Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users with contact information collected in surprising ways. I was helping him test the theory by targeting him […]
Indicted Russian Firm Demands More Info from Mueller…
Saying Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office has refused to turn over information key to its trial preparation efforts, a Russian company accused of funding the Kremlin’s plan to influence the 2016 presidential election asked a federal judge Monday to give it access to more information about the allegations it faces. The 13-page filing from Concord […]
Can Facebook Monopolize Your Data, Even if You’re Not on Facebook?…
Facebook spent years forging various partnership agreements with other digital media monsters to gobble up huge troves of users’ private data even when customers are not perusing the company’s platform, according to testing conducted by The Wall Street Journal. Recent analyses are going further to describe the extent of Facebook’s ability to peer into people’s […]
I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants from My Life. It Was Hell…
A couple of months ago, I set out to answer the question of whether it’s possible to avoid the tech giants. Over the course of five weeks, I blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple one at a time, to find out how to live in the modern age without each one. To end my […]
Disturbing Image Shows ISIS Blowing Up LA Skyscraper…
Los Angeles Police Department and Homeland Security are investigating an image posted on social media by an ISIS-related group showing a photoshopped explosion to a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles. The disturbing image shows a massive explosion on top of the AON Center, located at 707 Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, California, with a terrorist holding an ISIS flag […]
The FTC and Facebook Negotiating a Multi-Billion-Dollar Fine for the Company’s Privacy Violations…
The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook are negotiating over a multi-billion dollar fine that would settle the agency’s investigation into the social media giant’s privacy practices, according to two people familiar with the probe. The fine would be the largest the agency has ever imposed on a technology company, but the two sides have not […]
Avoiding Social Media to Protect Your Privacy? Your Friends Still Put You at Risk, Study Finds…
“There’s no place to hide in a social network,” warns Lewis Mitchell, co-author of a new study which found that even if you don’t have a Facebook or Twitter account, your behavior can still be predicted with the online behavior of people you know. Many people haven’t signed up for Facebook or Twitter, or privacy fears […]
Want to Heal the Internet? Ban All Collection of User Data…
The social media/search giants have mastered the dark arts of obfuscating how they’re reaping billions of dollars in profits from monetizing user data, and lobbying technologically naive politicos to leave their vast skimming operations untouched.I’ve been commenting on the cancerous disease that’s taken control of the Internet– what Shoshana Zuboff calls Surveillance Capitalism–for many years. Here is […]
Judge Unseals Trove of Internal Facebook Documents…
A trove of hidden documents detailing how Facebook made money off children will be made public, a federal judge ruled late Monday in response to requests from Reveal. A glimpse into the soon-to-be-released records shows Facebook’s own employees worried they were bamboozling children who racked up hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of dollars in game […]
New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics…
The release of two Senate-commissioned reports has sparked a new round of panic about Russia manipulating a vulnerable American public on social media. Headlines warn that Russian trolls have tried to suppress the African-American vote, promote Green Party candidate Jill Stein, recruit “assets,” and “sow discord” or “hack the 2016 election” via sex-toy ads and […]
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