Surveillance Grid

Facebook has a new little known software that monitors your profile chat and pictures for criminal activity. The software will proceed to alert an employee at the company who will then decide whether to call authorities or not.  [1] The software will monitor individuals who have a ‘loose’ relationship on social media networks, according to an interview with Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan.  Reuters interview with the security ...

A public outrage over Facebook’s casual attitude towards the privacy of its 400 million users is threatening to snowball into a full-blown crisis as high-profile members start closing their accounts. [8]  The Silicon Alley Insider has a transcript of IMs between a then-19-year-old Zuckerberg, shortly after he launched Facebook, and a college friend. The correspondence, published by the Business Insider ...

Many of us are used to swiping or tapping a card to get into the office. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they decided to go a step further, – a chip under the skin. That’s right, they figured out that it would better to implant the workers with computer chips under their skin, rather than ...