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Ecuador Prepares to Hand Julian Assange Over to U.K., U.S….

More than six years after Julian Assange moved himself into the confines of the Ecuadorian embassy building in London, the WikiLeaks founder finds himself in danger again. Remarks made earlier this week by Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa suggest that her government may be depriving Assange of the political asylum it granted him in […]

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Google Employees Resign in Protest over Controversial Pentagon Artificial Intelligence Project…

About a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the tech giant’s involvement in Project Maven, a controversial military program that uses artificial intelligence, Gizmodo reports. Project Maven, which harnesses AI to improve drone targeting, has been a source of concern for a number of Google employees. Last month, over 3,100 Google workers signed […]

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Corporate Media: Guccifer 2.0’s Final Messenger…

Disobedient Media has consistently covered the work of The Forensicator over the last nine months. Our previous report focused on the first in a series of findings made by the analyst, which reveal intricate issues stemming from the Guccifer 2.0 persona’s earliest publications, as well as the establishment media’s culpability in broadcasting the documents as […]

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Cops Take Dead Man’s Smartphone to His Corpse in Attempt to Unlock It…

In a very unusual move, police detectives in Largo, Florida, recently went to a local funeral home and located the body of a man named Linus Phillip. The 30-year-old had died days earlier at the hands of a different Largo officer. The detectives then attempted to use the fingers on Phillip’s body to unlock his […]

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It’s Official: the FCC Has Released the Date the Net Neutrality Repeal Will Go into Effect…

After months of inexplicably dragging its feet, the Federal Communications Commission has finally revealed when its net neutrality repeal will go into effect: June 11. “Now, on June 11, these unnecessary and harmful Internet regulations will be repealed and the bipartisan, light-touch approach that served the online world well for nearly 20 years will be […]

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Equifax Admits Passport Numbers Were Stolen in Breach…

The fallout from Equifax’s 2017 mega breach continues. As was first reported by the Associated Press, the credit reporting agency’s lawyers sent a letter to the Senate Banking Committee last week revealing that thousands of images of passports were stolen in the breach. Consumers provided those images to the company to dispute inaccuracies in their […]

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Apple Cancels $1B Ireland Project Over Delays…

Apple announced on Thursday it would cancel plans to build a $1 billion data center in Ireland, citing delays in the center’s approval process. “Despite our best efforts, delays in the approval process have forced us to make other plans and we will not be able to move forward with the data center,” Apple said […]

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Uber Self-Driving Car Saw but Ignored Pedestrian in Deadly Arizona Crash…

A self-driving Uber may have spotted the pedestrian killed in the first fatal crash with a driverless car but ignored her anyway. The self-driving car which killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Phoenix, Arizona in March saw the pedestrian as a “false positive”, causing its on-board system to decide to ignore her rather than swerve to […]

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The Senate Has Forced a Vote to Restore Net Neutrality…

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and 32 other Democrats have submitted a new discharge petition under the Congressional Review Act, setting the stage for a full congressional vote to restore net neutrality. Because of the unique CRA process, the petition has the power to force a Senate vote on the resolution, which leaders say is expected […]

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The West Could Be Closer to China’s System of ‘Social Credit Scoring’ Than You Think…

China has become the largest surveillance state on the planet. Taking a page out of the Netflix show Black Mirror, the People’s Republic of China has begun assigning scores that dictate its citizens’ ability to travel, their social mobility, educational opportunities, and where they can live. The totalitarian 1984 of the future is now 2018 […]

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Bokhari: ‘Free Market’ Defenders of Tech Giants Are Useful Idiots…

Legacy conservatives have sent a clear message to the masters of the universe in Silicon Valley. That message is: “we surrender!” That about sums up the new, self-destructive tendency in the D.C. conservative establishment. A growing number of “free market” advocates are making the case that Facebook, a 2-billion user behemoth with no serious competitor, […]

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Military Exchanges Ordered to Pull Chinese Smartphones Over Security Risks…

The three military exchange services pulled all smartphones made by Chinese electronics manufacturers Huawei and ZTE from stores around the world and banned their sale because of the security risks the devices pose, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The Defense Department’s undersecretary for personnel and readiness issued a ban of “all Huawei and ZTE cellphones, personal […]

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The Politics of Machine-Learning Algorithms by Mark MacCarthy…

As machine-learning algorithms come to dominate decision-making in business, politics, and society, the pressure to make more personal data available will steadily increase, and privacy protections will be eroded. If we do not take the reins of these new technologies, they could lead us toward a political system we did not choose…

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Google’s Insane Campus Is What Happens When You Politicize Everything…

A recent report in The Wall Street Journal chronicles the drama of a thoroughly politicized and tribal workplace at Google, where activist employee groups stage competing talks on their pet issues, and a growing number of former employees are suing the company for discrimination and bias. The article opens with an incident that took place […]

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Oakland to Require Public Approval of Surveillance Technology…

Oaklanders will have a say in the city’s use of surveillance technologies like license-plate readers, cellphone trackers and surveillance cameras under a new city ordinance. The ordinance, introduced at Tuesday’s city council meeting, creates a public approval process for surveillance technologies used by the city. The rules also lay a groundwork for the City Council […]

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Cambridge Analytica Forced to Shut Down Following Facebook Data Scandal…

The British company denied any wrongdoing, despite Facebook saying up to 87 million users had their data breached. In a statement, Cambridge Analytica said the negative media coverage has left it unable to continue. ‘Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations and, despite the company’s efforts to […]

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Conservative Publishers Hit Hardest by Facebook News Feed Change…

Facebook’s January 12 announcement that it would begin to de-prioritize news publishers and their posts in users’ News Feeds has had a surprisingly profound and partisan impact. According to The Outline’s analysis of Facebook engagement data obtained from research tool BuzzSumo, conservative and right-wing publishers (such as Breitbart, Fox News, and Gateway Pundit) were hit […]

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