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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal law enforcement agencies secretly seek the data of Microsoft customers thousands of times a year Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for customer security and trust, told members of the House Judiciary Committee that federal law enforcement in recent years has been presenting the company with between 2,400 to 3,500 secrecy orders a year, or about seven to 10 a day. “Most shocking is just how routine secrecy orders have become when law enforcement targets an American’s email, text messages or other sensitive data stored in the cloud,” said Burt, describing the widespread clandestine surveillance as...

Brannon Howse Live interview with neurlogistMy notes on 2 minute, 19 second Video clip from Brannon House Live interview with a neurologist:Family members are reporting to this neurologist that they note their vaccinated loved on is experiencing new, increasing difficulties with memory. They are slower and struggling and are fatigued, in addition to some of her patients with severe side effects after the vaccination.One of her patients had a blood clot that traveled from his leg to his chest 4 days after 'vaccination'. He had no prior history of blood clots. She asked if the ER doctors reported this...

Ever since the introduction of Windows Vista in early 2007, Microsoft has enforced the rule that Windows drivers must carry digital signatures by default. Any software that runs in kernel mode, in fact, has to be signed by the company. This is a security measure that should prevent malicious software from digging its claws in too deep. However, what happens when Microsoft gives its blessing to a rootkit? That's what happened a few months ago and was just now discovered thanks to G DATA Software security analyst Karsten Hahn. Initially, the company received a false-positive alert from a driver that...

SoundCloud has de-platformed journalist Andy Ngo's podcast "on the grounds of being dedicated to violating" the site's rules. However, the latest episode of the podcast was uploaded more than one year ago and there was no option in the notification email for Ngo to appeal or even seek further information. Ngo's podcast, "Things You Should Ngo," hosted heterodox ideas and stories. Ngo interviewed academics and thinkers from "the Intellectual Dark Web." Over the weekend, SoundCloud's Trust & Safety Team informed Ngo via email of the permanent ban for "violating" the site's Terms of Use and Community Guidelines, which state that...

Courts typically determine what company is a “monopoly,” and therefore deserves additional regulation, based on the standard of consumer harm. Unfortunately, two bills scheduled for a House floor vote this week would seek to change this standard in an attempt to break up big tech companies, but they would harm consumers rather than protect them. If enacted, they would lead to textbook cases of unintended negative consequences by reducing consumer choice, including making products and services more expensive and less accessible. After years of threats to break up Big Tech, Congress followed through earlier this month in the U.S. House,...

A South Carolina attorney has been suspended from practicing law after making incendiary Facebook posts, including one about George Floyd’s murder, sparked complaints. Lawyer David Paul Traywick was handed a six-month suspension and ordered to take a diversity class earlier this month by the state Supreme Court, The State newspaper reported. The attorney will also have to undergo an anger management assessment with a licensed therapist before his license is reinstated, the outlet reported.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter to Microsoft president Brad Smith on Monday, alleging that while it has largely escaped the notice of House Democrats, the company is among the Big Tech companies "out to get conservatives."

The sad part is that Big Tech’s control over the free flow information is almost entirely illusory and based wholly on our submission to it. Much in the same manner that consumers become zealously brand-conscious, we have come to accept that Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have some innate value that makes them indispensable. We forget that Big Tech’s dominance has come about in just one generation and we can track a direct trajectory between the rise of Big Tech and the radical Left’s ascendancy.

...“I find this outrageous. Facebook banned any post for four months about COVID coming from a lab,” the comedian began, adding, “Now, even the Biden administration is looking into it.”... Facebook was not the only big tech giant Maher criticized. Maher slammed Google over allegations of manipulating search results to prefer what the company considered “authoritative” sources.... He then criticized YouTube for allegedly censoring information related to ivermectin saying, “Ivermectin is not a registered Republican. It’s a drug!”

Netflix - Democrats - $340,485 (98%), Republicans - $7,124 (2%)Nvidia - Democrats - $154,466 (93%), Republicans - $11,673 (7%) Adobe - Democrats - $401,937 (93%), Republicans - $28,137 (7%)IBM - Democrats - $1,496,234 (90%), Republicans - $163,804 (10%) Salesforce - Democrats - $457,119 (89%), Republicans - $59,181 (11%)Alphabet (Google) - Democrats - $5,437,048 (88%), Republicans - $766,920 (12%) Microsoft - Democrats - $3,969,072 (85%), Republicans - $690,953 (15%)Apple - Democrats - $1,243,825 (84%), Republicans - $228,653 (16%) PayPal - Democrats - $145,483 (84%) Republicans - $27,529 (16%)Cisco - Democrats - $798,586 (80%), Republicans - $204,400 (20%) Amazon - Democrats -...

Microsoft took the shrink wrap off Windows 11 today, debuting a refreshed interface, support for Android apps, and deep integration of Microsoft Teams. But beneath all of the GUI goodies and swish superficial changes are a stricter set of system requirements. ....... It is only possible to install Windows 11 on hardware that is UEFI, Secure Boot, and TPM 2.0 — and its the 2.0 that’s important — enabled. This killer combo of hardware requirements excludes swathes of computers made more than 5 or 6 years ago, including some of Microsoft’s own.

What does Trump have up his sleeve?TRUMP: "Watch next week because you'll see me do something about big tech & people have wanted me to do it a long time, it won't be too surprising. They don't love me to talk about it early but watch what I do next week on big tech. I think you'll find it to be very interesting." pic.twitter.com/8QAjKvGvjz— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 25, 2021

Mark, we often hear that Facebook is a platform for parents and grandparents. Photo-sharing, accidental "Likes," and awkward conversations, while the kids are snapping and chatting or ticking and tocking. So where now are parents to go as they communicate with each other and make decisions on the health of their children? You decided to ban discussion of the origins of COVID, then allow it. You blocked discussion of emerging treatments, and now will allow some, but not all, of it. And the WHO – your preferred arbiter of truth – recommends waiting to vaccinate children and adolescents while our...

Big Tech lobbyists are fighting “tooth and nail” against regulation Tech giants have repeatedly said they would welcome government regulation — if it’s the right regulation, of course. But faced with five antitrust bills that could unwind what the House Judiciary Committee described as Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook’s “monopoly power,” Big Tech is bringing out the big lobbying guns. Apple CEO Tim Cook himself called Speaker Nancy Pelosi to “deliver a warning” that the “rushed” antitrust bills could disrupt the iPhone, according to The New York Times, and that’s not all: “Executives, lobbyists, and more than a dozen think...

Liberal tech giant Amazon likes promoting glowing reviews of its company from progressive groups that it funds. Jeff Bezos-owned Amazon put out a press release June 2 boasting how it was ranked the “No. 1 investor in America” by the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). The presser celebrated how “[f]or the second year in a row, Amazon placed first on PPI’s Investment Heroes list.” One problem: Amazon funds the PPI. Fast Company reported in 2019 that “Facebook, Google, and Amazon all donated last year to the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), a pro-business think tank that regularly sponsors briefings for Democratic elected...

If Inspector Clouseau and Dr. Joseph Mengele had a love child, it would be Dr. Anthony (“I am science, hear me roar”) Fauci, who fumbled his way through a pandemic he helped create and whose misleading, self-serving and contradictory pronouncements between baseball games, magazine photo-shoots and talk show appearances contributed to the deaths of millions. Leading the pack of Fauci’s unindicted co-conspirators is Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook. Facts, as Ronald Reagan would say, are stubborn things. They do not change. So when Facebook went from banning and nuking posts and posters asserting that the China virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute...

A professor of political science has claimed that President Joe Biden's new plan to counter domestic terrorism could be used to silence administration critics. Nicholas Giordano, a professor at Suffolk Community College on Long Island, raised his concerns about the new National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism in an interview with Fox News on Friday. Earlier this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland unveiled the new 32-page strategy document, which came in response to an order issued by Biden on his first full day in office, calling domestic terrorism 'the most urgent terrorism threat the United States faces today.'

Social media companies like Facebook don't show you all your friends’ posts. You may think they do, but they don’t. Instead, an algorithm picks which ones to show you -- and which not to show you. How do they decide? The companies won't reveal the details.

There are few, if any, political issues that now generate the breadth and intensity of bipartisan backlash as does the rise of Big Tech. During Donald Trump's presidency, the major parties largely diverged on their specific grievances against the woke Silicon Valley monopolists who serve as gatekeepers for America's 21st-century public square. Republicans, by and large, focused on censorship of conservative online speech. Democrats, by contrast, tended to focus on economic concentration; the five American corporations with the largest market caps, for example, are tech behemoths Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google Alphabet and Facebook. This divergence has stymied efforts to rein...

It is such an obvious attempt to try to crush political dissent, you wonder if they thought no one was paying attention.The Biden administration just released a “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.” It calls for abuses of state power to combine elements of totalitarian government with social and cultural engineering. They decided the Constitution and those pesky old individual liberties won’t stop them from making America the Wokest Place on Earth.It is such an obvious attempt to try to crush political dissent, you wonder if they thought no one was paying attention. If you aren’t, you need to be,...