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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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?…

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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…

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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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Galactic Gold Rush: The Tech Companies Aiming to Make Space Mining a Reality…

In 2014, the financial services site Motley Fool estimated the mineral wealth of the moon to be between $150 quadrillion and $500 quadrillion…The moon, for example, is abundant in Helium-3, an extremely rare element on Earth that could theoretically be used as fuel in future nuclear fusion plants…But the real gold, at least initially, is […]

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Ohio High Court Rules Dash-Cam Videos Are Public Record…

Law enforcement officials can redact investigative information from dash-cam videos but must release the remainder of recordings to the public, a unified Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. A case-by-case review will be used in the future to determine which portions of the videos are subject to withholding…

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Britain’s Politicians Exempt Themselves from Wide-Ranging Spying Laws…

Politicians have exempted themselves from Britain’s new wide-ranging spying laws. The Investigatory Powers Act, which has just passed into law, brings some of the most extreme and invasive surveillance powers ever given to spies in a democratic state. But protections against those spying powers have been given to MPs…

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