China’s Social Credit System

The Zuckerberg Dossier Mark Zuckerberg is a Fraud Used by the CIA The following anonymous document claims to be written by a Facebook insider who was Mark Zuckerbergs lover from their freshman year at Harvard. Marks continuing indiscretions with his ongoing…

WeChat's data centralization has inextricably linked it to all aspects of daily life in China and made it a cornerstone of the government's social-credit system (Barclay Bram/Nautilus)

Police ruthlessly beating back protesters with batons and showering them with pepper spray in violent running battles.  Rounds of rubber bullets and tear gas fired into crowds of angry but until then peaceful demonstrators. The scenes this week in Hong Kong…

Posted June 13, 2019 05:59:23 The nation's smallest capital city has just finished one of the largest and fastest rollouts of "smart" technologies in the country,a move which has drawn warnings from a technology expert. Key points: Darwin has just finish…

Protesters in Hong Kong, numbering in the millions and skewing young, pulled off the extraordinary feat of defeating the will of China's Communist Party over the weekend, and they did it with little more than street smarts, household goods, and unbreakable de…

International (MNN) — Cybersecurity and data mining are top technology issues in todays digital world, and they affect everyone from government officials to your next-door neighbor. U.S. tech giant Apple recently came under fire for its lackluster privacy co…

With Mao's Great Leap Forward (1958-1962), it became increasingly clear China was a totalitarian police state willing to do almost anything to advance its aims. That attempt to forcefully move from an agrarian to a socialist industrial society cost tens of mi…

Facial recognitions first blanket ban arrived in May, when San Francisco became the only city in the nation to bar police and other agencies from using the technology. Now the powerful software, which uses machine learning algorithms to automatically track h…

Senators at a hearing on Wednesday marked the 30th anniversary of China's crackdown on student protesters at Tiananmen Square, vowing to never forget the victims and to keep a spotlight on Beijing's human rights abuses. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Cha…

Common Wealth and Collective Power