WASHINGTON—As children around the world eagerly await Santa’s arrival on Christmas, the military is ready to track him and see if he’s using any new technology. Armed with radars, sensors, and aircraft, the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado keeps a close watch on Santa and his sleigh from the moment he leaves the […]
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a long track record of exploring big data analytics and cloud computing-based technologies to track, stalk, monitor, and confine the personal freedom of Falun Gong practitioners, according to reports on Minghui.org. The communist regime has fixed electronic global positioning and tracking devices on cars, bicycles, mobile phones, and even […]
Google will pay $93 million to the state of California to settle allegations that it was collecting and using consumers’ location data without their consent, the state’s attorney general said on Thursday. California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement on Sept. 14 that Google agreed to pay the settlement and accepted strong injunctive […]
Medical codes introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic to show when people are unvaccinated or undervaccinated for COVID-19 are being used to track people, the top U.S. public health agency has confirmed. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made the confirmation in emails that The Epoch Times obtained through a Freedom of Information […]
Indiana’s Attorney General Todd Rokita on Dec. 29 announced the state has reached a $20 million settlement with Google over the big tech giant’s alleged deceptive location tracking practices. In a statement, Rokita said that the latest settlement reflects the state government’s commitment to protecting Indiana residents from “Big Tech’s intrusive schemes.” “We will continue holding […]
Washington plans to pour over a billion dollars into advanced satellites development to go toward systems to better track hypersonic missile threats, according to comments from the Pentagon on Monday. Defense officials announced two new contracts that will launch the tracking systems into orbit by 2025.
Google on Feb. 16 announced the start of a multi-year process to limit the ability for advertisers to track users of Android devices and said it is exploring technologies that reduce the potential for covert data collection. “Today, we’re announcing a multi-year initiative to build the Privacy Sandbox on Android, with the goal of introducing new, more private […]
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has agreed to a $90 million settlement over a decade-old lawsuit which accused the social media platform of tracking users’ internet activity through browser plug-ins, even after they logged out of their accounts. A judge must now approve the settlement between Meta and the plaintiffs which was filed on Monday night […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday it’s expanding a wastewater surveillance program to enhance efforts to track COVID-19 infections across the United States. “Go on, get the sewer jokes out of your system,” the CDC said in a note in October 2020, shortly after it first launched the scheme, called the National […]
Some Chinese citizens have noticed an unusual change. Their health codes, used for contact tracing and vaccination records, have suddenly gone from showing clean bills of health to possible infections, despite many of them receiving negative virus test results amid a new round of mass testing.
The Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook’s bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally tracking the activities of internet users even when they are logged out of the social media platform. The justices declined to hear Facebook’s appeal of a lower court ruling that revived the […]
