Ringed by tech’s elite, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to do “anything we can do” to help the industry he often baited during the presidential campaign. “This is truly an amazing group of people,” Trump said at Trump Tower to kick off a meeting with Silicon Valley’s top leaders. “I want to add that […]
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Former Disney IT Workers’ File Lawsuit Based on Discrimination in Favor of Foreign Workers…
Former IT workers at Disney have filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming that American workers are being discriminated against in favour of hiring H-1B visa workers from overseas…
150 Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras…
In the summer of 2013, when documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras was shooting a still-secret NSA leaker named Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room, she took security seriously. She’d periodically transfer her footage to encrypted hard drives, and would later go so far as to destroy the SD cards onto which her camera recorded…
Three Years Later Yahoo! Account Subscribers Learn More Than One-Billion Accounts Were Hacked…
Yahoo! says it believes hackers stole data from more than one billion user accounts in August 2013. The Sunnyvale, California, company says it’s a different breach from the one it disclosed in September, when it said 500 million accounts were exposed…
They Have, Right Now, Another You…
A few months ago The Washington Post reported that Facebook collects ninety-eight data points on each of its nearly two billion users. Among this ninety-eight are ethnicity, income, net worth, home value, if you are a mom, if you are a soccer mom, if you are married, the number of lines of credit you have, […]
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Google Publishes Eight Secret FBI Requests…
Google revealed in October it had been freed from a gag order preventing it from talking about a secret FBI request for customer data made in 2015. The internet search company chose at the time not to publish the actual subpoena, but it is now releasing redacted versions of that letter and seven others…
Net Neutrality Debate Takes Center Stage Ahead of Trump Presidency…
One day it could cost you more money to watch a YouTube video than to check your email. That’s what could happen if the United States ends net neutrality. Proponents of net neutrality — which prevents internet providers from blocking content, intentionally slowing load times for certain websites or…
Florida Court Denies Protection for iPhone Passcode…
A man suspected of voyeurism can be compelled to tell police his four-digit iPhone passcode so they can search it for incriminating photos, a Florida appeals court ruled. Aaron Stahl was arrested after a woman who was shopping in a store saw him crouch down and extend an illuminated cellphone under her skirt…
The U.S. Is Going to Get It’s Very Own ‘Ministry of Truth’…Senate Quietly Passes the “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act”…
Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act has passed the Senate as part of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report. The bill will establish “an interagency center housed at the State Department to coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts throughout the U.S. government.”
FBI Sent Planeload of Agents to Frame Assange in Iceland. Got Snubbed by Minister…
The US sent a “planeload of FBI agents” to Iceland in 2011 to frame WikiLeaks and its co-founder Julian Assange, according to a former Icelandic minister of interior, who refused them any cooperation and asked them to cease their activities…
Five Things You Notice When You Quit Watching the News…
Bill Would Allow Government to Locate People With Tracking Devices…
A bill meant to help those with developmental disabilities would allow government agencies to locate people with tracking devices, which has some concerned the measure gives the federal government too much authority and power…
BEWARE: Watchdogs Say That What Your Child Tells a ‘Smart’ Doll Is being Recorded and Monitored…
Parents who want to expose their children to the internet of things should beware of a possible problem: Smart toys can be so clever that they turn into spies on your home…
Tim Cook, Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg — and Maybe Even Jeff Bezos — Are Going to Trump’s Tech Summit Next Week…
Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg are among the small group of top tech leaders who will attend a summit with President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday at Trump Tower in Manhattan, according to numerous sources with knowledge of the situation…
Congress Set to Fund ‘McCarthyesque’ Investigation of Alternative Media?…
With approval ratings as low as 15% , few in the U.S. would ever take the rascals in the U.S. Congress serious about an investigation into a bunch of citizen journalists who work for pennies on the dollar to bring the facts, facts, facts to the awake public or former investigative journalists who were given […]
Facebook Misreported Engagement Numbers for Links and Live Videos…
For the third time since September, Facebook is disclosing new measurement errors. The two new errors affected the reaction counts Facebook reports on Pages’ Live videos, as well as the engagement figures Facebook reports for off-Facebook links; the latter link engagement metrics were recently used in investigations by BuzzFeed and The New York Times into […]
American and British Spy Agencies Targeted In-Flight Mobile Phone Use…
In the trove of documents provided by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is a treasure. It begins with a riddle: “What do the President of Pakistan, a cigar smuggler, an arms dealer, a counterterrorism target, and a combatting proliferation target have in common?…
Yahoo! Flaw Allowed Hackers to Read Anyone’s Email…
Yahoo has patched a critical security vulnerability in its Mail service that could have allowed an attacker to spy on any Yahoo user’s inbox. Jouko Pynnönen…reported a DOM based persistent XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) in Yahoo mail, which if exploited, allows an attacker to send emails embedded with malicious code…
Witch Hunt: “Fake News” Software Touted by CBS Smears Naked Capitalism, ShadowProof, TruthDig, Others; Creator Admits He Made Up Who Went on Hit List…
One of most pernicious means underway to crush independent news sites is the release of software tools that brand them as unreliable. This means that hidden developers and the parties that fed them information are beyond any accountability, yet would serve as censors…
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Google Removes Anti-Semitic Autocompletes from its Search Engines…
Google has responded to claims of anti-Semitism in its search engines by altering autocomplete suggestions. Suggestions for the phrase “are Jews…” by a Google search engine are usually followed by “evil”. People searching “are women…” had autocomplete suggest “evil” and for “are Muslims…”, “bad” was the suggestion…
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