Facebook profiles have become the de-facto identities of people across the internet. This is thanks, in large part, to Login With Facebook, the social network’s universal login API, which allows users to carry their profile information to other apps and websites. You’ve probably used it to log in to services like Spotify, Airbnb, and Tinder. […]
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Activists Rally to Save Internet Archive As Lawsuit Threatens Site…
The Internet Archive is a massive endeavor—it’s an online library aiming to “provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.” It has digitized millions of web pages, movies, photos, recordings, software programs, and books that might otherwise be lost to history. But it’s neither un-censorable nor outside the bounds of copyright law. And now open internet supporters […]
Engineers Sentenced for Stealing Tech from U.S. Chipmaker Micron and Transferring It to China…
U.S. memory chipmaker Micron scored a major legal victory after a local court found two of its former employees guilty of passing trade secrets to a Chinese company. Two engineers at Taiwanese contract chipmaker United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) leaked technology from their former employer and used the trade secrets in a cooperation project with Chinese […]
Twitter Deletes Over 170k Accounts Related to Massive Chinese Propaganda Operation…
Twitter deleted hundreds of thousands of accounts in an effort to halt a Chinese propaganda operation. On Thursday, the social media company said it deleted nearly 24,000 accounts within a “core network” that disseminated false narratives from the Communist Party of China and an additional 150,000 accounts who amplified the messages of those within the […]
Facebook Rejects Biden’s Request to Censor Political Speech…
Facebook declined on June 11 a push to censor political speech coordinated by the presidential campaign of former vice president Joe Biden. Biden’s campaign started a public relations offensive on June 11 to pressure Facebook to censor election-related content. The campaign, introduced on Twitter by the former vice president himself, calls on Biden supporters to […]
EU Beats DOJ to the Punch, Brings Antitrust Charges Against Amazon…
After winning a trio of billion-euro judgments against Alphabet over the past three years, the European Commission’s anti-trust head, Margarethe Vestager, a name that strikes fear in to the hearts of Silicon Valley titans like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, is preparing to take on Amazon as her latest target among the US tech giants. […]
Facebook Says Page Celebrating “Dead Cops” Doesn’t Violate its Community Standards…
Facebook has refused to remove a page celebrating “dead cops,” saying that it does not violate their community standards. The page is titled The Only Good Cops Are Dead Cops and openly incites violence against police officers. However, when it was reported to Facebook moderators, they reviewed the page and said that although it may […]
Secret Service: The Most Sophisticated Cyber Crime During Pandemic Traced to ‘Foreign Actors’…
The U.S. Secret Service is warning Americans about foreign actors seeking to commit cyber crimes during the pandemic. Matthew Noyes, director of Cyber Policy and Strategy at the Secret Service, was asked if he thinks geopolitical motives have driven some of the cyber crimes that foreign actors have committed during the COVID-19 outbreak. “From our […]
50 State AGs Are Pushing to Breakup Google’s Ad-Tech Dominance Alongside DOJ…
In what would be a monumental move — and we might ad good for independent media breaking the shackles of the mainstream’s ongoing attempts to police content and punish dissent — Google’s total dominance over online advertising could soon come to an end. CNBC revealed Friday that no less than 50 sate attorneys general have […]
Huawei Hid Business Operation in Iran After Reuters Reported Links to CFO
China’s Huawei Technologies acted to cover up its relationship with a firm that had tried to sell prohibited U.S. computer gear to Iran, after Reuters in 2013 reported deep links between the firm and the telecom-equipment giant’s chief financial officer, newly obtained internal Huawei documents show. Huawei has long described the firm—Skycom Tech Co Ltd—as […]
Google Sued for Secretly Amassing Vast Trove of User Data…
Google surreptitiously amasses billions of bits of information –every day — about internet users even if they opt out of sharing their information, three consumers alleged in a proposed class action lawsuit. “Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy,” […]
Facebook Placing Labels on Chinese, Russian State Media Amid Concerns Over Foreign Influence…
Facebook said June 4 it would start labeling state-controlled media outlets on its platform amid intensifying concern over foreign actors using social media to shift public opinion to advance their own agendas. The company said it would start labeling Facebook pages of state-run outlets, and from next week would start labeling posts from such outlets […]
Federal Judge Orders National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence to Open Meetings and Records to Public…
In a victory for government transparency advocates, a federal judge on Monday ordered the government commission responsible for developing policy recommendations on the use of artificial intelligence in U.S. national security and defense to begin opening up its operation to scrutiny by making its meetings and records available to the public. U.S. District Judge Trevor […]
Apple Tracking iPhones Stotlen During Riots…
Apple is tracking the iPhones that have been stolen from its stores during the recent riots across the U.S., the New York Post reports. Citing a message from Twitter, the Post reports the stolen devices show a message on the screen saying the device should be returned to where it was stolen from and that […]
PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER – DIRECTING EFFORTS TO PREVENT SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP…
This afternoon President Trump held a press availability in the oval office answering questions from the media as he signed an executive order [Available Here] directing the prevention of on-line censorship in social media platforms. The president was joined by Attorney General Bill Barr, and both leaders delivered remarks and answered questions from the media. […]
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Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network…
In the summer of 2013, I spent my days sifting through the most extensive archive of top-secret files that had ever reached the hands of an American journalist. In a spectacular act of transgression against the National Security Agency, where he worked as a contractor, Edward Snowden had transmitted tens of thousands of classified documents […]
Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance…
Surveillance firms around the world are licking their lips at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in on the coronavirus by repositioning one of their most invasive products: the tracking bracelet. Body monitors are associated with criminality and guilt in the popular imagination, the accessories of Wall Street crooks under house arrest and menace-to-society parolees. Unlike […]
Report: Teens Spend Seven Hours a Day Staring at Their Phones…
A recent report revealed that teenagers spend an average of seven hours each day on their smartphones. The report suggests that 70 percent of teenagers conceal a portion of their online activity from their parents. According to a recent report, teenagers spend an average of seven hours each day on their smartphones, outside of hours […]
House Pulls Vote on FISA Reauthorization Bill After Trump Threatens Veto…
The House of Representatives canceled its plans on Wednesday to vote on the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) after President Donald Trump threatened to veto the bill, and Republican leaders and top liberal Democrats said they would oppose it. House Democratic leaders abruptly adjourned Wednesday evening, saying that a vote on the […]
Trump Preparing Executive Order to Address Perceived Bias at Social Media Giants…
President Trump is preparing executive order, aimed for release Thursday, to address perceived anti-conservative bias at social media giants. White House spokeswomen Kayleigh McEnany and Alyssa Farah told reporters aboard Air Force Once that the president will be signing an executive order “pertaining to social media” but gave no additional details on what it would […]
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