T-Room

The Best in Alternative News

Surveillance & Technology

Latest News

at

Lucky You!: Facebook Shared Your Personal Data with Chinese Phone Makers…

Facebook has admitted it shared its users’ data with four Chinese smartphone makers including Huawei. Facebook said it was careful about the partnerships, which were made to help smartphone makers build custom versions of its app. The company further emphasised that the information from partnerships with Huawei was stored on the devices and not on […]

at

Washington State Sues Facebook, Google…

Washington State has sued Facebook Inc. and Alphabet’s Google for alleged violations of state campaign finance laws. The companies reportedly failed to maintain information about political advertising, as required by state law. Washington State has a law that requires companies keep information about who purchases political ads, how they pay for it as well as […]

at

‘F—ing Islamophobe’ Sources Say Wasserman Schultz Screamed at House Officials to Kill Hacking Probe…

Ex-Democratic National Committee head Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she intervened in a Pakistani land deal involving her then–IT aide Imran Awan, according to two House employees. The dispute came after Awan’s father was charged with fraud in relation to the deal, and the mysterious exertion of political influence resulted in Pakistani authorities instead targeting the […]

at

Amazon Has More Than 100k Automated Warehouse Robots…And Growing…

Amazon’s fleet of automated warehouse robots, now more than 100,000 machines strong, is working alongside human employees to help meet the e-commerce giant’s massive fulfillment demand. The company’s robots carry inventory around massive warehouse floors, compiling all the items for a customer’s order and reducing the need for human interaction with the products. But the […]

at

Apple: We’re Going to Pick the News Stories You Read…

Apple’s Vice President of Product Marketing Susan Prescott made an alarming announcement that Apple would be selecting the top news stories that appear in Apple News during the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. According to Prescott, Apple News’ editorial team will be selecting the top news stories of the day for millions of potential […]

at

This Supreme Court Case Could Change Online Shopping Overnight…

Online commerce as we know it could soon radically change. In a case it recently heard, the Supreme Court could eliminate the current requirement that a business have some physical connection with a state before the state can tax the business. If that were to happen, consumers would pay more for goods ordered online, small […]

at

Facebook Shutting Down ‘Trending News’…

Facebook is shutting down its ill-fated “trending” news section after four years, a company executive told The Associated Press. The company claims the tool is outdated and wasn’t popular. But the trending section also proved problematic in ways that would presage Facebook’s later problems with fake news, political balance and the limitations of artificial intelligence […]

at

Googel Plans Not to Renew Its Contract for Project Maven, a Controversial Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program…

Google will not seek another contract for its controversial work providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defense for analyzing drone footage after its current contract expires. Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene announced the decision at a meeting with employees Friday morning, three sources told Gizmodo. The current contract expires in 2019 and there […]

Related

at

Guccifer 2.0’s American Fingerprints Reveal An Operation Made in the USA…

In his final report in a three-part series, Guccifer 2’s West Coast Fingerprint, the Forensicator discovers evidence that at least one operator behind the Guccifer 2.0 persona worked from the West Coast of the United States. The Forensicator’s earlier findings stated that Guccifer 2.0’s NGP-VAN files were accessed locally on the East Coast, and in […]

Related

at

An Advocacy Group for Startups Is Funded by Google and Run by Ex-Googlers…

A Washington-based advocacy organization that purports to be a voice for startup tech companies is actually a sock puppet for Google, according to a report released Wednesday that details numerous links between the two. According to the report, startup advocacy group Engine has at least seven former Google employees and consultants on its board of […]

at

FBI: Reboot Your Routers…

The FBI issued a warning Friday to Americans with internet routers in their homes or offices to reboot their routers immediately after the agency discover hundreds of thousands of routers had been compromised by foreign actors. “The FBI recommends any owner of small office and home office routers power cycle (reboot) the devices,” the warning […]

at

As New Privacy Rules Hit Europe, Google and Facebook Hit With $8.8 Billion in Lawsuits…

Accusing Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, and Instagram of “intentionally” violating Europe’s strict new privacy rules that officially went into effect on Friday, Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems filed four lawsuits against the tech companies arguing they are still “coercing users into sharing personal data” despite rolling out new policies ostensibly aimed at complying with […]

at

More About Wikipedia’s Corruption…

The latest report about Wikipedia’s corruption comes from the great investigative journalist Craig Murray, who had been in the UK’s Foreign Service from 1984-2004 and who was forced out in 2004 because, having been since 2002 UK’s Ambassador to Uzbekistan, he decided to whistleblow instead of to accept the corruption by his own and Uzbekistan’s […]

at

Edward Snowden on Privacy in the Age of Trump and Facebook…

EXACTLY FIVE YEARS ago this week, Edward Snowden absconded to Hong Kong with a trove of documents detailing the extent of the U.S. government’s global and domestic surveillance programs. He soon found himself in exile in Russia and dubbed “the most wanted man in the world.” The Snowden leaks started a new conversation about digital […]

at

Court Seals Documents for Google in James Damore Case…

Google has filed a motion in court to seal documents pertaining to James Damore’s class-action lawsuit against them, arguing that the documents were causing their employees to be “harassed.” In response, the court has agreed to seal the records for two months. Google is also branding critics of their far-left diversity policies as “alt-right” according […]

at

Zuckerberg Set Up Fraudulent Scheme to ‘Weaponize’ Data, Court Case Alleges…

Mark Zuckerberg faces allegations that he developed a “malicious and fraudulent scheme” to exploit vast amounts of private data to earn Facebook billions and force rivals out of business. A company suing Facebook in a California court claims the social network’s chief executive “weaponised” the ability to access data from any user’s network of friends […]

at

Disinformation Wars…

Russian disinformation has become a problem for European governments. In the last two years, Kremlin-backed campaigns have spread false stories alleging that French President Emmanuel Macron was backed by the “gay lobby,” fabricated a story of a Russian-German girl raped by Arab migrants, and spread a litany of conspiracy theories about the Catalan independence referendum, […]

This website lives off the kindness of your donations. If you would like to support The T-Room please visit our PayPal.

Any publication posted at The T-Room and/or opinions expressed therein do not necessarily reflect the views of The T-Room. Such publications and all information within the publications (e.g. titles, dates, statistics, conclusions, sources, opinions, etc) are solely the responsibility of the author of the article, not The T-Room.