Sony Pictures Entertainment has optioned the film rights to the book “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” with the James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli ..
As some had been branded war criminals at Nuremberg, the U.S. military whitewashed the backgrounds of many scientists in an attempt to justify hiring them.
“.. take a closer look and you realize that many of these people would never have committed a crime if not for law enforcement encouraging, pressuring, and sometimes paying them to commit terrorist acts.”
Nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9/11 featured the "direct involvement" of government agents or informants, a new report says.
"In some cases the FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by suggesting the idea of taking terrorist action or encouraging the target to act,"
CSSD bore the hallmarks of an industry front group designed to put an environmentally friendly spin on fracking — similar to the tobacco group that Mr. Cohon advised. If Mr. Cohon was complicit in an industry effort to downplay smoking hazards, would he do the same for fracking?
« Megan has spent her career leading talented teams and taking cutting-edge technology and innovation initiatives from concept to design to deployment. I am confident that in her new role as America’s Chief Technology Officer, she will put her long record of leadership and exceptional skills to work on behalf of the American people. » -B. Obama
Larry Ellison has transferred a good portion of his wealth to his children Megan and David, also a film producer. The two have 3 million shares of Netsuite and own 900 million shares of Oracle each. It is estimated that the Netsuite holdings are worth $306 million alone.
Enter Skynet. Along with his tech-savvy partner on the project, the electronics engineer Grant Bajema, Burchat has designed a barcoded and GPS-tagged net that he believes could be mounted on the homes, balconies and backyards of the near future.
The opulent gulf state wants to lead what it predicts will be a $10bn industry by 2025, and has offered a US$1m prize to the most promising concept.
The details in the Senate report on Central Intelligence Agency torture, released today, are shocking. But don't expect anyone to be held responsible. The only person the Obama administration has prosecuted in connection with the torture program is a man who revealed its existence to the media.
Ils classent, recommandent, façonnent nos réseaux, régulent les marchés, détectent les criminels… Les algorithmes ont nos vies à l’œil, pour le meilleur et pour le pire.
emails indicate that Wikipedia is a standard part of film promotion for Sony. Numerous marketing strategy documents contain the instruction "Please create a Wikipedia (or other collaborative website) page if you are able", and Wikipedia is listed on other documents as one of their "standard tactics" for social media promotion
A new cybersecurity elite moves between government and private practice, taking state secrets with them.
To confront the surveillance state, we also have to confront the cyberintelligence ruling class and expose it for what it really is: a joint venture of government officials and private-sector opportunists with massive power and zero accountability.
Research I have been directing in recent years suggests that Google, Inc., has amassed far more power to control elections—indeed, to control a wide variety of opinions and beliefs—than any company in history has ever had. Google’s search algorithm can easily shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 percent or more—up to 80 percent in some demographic groups—with virtually no one knowing they are being manipulated, according to experiments I conducted recently with Ronald E. Robertson .
There are at least three very real scenarios whereby Google—perhaps even without its leaders’ knowledge—could shape or even decide the election next year. Whether or not Google executives see it this way, the employees who constantly adjust the search giant’s algorithms are manipulating people every minute of every day. The adjustments they make increasingly influence our thinking—including, it turns out, our voting preferences.
Belgian police had information as early as mid-2014 that Paris attackers Salah and Brahim Abdeslam intended to carry out “an irreversible act,” according to a classified police watchdog’s report on the country’s response to the Paris attacks.
Dans l’édition du 30 mars 2016 de Charlie Hebdo, Riss nous a livré un édito résolument essentialisant et islamophobe. Un édito dont les médias (français) n’ont pas parlé, ou à peine. Les médias étrangers seront plus réactifs [1] – au point que le traducteur en anglais de l’édito en question s’est fendu d’une (consternante) « Mise au point » dans le Charlie Hebdo du 13 avril, s’étonnant que « le monde anglophone a[it] encore explosé dans un accès de rage contre Charlie », et jugeant « étrange » cette « réaction à un papier sur le recul de la laïcité »… Pire, les quelques recensions repérées en France sont plutôt élogieuses. Ainsi, Adeline François, responsable de la revue de presse de RTL, a twitté ceci : « Vous avez le droit de ne pas aimer la une de Charlie Hebdo, mais vous avez le devoir d’y lire l’édito de Riss. » Et sur France Inter, l’édito est résumé, sans autre commentaire qu’une remarque introductive indiquant que Riss n’est pas le plus mal placé pour parler du terrorisme – une affirmation déjà curieuse en elle-même, qui consiste à conférer aux victimes une lucidité particulière sur leurs bourreaux, mais qui se révèle à la fois stupéfiante et inquiétante à la lecture de l’éditorial en question.