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01/23/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Your car is a double agent: Internet connectivity allows it to monitor and report your location and driving habits

If you’re one of the tens of millions of drivers whose car is connected to the Internet, beware: Your car could be spying on you. This foreboding warning comes from various auto and privacy experts who’ve noticed disturbing trends among the majority of modern automobiles. According to the DailyMail.co.uk, there are a plethora of ways […]

07/15/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Visa will pay restaurants $10,000 each to stop accepting cash

Visa is offering 50 restaurants and food vendors $10,000 a pop, in addition to upgrading their payment technology. The catch: these businesses can no longer accept cash payments. Dubbed the “Visa Cashless Challenge”, this campaign is part of the credit card giant’s push towards a culture free of countable currency. The $500,000 incentive has been […]

05/28/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

China intensifies its Orwellian policies with the world’s biggest DNA database

Beginning in the early 2000s, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security has been building a searchable, national DNA database as part of their police information project, Golden Shield. As of 2015, the “Forensic Science DNA Database System” has amassed over 44 million “miscellaneous data entries” from more than 40 million individuals. The database of DNA […]

05/19/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Under Thai law, Facebook “likes” count as criminal conspiracy

Be careful of what you like on Facebook: You could land in trouble with the law. That was the situation Pol. Sergeant Chakpong Wongchit found himself in earlier in May, reported NationMultimedia.com. According to the publication, the Thai police officer was summoned as a witness after he “liked” a Facebook post that supposedly defamed a […]

04/07/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

How to make survival candles with soy wax

Compared to regular paraffin candles, soy candles might not seem all that different at first glance. A candle’s a candle, right? The similarities between paraffin candles and soy candles are only surface-deep. There are many reasons why these vegetable oil-derived candles are much better than regular ones. Because they’re made from soybeans, they’re natural and […]

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