The road to hell has always been paved with good intentions. And so it is with Apple’s new detection tool, called NeuralHash, which can identify images of child abuse. The impending change to its operating system is a backdoor into its data storage system and its messaging system. Apple’s compromise …
Read More »Call center company used by Apple, Amazon & Uber wants to force workers to install AI-powered cameras in their BEDROOMS – reports
In March, Teleperformance issued an addendum to its employment contracts that required workers to let the company put in cameras – apparently to record and track their work performance at home in real-time. The contract also allows data collected from workers’ family members, including minors, to be stored and subjected …
Read More »‘Youth vaccine giveaway’: DC mayor dangles free Apple AirPods to encourage teen vaccinations
Teenagers were also promised a chance to win an iPad or even a $25,000 college scholarship, if they take their first jab before September 30. Parents or guardians, who bring their kids to one of the three designated vaccination sites set up inside DC schools, will be getting $51 gift …
Read More »Apple to scan photos on all US iPhones for ‘child abuse imagery’ as researchers warn of impending ‘1984’ – reports
Financial Times reported on the plan Thursday, citing anonymous sources briefed on Apple’s plans. The scheme was reportedly shared with some US academics earlier in the week in a virtual meeting. Dubbed “neuralMatch,” the system will reportedly scan every photo uploaded to iCloud in the US and tag it with …
Read More »Apple removes dating app for the unvaccinated Unjected for trying to ‘cheat the system,’ as its creators cry ‘CENSORSHIP!’
Unjected describes itself as a “platform for like-minded humans that support medical autonomy.” The dating app has been pitched as a ‘safe space’ of sorts for unvaccinated Americans looking to date without the pressure of being or not being inoculated against Covid-19. Critics, however, have viewed the app as a …
Read More »China’s Xiaomi overtakes Apple in global smartphone market
Xiaomi landed a 17% share in global smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2021, behind Samsung with 19%, a report from research agency Canalys revealed. Apple came in third, with a 14% share of the market. “Xiaomi is growing its overseas business rapidly,” Canalys Research Manager Ben Stanton stated …
Read More »Apple warns looming EU legislation allowing ‘sideloading’ apps without App Store will ‘destroy’ iPhone security
The US-based tech giant, which currently requires apps to be downloaded to devices through its proprietary App Store, would be forced to allow “sideloading” – permitting users to download apps themselves without going through the Apple-controlled central marketplace – under the proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA) awaiting passage in the …
Read More »Bye-bye Miss American pie, you’re racist! From flags to apple pie, virtue signalers still haven’t found cancellation rock bottom
In the Guardian piece: ‘Food injustice has deep roots: let’s start with America’s apple pie,’ the writer, Raj Patel, author and a research professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, makes the case for why Americans should perhaps not be too quick …
Read More »Parler returns to Apple’s App Store with ‘PG’ version as platform begins hate speech crackdown on iOS only
The social network was reinstated on the App Store on Monday, with the company leaving a message for new and returning users on its store page: “Parler is happy to be back on iOS, we missed you!” However, the app’s chief policy officer Amy Peikoff suggested the version of Parler …
Read More »Mainstream outlets gushed over ‘misogynistic’ book that reportedly got Apple employee fired
Apple announced earlier this week that Antonio Garcia Martinez, a former Facebook product manager who was hired to help develop its advertising business, was no longer with the company. Martinez, who joined the tech giant in April, became the target of an internal petition which claimed that his 2016 book …
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