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Omidyar’s Intercept Teams Up with War-Propaganda Firm Bellingcat…

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The Intercept, along with its parent company First Look Media, recently hosted a workshop for pro-war, Google-funded organization Bellingcat in New York. The workshop, which cost $2,500 per person to attend and lasted five days, aimed to instruct participants in how to perform investigations using “open source” tools — with Bellingcat’s past, controversial investigations for […]

Google+ Shutting Down After Massive Date Leak…

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Google exposed the private details of almost 500,000 Google+ users and then opted not to report the lapse, in part out of concern disclosure would trigger regulatory scrutiny and reputational damage, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people briefed on the matter and documents that discussed it. Shortly after the article was published, Google […]

Trump to Host Google CEO, Tech Execs at White House Summit…

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The Trump administration will host a technology summit in the coming weeks with executives including Google chief Sundar Pichai, a White House spokeswoman confirmed to the Washington Examiner. The gathering comes as firms like Google, Facebook, and others face increasing pressure from Congress. Both Republicans and Democrats are pressuring social media companies to increase security […]

A Seemingly Small Change to Chrome Stirs Big Controversy…

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Though Chrome launched in 2008 as a scrappy upstart, it has for years been the dominant web browser, with over 60 percent market share on both desktop and mobile. So when Chrome adjusts its features or policies, it impacts a huge chunk of people worldwide. And a recent change to how Chrome treats logins has […]

Leaked Video Shows Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Comparing Trump Voters to ‘Fascists’ As He Vows to Thwart Rise of Populism…

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Leaked video from a Google conference held in the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election shows the company’s co-founder comparing Trump voters to ‘fascists’. The footage, obtained by Breitbart, also shows the company’s executives vowing to halt the rise of populism and urging employees to console one another after the election result. The damaging video […]

Edward Snowden Reconsidered…

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This summer, the fifth anniversary of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance passed quietly, adrift on a tide of news that now daily sweeps the ground from under our feet. It has been a long five years, and not a period marked by increased understanding, transparency, or control of our personal data. In these years, […]

Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers…

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Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users’ searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier for the Chinese government to monitor people’s queries, The Intercept can reveal. The search engine, codenamed Dragonfly, was designed for Android devices, and would remove content deemed sensitive by China’s ruling […]

LEAKED VIDEO: Google Leadership’s Dismayed Reaction to Trump Election…

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The video is a full recording of Google’s first all-hands meeting following the 2016 election (these weekly meetings are known inside the company as “TGIF” or “Thank God It’s Friday” meetings). Sent to Breitbart News by an anonymous source, it features co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, VPs Kent Walker and Eileen Naughton, CFO Ruth […]

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