Tag: children
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9/16 Defcon: Tracking Devices & Small Worlds
Have cell phones become personal tracking devices? What your phone could be telling the govt // Fired Google engineer stalked teens, spied on chats // Mom obsessed with video game ‘small worlds’ neglects children, dogs starve to death
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childless uk couple build robot child companion
from dvice: Meet Aimec, the creation of Tony and Judie Ellis, a robot building couple from South-East England. Aimec follows them around their 18th century country home, cracking jokes, laughing, and searching online for interesting things to tell its parents, just like a real kid. Aimec is also adept at imitating vintage robot voices, and…
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no charges in pennsylvania school’s webcam spygate
related: young people will have to change their names to escape ‘cyber past’ warns google ceo from threat level: Federal authorities announced Tuesday they will not prosecute administrators connected to a webcam spying scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district. Prosecutors and the FBI opened an inquiry following a February privacy lawsuit accusing Lower Merion…
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disney, warner bros. spied on children’s web surfing habits
users profiles ‘bought & sold on stock-market-like exchanges’ from raw story: A class-action lawsuit filed in a federal court last week alleges that Disney and other large corporations spied on visitors to their Web sites using “Flash cookies” installed on users’ browsers. The lawsuit, filed in a US District Court in California on behalf of…
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Connecticut Man Kills 8 Co-Workers & Self At Beer Distributor
A high-ranking union official says a man who fatally shot eight co-workers and himself at a beer distributorship in Connecticut had been caught on videotape stealing beer.
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ground zero: digital zombie
please donate to zero point radio & ground zero media! from clyde lewis: Now the mainstream media has another crisis that they have to tell you about & that is the evils of digital drugs or I-dosing. A story in Oklahoma highlighted a perceived crisis of children downloading Mp3s containing sounds that according to the…
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Intel Agency Workers Downloaded Child Porn on Gov’t Networks
“The disastrous rise of misplaced power exists & will persist…” from boston globe: Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material, according to investigative reports. The investigations have…
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New Report Shows Food Dyes Linked To Cancer
Many artificial food dyes that colour everything from breakfast cereal to ice cream should be banned because they pose cancer risks, a new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest says.
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mcnuggets made with ‘silly putty’ chemical
from sfgate: What kid doesn’t love McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets? The white meat chunks are tasty and perfect for little mouths and hands. And while most parents are aware that McNuggets aren’t perfectly healthy, they probably don’t know exactly what goes into making them. CNN has revealed that the fast-food chain makes this popular menu item…
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cartoon characters sell kids on unhealthy foods
from time: Is your kid on the Dora the Explorer diet? Children say food tastes better when a familiar cartoon character – like Dora or Scooby Doo – appears on its packaging, a new study finds. And most kids prefer snacks that have the character on it, over generic packages containing the exact same food.…
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6/9 Binge & Purge: More Unhappy Meals
Cadmium-laced McDonald’s Happy Meal glasses recalled // Obama’s USDA to deceive Americans over GM crops // Federal register documents show further deregulation of GMO’s // Haitians suspicious of Monsanto seeds distributed by USAID
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police state updates: secret rooms, secret files
US postal service expands construction of secret rooms* homegrown terrorist threat to be part of national security strategy* document says number of attempted attacks on US is at all-time high* the toronto g20 police state crackdown* toronto gets ‘sound cannons’ for g20* canada: $1b on summit security well worth it* darpa cam spots the ‘non-cooperative’*…
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biblical armageddon must be taught alongside global warming
which man-made idea will kill us all? “i’m still deciding…” from onion news network: Constitutional debate continues over whether public schools should include biblical Armageddon alongside global warming in end-of-world curriculum.
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5/13 Binge & Purge: Raw Milk & Prison Food
Raw milk battle reveals FDA abandonment of basic human right to choose your food // Connecticut growing gardens at prisons to cut food costs // Explosion in bugs near Monsanto’s BT Cotton fields
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4/22 Binge & Purge: Pinkwash, Raw Milk & Meat Residues
Komen makes mockery of self with KFC pinkwash campaign // Fake food safety bills: Feeding America poison one law at a time // US government continues its war on raw milk // ABC grills Vilsack on meat residues // Wholesale prices rise most in 26yrs as food costs explode