The Ruthless Reality of Amazon's One-Day Shipping
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FCC Commissioners Now Literal Poster Boys for Big Telecom
Lawsuits Claim Amazon’s Alexa Voice Assistant Illegally Records Children Without Consent
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The official app of La Liga, Spain's soccer league, spied on fans through phone microphones to catch bars pirating game streams; league now facing €250K fine
Facebook Worried About Mark Zuckerberg’s Old Emails in FTC Privacy Probe
Have I Been Pwned is up for sale.
A Year Later, U.S. Government Websites Are Still Redirecting to Hardcore Porn
A New Metal Foam Is as Bulletproof as Heavy Steel Armor, Researchers Say
Report: Google News Does Not Have an Anti-Conservative Bias So Much as a Pro-Credible Source One
G20 Countries Agree on Approach to Shut Down Big Tech’s Tax Loopholes
Walmart’s Robots Don’t Appear to Be Going Over So Great With All of Its Workers
Congress Is Killing That Sketchy Provision That Banned the Government from Offering Free Tax Filing Software
Microsoft Quietly Pulls Its Database of 100,000 Faces Used By Chinese Surveillance Companies
Modern Manufacturing Has Made It Nearly Impossible to Spot a Fake Rolex
This Windows Flaw Is So Bad, Even the NSA Is Begging You to Update.
Blind, an anonymous chat app used by tech workers to share workplace grievances, says Tesla is blocking employees from accessing or being verified for the app
New York State Is Pushing ‘One of the Strictest’ Privacy Bills in the Nation
Apple’s Newest Luxury Product Is Privacy
Apple announces Voice Control, a new assistive technology feature that Apple says will let users control macOS, iOS, and iPadOS entirely through voice commands
California Man Becomes the First ‘Death With Dignity’ Patient to Undergo Cryonic Preservation
Internet Providers in Maine Will Soon Have To Get Consent Before Selling Customer Data
‘Robots’ Are Not ‘Coming for Your Job’—Management Is
BBC Goes to Conduct Its First Broadcast Over 5G, Immediately Hits Data Cap
42 Million Dating App Records Exposed Online, Leaking User IP Addresses and Location Data
FCC Cuts Bogus Data From Yearly Broadband Report, Acts Like Nothing Happened
Google Maps Is Going to Piss Off Cops Around the Globe With Its Latest Update
IBM Sells Face Recognition Surveillance to a Dictatorship
In a report, FCC says broadband deployment is reasonable and timely, reaching same conclusion as an earlier version that overstated broadband access by millions
Australia’s New Encryption Law Is Forcing Tech Companies To Help With Surveillance
HP unveils its revamped VR Backpack with an 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, an Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU, and swappable batteries, coming this summer for $3,300
Mark Zuckerberg to Ignore Canadian Parliament’s Subpoena, Maybe Get Found in Contempt
Apple Reportedly Snatched Up a Startup Working on an App for Asthma-Tracking
Class-Action Lawsuit Accuses Apple of ‘Intentionally and Unlawfully’ Sharing iTunes Listening Data
885 Million Records Exposed Online: Bank Transactions, Social Security Numbers, and More
Facebook decides to let the misleading Nancy Pelosi video remain on its platform indefinitely, but with a fact check, says it will limit the video's reach
DOJ Attorneys Reportedly Ready to Block T-Mobile/Sprint Merger
Senate Passes Bill That Would Slap Robocallers With Fine of Up to $10,000 Per Call
New Bill Would Require Agents to Actually Have Probable Cause to Search Electronic Devices at the Border
We Don’t Need to ‘Pause’ Police Use of Face Recognition—We Need to Ban It Forever
Source: Comcast's upcoming health device to focus on monitoring the motion of elderly people at home; Comcast has no plans for a direct-to-consumer launch
Illegal toxic waste dumping in Italy (2014)
Profile of ObEN, which creates "personal artificial intelligences", life-size holographic AI avatars, by modeling people's appearance and adapting their voice
US does not sign the "Christchurch Call" – a vow to condemn the spread of hate speech and terrorist radicalization on social media
Tech activists are protesting Palantir's work with ICE by mass flagging "issues" with the company's most popular Github repositories
Right to Repair Is Less Complicated and More Important Than You Might Think
Amazon Says ‘Extensive’ Fraud Allowed Cybercriminals to Siphon Cash From Seller Accounts
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