[Update 2020-20-11 22:10 hrs: Added info about Apple suspending its "grading" program and updated links to sources.] "Siri, violate my privacy..." You don't expect your phone or tablet to spy on you. Last year news broke that Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, sends audio of sexual encounters and other private moments recorded without users’ knowledge to human ‘graders’ for … [Read more...]
Heading to the US? Be Warned: Canadian Government Discloses Personal Medical Records to Americans
Is it unreasonable to think your personal, private medical records would remain, well, private? No, it is not. The Canadian Government, however, is not acting reasonably, as one unfortunate woman discovered as she tried to visit the United States to attend a March of Dimes cruise. Ellen Richardson, a 50-year-old disabled woman, was refused entry into the United States by the … [Read more...]
Big Brother Has Come Too Far in 10 Years
The hallway stank of boiled cabbage and old rag mats, both government-issued. At one end of the hallway, a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man about 45, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no … [Read more...]