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New Jersey Gives Uber a $650 Million Tax Bill and Says Drivers Are Employees
Activists in Jumpsuits Are Scanning the Faces of DC Residents With Amazon Tech
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This Bank Had the Worst Password Policy We’ve Ever Seen – A European bank makes customers pay to change their passwords, and suggests they Google their password to check if it is secure.
Pornhub says PayPal is no longer supporting payments for Pornhub, affecting over a hundred thousand performers using the site as a source of income
There’s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant Structures – VICE
Google Bought Access to Millions of People’s Healthcare Data
A Fired Kickstarter Organizer Is Trying To Unionize Tech Workers Using Kickstarter
Why I Quit GitHub
Trippy T-Shirt Makes You Invisible to AI
Airbnb Promises to Verify All 7 Million Listings After VICE Report Exposes Scam – VICE
Amazon Spent $1.5 Million Trying to Buy a City Council Seat
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Sources: the CEO and CSO of Alphabet's Chronicle, which is to be merged with Google, have left, with the CTO leaving soon as the cybersecurity startup implodes
Against All Common Sense, FCC Approves T-Mobile-Sprint Merger
PayPal Bans YouTuber Who Thinks Non-White People Are a Separate Species
A Robinhood Exploit Let Redditors Bet Infinite Money on the Stock Market
AT&T Gets a Wrist Slap For Lying About Its ‘Unlimited’ Data Plans – The US Government has spent a decade feebly trying to stop carriers from lying about “unlimited” data plans. It’s not working.
1,100+ Googlers sign a letter asking Google to commit to eliminating its carbon footprint by 2030 and stop working with orgs harming climate change refugees
Mozilla Asks Congress to Investigate ISPs Data Collection Practices – Mozilla’s letter comes after Motherboard published a Comcast lobbying document, in which the ISP pushed back against a form of browsing data encryption.
Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short After Her Baby Died
As Promised, Protesters Showed Up to BlizzCon Today
Tech Workers Walked Off the Job After Software They Made Was Sold to ICE
One of America’s Largest Publishers Is Screwing Over Libraries – Libraries are fighting Macmillan Publishers over an ebook embargo that would make borrowing new ebooks much harder for folks.
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket Launchers
Spain and GitHub Are Blocking an App That Helped Protesters Organize – As thousands of people protest in Barcelona, an app meant to organize activists was blocked by Github on request of the government.
Wildfire Victims Don’t Have Cell Service Thanks to Greedy Telecoms – Letting cheapskate corporations dictate government policy doesn’t end well for disaster victims—or anybody else.
‘Nearly All’ Counter-Strike Microtransactions Are Being Used for Money Laundering
A Phone Company Run by Drug Traffickers
Study: researchers say an algorithm widely used in the US healthcare system to assess medical needs for millions of people is biased against black patients
Dear Comcast, I Noticed Your Email About My Tweet and Wanted You to Have This Blog – Comcast has spent the last day trying to tell anyone who shared an article about its lobbying efforts that the lobbying is innocent.
Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because 'Cellphones Are Throwaways'
Forty music festivals including SXSW, Coachella, and Bonnaroo promise they will not use facial recognition tech, following a musician- and activist-led campaign
Documents show how Facebook uses Menlo Park's police department, which includes a Facebook-funded unit for campus patrol duties, amid racial profiling concerns
Comcast Is Lobbying Against Encryption That Could Prevent it From Learning Your Browsing History
The FTC issues its first-ever ban on "stalkerware" as it bars Retina-X from selling apps that monitor mobile devices unless a legitimate use for them is shown
Cops Need a Warrant to Access Your Car’s Data, Court Rules – Georgia Supreme Court declares that warrantless access to your vehicle data constitutes an unconstitutional intrusion.
‘Do Not Discuss the Incident,’ Facebook Told Employee Fired After Speaking About Worker Suicide – "I really wanted the Chinese engineers to stand up and speak for ourselves," Yi Yin, who was fired after demanding answers about the suicide, said.
The Most Important Right-to-Repair Hearing Yet Is on Monday: Massachusetts is vying to become the first state to protect consumers’ right to repair their electronics.
Why Doesn't the New York Times Give Credit to Other Publications? – VICE
Mark Zuckerberg’s Promise to Respect Free Expression Is So Far Just Empty Words – Zuckerberg’s speech feels like empty words in the absence of any concrete changes to the company’s questionable policies on speech.
Safety Experts Say Amazon Workers Need a Union – A new safety and health report found that the injury rate at Amazon’s Staten Island ‘fulfillment center’ is three times the national average.
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