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NSA, GCHQ 'planted agents' into World of Warcraft, Second Life to spy on gamers
The NSA and the UK’s GCHQ spying agencies have collected players’ charts and deployed real-life agents into online World of Warcraft and Second Life games, a new leak by whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed.
An NSA document from 2008, titled “Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual Environments,” was published Monday by The Guardian in partnership with The New York Times and ProPublica.
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White Birth Rate is Increasing in San Francisco, California
The San Jose Mercury News reports: “In this predominantly white enclave of San Francisco that some locals quip should be dubbed, ‘Strollerville,’ parents walk past upscale shops with infants snuggled in the fashionable Swedish chest carriers. Mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife are hardly the only pregnant couple in a city suddenly threatening to belie that staple of Bay Area cocktail party statistics:...