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Facebook’s facial recognition tool faces class action suit over mishandling biometric data
Facebook’s misuse of their users’ biometric information could potentially amount to billions of dollars in damages after a federal judge greenlighted an Illinois class action suit against the firm’s facial recognition feature.
Facebook violated an Illinois state law by improperly using their photo-scanning and facial recognition technologies and storing biometric data without their users’...
Google Makes Money by Being Able to Target Kids
Twenty-three child advocacy, consumer and privacy groups have filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission, over Google’s violation of child protection laws, accusing it of collecting personal data and advertising to children under the age of 13.
Sputnik discussed the complaint with David Monahan, from the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.
Sputnik: Can you tell us about the...
China condemns US-led airstrikes in Syria, calls for restraint and dialogue
China opposes military action in Syria and instead urges diplomacy to solve the political crisis, according to a foreign ministry response in the wake of US-led airstrikes.
US, UK and French jets launched airstrikes on Syria early Saturday after accusations that forces commanded by President Bashar Assad carried out a chemical attack in Douma last week. The Syrian government has denied using such...
Alex Jones of Infowars unendorses Trump: "F**k Trump, he makes me Sick, he's a Fraud!"
“We’ve made so many sacrifices and now he’s crapping all over us. It makes me sick.”
Infowars founder Alex Jones ripped into President Trump on Friday night after the president authorized military airstrikes in Syria, saying the decision made him “sick.”
“If he had been a piece of crap from the beginning, it wouldn’t be so bad,” a visibly emotional Jones said of Trump. “We’ve...
USA Becomes ISIS, Rogue State, Bombs Syria with No US Congress or UN Approval
America is now officially a rogue terrorist state acting like ISIS, which needs to be held accountable at the UN. Just like how Americans love calling countries like Iran and North Korea rogue states, its now America’s turn to be a rogue state. America does NOT follow any rule, it does not seek the people’s approval, which they reject, it doesn’t care about US Congress approval and...
Stocks plunge, oil & gold spike after Trump taunts Russia with missile strikes in Syria
Global stocks dropped while oil and gold surged on Wednesday following the escalation of tensions in the Middle East between nuclear superpowers Russia and the US.
The S&P 500, Dow Jones and the Nasdaq Composite were losing almost a percent after US President Donald Trump tweeted a warning to Russia on Wednesday to “get ready” for Syrian missile strikes.
“Russia vows to shoot...
'You're Being Manipulated From 1st Character You Type in Google' - Psychologist
Facebook is putting tighter controls on user data in response to a privacy crisis. Facebook will stop sharing anonymous information with brokers to help improve people’s privacy on the platform. Sputnik discussed this with Dr. Robert Epstein, a Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology.
Sputnik: In your view, are large digital corporations...
Trump’s pick for State Secretary Pompeo says no more soft policy toward Russia
CIA director Mike Pompeo, who was picked by President Donald Trump to lead US foreign policy, has declared that the days of what he called a “soft policy” toward Russia are over. At the same time, he said dialogue must continue.
“Russia continues to act aggressively, enabled by years of soft policy toward that aggression. That’s now over. The list of this administration’s actions...
The Truth about MGTOW and Alt-Right Daily Stormer Exposed
So more and more Alt-Righters are converting to MGTOW which stands for Men Go Their Own Way. MGTOW is the equivalent of Feminism
MGTOW is a total rupture between men and women, it stands for total division indefinitely.
Perhaps one of the first MGTOW Alt-Righters is Andrew Anglin from the Daily Stormer. He managed to fool many others into following his misogynist ways.
If you wanna defend the Daily...
Trump Warns Russia To “Get Ready” After Believed To Be Spetsnaz Destruction Of Secret French Military Flight In Algeria
An angrily worded new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today states the President Donald Trump has just issued his first overt war threat against the Russian Federation by his warning “Get ready Russia, missiles will be coming at Syria, nice and new and ‘smart’!”—and to which Moscow quickly responded to by asking Trump “Are ‘smart’ missiles an attempt to destroy...
Trump base explodes over Syria: "psychopath, schizophrenic, worse than Bush"
Tens of thousands of Trump supporters are bashing the president and unedorsing him in mass like never before over his neocon war threats against Syria and Russia.
People are calling him “psychopath, schizophrenic, bigger lunatic than Bush, traitor, man child” and many other names.
Many have started a new meme calling the president “Trump derangement syndrome”, alleging that...
Ontario seeks to ban Zombies walking and texting on cellphones at the same time
Anybody who’s walked the streets of a busy city will know about “smartphone zombies” people who stroll around with their faces in a screen, oblivious to the world around them. In fact, most of us have probably been this person at some point, sending a text or checking Google Maps while on the move and maybe crashing into someone waiting at the bus stop. (I have walked into at least...
Trump threatens Russia: "Get Ready Nice and New and Smart Missiles are Coming"
Donald Trump warned Russia to “get ready” after Moscow vowed to shoot any missiles fired at Syria down. “They will be coming, nice and new and smart,” Trump tweeted. Is this guy Lucifer himself? The demon who comes to rule the Earth in the final days then pretends he’s God? Can we all at least agree that this man talks like a moron? He is illiterate to say the least.
The...
203% Increase in Illegal aliens from Mexico to US from 2017 to 2018
There has been a 203 percent increase in the number of nonwhite invaders trying to smash their way into the United States over the Mexico border in the past year, new figures from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have revealed.
A statement from the DHS’s Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton said that the “crisis at our Southwest border is real. The number of illegal border crossings during...
Another Chinese Man Imprisoned for Industrial Espionage in US
A Chinese national—and US legal permanent resident—Weiqiang Zhang (51) has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for plotting to steal samples of a variety of rice seeds from a Kansas biopharmaceutical research facility in what is only the latest case of Chinese industrial espionage against the West.
According to a statement issued by the US Department of Justice, the US company Ventria invested...