Uber, the embodiment of the sharing economy, was once again propelled into the spotlight on March 19, 2018, after one of its self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona. This has resulted in renewed debate over the safety of Uber’s driverless cars, as well as over its illegal and unethical tactics of skirting […]
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Overhaul of U.S. Telecoms Database Sparks Fear of Catastrophic Failure…
An impending overhaul of the national U.S. telecommunications database is prompting fears the transition could spark a catastrophic failure, crippling emergency communications networks across the United States, according to industry insiders who told the Washington Free Beacon the foreign firm handling the upcoming transition may not be prepared to initiate the switch. On April 8, […]
Mark Zuckerberg Is Asked If People Can Trust Facebook — His Answer Says It All…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn’t give the best answer to CNN Wednesday when asked about whether people can trust his company. CNN’s Laurie Segall asked, “Facebook has asked us to share our data, to share our lives on its platform and it has wanted us to be transparent, and people don’t feel like they’ve received […]
There’s an Open Secret about Cambridge Analytica in the Political World: It Doesn’t Have the ‘Secret Sauce’ It Claims…
As Sen. Ted Cruz mounted a bid for the presidency in 2016, a nascent, data-obsessed company presented his campaign with an intriguing proposition. It had a “secret sauce” that no other firm could deliver. Cambridge Analytica promised a data service that was enhanced by its “psychographic” voter profiles. Unlike other services, Cambridge Analytica could micro-target […]
Tesla Will Pay Elon Musk Only If Company Stocks Does ‘Extraordinarily Well’…
Elon Musk, the head of US electric vehicle producer Tesla, will only get paid if company stock shows strong performance, according to a plan approved by Tesla shareholders on Wednesday. Shareholders agreed on a 10-year performance stock award “entirely contingent on achieving market cap and operational milestones that would make Tesla one of the most […]
What’s Genius for Obama Is Scandal When It Comes to Trump…
On Sunday, The Guardian reported on the supposedly nefarious workings of President Trump’s data-gathering team at Cambridge Analytica. The report suggested that Cambridge Analytica had essentially issued questionnaires through a third party; those questionnaires, which were personality quizzes, requested that you use your Facebook login. Cambridge Analytica then compiled data regarding those who completed the […]
Cambridge Analytica’s Ad Targeting Is the Reason Facebook Exists…
“Thousands of third party apps were designed solely to obtain and sell your data. It’s no surprise that the data ended up being used again on Facebook, one of the biggest advertising platforms on Earth.”
Cambridge Analytica Responds to Dirty Tricks Charge…
Cambridge Analytica rejects the allegations made in tonight’s Channel 4 News story regarding its business practices. The Channel 4 News report contained conversations between Cambridge Analytica senior executives and an undercover reporter posing as a Sri Lankan businessman. The report is edited and scripted to grossly misrepresent the nature of those conversations and how the […]
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The Problem Is Facebook, Not Cambridge Analytica…
Facebook is being hammered for allowing the data firm Cambridge Analytica to acquire 50 million user profiles in the U.S., which it may or may not have used 1 to help the Trump campaign. But the outrage misses the target: There’s nothing Cambridge Analytica could have done that Facebook itself doesn’t offer political clients. Here, […]
Ruh Roh: Former Obama Campaign Director Drops Bombshell Claim on on Facebook: ‘They Were on Our Side’…
A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do — because they were supportive of the campaign. In a Sunday tweet thread, Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, […]
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Rivals Chip Away at Google’s and Facebook’s U.S. Digital Ad Dominance, Data Show…
Google and Facebook Inc. FB -2.71% have dominated the U.S. digital advertising market for years, earning them the title of “the digital duopoly” and leaving competitors scrambling for crumbs. But now there are signs that platforms like Amazon and Snapchat are chipping away at their market share. In its latest forecast, research company eMarketer predicts […]
A History of Alleged Intimidation and Tampering in House Hacking Case Marked by Witnesses’ Silence…
Soon after the House of Representatives found that Democratic IT aide Imran Awan and his family made “unauthorized access” to congressional data, Imran hurriedly vacated his house, renting it in February 2017 to a former Marine. Imran angrily told his new tenant, Andre Taggart, that he was homeless and to refuse any certified mail in […]
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is a Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media”…
NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the suspension of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, over what Facebook says was imporoper use of collected data. In a nutshell, in 2015 Cambridge Analytica bought data from a University of Cambridge psychology […]
Elaine Herzberg Killed by Self-Driving Uber: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know…
The woman who was killed by a self-driving Uber was Elaine Herzberg, the Tempe Police Department announced. The 49-year-old was transferred to a local hospital after she was hit and died of her injuries. The accident happened around 10 p.m. on Sunday evening. Additional details about Herzberg have not yet been released, but according to […]
Facebook’s Role in Data Misuse Sets Off Storms on Two Continents…
Facebook on Sunday faced a backlash about how it protects user data, as American and British lawmakers demanded that it explain how a political data firm with links to President Trump’s 2016 campaign was able to harvest private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the social network’s alerting users. Senator Amy Klobuchar […]
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CYBER WAR: Trump Admin Accuses RUSSIA of ATTACKING American Energy Grid…
The Trump administration publicly accused the Russian government of orchestrating coordinated attacks against the American energy grid Thursday; marking the first time the US government has blamed the Kremlin for intentionally hacking the United States’ infrastructure. According to Reuters, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI believe Moscow was behind a sophisticated cyber-attack as […]
Facebook Forced To Apologize After “Video Of…” Autocomplete Search Result Stuns Users
Facebook has been forced to apologize after it spent hours suggesting bizarre, disturbing, and upsetting searches to users on Thursday night. Typing “video of” into the Facebook search bar yielded disturbing results. Multiple users posted examples on Twitter, with the site proposing searches including “video of girl sucking dick under water”, “videos of sexuals” and […]
FBI Supervisor Warned Comey in 2014 That Warrantless Surveillance Program Was Ineffective…
An official who supervised the FBI’s Section 215 warrantless phone surveillance program revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013 says he warned then-Director James Comey it was woefully ineffective in catching terrorists and needed to be modified. Retired Special Agent Bassem Youssef, the chief of the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit, said in an exclusive interview with […]
America’s Troll Farm Media…
Despite all the smoke and mirrors, most Americans seem to see where the stenographers of corporate capitalism are taking us. A recent Gallup poll found that while 84% of Americans see media as “critical” or “very important” to democracy, only 28% see the corporatist mainstream news media (MSM) as actually supporting democracy. They’re right on […]
Internet Inventor Warns “Regulate Tech Firms Now Or Risk A Weaponized Web”
The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (not Al Gore), has a dire warning over the concentration of power among a few companies on the internet “controlling which ideas are shared.” In an open letter to mark the 29th anniversary of his invention, Berners-Lee calls for powerful “new gatekeepers” – internet platforms […]
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