In the latest fallout over yet another Silicon Valley privacy scandal, computer users hit Google and its parent company Alphabet with a federal class action Monday night for potentially exposing the data of up to 500,000 users of Google Plus to outside parties. Google announced in a blog post Monday morning that it would discontinue […]
Facebook Is Teeming with Fake Accounts Created by Undercover Law Enforcement Officers…
In the summer of 2015, as Memphis exploded with protests over the police killing of a 19-year-old man, activists began hearing on Facebook from someone called Bob Smith. The name was generic, and so was his profile picture: a Guy Fawkes mask, the symbol of anti-government dissent. Smith acted as if he supported the protesters, […]
Trump to Host Google CEO, Tech Execs at White House Summit…
The Trump administration will host a technology summit in the coming weeks with executives including Google chief Sundar Pichai, a White House spokeswoman confirmed to the Washington Examiner. The gathering comes as firms like Google, Facebook, and others face increasing pressure from Congress. Both Republicans and Democrats are pressuring social media companies to increase security […]
Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners…
Class Sues Facebook for Breach of 50M User Accounts…
Mere hours after revealing that a security breach had compromised 50 million user accounts, Facebook was hit with a class action Friday afternoon seeking punitive damages for the exposure of private user data. Lead plaintiff Carla Echavarria of California claims Facebook acted with “absolute disregard” for its users’ private information, and that its “lax and […]
Everything We Know About Facebook’s Massive Security Breach…
You Gave Facebook Your Number for Security. They Used it for Ads…
Facebook Admits Using Two-Factor Phone Numbers to Target Ads…
MUST READ: A News Consumer’s Guide to ‘Astroturf’ Sources…
Never before have there been so many political and corporate interests with so many tools at their disposal to manipulate our opinions. Thanks to the internet and a changing news landscape, “astroturf” tactics surround us every day. Astroturf, in this case, means “fake grassroots.” In other words, entities deploy surreptitious methods to make us believe […]
EU Continues to Kill the Open Web: Massive Fines for Sites That Don’t Censor Within an Hour…
The EU really seems quite hellbent on absolutely destroying the open internet. Just as the EU Parliament was voting to approve the EU Copyright Directive, requiring that much of the internet be licensed and curated, rather than open for anyone, the EU Commission decided to move forward with an awful idea that it had first […]
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