Google Play, the Android smartphone-based app store, has unveiled sweeping new rules that ban apps deemed to contain or promote “misleading health claims that contradict existing medical consensus, or (that) can cause harm to users.” Issued on August 31, Google Play’s new “health misinformation” policy is an in-app censorship sweep that targets any and all apps that even so much as question... 

The World Economic Forum is pushing the replacement of paper passports with worldwide, digital passports. The globalist forum has also proposed a digital “vaccine passport,” which presumably would be included in the paper passport’s replacement. “The standard template for passports was created more than a century ago—and many argue that it’s due for a major rethink,” reads a WEF article... 

A US District judge has made an 11th hour intervention to block a federal government order prohibiting downloads of TikTok from app stores by American users. US District Judge Carl Nichols issued a preliminary injunction, which would allow the popular app to still be on offer in Apple and Google stores, shortly before the ban was supposed to come into force on Sunday midnight. Earlier in the day,... 

New Australian bill introduces some of the toughest legislation anywhere in the world for refusing to hand over personal data, while other Western countries are scrambling for their own solutions. Existing legislation already allows for imprisonment for up to two years for failing to give investigators access when serious crime is involved, but the new Assistance and Access bill, which has gone out... 

A Soros-funded group has launched a smartphone application to help illegals avoid federal law enforcement inside the United States. The open borders group United We Dream has developed an app called Notifica, which illegals can use as a tool to protect themselves while living in the U.S. by utilizing high tech and online social communications. Users of the app can prepare a set of automatic messages... 

There are lots of apps out there for people who are writing or learning, whatever their intentions are. The apps range from apps which help with editing, apps which help people prepare for exams, and apps which can help me write. Some people might prefer to use a service like essaykitchen.net, which writes papers for money, but some other people might find that their problems (which they would otherwise... 

Secret messages embedded in television adverts can direct smartphones to spy on their owners using listening software, according to German researchers. There’s been a huge growth in Android apps using software that’s designed to search for inaudible “ultrasonic” signals, and these signals can contain code which orders apps to begin tracking people’s location, what they’re watching on television... 

The official Ted Cruz and John Kasich smartphone apps are tracking their users, according to Symantec. The Kasich 2016 app may expose the user’s location and every app installed on the device, Symantec warned, while the Cruz Crew app may expose the user’s smartphone details and identification. “Remember, before you download that presidential primary app, apps may gather a lot of information... 

Apple ‘Ultimate General: Gettysburg’ from its AppStore Apple has yanked all applications that contain the Confederate flag from its AppStore, following the lead of other major retailers. However, it removed historically accurate Civil War games alongside apps that promoted potentially offensive themes. The removal of the apps was in reaction to the Charleston, South Carolina shooting last...