WhatsApp may very well be spyware but what about all of the other apps the “convenience” crowd has downloaded on those surveillance leashes they like to believe are phones?…
Thousands of Amazon Workers Listen to Recordings from Alexa…
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 […]
Millions of Facebook Records Mysteriously Found on Amazon Cloud Servers…
Facebook Inc. user data is still showing up in places it shouldn’t. Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing servers. The discovery shows that a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how unsecure and widely disseminated Facebook users’ […]
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 […]
Microsoft Has Been Sharing Indian Bank Customers’ Data with U.S. Intelligence Agencies…
An investigation by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revealed that Microsoft has been passing user data that it gathers from Indian banks that are Office 365 customers to various U.S. intelligence agencies, upon demand. The outcome of this investigation was compiled into a Risk Assessment Report (RAR), which was submitted to these banks […]
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 […]
Former Facebook Exec: “They’re Lying Through Their Teeth”…
For two years I was charged with turning Facebook data into money, by any legal means. If you browse the internet or buy items in physical stores, and then see ads related to those purchases on Facebook, blame me. I helped create the first versions of that, way back in 2012. The ethics of Facebook’s […]