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How to Stop Facebook, Apple and Google Tracking Your Every Move…

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Technology companies have been pummeled by revelations about how poorly they protect their customers’ personal information, including an in-depth New York Times report detailing the ability of smartphone apps to track users’ locations. Some companies, most notably Apple, have begun promoting the fact that they sell products and services that safeguard consumer privacy. Smartphone users are never […]

Peter Schweizer’s “The Creepy Line” Takes Tech Giants to Task…

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As if this were not “creepy” enough, there is another process going on that is far less transparent: “listing” — the order in which information appears on Google. The “list effect” on our cognitive functioning, Epstein explains, is that we believe that the items appearing at the top of a set of search results — […]

Google Shifted $23B to Tax Haven Bermuda in 2017…

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Google moved 19.9 billion euros ($22.7 billion) through a Dutch shell company to Bermuda in 2017, as part of an arrangement that allows it to reduce its foreign tax bill, according to documents filed at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. The amount channeled through Google Netherlands Holdings BV was around 4 billion euros more than […]

We’re All Just Starting to Realize the Power of Personal Data…

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It’s no secret that companies like Facebook and Google scoop up personal information to serve users ads. But if anything became clear this year, it’s that consumers have a lot more to learn about what happens to their data online—how it’s gathered, who gets to look at it, and what it’s worth. American corporations are […]

The Biggest Technology Failures of 2018…

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It was the year that technology—and the people who create it—seemingly could do no right, and did much that was wrong. As one of my sources put it in a tweet reacting to a dumb tech stunt, “2018 can’t end soon enough.” For the past few years MIT Technology Review has published a list of […]

Google and Big Tech Can Shift Millions of Votes in Any Direction…

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I am not a Trump supporter. I’m not even a conservative. But I love America and democracy, and I defend truth when I see it, and President Donald Trump is not only justified in expressing misgivings about Google and other tech companies — he seems to have no idea just how big a threat Google-and-the-Gang pose to both […]

Senate Reports on ‘Russian Influence Campaign’ Fail to Discuss Its Only Known Motive…

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U.S. media is again making a big fuzz about the alleged ‘Russian’ attempts to ‘influence’ the presidential elections in 2016. In March the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee commissioned two reports about the alleged ‘Russian influence’ via social media. Those reports (1, 2) were released yesterday but not endorsed by the committee. Both reports rely on […]

Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation…

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Google has been forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China after members of the company’s privacy team raised internal complaints that it had been kept secret from them, The Intercept has learned. The internal rift over the system has had massive ramifications, effectively […]

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