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09/14/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Pentagon funds covert communications gear that attaches to your molar tooth and allows you to make cell phone calls from inside your own head

If you see someone talking to themselves, they might not be crazy: They might just be a secret agent. The Pentagon has just invested a staggering $10 million in a California company’s “Molar Mic” technology. The Molar Mic allows users to send and receive radio transmissions discretely with a device that attaches to the molar […]

05/18/2018 / By David Williams

Chinese fugitive arrested after being identified in concert crowd by facial recognition tech

Facial recognition technology is now being applied to all sorts of things. Recently, a fugitive was arrested for unspecified economic crimes in China through the use of this technology, but the interesting thing was that he was caught while he was in the middle of a crowded concert – meaning his face was scoped out despite […]

04/06/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

Amazon patent admits it will listen in real-time for “trigger words” that could get you arrested and imprisoned

An Amazon patent, filed in June 12, 2017, reveals a massive conspiracy to spy on you using a “voice sniffer algorithm.” If approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, this artificial intelligence can be embedded inside Amazon devices, including the Amazon Alexa. The “voice sniffer algorithm” would take advantage of the microphones already built […]

01/08/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Creepy: New AI can READ YOUR MIND by decoding your brain signals … kiss your personal privacy goodbye

We live in a society that is obsessed with oversharing. While it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tune out the trivial bits of people’s lives that we don’t care about, we can still choose not to sign up for social media accounts to preserve our own privacy. We can also take comfort from the idea that […]

12/01/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

The next step in surveillance: “Smart” cameras violate your privacy in the form of AI dashcams for police, threat monitoring for retailers

For Vice President of Marketing of COBAN Technologies David Hinojosa, their new AI software is a “dashcam on steroids.” Such a description may elicit a smile or two but it does call to question just how rapidly we are transitioning to the virtual world. Many privacy and civil liberties activists believe that this new software […]

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