A Saudi prince has increased his holdings in Twitter, making him the company’s second largest shareholder. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, who in 2011 invested $300 million in the social network, now owns 34.9 million shares of Twitter’s common stock, according to a new regulatory filing (pdf). At nearly 5.2%, his stake in […]
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Banned from Facebook? A Polish Court May Help…
Facebook is often criticized for not doing enough to police its platform for hate speech. But the opposite has also been a problem: Mark Zuckerberg’s company uses rather vague “community standards” as the basis for decision to remove users and posts. It doesn’t feel compelled to explain exactly how it applies them, either. Now, a […]
The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism…
Before they started their successful wildcat strike last year, West Virginia teachers railed against the introduction of a workplace wellness program called Go365. The program coerced employees into downloading an app that would monitor their health, rewarding points for exercise and good behavior. Employees who failed to accrue 3,000 points by the end of the […]
UK Tax Authority Forced To Delete 5 Million Unlawfully Collected Biometric Voice Records…
The UK’s tax collector – HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been forced to delete the biometric voice records of five million people because they did not have clear consent from customers to have them in the first place, according to ZDNet. HMRC uses the Voice ID biometric voice security system to make it easier […]
Lawmakers Demand Details on NSA’s Sweeping Phone Surveillance Operations…
A group of lawmakers is demanding the National Security Agency disclose more details on its sweeping phone surveillance operations to the public. Six Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday called on NSA to release a public report outlining the current state of the Call Detail Record program. Under the program, the agency gathers […]
Why Is Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Saying It’s Time to Break Up the Company? (Video OpEd)…
Co-founder of Facebook, Chris Hughes, goes into great detail as to why it should be broken up. He argues Zuckerberg, as the majority shareholder of the company, wields to much power and he can’t be fired. No one can hold him accountable within the company. Moreover, the company itself with billions of subscribers, retains to […]
Inside China’s Massive Surveillance Operation…
The woman remembers the first time she got a smartphone. It was 2011, and she was living in Hotan, an oasis town in Xinjiang, in northwest China. The 30-year-old, Nurjamal Atawula, loved to take pictures of her children and exchange strings of emoji with her husband while he was out. In 2013, Atawula downloaded WeChat, […]
Chinese Hackers Copy NSA Hacking Software, Use it to Attack U.S. Allies…
A Chinese hacking group considered to be the “most dangerous” by the NSA stole, copied, or reverse engineered the agency’s own hacking software – then use it against American allies and private companies in Europe and Asia during 2016 attacks, according to researchers with Symantec…
‘AOC Press’ Parody Killed in Latest Big Tech Election Interference…
Twitter has banned the popular parody account @AOCPress despite it complying entirely with the service’s rules on satire by self-labelling as such. This account – a satire of Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – had over 85,000 followers at the time of the ban and is now permanently suspended. In an email sent to the account owner, […]
Vendetta Anyone?: Good Grief, Hillary Vied for Zuckerberg’s Job a Year Ago. She Settled Having Her Press Director Placed on the Inside. Top Opponents Immediately Banned…
When Big League Politics contacted Facebook to clarify why Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos were banned by Facebook and Instagram, we discovered the Facebook employee assigned to handle these communications is the former Press Director of Hillary For America. Sarah Pollack is the Policy Communications Manager for Facebook who responded […]
FCC Warns About ‘One Ring’ Robocall Scam: Do Not Call Numbers Back
Don’t call back phone numbers that ring once and hang up, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has warned. People throughout the U.S. have been receiving “One Ring” or “Wangiri” robocalls in bursts, according to officials. The calls are targeting specific area codes “often calling multiple times in the middle of the night.” “These calls are […]
Chinese Fund Backed by Hunter Biden Invested in Technology Used to Surveil Muslims…
On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch released a troubling report about a phone application made by the Chinese government. The app provides law enforcement with easy, daily access to data detailing the religious activity, blood type, and even the amount of electricity used by ethnic minority Muslims living in the western province of Xinjiang. The app […]
Alexa Has Been Eavesdropping on You This Whole Time, and Storing Your Data…
Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, “Are you crazy?” Yet that’s essentially what Amazon has been doing to millions of us with its assistant Alexa in microphone-equipped Echo speakers. And it’s hardly alone: Bugging our homes is Silicon Valley’s next frontier. Many […]
Day of the Long Knives by Raheem Kassam…
Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer and Milo Yiannopoulos have been unpersonned by the digital tech giant Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram. They’re coming for you, next. Or more likely, for us. Human Events stands shoulder-to-shoulder with those being routinely targeted by the would-be ‘Masters of the Universe’, no matter if we agree with […]
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Platform Access Is a Civil Right…
When Lyndon Johnson was in Congress in the 1950s he had three of his employees drive his car back from Washington to Austin at the end of every legislative session. That trip took his employees through the deep south. In Johnson’s telling, this went on for years without incident and he was unaware of any […]
Julian Assange Doesn’t Consent to U.S. Extradition…
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has said he does not consent to being extradited to the US over charges related to leaking government secrets. His extradition hearing came a day after he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching the Bail Act following his arrest last month. The 47-year-old appeared by video link at […]
3 Germans Who Allegedly Operated Dark Web Marketplace with Over 1 Million Users Face U.S. Narcotics and Money Laundering Charges…
Following a nearly two-year international investigation involving U.S. law enforcement and authorities in Germany and the Netherlands, federal prosecutors have charged three German nationals with being the administrators of Wall Street Market (WSM), which was one of the world’s largest dark web marketplaces that allowed vendors to sell a wide variety of contraband, including an […]
Avoid Surveillance with Helm, a Home Server Anyone Can Use to Keep Emails Truly Private…
During a group dinner in a small town in Norway in 2015, at an international conference for investigative journalists, a Ukrainian reporter told me that he used both Gmail and Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email provider. “Every time I write an email,” he said, “I have to decide if I want Obama to read it, […]
Homeland Security Used a Private Intelligence Firm to Monitor Family Separation Protests…
The calls for action were mounting. It was mid-June, and the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which saw thousands of migrant children separated from their parents, was producing waves of outrage. By the end of the month, hundreds of protests were planned in towns and cities across the country. As the plans moved forward, others […]
Hacker Finds He Can Remotely Kill Car Engines After Breaking Into GPS Tracking Apps…
A hacker broke into thousands of accounts belonging to users of two GPS tracker apps, giving him the ability to monitor the locations of tens of thousands of vehicles and even turn off the engines for some of them while they were in motion, Motherboard has learned. The hacker, who goes by the name L&M, […]
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