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Humans Have Always Been Listening To Your Voice Recordings. Why Don’t Tech Companies Just Tell Us That? Recent revelations could finally force tech giants to explain how they use our data.
Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops to Investigate Their Own Customers
Authorities Investigating 4chan Post on Epstein's Death
If You Lose Your iPhone, You Can’t Pay Your Apple Card Bill on the Web
The El Paso and Dayton shootings once again show how disinformation can spread on hard-to-track private messaging apps, oftentimes by bad actors
Researchers studying disinformation in the Philippines and countermeasures by Facebook and YouTube say little has improved since 2016, a red flag for elsewhere
Trolls Got Ahold Of The Personal Information Of 2,000 Journalists, YouTubers, And Streamers
YouTube removes account of Soph, a girl who attracted 800K+ subs through racist and anti-Muslim videos, after uploading an anti-LGBTQ video alluding to violence
If 8chan vanished, its users would likely just flock to a new copycat site, like how 4chan users switched to 8chan amid increased moderation during Gamergate
Interviews, including with the developer who built the retweet button, discuss the power of retweets and shares and some potential ways to limit their virality
Opinion: Don’t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It. | We are on the verge of a nightmare era of mass surveillance by the state and private companies. It’s not too late to stop it.
Grindr has faced a federal investigation, layoffs, mismanagement, and turmoil
Google's vice president of public policy, Karan Bhatia, tells US Senate that the company has "terminated" Project Dragonfly, its Chinese search engine project
Google has banned Chinese app developer CooTek from its ad platforms and Play Store, removing 60+ CooTek Android apps for bombarding users with disruptive ads
Feeling unwelcome to share opinions within Google, its conservative staffers have leaked internal info to generate pressure on Google from Republican lawmakers
Researcher: software from RingCentral and Zhumu, which license Zoom's tech, is affected by the same flaw in Zoom that could give attackers access to Mac cameras
Facebook is starting to show users which marketing and data companies have your data, how an ad was targeted, and how to opt-out
An Explosive Secret Recording Reveals How Russia Secretly Tried To Funnel Millions To The “European Trump”
There’s A Major Security Vulnerability In Zoom’s Desktop App. The Company Said It’s A Feature, Not A Flaw.
A list of Amazon's known businesses, subsidiaries, and brands, including some that have been discontinued or absorbed into other services
Wikipedia Has Been A Safe Haven From The Online Culture Wars. That Time May Be Over.
The Time I Went On A Lesbian Cruise And It Blew Up My Entire Life
A Male Student Used Snapchat’s Gender Filter To Pose As An Underage Girl Online And Allegedly Caught A Cop
“Amazon’s Choice” Does Not Necessarily Mean A Product Is Good
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GQ Ran This Photo Of "Tech Titans" In Italy. All The Women Were Photoshopped In.
Study by Equality Labs into Facebook's content moderation in India finds it failed to delete hundreds of posts targeting minorities despite flagging
“Good Day for a Choke Hold” – A review of the Facebook accounts of thousands of officers around the US — the largest database of its kind — found officers endorsing violence against Muslims, women, and criminal defendants.
Pinterest has banned anti-abortion group Live Action for "misinformation related to conspiracies and anti-vaccination advice"
Facebook Turned Off Search Features Used To Catch War Criminals, Child Predators, And Other Bad Actors
US Customs Database Of Traveler Photos Was Stolen In A Data Breach
A Brutal Inheritance
Not Your Daddy’s Regulation: Tech Giants Face A Complicated Reckoning In Washington
This History Teacher Had His Educational YouTube Channel Banned For Hosting "Hate Speech"
Internal document: EU's Moscow embassy was hacked in Feb. 2017, and it was only discovered in April 2019; source says Russia is believed to be behind the hack
A NY School District Defies State, Plans To Proceed With Facial Recognition Test
Investigation: US universities, foundations, and retirement plans back funds that invest millions in Chinese surveillance tech companies Megvii and SenseTime
Researchers: some banned white nationalist groups like Proud Boys and Soldiers of Odin remain active on Facebook after slightly modifying their names
Facial recognition tech will be tested in a US public school district for the first time starting June 3 in NY, will track people barred from school buildings
Investigation finds IBM, Hikvision, and Huawei are helping the UAE government implement a biometric surveillance system in Dubai, raising privacy concerns
PUBG was banned in the Indian state of Gujarat in March amid fears about its violence and addictiveness; police had arrested 21 people for playing it in public
Amazon Shareholders Rejected Employees' Call to Respond to Climate Change
Hacker News · 3 months ago