Tech titans Google and Facebook employ “surveillance-based business models” that threaten human rights and erode privacy worldwide, Amnesty International said in a new report, calling for an end to the data-grabs. Published on Wednesday, Amnesty’s “Surveillance Giants” report outlines how Facebook and Google, and their many affiliated platforms, operate in ways that are simply incompatible... 

A French journalist recalled the terrifying moment when an explosive tears-gas grenade hit him at the Yellow Vest protest, telling RT that there was no justification for police employing combat tools. The weekend marked one year since the Yellow Vest protests picked up in France, with independent journalist Julien being among the many reporters, covering the anniversary rallies in Paris. It started... 

House Democrats have slipped an unqualified renewal of the draconian PATRIOT Act into an emergency funding bill – voting near-unanimously for sweeping surveillance carte blanche that was the basis for the notorious NSA program. A three-month reauthorization of the notorious PATRIOT Act was shoehorned into a last-minute continuing resolution (CR) funding the US government, bundling measures needed... 

While unsuspecting iPhone users read their daily dose of mainstream media news, the Facebook app is secretly accessing the camera on their smartphones. But Facebook says not to worry: it’s only a bug… Users, however, are rightly concerned that Facebook is recording them as they use the app. Unlike on Apple’s computers, there is no indicator when an app is accessing the camera, so it is possible... 

Earlier today former Trump adviser and Republican activist and author Roger Stone was convicted on SEVEN CHARGES — all process crimes — in the corrupt courtroom of Amy Berman Jackson in Washington DC. Stone now faces up to 50 Years in Prison — or a life sentence. Democrats will likely cheer this news. Roger Stone has been a very effective GOP activist for decades. Now according to reporters... 

Tech censorship is nothing new, but a recent spate of permanent bans from the WhatsApp messaging service has users the world over spooked. Here’s your guide to keeping your nose clean and avoiding a ban. BUT despite the following guide, better yet just uninstall Whatsapp and use TELEGRAM instead. Force all your friends to switch to Telegram. Tell them this, simple and short “If you wanna speak... 

Following a series of violent attacks by left-wing extremists against people and property in the city of Leipzig, officials have offered members of the community a € 100,000 reward to identify individuals involved in the attacks. The Leipzig public prosecutor and the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) of Saxony announced last week that a € 100,000 reward would be given to private individuals who... 

Jewish director and convicted rapist and pedophile, Roman Polanski may sue the French newspaper that published new accusations made by another woman who claims he drugged and violently raped her when she was a teenager in the 1970s: France’s author and director guild could meet soon on whether to exclude the French-Polish Jewish star, its vice president told Le Parisien newspaper, which published... 

The world’s filthiest slum – San Fransisco – could soon get a whole lot more unsanitary, thanks to liberals. Newly-elected San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin has pledged not to prosecute public urination and other “quality-of-life crimes” after taking office. The news comes just months after President Trump vowed to slap San Francisco with an environmental environmental violation... 

Former Brazilian President Lula Da Silva was released from jail on Friday on a court order. Da Silva was sentenced to 12 years in prison last year for money laundering and corruption. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has called on his followers on Twitter not to “give ammunition” to former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva whom he referred to as a ‘scoundrel’. “Lovers... 

Paul Rosenberg, of Rowlands Close in Mill Hill, North West London, a synagogue security guard who downloaded more than 1,000 indecent images of children, many of which he apparently created himself, has inexplicably avoided jail after admitting a mere “porn addiction”: [He] was handed a six-month suspended jail sentence and was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for seven years on Wednesday. He... 

According to Karoline Edtstadler, the new head of the working group on anti-Semitism in the European Parliament, the European Union needs to do much more to protect its Jewish community, including stationing police wherever Jews congregate: “In front of every synagogue, every Jewish school — anywhere where Jewish life takes place — there should at least be the awareness of the police, and depending... 

The liberal media may be happy to proclaim that the sexualization of children is “the future,” but ordinary people aren’t buying it. A video celebrating a crossdressing child has united Twitter in revulsion. We live in a permissive age, but even in 2019 some limits remain intact. Enter ‘Desmond is Amazing’, a 12-year-old New York boy whose appearances at gay pride parades – and even at... 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is participating in an investigation with the Connecticut State Police concerning flyers that were anonymously distributed on a local university campus which stated that “It’s Okay To Be White“: The president of a Connecticut university said hate-filled flyers were randomly distributed throughout campus on Thursday night. Western Connecticut State University... 

Under new gender-neutral guidelines, theater audiences in the UK will be liberated from utterly oppressive phrases like ‘ladies and gentlemen’. At the same time, Equity, a trade union for actors, has strongly advised against any appearance-based compliments directed at performers. Proponents of the new policy argue that they’ll create a more equitable environment for LGBT performers and members...