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Thousands of Amazon Workers Listen to Recordings from Alexa…

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Alexa is like having your own personal assistant that never asks for a raise. When prompted by a “wake word” the device listens to your commands — and so do thousands of Amazon workers, according to a Bloomberg report. Teams stationed around the world listen to and transcribe recordings, then send them back into the […]

DEA Never Checked If Its Massive Surveillance Operations Are Legal, Watchdog Says…

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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 […]

Privacy-Minded Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Stop NSA from Collecting Your Phone Records…

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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 […]

The WhatsApp Cofounder Who Sold to Facebook for $19B Tells Students to Delete Facebook…

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WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton defended his decision to sell his company to Facebook for $19 billion and encouraged students to delete their accounts from the social network in a rare public appearance at Stanford University on Wednesday. As one of the guest speakers for Computer Science 181, an undergraduate class focused on technology companies’ social […]

Internal Facebook Document Leak Shows How Company Planned to Sell User Data…

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Leaked Facebook documents including court filings and internal discussions by Facebook employees reveal how the company planned to sell user data for profit. In 2018, the U.K. Parliament used its legal powers to obtain a number of internal Facebook documents as it attempted to hold the social media giant accountable for the Cambridge Analytica data scandal which saw […]

Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else…

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The National Enquirer has engaged in behavior so lowly and unscrupulous that it created a seemingly impossible storyline: the world’s richest billionaire and a notorious labor abuser, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, as a sympathetic victim. On Thursday, Bezos published emails in which the Enquirer’s parent company explicitly threatened to publish intimate photographs of Bezos and his mistress, […]

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