Smartphone users might balk at letting a random app like Candy Crush or Shazam track their every move via GPS. But researchers have found that Android phones reveal information about your location to every app on your device through a different, unlikely data leak: the phone’s power consumption.
Archives for February 2015
EPA regs could cost Wisconsin 20,000 manufacturing jobs
Posted on February 20, 2015 Written by
Wisconsin is poised to lose more than 20,000 manufacturing jobs by 2023 because of the Obama administration’s proposed regulations on cutting carbon emissions that critics say will have minimal environmental effects. The 4.19 percent reduction in manufacturing jobs puts Wisconsin at the fifth highest drop in the country, according to a study released this week by […]
Federal ESEA Reauthorization has its eye on Finland.
Posted on February 20, 2015 Written by
No Way, ESEA! Finland Fables: What Tony Robbins doesn’t tell you… Finland and her people are no strangers to war. However, all these events predate the so-called “welfare state” that later emerged. This change turned a once strong and proud nation to a shadow of its former self.(Source) You can be pretty sure education change agent Tony […]
Do We Want the Military Involved in Common Core?
Posted on February 19, 2015 Written by
UP TO THEIR SCRAMBLED EGGS IN ALLIGATORS! Read Part 1 The United States military has been involved in U.S. education for many years. In fact, much of the Individualized Education research (Skinnerian Mastery Learning/Direct Instruction/OBE/Effective Schools) used by the U.S. Dept. of Education in the 1980s came from the U.S. Department of Defense (especially the […]
EFF to Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Covers DNA Collection
Posted on February 19, 2015 Written by
New Brief Urges Justices to Protect Citizens from Warrantless Analysis of Genetic Material San Francisco — People have a Fourth Amendment right to privacy when it comes to their genetic material, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues in an amicus brief filed this week with the Supreme Court of the United States. EFF is asking […]
“Mass sterilization”: Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine
Posted on February 19, 2015 Written by
FA Note: Regarding the global depopulation efforts under Agenda 21 — The United Nations’ World Health Organization, and UNICEF, have a history of using “disaster relief aid” as cover for the sterilization of girls and women in poor nations around the world. Kenya recently launched an investigation after Kenyan doctors found an anti-fertility agent in UN tetanus vaccines. According to LifeSiteNews, a […]
Destructive Centralization of Global Security
Posted on February 18, 2015 Written by
US hosts anti-extremism summit after global terror attacks … The US has opened a three-day summit on countering violent extremism. Representatives from around the world are attending the gathering, which follows shooting incidents in Denmark, France and Australia. Vice President Joe Biden said it was imperative to engage with immigrants who may be radicalised because […]
All the Creepy Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
Posted on February 18, 2015 Written by
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even before the age of overcriminalization, when the most upstanding citizen could be counted on […]
