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Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech…

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On a bright Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy—began pouring out of the company’s offices in Mountain View, California. They packed themselves into a cheerful courtyard outside the main campus café, a parklike area dotted with picnic tables and a shade structure […]

‘The Code’ Busts Silicon Valley’s Favorite Myths About Itself…

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The swath of the South Bay once so prized for its orchards and all-round Edenic charm that it was dubbed “the Valley of Heart’s Delight” has spawned myriad imitators. Reflecting local topography, there’s Silicon Glen, Silicon Fen, Silicon Roundabout, Silicon Steppe and, most egregiously, Philicon Valley (take a bow Philadelphia), among other wannabes. But there’s […]

Ring Told People to Snitch on Their Neighbors in Exchange for Free Stuff…

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Ring, Amazon’s home security company, has encouraged people to form their own “Digital Neighborhood Watch” groups that report crime in exchange for free or discounted Ring products, according to an internal company slide presentation obtained by Motherboard. The slide presentation—which is titled “Digital Neighborhood Watch” and was created in 2017, according to Ring—tells people that […]

Facebook Has Been Secretly Transcribing Your Conversations…

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Facebook has been clandestinely accumulating written transcriptions of its users’ conversations, which the social media giant recorded through their phone microphones. That’s according to third-party contractors who spoke to Bloomberg about the practice. The contractors said that they were paid to listen in on countless, occasional vulgar conversations among Facebook Messenger users, though the company […]

GOOGLE WHISTLEBLOWER GOES PUBLIC: “I FELT THAT OUR ENTIRE ELECTION SYSTEM WAS GOING TO BE COMPROMISED”…HUNDREDS OF INTERNAL DOCUMENTS LEAKED…

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A Google insider who anonymously leaked internal documents to Project Veritas made the decision to go public in an on-the-record video interview. The insider, Zachary Vorhies, decided to go public after receiving a letter from Google, and after he says Google allegedly called the police to perform a “wellness check” on him. Along with the […]

Twitter Fesses Up to More AdTech Personal Data Leaks…

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Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data with advertising partners even when a user had expressly told it not to. Back in May the social network disclosed a bug that in certain conditions resulted in an account’s location data […]

I Tried Hiding from Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets by Joel Stein…

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As the spy gear piles up on my desk, my 10-year-old son asks me what my mission is. “I’m hiding,” I whisper, pointing in the direction I think is north, which is something I should probably know as a spy. “From Silicon Valley.” It isn’t going to be easy. I use Google, Facebook, Amazon, Lyft, […]

TWITTER SUSPENDS SENATE MAJORITY LEADER’S CAMPAIGN TWITTER FEED…

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The campaign account for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was suspended from Twitter after sharing a video of protesters allegedly making violent threats against the Senator, including a protester saying “just stab the motherfucker in the heart.” Twitter had no problem with “Massacre Mitch” trending on the platform. Sen. McConnell’s team slammed Twitter in […]

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