Dunkin Donuts to Use Face Scanners to Target You For Ads
The Wall Street Journal says that Dunkin' Donuts is experimenting with video screens that use facial recognition technology to figure out your age and gender. The screens then display ads targeted specifically to you. The last thing we need is computers trying to figure out who and what we are so they can target ads .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Big Business, Biometrics, Dunkin Donuts, Face ScanningAds Scare Parents Into Tagging Kids With Tracking Devices
Privacy nuts like me have been warning people for years that tracking and tagging of all people will start with the kids. It's easy to teach people to accept personal tracking devices by giving it to them when they're young. But how do you do that? Use parents' practically fanatical protective instinct to .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Families, Kids, Market Lies, Scare TacticsStates Throw Out Worthless Diebold Voting Machines
It's actually very encouraging that the same states that were originally duped into buying these machines despite the vast mountain of evidence of their general worthlessness have become smart enough to remove them in time for the upcoming election.
And about this:
"I have a huge inventory of machines that I am not able to use," she .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Internet Service Providers Storing Information About Your Web Searches
Google has been inappropriately storing your search records for a long time now, but it looks like they're far from being the only one.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Customer Abuse, Data Abuse, ISPsCAPTCHAs Used to Restore Old Text
Not long ago, we learned that CAPTCHAs were being broken by people using pornography to motivate live humans to enter code after code. While very annoying, it was a very clever way of defeating the CAPTCHAs and made spammers day.
Now we see another brilliant use of CAPTCHAs in the restoration .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: CaptchaInformercials Posing as News
These infomercials are pretending to be news so you'll give them far more credibility that you would if you knew it was an infomercial.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Infomercial, Market LiesConnecticut Sues Countrywide For Deceptive Lending
Now here's a state with a Attorney General worth his salt! Richard Blumenthal is suing Countrywide and Bank of America for deceptive lending and is looking for some serious monetary damages to be paid out to the victims. This single move could save thousands of people from forclosures and distress. That's some serious protecting of the .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Attorney General, Bank of America, Market Lies, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty TricksPetition to Remove Nancy Pelosi For Taking Impeachment “Off the Table”
I found this online petition to remove Pelosi for failing to do her job and being a political hack. Even if Congress couldn't pull an actual impeachment (which I believe they could for trying to block investigations of the White House staff alone), then they could still do something.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Accountability, Congress, George Bush, ImpeachmentOhio Sues Diebold for Fraudulent E-Voting Machines
Of course, I believe some of the blame should go to the Ohio elections people, but I can't fault them for being pulled in by slick salesguys (if that's what actually happened). Either way, at least they're fessing up and making sure to hold Diebold accountable for their flop.
The touch-screen voting setup used in half of .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]“Fakeproof” E-Passports Cloned Easily
So much for "Fakeproof". Of course, anyone who knows about RFID and the way they work could see this coming.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Passports, RFID