The streets of Davos, Switzerland, were iced over on the night of January 25, 2018, which added a slight element of danger to the prospect of trekking to the Hotel Seehof for George Soros’ annual banquet. The aged financier has a tradition of hosting a dinner at the World Economic Forum, where he regales tycoons, […]
Facebook Collected Contacts from 1.5 Million Email Accounts Without Users’ Permission…
Not a week goes without a new Facebook blunder. Remember the most recent revelation of Facebook being caught asking users new to the social network platform for their email account passwords to verify their identity? At the time, it was suspected that Facebook might be using access to users’ email accounts to unauthorizedly and secretly […]
Facebook Quietly Notifies Public That Millions of Instagram Users Had Passwords Exposed…
While everyone was focused on the release of the Mueller report Thursday, Facebook quietly notified the public that the passwords of “millions of Instagram users” were stored in an unencrypted format on an internal server, and searchable by any employee. The company had initially said it was “tens of thousands” of Instagram users. That said, […]
Silicon Valley-Funded Privacy Think Tanks Fight in D.C. to Unravel State-Level Consumer Privacy Protections…
After years of ignoring the issue, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are suddenly engaged in a furious fight over enacting national legislation to establish basic online privacy rights for consumers. As with the crafting of much legislation dealing with complicated issues, legislators are relying on experts to help codify the consumer protections. In a twist that […]
Somebody Needs to Put This Man in Time Out: Mark Zuckerberg Proposes Regulating Political Discussion, Immigration Debate…
In a Good Morning America interview with George Stephanopoulos, Thursday, Zuckerberg declared, “All of the laws around political advertising today primarily focus on a candidate and an election, right, so, ‘Vote for this candidate in this election.’ But that’s not, primarily, what we saw Russia trying to do and other folks who were trying to […]
Hide Those Memes, Folks! Europe Passes Massive Online Copyright Changes That Will Lead to Censorship…
Members of the European Union’s parliament ignored dire warnings that they’re heading down a path toward massive online censorship and have passed legislation that will hold online platforms financially liable for copyright violations by users and would require search engines and social media platforms to get licenses from media companies to share even snippets of […]
Pew: Americans Stop Paying for News…
While their appetite for information is high, a historic low percentage of Americans are paying for news as they turn ever increasingly to digital providers of free media. The latest Pew Research Center survey found that just 1-in-10 have coughed up a cent for any kind of news in the last year. “When it comes […]
A Russian ‘Troll Slayer’ Went Undercover at a Troll Factory…
When a journalist heard a bot organization was hiring writers, she went for it. Slaying online trolls can be a lonely business. Just ask Russia’s Lyudmila Savchuk, who first exposed the story of Russia’s disinformation campaign back in 2014. The journalist and 33-year-old mother of two, Savchuk started noticing websites and social media accounts attacking […]
The WhatsApp Cofounder Who Sold to Facebook for $19B Tells Students to Delete Facebook…
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 […]
Facebook, Google and Other Big Tech Giants Are About to Face a ‘Reckoning’…
Some of the country’s most powerful state attorneys general are signaling they’re willing to take action against Facebook, Google and other tech giants, warning that the companies have grown too big and powerful – and that Washington has been too slow to respond. For many of these top law enforcement officials, the fear is that […]
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