Without your knowledge or permission, the Obama administration collected and warehoused your most private bank records and continued to sweep them up — despite repeated warnings the data wasn’t being properly protected. Now there’s a good chance your personal information could be in the hands of identity thieves or even terrorists. The government isn’t sure […]
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Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans. One Problem: He’s Not Real…
Drew Cloud is everywhere. The self-described journalist who specializes in student-loan debt has been quoted in major news outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and CNBC, and is a fixture in the smaller, specialized blogosphere of student debt. He’s always got the new data, featuring irresistible twists: One in five students use extra […]
Google Search Manipulation Can Swing Nearly 80 Percent of Undecided Voters…
The lead author of the study, Dr. Robert Epstein, has previously conducted research into what he calls the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME). This research showed that the manipulation of results pages in search engines can shift the voting preferences of undecideds by anywhere between 20 and 80 percent, depending on the demographic. His latest […]
Facebook: A Mass Media Micro-Surveillance Monopoly…
By blowing the whistle on Cambridge Analytica’s dodgy dealings with political campaigners in the U.S. and the U.K., Canadian Chris Wylie has given the social-media anthill a well-deserved kick. We’re now getting a rare glimpse into the hyperactive but hidden world of online-data trafficking – with its myriad actors feverishly harvesting, aggregating, packaging, profiling, brokering, […]
Artificial Intelligence Is Too Powerful to Be Left to Facebook, Amazon and Other Tech Giants…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress made one thing clear: the government needs an Federal Artificial Intelligence Agency. Facebook FB, +0.36% is a canary in the proverbial AI coal mine. AI is going to play an enormous role in our lives and in the global economy. It is the key to self-driving cars, the […]
How Shoddy Reporting and Anti-Russian Propaganda Coerced Ecuador to Silence Julian Assange…
JULIAN ASSANGE HAS been barred from communicating with the outside world for more than three weeks. On March 27, the government of Ecuador blocked Assange’s internet access and barred him from receiving visitors other than his lawyers. Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, when Ecuador granted him asylum due to […]
CENSORSHIP: YouTube Deleted 8M Videos for Alleged Content Violations…
YouTube deleted over eight million videos during the fourth quarter of 2017 for violating their content policies, according to numbers released by the company on Tuesday. Over six million of these videos were deleted automatically before any viewers saw them. The company said that most of the deleted videos were spam or adult content. The […]
House Hacking Suspects’ Father Transferred Data to Pakistani Government, Ex-Partner Claims…
The father of Imran Awan — an IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who investigators concluded made “unauthorized access” to House servers — transferred a USB drive to a Pakistani senator and former head of a Pakistani intelligence agency, the father’s ex-business partner, Rashid Minhas, alleged. Minhas told The Daily Caller News Foundation that […]
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Washington State Fusion Center Accidentally Releases Records on Remote Mind Control…
When you send thousands of FOIA requests, you are bound to get some very weird responses from time to time. Recently, we here at MuckRock had one of our most bizarre gets yet – Washington State Fusion Center’s accidental release of records on the effects of remote mind control. As part of my ongoing project […]
Teen Who Hacked Ex-CIA Director John Brennan Gets Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison…
A teenage hacker who rose to fame for hacking into the online accounts of former CIA director John Brennan, former director of intelligence James Clapper, and other high-profile US government employees, got sentenced to two years of prison on Friday. For a few months in late 2015 and early 2016, Kane Gamble, who went by […]
A Google Update Just Created a Big Problem for Anti-Censorship Tools…
App developers won’t be able to use Google to get around internet censorship anymore. The Google App Engine is discontinuing a practice called domain-fronting, which let services use Google’s network to get around state-level internet blocks. A recent change in Google’s network architecture means the trick no longer works. First spotted by Tor developers on […]
Facebook’s Facial Recognition Tool Faces Class Action Suit Over Mishandling Biometric Data…
Facebook’s misuse of their users’ biometric information could potentially amount to billions of dollars in damages after a federal judge greenlighted an Illinois class action suit against the firm’s facial recognition feature. Facebook violated an Illinois state law by improperly using their photo-scanning and facial recognition technologies and storing biometric data without their users’ consent, […]
Congressmen Repeatedly Failed To Supervise IT Aides With ‘Keys To The Kingdom,’…
Only one IT aide currently working directly for members of Congress has ever completed a background check, members’ data have been improperly mixed with other members’ data, and members provided almost no supervision, officials revealed Thursday in a House hearing spurred by “egregious” violations by former IT aide Imran Awan. Members of Congress threw “$10 […]
UNFRIGGINREAL: Casino Gets Hacked Through Its Internet-Connected Fish Tank Thermometer…
Internet-connected technology, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT), is now part of daily life, with smart assistants like Siri and Alexa to cars, watches, toasters, fridges, thermostats, lights, and the list goes on and on. But of much greater concern, enterprises are unable to secure each and every device on their network, giving […]
CENSORED! How Online Media Companies Are Suppressing Conservative Speech…
Like it or not, social media is the communication form of the future — not just in the U.S., but worldwide. Just Facebook and Twitter combined reach 1.8 billion people. More than two-thirds of all Americans (68 percent) use Facebook. YouTube is pushing out TV as the most popular place to watch video. Google is […]
Facial Recognition Used to Catch Fugitive Among 60,000 Concert-Goers…
Its the ultimate music lover’s fantasy – being picked out of the audience by your idol at a huge rock concert for a fleeting moment of on-stage fame and adulation. But in China, you are more likely to be picked out by one of thousands of police surveillance cameras which link people to crimes through […]
Facebook User Engagement Data Goes From Bad to Worse…
Facebook user engagement was already starting to fall by the wayside and the company was already scrambling to figure out new methods for boosting its user engagement before it came under fire over the past month for the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Now, new data from Cowen’s monthly social engagement survey shows that activity continues to […]
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Liberals Announce Plan to Crush Normal Americans in a New “Civil War” (Spoiler: It’s Not a Great Plan)…
Tech titan Jack Dorsey of San Francisco-based social media platform Twitter applauded an article in something called Medium in which some other hipster CEO described how liberals intend to crush Normal Americans into serfdom in a bloodless “civil war.” Here it is. Ready? It will just sort of happen. Why? Because. Americans will simply decide […]
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Facebook Installed Dozens of Ex-Obama & Ex-Hillary Staffers in Senior Positions…
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has been defending his company’s privacy and advertising practices to querying congressional members on Capitol Hill. But if you want to know why Facebook has an anti-conservative bias problem, you need look no further than the staffers at the company. Apparently, Facebook employs dozens of individuals with tight ties to […]
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Homeland Security to Compile Database of Journalists and ‘Media Influencers’…
The Department of Homeland Security wants to track the comings and goings of journalists, bloggers and other “media influencers” through a database. The DHS’s “Media Monitoring” plan, which was first reported by FedBizOpps.gov, would give the contracting company “24/7 access to a password protected, media influencer database, including journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers […]
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