A Home Security Worker Hacked Into Surveillance Systems to Watch People Have Sex Reddit · 23 hours ago
Report: 70% of Americans now have access to a broadband plan costing $60 or less, up from 52% at the end of 2019 Techmeme · 2 days ago
Brave Web Browser Will Become the First To Offer Peer-To-Peer Networking Protocol Reddit · 4 days ago
A deep dive into the WhatsApp privacy policy change that prompted an exodus of users from the app and why Facebook struggled to communicate what was in it Techmeme · 1 week ago
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GPS metadata from videos posted to Parler on Jan. 6 shows several users deep inside the Capitol; source: FBI has expressed interest in examining the data Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
A look at the digital archives preserving the posts rioters made of themselves at the US Capitol; the valuable crowdsourced evidence otherwise faces removal Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
An explainer on digital advertising's header bids, third-party brand safety vendors, and "evercookies", illustrated by a ubiquitous pajama onesie ad Techmeme · 1 month ago
Public records show school districts across the US are purchasing phone hacking tools from companies like Cellebrite to search students' personal devices Techmeme · 1 month ago
Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance Hacker News · 2 months ago
Airbnb says 1.4M users have rejected its non-discrimination agreement, foregoing their use of the platform, since it implemented the policy in 2016 Techmeme · 2 months ago
Ticketmaster's UK wing fined ~$1.6M by the UK ICO after a report found they failed to put appropriate security measures in place prior to their 2018 data breach Techmeme · 2 months ago
As Twitter announced sweeping action against tweets wishing for Trump's death, many users noted years of light enforcement of its "abusive behavior" policy Techmeme · 4 months ago
Facebook Was Warned for 5 Years About Violent Event Pages but Didn’t Act, Civil Rights Group Says Reddit · 4 months ago
Facebook says it is removing misleading posts about how Oregon wildfires were started after initially saying it was reducing the distribution of such posts Techmeme · 4 months ago
Amazon had job listings, now removed, for "intelligence analysts" who would assess "labor organizing threats" and contribute to filings like restraining orders Techmeme · 5 months ago
How Belarusians turned to VPNs and a private Telegram channel to bypass censorship when its internet was shut down using deep packet inspection Techmeme · 5 months ago