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National Security Agency ‘Unmaskings’ Skyrocketed Last Year…

The National Security Agency (NSA) disclosed the identities of nearly 17,000 U.S. residents and businesses to American intelligence officials last year through a legal — but controversial — practice known as “unmasking,” according to a report released Tuesday. The number of unmaskings — 16,721 to be exact — marks a 75 percent increase from 2017, […]

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Amazon Employees Hired and Fired by Robots…

Software and algorithms are used to screen, hire, assign and now terminate workers at Amazon. For lower-paid employees, the Robot Overlords Have Arrived. “Millions of low-paid workers’ lives are increasingly governed by software and algorithms. This was starkly illustrated by a report last week that Amazon.com tracks the productivity of its employees and regularly fires […]

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Google Preps New Privacy Controls to Let You Delete Your Location Data…

Google is preparing new privacy controls that can periodically erase your location history from the company’s servers. They will be three options: Erase the data every three months, every 18 months, or keep the data until you delete it manually. “You should always be able to manage your data in a way that works best […]

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More Evidence That Guccifer 2 Planted His Russian Breadcrumbs…

Newly discovered evidence suggests that Guccifer 2 deliberately planted Russian (and Romanian) language indications, but mistakenly left his system’s US/UK decimal point style settings in force. This argues against Guccifer 2 being either a native Russian (or a native Romanian). In a previous report, Guccifer 2’s Russian Breadcrumbs, we analyzed the 40/so documents that Guccifer […]

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JULIAN ASSANGE SENTENCED TO 50 WEEKS IN PRISON, DAY BEFORE EXTRADITION HEARING…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for violating his bail and going into hiding at the Ecuadorian embassy, seven years ago, a sentence that comes just a day before a hearing is set to take place concerning his extradition to the U.S. Assange was sentenced on Wednesday after his […]

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WikiLeaks Cites Evidence U.S. Seeking Capital Offense Case Against Assange

A letter sent by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to a former WikiLeaks staff member reveals US officials are attempting to put together a case against Julian Assange based on the Espionage Act. Crucially, conviction under the 1917 law geared toward protecting the nation’s military secrets and most sensitive security matters could result in […]

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Trump Administration Identifies 36 Countries That Fail to Guard Intellectual Property, Emphasises China…

The Trump administration placed three dozen countries on an annual list of trading partners that “present the most significant concerns” regarding the lack of intellectual property (IP) rights protections. Among the worst, placed on the “Priority Watch List,” are Algeria, Argentina, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and Venezuela, according to a […]

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Amazon’s Alexa Team Can Access Users’ Home Addresses…

An Amazon.com Inc. team auditing Alexa users’ commands has access to location data and can, in some cases, easily find a customer’s home address, according to five employees familiar with the program. The team, spread across three continents, transcribes, annotates and analyzes a portion of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa. The program, whose […]

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Student Slaps Apple with $1B Lawsuit, Blames Facial Recognition Software for False Report…

A college student filed a lawsuit against Apple on Monday, alleging that the tech giant’s facial recognition software led to the teen’s arrest for crimes he didn’t commit. Ousmane Bah, 18, filed a lawsuit Monday for $1 billion, alleging that facial recognition software in the company’s stores falsely identified him as the criminal responsible for […]

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I Used to Work for Google. I Am a Conscientious Objector…

“We can forgive your politics and focus on your technical contributions as long as you don’t do something unforgivable, like speaking to the press.” This was the parting advice given to me during my exit interview from Google after spending a month internally arguing, resignation letter in hand, for the company to clarify its ethical […]

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NSA Recommends Ending Mass Phone Data Collection Program…

The National Security Agency is recommending that the White House officially end the agency’s mass collection of U.S. phone data, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sources told the Journal that the NSA has concluded that the program, which gathered metadata on domestic text messages and phone calls, is too burdensome to maintain. The White […]

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DHS Wants to Use Facial Recognition on 97 Percent of Departing Air Passengers by 2023…

The Department of Homeland Security in a report released Wednesday said that it is aiming to use facial recognition technology on 97 percent of departing air passengers within the next four years. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is a part of Homeland Security, said that it believes it can implement facial recognition technology in […]

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23.2 Million Hack Victims Used ‘123456″ as Their Password…

A shocking number of people who have been hacked used mind-numbingly simple passwords, according to a breach analysis conducted on behalf of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). According to data obtained from the website “Haver I Been Pwned,” more than 23 million people who were hacked used the password ‘123456,’ followed by ‘123456789’ […]

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How GSA Is Helping the Government Embrace Automation…

The General Services Administration is doubling down on bots as a way to free employees from the more tedious aspects of their jobs, and it’s trying to help other agencies follow suit. On Thursday, GSA officials announced they are creating an interagency community of practice for robotic process automation, an umbrella term for tools that […]

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Surveillance Video of Tesla Exploding in Shanghai Parking Lot Goes Viral…

Tesla is adamant that its cars are significantly less likely to catch fire than your average car, as Reuters reports, but that still hasn’t kept a surveillance video from spreading worldwide, showing a Tesla Model S bursting into flame and all but disappearing, Spinal Tap-style, in a parking garage reportedly in Shanghai. That location is […]

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Facebook Quietly Notifies Public That Millions of Instagram Users Had Passwords Exposed…

While everyone was focused on the release of the Mueller report Thursday, Facebook quietly notified the public that the passwords of “millions of Instagram users” were stored in an unencrypted format on an internal server, and searchable by any employee. The company had initially said it was “tens of thousands” of Instagram users. That said, […]

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