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Chinese-Style ‘Digital Authoritarianism’ Grows Globally…

November 2, 2018 at 6:06 pm

Governments worldwide are stepping up use of online tools, in many cases inspired by China’s model, to suppress dissent and tighten their grip on power, a human rights watchdog study found Thursday. The annual Freedom House study of 65 countries found global internet freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2018, amid a rise […]

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Inventor of Web: Facebook and Google May Need to Be Broken Up…

November 2, 2018 at 2:10 pm

The man credited with inventing the World Wide Web says that dominant tech giants such as Facebook and Google may need to be broken up unless viable challengers emerge, or shifting preferences result in people gravitating away from dominant names. London-born computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee told Reuters that he is disappointed with the evolution of […]

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Election Meddling: Google Algorithm Buries ‘Blexit’…

November 1, 2018 at 8:09 pm

Google is being accused of engaging in election meddling by burying Candace Owens’ Blexit website in its algorithm despite the website ranking number 1 on every other major search engine. A user over at the Donald subreddit noticed the scandal and produced a series of screenshots to illustrate how Blexit, which is a campaign to […]

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Google Shuts Down Marsha Blackburn’s Senate Ad…

October 31, 2018 at 7:57 pm

On Tuesday, Google Ads informed Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s campaign that her advertisements that included video footage of protesters interrupting her moment of silence for victims of the deadly mass shooting of a synagogue in Pittsburgh over the weekend had been disapproved because they contained “shocking content.” The online advertising platform Google Ads would not allow […]

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‘City of Surveillance’: Google-Backed Smart City Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare…

October 25, 2018 at 11:39 am

A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven ‘city of the future’ sounds like all George Orwell’s nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – […]

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The People ‘Stopping Election Interference’ Are the Ones Who Are Actually Rigging the Election…

October 18, 2018 at 7:22 pm

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg made the media rounds to give a rather shady explanation of why Facebook suddenly closed hundreds of incredibly popular pages in what’s being called The Alternative Media Purge. Zuckerberg accused the closed pages, many of which had millions of fans, of spreading “political spam.” Ironically, many of the pages that were […]

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Class Sues Over Possible Exposure of Google Plus User Data…

October 10, 2018 at 7:36 pm

In the latest fallout over yet another Silicon Valley privacy scandal, computer users hit Google and its parent company Alphabet with a federal class action Monday night for potentially exposing the data of up to 500,000 users of Google Plus to outside parties. Google announced in a blog post Monday morning that it would discontinue […]

‘THE GOOD CENSOR’: Leaked Google Briefing Admits Abandonment of Free Speech for ‘Safety And Civility’…

October 10, 2018 at 7:30 pm

Despite leaked video footage showing top executives declaring their intention to ensure that the rise of Trump and the populist movement is just a “blip” in history, Google has repeatedly denied that the political bias of its employees filter into its products. But the 85-page briefing, titled “The Good Censor,” admits that Google and other […]

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Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?…

October 9, 2018 at 7:43 pm

Jack Poulson, a Google research scientist, recently became alarmed by reports that the company was developing a search engine for China that would censor content on behalf of the government. While Dr. Poulson works on search technologies, he had no knowledge of the product, which was code-named Dragonfly. So in a meeting last month with […]

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Leaked Transcript of Private Meeting Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China…

October 9, 2018 at 6:25 pm

“We have to be focused on what we want to enable,” said Ben Gomes, Google’s search engine chief. “And then when the opening happens, we are ready for it.” It was Wednesday, July 18, and Gomes was addressing a team of Google employees who were working on a secretive project to develop a censored search […]

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