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The FBI Tried to Plant a Backdoor in an Encrypted Phone Network
Workers Accuse Kickstarter of Union-Busting in Federal Complaint – The company has terminated three of eight members of Kickstarter’s union organizing committee within the past two weeks.
This Company Built a Private Surveillance Network. We Tracked Someone With It
Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT Over Epstein Comments
Someone Hacked My T-Mobile Account and T-Mobile Won’t Talk About It
France Took One Look at Facebook’s Cryptocurrency and Said, ‘Hell, Non’
House Judiciary Committee's letter to Apple asks for all internal communications from 14 top execs relating to "restrictions on third-party repairs"
Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain
Uber Became Big By Ignoring Laws (and it Plans to Keep Doing That)
Someone Just Moved a Billion Dollars in Bitcoin & No One Knows Why
Bernie Sanders Says DMVs Should Stop Profiting From Drivers’ Personal Data
Amazon Employees Are Walking Out Over the Company’s Huge Carbon Footprint – Nearly 1,000 employees have pledged to walk out September 20 to demand the company go to zero emissions by 2030.
Reddit · 1 week ago
Google Maps Is Still Directing Women Seeking Abortions to Pro-Life Clinics — and a Memorial for the ‘Unborn’
The Many Ways Planned Obsolescence Is Sabotaging How We Preserve Internet History
Apple Disputes Google’s Claims of a Devastating iPhone Hack – Apple says that Google oversold the nature of the hack and that it quickly fixed the vulnerability.
DMVs Are Selling Your Data to Private Investigators – You gave them your data in exchange for a driver’s license. DMVs are making tens of millions of dollars selling it, documents obtained by Motherboard show.
The Internet Knows You’re Depressed and It’s Marketing Accordingly – Researchers in Europe studied how websites catering to the depressed track and sell data.
A Shocking Number of Americans Want to 'Just Let Them All Burn'
Trump Didn’t Create Our Face Recognition Nightmare, He’s Just Expanding It – Biometric systems used by ICE to round up migrants and separate families didn’t come from nowhere. They’ve been built over decades by both parties.
Former Amazon Employees Helped Make a Hotline to Report Unsafe Working Conditions
Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Hackers breach the forum of the popular webcomic XKCD, stealing around 560,000 usernames, hashed passwords, email addresses, and IP addresses
Being Born Rich Still Leads to Success More Than Working Hard in School (2017)
Google Says Malicious Websites Have Been Quietly Hacking iPhones for Years
YouTube Has Been Harvesting Kids’ Data for Years and the FTC Seems Fine with That
This Has Been the Worst Year for iPhone Security Yet – After several high profile attacks and embarrassing slip-ups, Apple’s perception as the secure consumer device is starting to crack.
66% of Google's eligible contract workers, employed by outsourced IT services provider HCL in Philadelphia, announce their intention to unionize
Google Says Malicious Websites Have Been Quietly Hacking iPhones for Years
Bang Bros Bought a Porn Doxing Forum and Set Fire to It
Infowars' War Room relaunched its YouTube channel a day after Susan Wojcicki's letter to creators; YouTube deleted the channel after reports of its relaunch
Amazon Is Looking More and More Like a Nation-State
Reddit · 3 weeks ago