After a year of troubling mishaps on its massive social platform, Facebook has landed itself in yet another self-inflicted privacy debacle. As many as 14 million Facebook users who thought they were posting items they only wanted their friends or smaller groups to see may have been posting that content publicly, the company said Thursday. […]
Ben Rhodes: The Government Can’t Control People’s Facebook Feeds and That Worries Me…
Appearing on on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell to discuss his book on Wednesday, former top Obama aide Ben Rhodes lamented the problem of fake news and its impact on elections. And worried about the lack of government control. Rhodes was referring back to the election, bring up hacking and leaking of emails, but said that […]
Dem Lawmaker: ‘Looks Like Zuckerberg Lied to Congress’…
Need a Little Extra Money? You’ll Soon Be Able to Sell and Rent Your DNA…
Feel like earning a little extra money and maybe improving your health at the same time? Consumers will soon be able to sell or rent their DNA to scientists who are trying to fight diseases as different as dementia, lupus and leukemia. Bio-brokers want to collect everything from someone’s 23andMe and Ancestry.com gene data to […]
DNA for Sale…
Edward Snowden on Privacy in the Age of Trump and Facebook…
EXACTLY FIVE YEARS ago this week, Edward Snowden absconded to Hong Kong with a trove of documents detailing the extent of the U.S. government’s global and domestic surveillance programs. He soon found himself in exile in Russia and dubbed “the most wanted man in the world.” The Snowden leaks started a new conversation about digital […]
Google’s Selfish Ledger Is an Unsettling Vision of Silicon Valley Social Engineering…
Titled The Selfish Ledger, the 9-minute film starts off with a history of Lamarckian epigenetics, which are broadly concerned with the passing on of traits acquired during an organism’s lifetime. Narrating the video, Foster acknowledges that the theory may have been discredited when it comes to genetics but says it provides a useful metaphor for […]
Facebook Co-Founder Calls for Tech Firm ‘Data-Tax’ to Fund ‘Data-Dividend’ for All Americans…
Some of Facebook’s harshest critics – since the company first came under pressure for purportedly not doing enough to stanch the flow of fake news on its platform and allowing Russian troll farms to post disingenuous advertisements – have been former employees and investors who have acknowledged that the company’s unchecked expansion has come at […]
Facebook to Offer to Users to Opt Out of Browsing History Data Collection…
Facebook announced Tuesday it will allow users to opt out of letting the social media giant collect browsing history data. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on his personal page, adding he will discuss the control in detail during Facebook’s annual developer conference later Tuesday. The change — called “Clear History” — is the […]
Now Why Would Facebook Retract Zuckerberg’s Messages from Recipients’ Inboxes?…
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