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Reclaim Your Privacy With Glowing Glasses That Foil Facial Recognition Systems
In a time when it seems like the privacy we all enjoyed was just a smokescreen, it’s nice to know there’s at least one way to fight back against all the systems designed to keep track of our comings and goings. Developed by Japan’s National Institute of Informatics, these glasses include 11 LEDs that blast a privacy curtain of near-infrared light to obscure your face.
You Should Stop Using Your iOS-Generated Hotspot Password Right Now
The ability to turn your iPhone into a Wi-Fi hotspot is a fantastically useful little tool in and of itself. But Apple, being the generous overlord that it is, goes so far as to automatically generate a network key, keeping even the most absent-minded of Wi-Fi-beggared safe and sound. Or so we thought.
Confirmed: Court ‘Oversight’ Of NSA Surveillance Is A Joke
Although there’s been some debate on the legality of the mounds of data collected by NSA analysts during the PRISM program, House Intelligence Committee officials have confirmed that they’re totally free to rifle through your data without a court order. As long as they think they might have a reason to be suspicious — any reason will do! — they’re free to go nuts.
These Stash Coins Are A Fantastic Way To Lose Your SD Card
The Man has his hand in your inbox and cops are intimidating citizens who film them beating other citizens. So it’s only logical to want to keep the private contents of your SD card, well, private. The Covert Coin from CCS Spy Gear is a precision-machined piece of retired US currency that are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing when closed.
The US Facial Recognition Database Hiding In Plain Sight
It’s only natural to be a little skeeved out by the idea that the government is slurping up your private data behind the scenes, but there’s a very public piece of your data being collected as well: the look on your face. There’s already a national database of over 120 million faces in the US, and the Washington Post reports that it’s slowly turning into the ultimate police tool.
The NSA Can Afford To Store Data From Years Of Phone Calls
There’s been a lot of talk about the NSA and its data-gathering policies. The news sounds kind of scary. But you might be thinking that the NSA can’t have literally every foreign and domestic call made in the US. That would be a crazy amount of data right? Well, yes, it would be, and it kind of seems like it has it. Or at least it could afford to keep it if it wanted to.
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