New York City Using Drones To Monitor Labor Day Festivities

New York City Using Drones To Monitor Labor Day Festivities

New York City,  you might be on camera if you are outside during this three-day weekend enjoying local festivities. The New York City Police Department will use drones to monitor Labor Day festivities. So, if you are outside, be sure to look up and smile; you may be on camera!

Trust us, Facebook says

Trust us, Facebook says

Poor Facebook. The social media giant can’t seem to stay out of hot water these days.Once again FB is making headlines and not in a good way….

Two more reminders that the Internet is Not Private

Two more reminders that the Internet is Not Private

The internet is not private and your video and tweets are out there for everyone to see. A Fresno State Professor (she called herself that) and a…

Thoughts on FB’s Zuckerberg’s Testimony Today

Thoughts on FB’s Zuckerberg’s Testimony Today

Today, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg put on his big boy clothes and sat in front of a joint hearing of the Judiciary and Commerce Committees. Holy Freaking…

#FacebookDataBreach: Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to Washington…to Testify

#FacebookDataBreach: Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to Washington…to Testify

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Capitol Hill Hot Seat Grilling begins today, and concludes Wednesday, where he’ll answer questions before two congressional committees. Why?

Parkland MSD Students Whine About Security: Clear BackPacks Violate Our Rights [VIDEO]

Parkland MSD Students Whine About Security: Clear BackPacks Violate Our Rights [VIDEO]

The Parkland MSD student activists are definite fans of taking away our Constitutional rights, specifically the 2nd Amendment. However, when it comes to dealing with the new…

After #FaceBookDataLeaks, the Media Would Like to Know If We Trust Mark Zuckerberg

After #FaceBookDataLeaks, the Media Would Like to Know If We Trust Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is under assault, both by FaceBook users, advertisers, and the stock market, and now by the FTC, who’ve launched an investigation into the powerful social…

#FAKENEWS ALERT: Your internet privacy isn’t being sold by the GOP

Remember “Net Neutrality” and how the Obama Administration was finally able to have the Internet declared a “public utility” so the FCC could take it over in…

AT&T and NSA Spy Building in Lower Manhattan [VIDEO]

AT&T and NSA Spy Building in Lower Manhattan [VIDEO]

What is more important? Your privacy? Your security? How are corporations like AT&T helping the NSA spy on YOU? From Rare.us: Said Ben Franklin in 1755: Those…

Fundamentals of Freedom:  The FBI/Apple Kerfuffle

Fundamentals of Freedom: The FBI/Apple Kerfuffle

Editor’s note: This guest post is by “GWB”, a reader and friend of Victory Girls. His post is written by request, because of this comment on the…

Apple Says iOS 8.0 Will Not Be Accessible to Police, Even With a Search Warrant

Over the last two years since Edward Snowden turned over the rock of government surveillance and showed us all the nastiness underneath, cell phone companies have been…

Cell Phone Privacy versus Facebook Privacy

On Wednesday of last week the New York Supreme Court – the lowest court in the New York system – unsealed a ruling that it had issued…

TrueCrypt: Shut Down Due to Security Issues, Changes the Face of Encryption

TrueCrypt, a free encryption tool that has been recommended as the standard for years (including here on VG by this author) has just been shut down, citing…

NSA is Recording All of the Calls in More Than One Country

FirstLook’s The Intercept reported yesterday that the NSA is “secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of…

Why Opting Out Won’t Help Your Privacy

In my ongoing campaign to get people to pay more attention to privacy, one of the things I hear most often is that “Well, I opt-out of…

Your Phone Reveals Your Location Regardless of Privacy Settings

New research is showing that even if you’ve taken steps to lock down your phone from sharing your location on places like Facebook, Twitter and other apps,…

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