Nine in ten feel phantom phone vibrations: Muscle spasms are wrongly interpreted with problems particularly prevalent among people who listen out for calls. Mail online article 10 January 2017
Horns’ are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests: Mobile technology has transformed the way we live — how we read, work, communicate, shop and date.
But we already know this.
What we have not yet grasped is the way the tiny machines in front of us are remolding our skeletons, possibly altering not just the behaviors we exhibit but the bodies we inhabit.
New research in biomechanics suggests that young people are developing hornlike spikes at the back of their skulls — bone spurs caused by the forward tilt of the head, which shifts weight from the spine to the muscles at the back of the head, causing bone growth in the connecting tendons and ligaments. The weight transfer that causes the buildup can be compared to the way the skin thickens into a callus as a response to pressure or abrasion.
The result is a hook or hornlike feature jutting out from the skull, just above the neck. The Washington Post online article Isaac Stanley-Becker 20 June 2019
Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. The 2000s: The Platinum Age of Television V, Steve Jobs presentation
Today nearly two-thirds of humanity use a smartphone. It connects billions of people in a way that’s not been possible before. I always say that the smartphone is one of the most transformative technologies ever invented and we’ve only just got going. Jim Al-Khalili, Revolutions: The Ideas that Changed the World IV, Smartphone, BBC 2019
The telephone’s invention was one of the great milestones in the history of technology. ibid.
It would take Marconi to see what use these waves could be put to. ibid.
SIGSALY was the world’s first encrypted wireless telephone … SIGSALY was never cracked. ibid.
‘[Jack] Kilby’s innovated [integrated circuit] really changed the world.’ ibid. scientist
Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy fell in love in 2012. They lived an hour away from each other and met no more than five times, but they exchanged thousands of text messages over two years. I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs Michelle Carter, captions, HBO 2019
The trial of a Plainville woman accused of encouraging her friend to kill himself through text messages is now underway. ibid. television news
Detectives travel to Wrentham MA to interview Michelle Carter at her high school. ibid. caption
If it wasn’t for her, he would be alive today. ibid. rozzer
This secret relationship that is totally destructive to their mental health. ibid. woman
The court will rule whether there is probable cause for the charge of involuntary manslaughter. ibid. caption
The Judicial Court upholds the indictment. ibid.
Michelle was on psychiatric drugs too. I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs Michelle Carter II, Dr Peter Breggin, expert on stand
Conrad at least four times attempted suicide, once nearly killing himself. ibid.
She’s following his lead into a very dark place. ibid.
She’s just not a well person. ibid. victim’s relative
‘Guilty on the indictment charging you with the involuntary manslaughter of the person Conrad Roy III.’ ibid. judge
Michelle is now serving 15 months in prison for the death of Conrad Roy. ibid.
You were bloody texting on your phone the whole time. What We Do in the Shadows s2e1: Resurrection, Nandja to necromancer, BBC 2020
Murdoch hit by FBI 9/11 hacking inquiry. The Independent 15th July 2007
Phone hacking: police uncover more evidence: Prescott name on new list of potential victims. The Independent front page 10th February 2011
News of the World hacked Milly Dowler’s phone when Rebekah Brooks was editor. The Independent front page 5th July 2011
Revealed: Cameron’s 26 meetings in 15 months with Murdoch chiefs. The Independent 16th July 2011, weeks into Murdoch phone-tapping scandal
The seeds of the corrupt relationship which exploded in the phone hacking scandal were actually there all the time in News Corps. Harold Evans, former editor The Times & The Sunday Times
News of the World hacked Milly Dowler’s phone during police hunt: Paper deleted missing schoolgirl’s voicemails, giving family false hope. The Guardian front page July 2011
Forbidden Stories, an international organisation of investigative journalists, and Amnesty International have accessed a leak of 50,000 phone numbers. They suspected the leaked list contained numbers selected for potential surveillance by a spyware known as Pegasus, developed by the NSO Group in Israel. Storyville: The Spy in Your Mobile, captions, BBC 2023
‘It’s clearly the biggest spyware scandal since Snowden.’ ibid. news
With 80 journalists from 17 different news outlets collaborating, this is one of the biggest international new investigations. ibid. caption
Amnesty International’s Security Lab has been tracking Pegasus since 2016. ibid.
At first, Pegasus gains access by sending anonymous texts messages to their targets. ibid.
In 2020 a phone belonging to Al Jazeera Arabic was hacked. Over the next few months working with an organisation called Citizen Lab, the team from Al Jazeera unpicked an extraordinary story of some of the most advanced spyware in the world and how it’s used. The Spy in Your Phone, 47.07, Al Jazeera World 2021
Israel manufactures Pegasus, some of the most advanced spyware in the world. ibid.
Various governments have brought the spyware for their own use. ibid.
The biggest newspapers in the country are being dragged through the courts. Opposing them are a small group of campaigners and whistleblowers working for hundreds of claimants. Scandalous: Phone Hacking, captions, BBC 2023
‘It would be quicker to say who I didn’t hack.’ ibid. journalist
Thousands claim that their phones were hacked and secrets stolen. ibid. caption
Phone hacking first came to the public’s attention in 2006 when a News of the World journalist and a private investigator, Glenn Mulclaire, were arrested for listening to the voicemails of members of the royal household. Five years later it was revealed that Mulclaire had also hacked hundreds of other people including murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. ibid.
In late 2011 the government launched the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press. ibid.
In September 2014 the Mirror Group admitted for the first time they had hacked phones. ibid.
News Group Newspapers are now fighting to bring an end to the waves of civil litigation against them. ibid.
2008: In Bridgend there was a spate of suicides and there has never been an explanation … 23 committed suicide in one year … In five years to February 2012, 79 people took their lives. Ian R Crane, lecture Alternative View Conference 10, ‘Community-Led Activism’, Youtube 1.59.59, 2019
Student suicide clusters – is microwave radiation and its technology to blame? ibid. EMFguru Consultancy online article 2018
The Sun ran an article in March of last year stating that the trees were being culled in Sheffield to clear the path for 5G … Trees were being culled all around the country. ibid.
Sunday Times investigation: 110,000 trees lost to council axeman. ibid. article
A teenage girl and her boyfriend were harassed with thousands of abusive demoralising texts and DMs for more than a year. Messages like, I hate you. Kill yourself. And worse … The bully was the girl’s own mother. True Crime Recaps: Her Mother Did What?! Youtube 0.59, 2023