Stories tagged "bigbrother"

Students living in Random Hall at M.I.T. have agreed to swap their privacy for smartphones that generate digital trails to be beamed to a central computer. Beyond individual actions, the devices capture a moving picture of the dorm’s social network.

An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has now uncovered just how much personal data is being collected about individuals by the Government, law enforcement agencies and private companies each day.

ISPs in Canada are getting ready to restrict Canadians' access to the internet. The plan is to convert the Internet into a cable-like system, where customers sign up for specific web sites, and then pay to visit sites beyond a cutoff point

ALL THE NEWS THAT NOBODY KNOWS: In this chapter, I get to be a big brother again...

There are very few true joys in life: building a tin-foil helmet, exposing government plots, and SPEEDING unnecessarily in your vehicle. Now, it seems, the POWERS that be are trying to kill our will to speed. How are they doing this?

There is a reason that APPLE computers have kept progressing and remained in business even though PC's were taking over and it is not for the reasons you may think: STEVE JOBS saw the PC for what it was - a government controlled manipulation machine.

Well it's safe to say the new cell phone craze is the TOUCH SCREEN. Starting with the iPhone, then that Google thing, and now we have Blackberry releasing the much anticipated Storm for the anti-apple/AT&T crowd. Well before you jump on that bandwagon...

Very cute model from Serbia...

Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon says he is prepared to go "quite a long way" with civil liberties to "stop terrorists killing people".

The Obscene Publications Act rides again