As a consumer, you buy a new Android cellphone. It could be any brand, but it is likely to be an Android as they account for more than 80% of today’s cellphone market. You open the box, press the “On” button and the phone connects to the internet. Without further ado, you have just triggered […]
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Somebody Needs to Put This Man in Time Out: Mark Zuckerberg Proposes Regulating Political Discussion, Immigration Debate…
In a Good Morning America interview with George Stephanopoulos, Thursday, Zuckerberg declared, “All of the laws around political advertising today primarily focus on a candidate and an election, right, so, ‘Vote for this candidate in this election.’ But that’s not, primarily, what we saw Russia trying to do and other folks who were trying to […]
DEA Never Checked If Its Massive Surveillance Operations Are Legal, Watchdog Says…
The Drug Enforcement Administration skirted numerous legal checks on a trio of bulk data collection programs dating back to the early 1990s, according to an internal watchdog. In a heavily redacted, 144-page report published Thursday, the Justice Department Inspector General revealed the administration failed to fully assess the legal basis for three massive international surveillance […]
Chinese Telecoms Giant Huawei Was Under U.S. Surveillance…
US prosecutors used a special warrant to secretly gather information about Huawei Technologies Co Limited for evidence of fraud and espionage charges against China’s largest telecoms equipment maker, a US court was told on Thursday. Assistant US Attorney Alex Solomon said at the hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, that the evidence, obtained […]
Amazon Wants to Launch Thousands of Satellites So it Can Offer Broadband Internet from Space…
Amazon is planning to build a network of more than 3,000 satellites federal filings reveal, in an ambitious attempt to provide global internet access. Known as Project Kuiper, the move represents the latest space ambition from Jeff Bezos. Amazon has previously announced its cloud business will build a network of satellite facilities on Earth and […]
FAA Reviewing Boeing’s 737 MAX Software Update…
The FAA is reviewing the 737 MAX software update intended to fix issues with the plane’s anti-stall system after two 737 MAX-8s crashed within six months. The update will affect all 737 MAX aircraft — currently comprising 461 combined MAX-8s and MAX-9s across 59 operators worldwide, according to the FAA — and will be accompanied […]
How Is This Co. Even in Business?: Facebook Harvesting New Users’ Email Contacts ‘Without Consent’…
According to Business Insider, the company, which has been plagued by dozens of privacy and security scandals over the past few years, is asking “some new users to provide the social network with the password to their email accounts,” which Facebook then reportedly uses to import the user’s contacts, “despite not asking the user for […]
Millions of Facebook Records Mysteriously Found on Amazon Cloud Servers…
Facebook Inc. user data is still showing up in places it shouldn’t. Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing servers. The discovery shows that a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how unsecure and widely disseminated Facebook users’ […]
Google Is Conducting a Secret “Performance Review” of Its Censored China Search Project…
Google executives are carrying out a secret internal assessment of work on a censored search engine for China, The Intercept has learned. A small group of top managers at the internet giant are conducting a “performance review” of the controversial effort to build the search platform, known as Dragonfly, which was designed to blacklist information […]
Facebook Reveals News Feed Algorithm’s Secrets…
Facebook is finally pulling back the curtain on how its algorithms decide what to show in your News Feed. The tech giant is launching a new button called “Why am I seeing this post?” that will show users what factors went into displaying specific posts on their News Feed. This transparency about ranking marks a […]
The Implications of Fusing 5G and Blockchain…
Analysts have been anticipating the implications of the Internet of Things (IoT) for several years. However, there have been two main impediments to its success: capacity and security. But now, the introduction of a new technology could change that. This year, major carriers like AT&T and Verizon will be introducing 5G, the latest generation of […]
Silicon Valley and “Communication Weapons of War” by Yasha Levine…
I was in the New York Public Library recently doing research in the archives when I stumbled on a 1944 pamphlet from Western Electric, the old American techno-telephone monopolist. It’s called “Circuits for Victory” and its 40 glossy, slickly produced pages are dedicated to one thing: celebrating all the ways that the company’s telecommunication technology […]
Silencing the Whistle: The Intercept Shutters Snowden Archive, Citing Cost…
On March 13, a report in the Daily Beast revealed that the New York-based outlet The Intercept would be shutting down its archive of the trove of government documents entrusted to a handful of journalists, including Intercept co-founders Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, by whistleblower Edward Snowden. However, that account did not include the role […]
Flight Management System Crash Causes Airline Delays Across U.S….
A fault in software used by most US airlines caused a wave of flight delays this morning across the US, affecting hundreds of flights. “Several airlines are experiencing issues with a non-FAA flight planning weight and balance program called AeroData,” a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement. “Mainline operations and regional operations […]
Office Depot Rigged PC Malware Scans to Sell Unneeded $300 Tech Support…
Office Depot and a partner company tricked customers into buying unneeded tech support services by offering PC scans that gave fake results, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Consumers paid up to $300 each for unnecessary services. The FTC yesterday announced that Office Depot and its software supplier, Support.com, have agreed to pay a total […]
A Year of Silencing Julian Assange by Elizabeth Vos…
One year ago Thursday, Ecuador’s government under President Lenin Moreno silenced Julian Assange. WikiLeaks wrote on Twitter Wednesday: “… March 28, marks one year that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been illegally gagged from doing journalism—any writing that expresses a ‘political opinion’? even on his own treatment, after pressure from the U.S. on Ecuador.” On […]
Privacy-Minded Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Stop NSA from Collecting Your Phone Records…
Four lawmakers with a strong record of opposing secret domestic surveillance are teaming up to try to kill the federal government’s authority to collect our phone records. Reps. Justin Amash (R–Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D–Calif.), joined by Sens. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) and Ron Wyden (D–Ore.), have introduced the Ending Mass Collection of Americans’ Phone Records […]
HUD Is Also Probing Twitter and Google for Housing Discrimination Practices…
Federal officials alerted Twitter and Google in 2018 that they are peering into the tech giants’ business practices for possible housing discrimination, The Washington Post reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources. Reports about the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s decision to alert the two Silicon Valley companies comes hours after officials charged Facebook with housing […]
Federal Government Charges Facebook with Housing Discrimination Because of Its Targeted Advertising…
The federal government charged Facebook Thursday with allowing its massive trove of personal demographic data to enable housing discrimination, an allegation the company fiercely denied. The allegations set up a lengthy legal battle between the Trump administration and one of the world’s largest social media companies. At issue is whether the company’s sophisticated algorithms and […]
Tesla Cars Keep More Data Than You Think, Including This Video of a Crash That Totaled a Model 3…
If you crash your Tesla, when it goes to the junk yard, it could carry a bunch of your history with it. That’s because the computers on Tesla vehicles keep everything that drivers have voluntarily stored on their cars, plus tons of other information generated by the vehicles including video, location and navigational data showing […]
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