by Stephanie Simon. The NSA has nothing on the ed tech startup known as Knewton. The data analytics firm has peered into the brains of more than 4 million students across the country. By monitoring every mouse click, every keystroke, every split-second hesitation as children work through digital textbooks, Knewton is able to find out not ... MORE
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School Districts Are Paying To Data Mine Your Children
by Stephanie Simon. The NSA has nothing on the ed tech startup known as Knewton. The data analytics firm has peered into the brains of more than 4 million students across the country. By monitoring every mouse click, every keystroke, every split-second hesitation as children work through digital textbooks, Knewton is able to find out not ... MOREBrent Skorup: Net Neutrality Nonsense
Ignore the scare tactics. In
January, for the second time in recent years, a
federal court told the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) that its net neutrality enforcement was
illegal, sending the agency back to the drawing board. On May 15,
the FCC proposed new rules.* Dozens of major news outlets have
trying to read the tea leaves, with ... MOREJulia Angwin: Has Privacy Become A Luxury Good?
Will the middle class be priced out of privacy? Last year, I spent more than $2,200 and countless hours trying to protect my privacy. Some of the items I bought — a $230 service that encrypted my data in the Internet cloud; a $35 privacy filter to shield my laptop screen from coffee-shop voyeurs; and a $420 subscription to a portable ...MORE50 Reasons This Is The Greatest Period In History
by Morgan House. Other than losing our liberties, life is good. I recently talked to a doctor who retired after a 30-year career. I asked him how much medicine had changed during the three decades he practiced. "Oh, tremendously," he said. He listed off a dozen examples. Deaths from heart disease and stroke are way down. Cancer survival rates ... MOREWhy Teaching How To Beat Polygraphs Can Land You In Jail
by Joshua Swain. Last September,
Chad Dixon was sentenced to 8 months in a federal
prison for teaching clients counter-measures for polygraph
tests. Federal prosecutors charged Dixon with obstructing
justice—they view his business as undermining an important tool
used to check the credibility of government employees and prosecute ... MOREJohn W Whitehead: Putting Big Brother In The Driver's Seat
V2V transmitters, black boxes & drones. Time to buckle up your seatbelts, folks. You’re in for a bumpy ride. We’re hurtling down a one-way road toward the Police State at
mind-boggling speeds, the terrain is getting more treacherous by the
minute, and we’ve passed all the exit ramps. From this point forward,
there is no turning ... MOREHow U.S. Spying Is Killing Free Trade
by the editors of Bloomberg. All around the world, governments are devising creative ways to
torment American technology companies. It started last year after leaks
revealed that the U.S. government basically uses services like Google
and Facebook as arms of the surveillance state. In response, some
countries - - including Germany, Brazil and ... MOREJohn Stossel: Bitcoin Revolution
Why Stossel chose to invest. The big online retailer Overstock.com now accepts payment in Bitcoin. That's good news for lovers of liberty because Bitcoins give us an alternative to government-controlled money. Bitcoins are a currency created by anonymous, private tech nerds, not by government. Governments don't like ... MOREDevices Give Locations Of Red-Light Cameras
by John R. Quain. Banished by voters in Houston, facing legal challenges in Missouri and working undercover in New York City, traffic-monitoring cameras, promoted as accident-reducing tools by safety advocates and decried as intrusive revenue-generators by opponents, are nothing if not controversial. The battlefront of photographic ... MOREMike Elgan: Are Your Smartphone Apps Selling You Out
Of course they are. The president of the United States says he's not
"allowed" to own an iPhone, which is why he's sticking with his
BlackBerry, according to The Wall Street Journal. It's a politically sensitive subject because the iPhone is the big American brand, and the president is a self-proclaimed fan of the late Apple
founder and CEO Steve ... MOREDrone Malfunctions, Hits Navy Ship, Injurs Two
Previews of coming attractions within the 50 states. An aerial target drone malfunctioned and crashed into a United States Navy ship off the coast of southern California on Saturday, leaving two sailors with minor burns, a Navy spokeswoman said. Two Navy ships were involved in tracking the unmanned drone as part of a training exercise ... MORE
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