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FTS Secures Authority to Open Antitrust Probe Into Facebook…

The Federal Trade Commission will be in charge of any antitrust investigations into Facebook, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal Monday. It’s part of an arrangement that permits the Justice Department to investigate Google while handing over Facebook and Amazon to the FTC. On Friday, reports surfaced that the Justice Department […]

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Trump Declares War on Silicon Valley: DoJ Launches Google Anti-Monopoly Probe…

Once shielded by the logic of Silicon Valley’s relentless churn of innovation – which dictated that no reigning tech empire could rule for long before going the way of Yahoo and AOL – tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google have been subjected to intensifying anti-trust pressure – Elizabeth Warren’s “Break up Big Tech”s billboard […]

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A Closer Look at Guccifer 2’s DNC Email Attachments…

This blog post is a short update to our prior report, Sorting the WikiLeaks DNC Emails. Here, we will review the metadata of seventeen (17) documents that Guccifer 2 posted on June 30, 2016 and July 6, 2016. Those documents can be found as attachments to DNC emails published by WikiLeaks on July 22, 2016 […]

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Assange Suffering Psychological Torture, Would Face “Show Trial” in U.S.: Nils Melzer, UN Rapporteur…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has suffered psychological torture from a defamation campaign and should not be extradited to the United States where he would face a “politicized show trial”, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Friday. Nils Melzer, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture who visited Assange in a high-security London prison on May […]

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Julian Assange Misses Court Session, WikiLeaks Has ‘Grave Concerns’ About His Health…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has missed a court session, apparently due to health problems. Assange had been expected to appear from prison via video link at a brief extradition hearing Thursday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. He is in Belmarsh prison serving time for jumping bail in Britain while fighting extradition to the United States, which […]

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Microsoft Cuts Ties With Huawei…

Microsoft will reportedly become the latest tech giant to ‘suspend’ its relationship with Huawei, according to the South China Morning Post. One week after Washington first imposed strict limits on Huawei and its affiliates that will make it almost impossible for American firms buy Huawei products or sell American-made components to the company, a handful […]

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CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Properties…

CrossFit is a contrarian physiological and nutrition prescription for improving fitness and health. It is contrarian because prevailing views of fitness, health, and nutrition are wrong and have unleashed a tsunami of chronic disease upon our friends, family, and communities. The voluntary CrossFit community of 15,000 affiliates and millions of individual adherents stands steadfastly and […]

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Abuses Show Assange Case Was Never About Law by Jonathan Cook…

It is astonishing how often one still hears well-informed, otherwise reasonable people say about Julian Assange: “But he ran away from Swedish rape charges by hiding in Ecuador’s embassy in London.” That short sentence includes at least three factual errors. In fact, to repeat it, as so many people do, you would need to have […]

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Senate Votes to Approve Anti-Robocalling Bill…

On Thursday, the Senate voted to approve a bill creating new carve-outs for the Federal Communications Commission to better combat the growing scourge of robocalls by an overwhelming 97-1 vote. A bipartisan proposal, the TRACED Act, was introduced by Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Ed Markey (D-MA). If passed, it would raise the fines the […]

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SpaceX Launches First Satellites in Massive Starlink Project to Beam Internet Access from Space…

Third time’s a charm. After two delays last week, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its heaviest payload yet Thursday night, launching dozens of satellites that are intended to eventually provide high-speed internet access from space. A reusable Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral carrying 60 Starlink satellites, weighing about 18.5 tons in total. […]

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Federal Courts Indemnify Improper Government Spying on U.S. Citizens by Sharyl Attkisson…

In a far-reaching decision Friday, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals indemnified improper government spying, protecting the offending federal agents from punishment and making it nearly impossible for harmed citizens to ever receive justice. The decision comes in Attkisson v. the Department of Justice and the FBI for the long-term forensically-confirmed government computer intrusions of […]

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Democrats, Republicans Both Want to Regulate Facial Recognition…

Legal experts, tech researchers and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling for Congress to rein in the use of facial recognition tools by law enforcement agencies “before it gets out of control.” If left unchecked, they said the tech could infringe on Americans’ privacy and civil liberties, and perpetuate racial and gender […]

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42 Countries Agree to International Principles for Artificial Intelligence…

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development unveiled the first intergovernmental standard for artificial intelligence policies Wednesday—and the organization’s 36 member countries including America have initially signed on along with Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Romania. OECD, an international forum that unites stakeholders from many nations to work together to address challenges of […]

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ASSANGE CHARGED WITH VIOLATING THE ESPIONAGE ACT…

The U.S. Justice Department has hit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with Espionage Act charges, significantly escalating a legal fight against the high-profile activist. DOJ had previously only indicted Assange on a single count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. Thursday’s revelation of the additional 18 charges, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, means Assange […]

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T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Faces Big Trouble at DOJ Despite FCC Approval…

The Department of Justice’s antitrust staff has recommended blocking T-Mobile’s attempted purchase of Sprint, Reuters reported today, citing an anonymous source. DOJ staff “fear that after the deal T-Mobile will no longer aggressively seek to cut prices and improve service to woo customers away from market leaders Verizon and AT&T,” Reuters wrote. A final decision […]

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Sen. Josh Hawley, Who Works on AntiTrust, Says Social Media Companies Don’t Need to Be Broken Up, They Need to Be Eradicated Altogether…

A Republican senator who works on antitrust says that social media, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, have done more harm than good and they should “disappear.” In an op-ed published Wednesday in USA Today, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley made the strongest comments against Facebook and other social media giants by a prominent elected official. Presidential […]

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Can Artificial Intelligence Be a Fair Judge in Court? Estonia Thinks So…

Government usually isn’t the place to look for innovation in IT or new technologies like artificial intelligence. But Ott Velsberg might change your mind. As Estonia’s chief data officer, the 28-year-old graduate student is overseeing the tiny Baltic nation’s push to insert artificial intelligence and machine learning into services provided to its 1.3 million citizens. […]

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Facebook Singled Out Candace Owens for Scrutiny, Potential Ban, Internal Document Indicates…

Facebook has encouraged some of its employees to probe the background of conservative commentator Candace Owens for anything that could give the social media giant grounds to kick her off its platforms, an internal Facebook document described and partially leaked to Breitbart indicates. The document is a spreadsheet on “Policy Review” of what the company […]

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