal of the secret deals between Amazon's Ring surveillance doorbell group and hundreds of US police departments is that Amazon loooooves to play word-games.

For example, I've been repeatedly emailed by company spokespeople to tell me that cops only get access to Ring ...

Apple led the campaign to **** Right to Repair, now it’s supplying parts to (some) independent repair shops

Apple was at the vanguard of the massive corporate spending that killed Right to Repair bills in 20 state legislatures last year, and while the company claims that it wants to protect its users from evil repair dudes who secretly hack their devices while claiming to fix them, Apple's CEO's frank warning to investors ...

In Ireland, Mike Pence stays at Trump’s Doonbeg resort 150 miles away from VP’s meetings in Dublin

Illegitimate, popular vote losing President Donald Trump's spokeslackey and vice president Mike Pence visited Ireland on official United States business this week, and did so in a way that will personally enrich Donald Trump and his idiot spawn.

For reasons no one can figure out, Pence stayed the night at the Trump Doonbeg resort, ...

Survey: Self-identified “pro lifers” are generally contemptuous of women

Supermajority's Gender Equality, the Status of Women and the 2020 Elections surveys likely 2020 voters (N=1912), finds a strong correlation between opposition and broad misogynistic beliefs, such as opposition to the idea that women and men should hold an equal number of positions of power; opposition to the #MeToo movement; a disbelief in the ...

Hear the stories of the last Navajo Code Talkers

The United States military first started using code talkers during The First World War. They were aboriginal soldiers fluent in the languages of the Cherokee and Choctaw peoples who were tasked with speaking in their native tongues to secure voice and communications from an all-too-likely eavesdropping enemy. It wasn’t until they were deployed with the ...

Hong Kong protestors using mesh-networking messaging app to evade authorities

The protestors in Hong Kong, leery of state eavesdropping on digital communications, have been adept at using communications tools not normally associated with activism, like Tinder, Twitch, and Apple's Airdrop (previously). The latter one, being peer-to-peer over local wifi, has particular advantages in avoiding scrutiny, since you have to be physically nearby to intercept ...