Results for "Data is the New Oil"

Meet The REAL Disinformation Dozen

Have you heard of "The Disinformation Dozen" yet? They're the twelve people who, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), "are responsible for almost two-thirds of anti-vaccine content circulating on social media platforms." You see, you might think...

G7 Tax Deal: From Global Tax to Global Government

Imagine if you spent months planning an elaborate 50th birthday party for yourself—hiring performers, decorating your place and inviting everyone you know—and when the big day finally arrived . . . no one bothered to show up. Embarrassing, right? Well, that's...

Why I Write

In 1946, Eric Arthur Blair (better known by his pen name, George Orwell) penned an essay entitled "Why I Write." Although just 43 years old when the essay was published in the pages of the short-lived literary journal Gangrel, Orwell—who had already gained...

Mind Control is NOT a Conspiracy Theory

When you hear the words "mind control," what do you think of? Conspiracy theorists in tinfoil hats trying to keep the aliens from beaming messages into their heads? Evil scientists using spinning pinwheels and special potions to brainwash their hapless victims into...

Our Digital Gulag

It's not often that you leave the post office quoting The Gulag Archipelago and pondering the nature of the digital gulag that is being erected around us, but here we are. You see, it started out as a simple, ordinary, everyday trip to go buy some stamps for a package...

5 Ways Biometric Security Can Be Spoofed

Remember when you were a kid and you tried to imagine what the world was going to look like in the far-off, sci-fi-sounding year of 2021? What did you imagine? Weekend trips to the moon? Flying cars and jetpacks to take you around elevated cities? Robot butlers? The...