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Congress Introduces Bill to Ban Federal Agencies From Using Facial Recognition,The legislation would follow a handful of local governments that have already banned the use of the technology by police.
Firm That Tracked Protesters Targeted Evangelicals During 2016 Election
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Grindr continues to allow users to filter others by ethnicity, nearly a month after pledging to remove its ethnicity filter in support of Black Lives Matter
Firm That Tracked Protesters Targeted Evangelicals During 2016 Election | The CEO of data broker Mobilewalla, which worked with Republican SuperPACs, says it tracked Evangelicals’ cell phone locations for six months.
Discord Just Shut Down the Biggest ‘Boogaloo’ Server for Inciting Violence | Discord determined the server violates their community guidelines for “threatening and encouraging violence” after VICE News reported its existence.
Snowden: Tech Workers Are Complicit in How Their Companies Hurt Society
Police Forces in Canada Are Quietly Adopting Facial Recognition Tech
1,000+ technologists, including some from MIT, Facebook, Google, urge Nature to not publish a paper that describes a system to predict crime based on faces
How Uber Turned a Promising Bikeshare Company Into Literal Garbage – JUMP wanted to create a better, more bike-friendly world. Former employees told Motherboard how getting acquired by Uber led to JUMP bikes being destroyed by the thousands.
‘BlueLeaks’: Group Releases 270GB of Sensitive Police Documents
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In 2019, just days after NSO Group unveiled a human rights policy for the use of its malware, Amnesty International says an activist was hacked with NSO tools
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Hong Kong Residents Are Erasing Their Own Internet Histories Before China’s Big Crackdown
Investigation into a "supply chain" of people who scrape OnlyFans content en masse before reposting it for free, often on other adult websites or Discord
This Senator Is Seemingly Obsessed With Threatening the Internet Archive. – While the country deals with a pandemic and mass protests, Sen. Thom Tillis has repeatedly sent letters to the Internet Archive that warn its projects may be illegal.
iFixit, which has posted repair manuals for ventilators during the pandemic, says Steris Corporation is claiming copyright infringement; iFixit cites fair use
eBay Executives Accused of Horrifying Harassment Campaign Against Journalists
Zoom Just Totally Caved In to China on Censorship
We Don't Need Cops to Enforce Traffic Laws – VICE
Transfer limits and security freezes imposed by PayPal and Venmo are stalling efforts to bail out people from jail in the middle of a pandemic
Hacker Bypasses GE’s Ridiculous Refrigerator DRM
Facebook Censored an Account Copying Trump’s Words for Inciting Violence | Facebook won’t censor Trump’s posts, but it will censor an account repeating them word for word.
LAPD Got Tech Demos from Israeli Phone Hacking Firm NSO Group
Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator – Facebook paid a cybersecurity firm six figures to develop a zero-day in Tails to identify a man who extorted and threatened girls.
Agencies Spending Millions on ‘Crossbow’ Spy Tech, an Upgraded Stingray
Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Cannons
Donate to These Orgs to Support Black Trans People – VICE
Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
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Hackers Jammed Chicago Police Scanners With Internet Classic ‘Chocolate Rain’
Fake News About Mark Zuckerberg Goes Viral After Anti-Fact Checking Comments
Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests
US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis
Trump’s Executive Order Could Ruin the Internet Over a Twitter Beef
Local News Stations Run Propaganda Segment Scripted and Produced by Amazon
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