IS YOUR CAR SPYING ON YOU? - Car manufacturers can track down drivers' personal activities, save this data, and use it for profit or possible nefarious purposes

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• There is no such thing as privacy anymore.  It's clear that we must conduct our lives as if we are being constantly watched.  
• From personal items such as cars and cellphones, to security cameras located just about anywhere - to say nothing of our online connections. 
• That's the price we pay for the marvels of our modern technological world - whether we like it or not. 
• These data bases in themselves are nothing compared to the potential harm in manipulating and falsifying their content in order to blackmail a victim for political or monetary reasons. 
• What if some entity conspired to create false electronic evidence against a top government official in order to blackmail him and control his policies?   This may already been happening, considering the vast technological powers of government intelligence agencies.

Modern cars collect the personal information of millions of people around the globe using in-built sensors. Automakers could track your weight, where you eat and shop, how you use your seat belt, and your music preferences through your car's computer software. 

DAILY MAIL - How your car is SPYING on you: Experts reveal how automakers can track everything from your weight to the food you eat using in-built sensors.  Newer cars can even record a driver’s eye movements.

 

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TOY DOLLS SECRETLY RECORD CONVERSATIONS WHICH ARE COLLECTED BY THE MANUFACTURERS - Genesis Toys and Nuance Communications are under scrutiny by privacy watchdogs

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Watchdog Discovers Toy Dolls Are Recording Your Conversations and Uploading Them to Database Available to Police and Military 

• Certain toys will upload your child’s voice and personal information to the same military and law enforcement database which helps authorities identify criminals.
• They could also record any conversation nearby.
• Activists say that these toys subject young children to ongoing surveillance, in violation of privacy and consumer protection laws
• The toy companies deceptively collect, use, and disclose audio files of children’s voices without providing adequate notice or obtaining verified parental consent.
• The Cayla doll also has a mobile phone app that asks children to provide personal information, like their name and their parents’ names, their favorite TV show, their favorite meal, where they go to school, their favorite toy and where they live
• The manufacturing company denies it is using the collected information for marketing purposes.

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INSECT-SIZED SPY DRONE WITH DRAGONFLY WINGS MAKES SPYING EASY - Smart tech, dumb border control - While Europeans develop anti-terror gadgets, they allow hordes of jihadists into their own countries

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• First, you may ask yourself why is British intelligence revealing the existence of this gadget.  In fact, this is a variation of spying technology that has been around for many years. 
• Next, you may wonder at the UTTER ABSURDITY of our culture, where we develop ever more sophisticated technology to deal with Jihadists - while we invite millions of them to settle into our countries. 
• The West, particularly Europe, is driving itself into bankruptcy by paying social services to million of Muslims who have very little chance of becoming a productive workforce.
• In addition, billions of euros are needed to pay for extra policing, and terror monitoring expenses. 
• These costs are rising exponentially as the number of Muslim migrants and their offspring increase to the point where sometime in mid-century they will outnumber indigenous Europeans.  
• Economic collapse before cultural collapse?  The economic collapse of many European countries may happen before white Europeans become a minority.  Sweden appears to be first in line. 
• European governments have given up.  They just can't keep up with threats and acts of Muslim terror so, as the French PM recently told the citizens he is supposed to protect:  Just learn to live with terrorism.  
• Openly waving the white flag of surrender would be rather embarrassing, so authorities engage in make-believe resistance, or what could be compared to rearranging the deck chairs in a sinking Titanic.
• They catch a few jihadists here and there, they threaten to ban burkas and close down radical mosques, and they develop spying gadgets - all for show - while they continue to admit millions of potential jihadists. 
• At the same time, and with a straight face, governments and media vehemently deny all connection between Islam and terror.
• Governments' refusal to enforce border control has been characterized as TREASON.  Based on current evidence and demographic trends, the end of European civilization is not IF anymore, but WHEN. 
• Our elites are just trying to make the transition into the Dark Ages as smooth as possible, by appeasing the occupier through silencing anti-Islamization dissent, and any comment calling attention to Muslim violence and crime. 
• Law-abiding people are being investigated, threatened, and even incarcerated, for the crime of insulting Islam.  Even victims of rape are told to be silent.  News media and social media are fully collaborating in this censorship.
• Governments have created a situation where the public fears both Muslim violence and government oppression.  Shocking as it may seem, this is nothing short of collaboration with terror for the dismantlement of European civilization.   

Britain brags about their insect-sized spy drone.  Yes, sure, nobody will notice it.   

The tiny drone has four wings and four legs to let it perch on surfaces

The gadget could even fly into heavily guarded rooms full of jihadists and provide soldiers on the battlefield a picture of what is going on

Other new devices include a Star Wars style laser weapons system, and mobile robots that can detect chemical weapons 

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the MoD’s new innovation initiative would ‘help keep Britain safe’.  He said this with a straight face, while his government allows millions of Muslims, most of them with radical Islamist ideology, to invade and settle in the country - at taxpayers' expense.

In the meantime any Muslim with something as simple as a kitchen knife or a truck can wreak havoc.

 

DAILY MAIL - It is one of the futuristic pieces of kit currently being developed for the Ministry of Defence and the UK’s security forces as part of the MoD’s new innovation project.

 

Continue reading about this drone and other innovations to fight terror.  See illustrations explaining these technologies.

GOOGLE EAVESDROPPING TOOL INSTALLED ON COMPUTERS WITHOUT PERMISSION - The feature is part of Google's Chromium - SAMSUNG'S SMART TV can also eavesdrop on your conversations - See list of devices that may be spying on you IN YOUR OWN HOME

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• Google secret software can listen in to your conversations.
• The feature is installed by default as part of Google’s Chrome browser.
• It also being installed with the open source variant Chromium, because the listening code is considered to be “black box”, not part of the open source audit process.
• The default install will wiretap your room without your consent, unless you opt out, says expert.
• Samsung Smart TV can also listen to your conversations.

Privacy advocates claim always-listening component was involuntarily activated within Chromium, potentially exposing private conversations

The Guardian - Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer.

 

First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users.

 

Continue reading about this, about Samsung's Smart TV snooping capabilities, and see article listing the many household devices that may be spying on you, and how they do it.

FAKE CELL PHONE TOWERS MAY BE SPYING ON AMERICANS

More than a dozen “fake cell phone towers” could be secretly hijacking Americans’ mobile devices in order to listen in on phone calls or snoop on text messages, a security-focused cell phone company claims. It is not clear who controls the devices.

 

ESD America, which markets heavily-encrypted cell phones built within the body of a Samsung Galaxy S3, said it was able to locate numerous towers intercepting mobile communications – but does not know who is running them.

 

Speaking to Popular Science, ESD America CEO Les Goldsmith recently said that the company has used its phone – the CryptoPhone 500 – to map 17 different fake cell phone towers, dubbed “interceptors,” across the United States. Locations include New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and more.

HOW TO PROTECT YOUR POWERED-OFF iPHONE FROM NSA SPYING

photo Josh Valcarcel - Wired

Just because you turned off your phone doesn’t mean the NSA isn’t using it to spy on you.

 

Edward Snowden’s latest revelation about the NSA’s snooping inspired an extra dose of shock and disbelief when he said the agency’s hackers can use a mobile phone as a bug even after it’s been turned off.

The whistleblower made that eye-opening claim when Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News, holding his iPhone aloft during last Wednesday’s interview, asked, “What can the NSA do with this device if they want to get into my life? Can anyone turn it on remotely if it’s off? Can they turn on apps?

 

“They can absolutely turn them on with the power turned off to the device,” Snowden replied.

Snowden didn’t offer any details on this seemingly magical feat. But a group of particularly cunning iPhone hackers say it’s possible. They also say you can totally and completely turn off your iPhone so no one—not even the NSA—can use it to spy on you.

Read more, watch video and learn how to protect your phone from the NSA  -  http://www.wired.com/2014/06/nsa-bug-iphone/

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EUROPEAN UNION TO BUG EVERY CAR WITH TRACKER CHIPS - Governments powerless to stop Big Brother technology

Under EU plans, every new car sold in UK will have a 'black box' device

Gadget contains a phone-like SIM card which tracks drivers' movements

Designed to help emergency services find vehicles in the event of crash

Government believes the device will add at least £100 to the cost of cars

Officials also fear it could be used by police to monitor motorists' moves

But ministers admit they are powerless to stop Big Brother technology

All new car models will have to include 'eCall' device from October 2015

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2625244/EU-bug-car-UK-tracker-chips-Ministers-admit-powerless-stop-Big-Brother-technology.html

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SWARMS OF ARMED DRONES SOON IN A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU

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Is that a swarm of tiny armed drones chasing you?  Did you offend a highly placed government official?  Or did you fail to pay your parking tickets?

Reality is quickly catching up with very recent science fiction.  While it took many decades to catch up with Jules Verne's fantasies, now last year's daring and imaginative science fiction surprises us from today's technology news. Or from the skies above you. 

Death from a swarm of tiny drones: U.S. Air Force releases terrifying video of tiny flybots that can can hover, stalk and even kill targets

Air Vehicles Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, is already developing prototypes of tiny drones that can hover

The Micro Air Vehicles will work in swarms to provide complex surveillance of a battlefield

They can also be armed with incapacitating chemicals, combustible payloads or even explosives 'for precision targeting capability'

The US Airforce has proudly released a video with their latest publicly known drone technology. I say "publicly known" because there are other even more amazing technologies still in an early and secret development stage.

MAVs (Micro Air Vehicles) are tiny drones that can fly in swarms, hover above their targets, and even crawl on them and execute them.

Among their non-lethal capabilities, they can do outdoor and indoor surveillance, and inject their human targets with incapacitating chemicals.  But they can also blow up the whole thing with explosives. 

If you get hysterical at the sight of a spider crawling on your leg, or a bee buzzing near your nose, it's hard to imagine what even the thought of these swarming and crawling drones will do to your mind.

Sweet dreams.

More information, video and pictures:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281403/U-S-Air-Force-developing-terrifying-swarms-tiny-unmanned-drones-hover-crawl-kill-targets.html

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