Linsey Bald reports: Dish Network violated the federal “Do Not Call” registry with an overwhelming mass of telemarketing outcalls – the satellite TV provider was found guilty of making over 57 million unsolicited calls to phone numbers that were registered with the Federal Trade Commission’s Telemarketing Sales Rule, known as the Do Not Call list. The…
Category: Govt
How the CIA made Google and Why Google made the NSA
Nafeez Ahmed writes: INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of…
DOJ to pay $134K over fake Facebook profile
David McCabe reports: The Justice Department will pay $134,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who was impersonated online by a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officer without her knowledge. The settlement was revealed in a court filing made available on Tuesday. It was first reported by the Associated Press. The woman, Sondra Arquiett,…
DHS is masquerading as Medicare/Medicaid to collect employee fingerprints
Joe Cadillic writes: A pilot venture called the Kentucky Applicant Registry and Employment Screening program, or KARES. kicked off last May, with 24 long-term care facilities across the state sending applicants to 35 fingerprint collection sites. Kentucky is one of 25 states to receive a $4 million grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to fund the…